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Global vendor management: SLA negotiation, establishing KPI targets, monitoring, escalation, and issue resolution, Global process excellence and continuous improvement initiatives across Controllership functions

Direct the strategy, initiatives, and methodologies ensuring operational effectiveness by enabling data-driven business insights in financial and operational transactions (order-to-cash, GL P&L and B/S postings, etc.), building a robust controls environment, identifying controls deviations, and overseeing the implementation of innovative solutions for cross-functional alignment and execution, specially as it relates to CI program management, data visualization, new product launches, and… Show more Direct the strategy, initiatives, and methodologies ensuring operational effectiveness by enabling data-driven business insights in financial and operational transactions (order-to-cash, GL P&L and B/S postings, etc.), building a robust controls environment, identifying controls deviations, and overseeing the implementation of innovative solutions for cross-functional alignment and execution, specially as it relates to CI program management, data visualization, new product launches, and excellent customer service. Scope: North America, Latin America, and European markets. Show less

• Lead Americas (U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets) initiatives pertaining to operational data analytics & business/process insights, identification of controls deviations, operational efficiencies and excellent customer service. • Manage a team of professionals responsible for executing operational excellence initiatives, including operational controls, metrics, analytics, and process improvement initiatives for E2E Order-to-Cash processes. • Lead and develop data models for… Show more • Lead Americas (U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets) initiatives pertaining to operational data analytics & business/process insights, identification of controls deviations, operational efficiencies and excellent customer service. • Manage a team of professionals responsible for executing operational excellence initiatives, including operational controls, metrics, analytics, and process improvement initiatives for E2E Order-to-Cash processes. • Lead and develop data models for material financial calculations, facilitate metrics development, root-cause analytics, and processes aligned with evolving business requirements. • Provide feedback/insight to key E2E stakeholders in regards to trends, outliers and business/operations opportunities including commentaries to explain key drivers of variances.• Identify and evaluate analyses of business performance to facilitate management’s understanding of current operating results and trends. • Apply principles of project management, lean/six sigma and other CI methodologies to support O2C operations.• Facilitate development and adoption of pertinent technical tools used for data modelling, process automation, etc. (e.g. PowerPivot, Tableau)• Ensure close collaboration and alignment with global teams to ensure global alignment and best practice sharing. Show less

 Awarded Ovation Award for Innovation (2018); Project awarded for having major global financial and operational impact by streamlining analytics and reporting, as well as enhancing customer experience and fostering internal stakeholder relations. Manage a team of analysts responsible for operational analytics and financial forecasts for E2E North America Order-to-Cash Operations processes, reporting, various global metrics projects, and other compliance activities. Manage analytics… Show more  Awarded Ovation Award for Innovation (2018); Project awarded for having major global financial and operational impact by streamlining analytics and reporting, as well as enhancing customer experience and fostering internal stakeholder relations. Manage a team of analysts responsible for operational analytics and financial forecasts for E2E North America Order-to-Cash Operations processes, reporting, various global metrics projects, and other compliance activities. Manage analytics and KPI/metric development to ensure business objectives and control activities are achieved using Tableau, SAP HANA, among others, for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets. High-risk deliverables: Forecast monthly >$1 Billion in cash receipts, weekly North America sales, and calculations for multi-million dollar customer credits and other material financial impact items. Pertinent functions include: Trade Sales, Brand Sales, Accounts Receivable, Customer Ordering/Invoicing, Product Returns, and Business Systems Support for North America. Identify and evaluate analyses of business performance to facilitate management’s understanding of current operating results and trends. Facilitate ad-hoc cross functional teams to determine best practices and define process. Manage the development of the annual budget and periodic projections for U.S. trade receipts. LSS Yellow Belt Certified (BMS) **Accomplishments:1) Built and employed data model to calculate monthly customer credits (appx $300M annual impact); reduced manual process time and eradicated manual errors.2) Managed roll out of metrics governance program implemented for North America OTC functions, including one-page dashboards and monthly review process.3) Spear-headed robotic process automation project to automate all routine reporting/analysis packages.4) Led implementation of Tableau for global metrics dashboarding and operational reporting for the American and Latin American markets. Show less

- Responsible for analyzing over $50M in Global Manufacturing & Supply expenditures, including, but not limited to, actual-to-plan variance analyses, budget and periodic financial projections, headcount forecasting, and aligning with business partners on an on-going basis. - Successfully proposed and implemented multiple process improvement initiatives: 1) Excel tool to largely automate inventory obsolescence reserve calculations and corresponding account reconciliations. 2) Streamlined… Show more - Responsible for analyzing over $50M in Global Manufacturing & Supply expenditures, including, but not limited to, actual-to-plan variance analyses, budget and periodic financial projections, headcount forecasting, and aligning with business partners on an on-going basis. - Successfully proposed and implemented multiple process improvement initiatives: 1) Excel tool to largely automate inventory obsolescence reserve calculations and corresponding account reconciliations. 2) Streamlined process to input the budget/projection into ERP systems, reducing process time frame by days and eliminating countless manual errors each planning cycle. 3) Built Excel tool to automatically identify key financial drivers, streamlining management discussion.- Continuous Innovation Award Recipient (2016); implemented tool to flag financial variances and key drivers. Show less

