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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Finance leader in the Winnebago Outdoors business, consisting of Motorhomes, Travel Trailers and Specialty Vehicles. Responsible for managing financial planning and analysis activities. Expanding commercial finance capabilities, specifically in pricing and costing decisions for Winnebago Motorhome. Finance leader for the Specialty Vehicles business.

Wayzata, Minnesota, United States

Finance partner for Cargill’s Chief Customer Officer to advance Cargill’s commercial, customer-driven objectives. Global finance lead for Cargill’s Global Partner Group, the 7 most strategic customers at Cargill (McDonald’s, Walmart, Costco, Yum Brands, Sysco, PepsiCo, Nestle) experiencing double-digit growth with combined revenues over $10B annually. Led.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Global Commercial Finance lead for the planned Oracle ERP rollout across Asia Pacific. Leader for the GBS global strategic planning initiative, which will helped define the future of the Ecolab GBS organization. Partnered with GBS global workstream leaders in Purchase to Pay (PTP), Record to Report (RTR), Master Data, Commercial Finance and Credit, Billing.

Kraków, Poland

Built out the European Commercial Finance Center of Excellence (35 people) in Krakow, supporting a $750M business. Drove talent decisions for a rapidly growing site, which doubled in size from 200 to 400 people in less than 3 years. Harmonized commercial finance activities performed in 14 countries into one Center of Excellence (COE). Improved governance.

St. Paul, MN

Commercial Finance leader (team of 22 people) for the most profitable business in Ecolab’s portfolio ($1B+ in sales). Responsible for North America’s annual price plan process, analysis and execution ($40M+ in pricing annually). Reframed the analysis of our business to combine customer and product insights to highlight concerning business trends. Developed.

Commercial Finance leader ($300M in sales), partnered with US east coast executive sales leadership. Developed and implemented a plan to turn around the most unprofitable customer at Ecolab. Partnered with division leadership on a major new product launch, advocating for tactics that were implemented and led to fast widespread customer adoption with.

Worked directly and regularly with CEO, COO, CFO and Corporate Controller on creating the content for strategic executive presentations and time sensitive analysis to help the senior leadership team make decisions for the corporate enterprise. Distilled the complexity from vast amounts of data down to simple story lines to illustrate underlying trends..

Developed a new process to accurately forecast the additional new $4B global revenue on a monthly basis. Planned and executed the pro forma P&L restatements in our reporting system, allowing for new public segment reporting.

Worked directly with the Sector President as the lead resource on monthly business reviews. Created the financial targeting model, which allowed for real time feedback and setting of the annual plan targets.

Sydney, Australia

Led commercial finance and FP&A for the Institutional, Healthcare and Textile Care businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Improved Gross Margin reporting time in Textile Care by 95%, while improving the report detail and accuracy.

Created a statistical model to forecast and analyze weekly sales trends in each of the 34 APLA countries. Orchestrated the 2010 plan for the P&L, balance sheet, and headcount for the entire APLA region.

Expanded and automated the monthly forecasting and reporting processes, resulting in improved transparency and speed.

Managed the Plan and Mid Year Business Review processes for over 200 employees and $10M in expenses.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

Fremantle, Australia (Study Abroad)