♦ Developed recruiting and directed massive hiring growth in last 1.5 years, generating over 50% increase in FTE.♦ Guided company in change management through acquisition, integrating HR and payroll processes while collaborating with acquiring company.♦ Created improvement plans (Start/Stop/Continue) with employees who were not meeting expectations.♦ Led immigration process to fill high skill position needs in challenging political and legal environment.♦ UnitedHealth Group acquired Savvysherpa in 2017.

♦ Managed fiscal year close with financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, general ledger) and capitalizing/amortizing furniture and equipment purchases.♦ Supported CFO with projects, including acquisitions/technology sales and resource utilization/throughput analysis.♦ Generated invoices and monitored them to ensure a healthy accounts receivable turnover via Quickbooks.♦ Administered 401(k) plan, served as primary contact for 401(k) audit, and provided requisite tax return information.♦ Directed and managed the work of the accounting clerk (payroll, employee expense reimbursements, accounts payable).♦ Worked with subsidiary companies, both domestic and international.

♦ Supervised financials for North America business unit that generated more than $22 million in sales.♦ Supported world areas to report monthly actual results and created quarterly/annual forecasts that produced over $66 million in sales.♦ Analyzed financial numbers and tracked business trends, working closely with both sales and technology.♦ Prepared quarterly board meeting, looking at the business drivers, to present to senior management.♦ Directed month-end closing process, working on P&L, balance sheet, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling, which included fixed asset capital spending and capitalizing/amortizing technology projects in Hyperion and Oracle.

♦ Collaborated with senior management to develop divisional season sales and margin targets. Reviewed sales, identified risks and opportunities, and analyzed plan variances that contributed to more than $400 million in profitable sales. Prepared ad hoc financial documents to analyze results.♦ Led merchants to create financial plans and forecasts, with the goal of creating a roadmap toward greater profitable decisions.♦ Orchestrated efforts with General Merchandise Manager/Divisional Merchandise Managers/Director in transitioning to new systems, resulting in successfully meeting the tight Spring 2007 deadlines.♦ Developed a weekly promotional event sales planner to assist the merchants in developing accurate weekly sales plans.

♦ Provided support to merchants working on product replenishment systems to reach their in-stocks goals and to prepare for peak selling periods.♦ Synchronized efforts with planning managers and directors in ensuring needs are being met during transition times in their teams.♦ Created training materials for product replenishment systems, ensuring in-stock levels were maintained even through time of changing product replenishment systems.♦ Mentored and trained 77 new business analyst trainees on the product replenishment systems over a 5 day time frame, which contributed to their successful placements as analysts.♦ Federated Department Stores, Inc. (Macy’s) acquired May Merchandising Company in 2005.

♦ Managed inventories through plans, forecasts, and projections to drive more than $30 million in annual profitable sales revenue.♦ Utilized vendor relationships and performance metrics to improve product replenishment and in-stocks to add incremental sales and gross margin; in one example, achieved a natural 44% vendor margin.♦ Co-led with senior buyer to focus on right product assortment through style out process, and project future receipt flow to meet those needs, resulting in sales and gross margin growth over last year.♦ May Merchandising Company acquired Marshall Field’s from Target Corporation in 2004.

♦ Trained students to teach principle-centered leadership to other students.♦ Developed leadership curriculum with other students.♦ Managed a program of over 300 students, including training, conferences, activities, etc.

♦ Provided Spanish translation services to national law enforcement agencies.♦ Worked on a team, setting example to other teams with our production goals.