Andrea Winiecki Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Help clients accomplish more by connecting them with the right finance, accounting and project management professionals to drive results• Identify client goals and develop a customized solution with subject matter experts who can get the job done• Cultivate long-lasting client partnerships, staying by their side every step of the way

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Finance Support for the Corporate Responsibility Team, which executes Target's Enterprise-wide Corporate Responsibility strategy, including Target’s long history of philanthropic giving (Corporate Giving & Target Foundation) along with sustainability initiatives.

Supported the transportation network by continuously assessing the state of distribution at Best Buy and determining how to adapt the network to meet the needs of the business in the most financially responsible way. Proactively identified opportunities for improvement and partnered closely with the business to drive positive change.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directly supported $2B in sales, by working closely with merchant business partners to drive pricing decisions, promo effectiveness, vendor negotiations, budgeting/forecasting, and general decision support. Played a large role in the creation of detailed analysis and complex reporting to be able to drive additional visibility into the profit profile of a key vendor to help in negotiations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provided the IT VPs FP&A support including: creating and presenting monthly reporting packages, budgeting/forecasting, and general decision support. Played a large role in the creation of detailed analysis to be able to drive visibility into the payroll variances to understand chargeability concerns with resources that work on capital projects.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for playing a project manager role in enabling growth and profitability through the development of new or existing Finance capabilities

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for supporting the multiple and complex Billing and Accounts Receivable initiatives for BBY. These projects were strategic, transformational initiatives meant to grow the Billing and Accounts Receivable Capability. Main focus was to drive process improvements and enable new Finance processes and systems to meet business needs while ensuring fiduciary integrity. Was also involved in coordinating and working with cross-functional teams in a project management role.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Responsible for ensuring accurate restaurant income statement and balance sheet accounts by reviewing and auditing the inputs and outputs into the Great Plains system-Worked with General Managers to ensure all accounting entries are posted correctly on their P&L-Identified and developed internal process documentation within accounting department-Responsible for maintaining general ledger journal entries and reconciliations-Developed tracking document for University Cards that are accepted at our restaurants-Worked directly with franchise owners to reconcile sales reports to ensure franchises are properly reporting sales for sales tax purposes along with royalties owed

Experiences include current and future state process design, process improvement, project management, end user training, gap analysis, and financial analysis. -Experience with business analysis tasks including project scope, risk management, milestone reporting, documentation, and planning-Strong experience with operational business process documentation, development, redesign and implementation (utilizing modeling tools including Visio)Project: Recruiting Strategy Development and Process Design ProjectSummary of Project: Process improvement initiative to build an industrial strength recruiting and on boarding process for the acquisition of experienced financial advisors. The final process and program required enough scalability to increase recruiting activity by 5X its current capacity. The project encompassed 18+ business units and stakeholder groups in order to successfully design and implement a scalable end to end process.Andrea’s role on this project included:-Created process definition books, end user training materials, and standard operating procedures guides to implement new business processes-Developed tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to quickly adjust project deliverable and approach in on often changing project environment-Provided project management services focusing on scope, risk management, and status reporting