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Columbia, Maryland, Us

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Columbia, Maryland, Us

- Manage financials for $470M business; Ensure financial goals align with business objectives; Prepare monthly financial review with business leadership team.- Lead annual budgeting and planning process; Partner with sales, marketing and operations to build annual strategic plan.- Collaborate with business and operations directors to determine return on strategic investments and M&A opportunities.- Analyze commercial initiatives and new product opportunities to determine financial validity.- Partner with senior leaders to develop growth plan, strategic initiatives and associated capital projects.- Manage sales incentive plan; Manage quarterly updates and support sales directors by providing sales rep analysis.- Owned global MT operations financials; Led monthly reviews, analyzed expenses and bridged forecasts for management review.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

•- Plant controller for North America plants. Managed monthly close process for each plant; day-to-day analysis of all expenses, variance analysis. Partnered with plant management to ensure alignment around production and expenses.- Owned global rollup of manufacturing financials- Built depreciation model by quarter enabling each business to more accurately forecast their costs.- Developed fixed cost absorption model based on production levels enabling accurate absorption forecasts based on production.- Conducted cost analysis to align costs with production and drive down cost per metric ton.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

•- Managed monthly budgets for HR Business Segment and HR Operations staff cost centers. •- Developed monthly financial metrics for temporary workers and new headcount to ensure accuracy of P&L statement.- Conducted scenario planning for consolidation efforts, including people cost analysis and predictive modeling (which in at least one instance led to change in company strategy). Developed total cost to exit from an HR perspective.•- Collaborated with VP, Talent and Acquisition on talent planning process. Analyzed open positions and prepared monthly reports for executive leadership meetings. Developed new position and offer approval processes. •- Developed three phase system to enhance Grace temporary worker policy: (1) established new global guidelines for temporary worker approvals and extensions; (2) converted 75 temporary workers to permanent status; and (3) proposed tracking in SAP. •- Led manufacturing leadership program from recruitment through program’s completion. Managed “Recruiting Day” for prospective candidates and collaborated with plant managers to develop projects at North America plants for each participant.

Bethesda, Md, Us

- Developed risk management internal controls for the Office of Human Resources.- Analyzed and recommended a new executive recruitment hiring process for Directors in the NIH. Increased appeal and provided NIH with a higher level of candidates.- Led one of five strategic initiatives to develop and maintain a centralized, accessible database for over 100 recurring NIH reports used by senior leadership within Congress, the White House and federal governmental agencies.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Maintained portfolio of three large corporate clients, successfully decreasing client costs. Increased self-sufficiency for each client by an average of approximately 80%.- Resolved clients’ receivables and payables issues. Established new accounts and led corporate investigations.- Conducted portfolio reviews and evaluated clients’ cash positions, products and services. Helped clients reduce costs and optimize performance with the introduction of new products.- Conducted reviews and collected all past-due payments. Developed and delivered client presentations, increasing clients’ awareness of new products and upcoming product enhancements. - Reduced deposit losses by performing data analysis and conducting weekly calls with clients.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Built client presentations, researched issues, and examined liquidity positions to improve clients’ positions. - Coordinated full treasury reviews and pricing for clients, increasing revenue for the bank by 3-6% for each client.- Assumed interim sales officer role, effectively managed a portfolio of clients, and retained client pipeline.- Sold value proposition of the comprehensive payables product to prospective clients and managed requests for proposal process. - Prepared quarterly reviews, revenue reports and interest rate analyses for consultants in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Canada.

Mba, Management Consulting, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics/History