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New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

Leader of a world class finance and accounting organization. Executive responsible for delivery of financial objectives and long term strategy

Chicago, Il, Us

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer at Enjoy Life FoodsResponsible for implementing strategy and overseeing end-to-end operations, including finance, sales and marketing, and supply chain.

Chicago, Il, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Director of Supply Chain FP&A. Strategic partner to CFO and SC Leadership Team. Manage reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for $1.1B+ of annual COGS spend and $100M+ of OpEx and investment spend.Procurement Finance Business Partner - strategic advisor to Chief Procurement Officer. Manage commodity and hedging process, PPV and COGS analysis, and $30M+ of productivity initiatives.Finance lead for Used Barrels business line, $50M annual net revenue

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for leading the annual cost of goods sold budget process for Beam Suntory. Coordinates bottom-up budget builds from global operating units (distilleries and bottling facilities) and key business partners to develop SAP standards for maturing liquid, bottling, and distribution activities. Direct global costing process alignment for Beam Suntory's operating units. Ensure accurate finished good costs are delivered to Commercial regions with clear line-of-sight to budget commitments and variances. Drive aggressive agenda of continuous improvement in areas of costing accuracy, time-to-serve, and performance enablement through SAP automation.

New York, Ny, Us

Integrated Audit Manager focused on delivery of value-add assessments and operational audits (including Global Supply Chain), as well as responsibility for IT Audit. Collaborates with senior management to add value and advise on risk and control topics and trends. Manages the company's cosource relationship (including resource coordination and budget management), and oversees annual and ad-hoc strategic initiatives (including annual risk assessment, talent management strategy, stakeholder relationship strategy, etc). Responsible for the IT Audit program, including risk assessment, plan development, execution of individual work programs and reporting. Collaborated with IT Leadership to identify emerging risks throughout the year, and define scope for each audit. Leveraged a co-source model to complete specialized or technical audits (e.g., Cyber Security).Managed SOX, operational, and compliance audits in global locations and of varying scope (e.g, non-IT focus). Defined scope, developed work programs, and engaged staff prior to fieldwork. Led teams of up to eight staff, including mixed teams of internal and co-source resources. During reporting, focused on identifying root causes, providing value-add recommendations to management, and ensuring agreement in issue and risk prior to leaving fieldwork. Created a four year “Strategic Plan,” including annual tactical goals and KPIs, to transform the Beam Audit Function to an influential advisor to management, and a source-of-talent to the organization. As part of the plan, developed annual goals and an Internal Audit scorecard to communicate progress to the Audit Committee and Auditees.

New York, Ny, Us

Act as an adviser to management to drive the risk and control's agenda at a newly public company.Designed and implemented IT controls for Beam’s global SAP environment (including R/3, BW, and BPC) and AS400, acting as knowledge leader for the global IT organization. Advised the CIO and IT Directors regularly on risk and compliance impacts of key IT Roadmap projects. Identified key risks related to system implementations or changes in business processes. Managed cross-functional consulting and advisory projects, extending expertise outside of IT controls. Projects included implementation of a SOX Self Assessment pilot program in European operations; strategy and process redesign of the Master Data Management organization for incorporation into a Shared Services environment; and root-cause analysis of issues experienced during a multi-million dollar company-wide strategic project and a month-end system outage, delivered directly to the CFO and CIO.Led the global Segregation of Duties program, including definition of risks (process and system), performance of semi-annual SOD reviews, and identification of mitigating controls for conflicts. Maintained the SAP GRC platform to continuously monitor conflicts.Positions also held: Senior Analyst, Business Finance Controls

Worldwide, Oo

Senior Consultant at Deloitte & Touche within the Enterprise Risk Services practice, with a focus on Technology Risk.Directed IT external audit engagements for Fortune 500 clients in the Retail and Consumer Products industry. Created actionable, risk-based audit approaches and test plans specific to each client and their ERP systems. Identified, confirmed, and communicated deficiencies to Internal Audit Directors and the C-suite. Worked closely with Deloitte management to scope and plan 1000 hour engagements, developing timelines, budgets, and internal memos key to the engagement.Completed a Data Center Migration review for a global pharmaceutical firm to identify key project risks and evaluate mitigating controls. Collaborated with Internal Audit to review project plans, interviewed IT leadership across continents, and benchmarked against industry best practices to ensure contractual gaps and services-at-risk were appropriately considered.Consulted on and project managed a $100MM strategic initiative for a metropolitan Chicago non-profit organization. Analyzed fundraising history and economic trends to write quantitative organizational goals, and coordinated with the Executive team and Board to develop a customized project implementation plan.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Led Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing projects for Internal Audit clients in the Manufacturing and Consumer products industries, including those in “Year One” of compliance. Supervised teams during initial and remediation phases, identified issues and communicated recommendations to control owners, and leveraged application-specific knowledge and industry leading practices to deliver insight into compliance requirements.Performed value-add audits in the IT domain, including: Pre- and Post-Implementation reviews, security redesign reviews, sensitive data loss and document retention audits, and IT Governance assessments.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Performed economic analysis for the New York auto agency division to support rate revisions and pricing structures.Worked with Senior Management to develop analytical models (utilizing Access and Excel) for forecasting customer trends.

Sarasota, Florida, Us

Provided market research and economic analysis for the Strategic Development Group to help support Executive decisions for new products or markets.Collaborated with Senior Management to construct a business plan for a $25 Million initiative.