- Implemented business intelligence tools/solutions to improve operational and financial metrics for >$500M sales, as well as supply chain efficiencies; including usable dashboards, scorecards, intricate models, budget forecasts, corporate strategies, overall project management tasks, and other analytics for all functions and departments throughout the organization. -Through analysis and modeling, identify/develop practical business recommendations and evaluate associated financial… Show more - Implemented business intelligence tools/solutions to improve operational and financial metrics for >$500M sales, as well as supply chain efficiencies; including usable dashboards, scorecards, intricate models, budget forecasts, corporate strategies, overall project management tasks, and other analytics for all functions and departments throughout the organization. -Through analysis and modeling, identify/develop practical business recommendations and evaluate associated financial impact - Implemented analytics solutions and executive dashboards using SAP Business Objects, advanced Excel tools such as PowerPivot, PowerView, Access, and SharePoint pages incorporating Excel Services.- Conducted monthly budget-to-actual variance analyses for many departments throughout the corporation, as well as monitor supply chain performance metrics for Procurement, Warehouse, Transportation and Logistics, and Sales functions- Analyzed product, vendor, and customer profitability- Constructed pricing models using various price elasticity methods, including regression models- Provided guidance on strategy, tools and project initiatives to overall reporting and analytics impacts- Acted as a subject matter expert to be the first line of communication on data questions, issues- Coordinated efforts between business needs and IT requirements during an ERP conversion from iSeries to Microsoft Dynamics Show less

- Supply Chain Economics: Work directly with the EVP of Supply Chain, the VP of Transportation, VP of Procurement, and the VP of Warehouse, collecting data, interpreting data, and building usable dashboards, scorecards, intricate models, budget forecasts, corporate strategies, and other analytics to improve supply chain efficiencies.

-Managed multiple projects, based on cost and schedule parameters, for private clients and public entities-Conducted impact fee and various public financing mechanism studies for city and county governments-Forecasted demand of public services using multiple population growth methodologies-Wrote methodology and technical reports for county and municipal government staff-Trained and managed staff for field work and internal data reduction tasks-Analyzed budget documents to… Show more -Managed multiple projects, based on cost and schedule parameters, for private clients and public entities-Conducted impact fee and various public financing mechanism studies for city and county governments-Forecasted demand of public services using multiple population growth methodologies-Wrote methodology and technical reports for county and municipal government staff-Trained and managed staff for field work and internal data reduction tasks-Analyzed budget documents to establish funding and expenditure trends of city and county governments-Reviewed cost data of public facilities including road networks, parks, law enforcement, and fire agencies to attribute the cost of the additional facilities needed due to increased demand-Aided in the development of various trend/regression analysis methodologies in regards to trip characteristic studies, transportation impact fees, population forecasting, and other data trends-Used advanced Excel formulas to automate various data reduction tasks into more simplified and usable data statistics and summaries-Authored and presented technical findings and methodology tutorials to staff and industry professionals Show less

-Performed project management tasks related to cost and schedule performance using the Earned Value Management System-Created various reports for customer and internal reporting-Utilized proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, WORD, CostView and Brio query programs-Corroborated Control Account Manager performance-Performed Data Management tasks

-Researched and compiled market data for public and internal reporting utilizing various research sources and Microsoft Excel-Created reports with regards to unemployment, Permit Valuation, along with other statistics for the City of St. Petersburg, Hillsborough County, as well as, the State of Florida- Assessed demographics/market trends given past and present data sets-Utilized various business and local labor resources to increase the economic welfare of the city

-Analyzed the program on the basis of cost and schedule performance using the Earned Value Management System-Responsible for many of the weekly/monthly customer and internal project cost reports sent to private and public reporting agencies-Utilized proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, WORD, CostView and Brio query programs-Updated CostView and aided in the preparation of conversion to SAP system-Corroborated Control Account Manager performance in program-Performed Data… Show more -Analyzed the program on the basis of cost and schedule performance using the Earned Value Management System-Responsible for many of the weekly/monthly customer and internal project cost reports sent to private and public reporting agencies-Utilized proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, WORD, CostView and Brio query programs-Updated CostView and aided in the preparation of conversion to SAP system-Corroborated Control Account Manager performance in program-Performed Data Management tasks-Exercised professionalism with direct client contact Show less