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Delano, Mn, Us

Reporting to CFO, I am responsible for financial ops/reporting, planning and analysis for our 100% employee owned company. • Provide team leadership for accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, audit, tax and general ledger accounting functions.• Develop robust financial planning and analysis capabilities, including financial presentations for leadership and the board of directors, long-range planning, and enhanced expense planning processes.• Lead continuous improvement initiatives including costing and pricing insights by product line, labor productivity analysis and enhancing the finance team's expertise and workflow within our ERP system.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of 8 business process consultants focused on delivering technology and process solutions for Finance and Accounting teams for SAP and Non-SAP financial systems.• Resourced and enabled quality delivery of 15-20 technology and process solutions ensuring accurate financials and controls were in place to support strategic company initiatives.• Acted as point of contact for the VP and Controller on Finance and Accounting technology enhancements, providing recommendations on resourcing, funding and business value.• Implemented a master resource planning tool for the entire division of 40 consultants to understand capacity and skillset vs. project demand.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of 7 financial analysts in the creation and execution of financial models and reporting, in addition to financial analysis for category-level sales, margin and inventory.• Streamlined and consolidated over 100 monthly reports through new tools, data and modeling enhancements. Partnered with analysts in India to enhance and operationalize reporting for both 24/7 support and improved level of service.• Acted as Finance point of contact with Senior Leadership on weekly Holiday results through the 4th Quarter and created financial updates for CEO and Executive Leadership Team.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of 5 business analysts focused on building and executing Clearance markdown strategies and forecasting profitability impact.• Reduced average weekly forecast variance through creation of detailed goals, monthly reporting, and analyst forecast training enhancements.• Generated significant annual gross margin savings through new clearance strategies, such as segmentation and seasonal markdown discount adjustments.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of 4 financial analysts aimed at forecasting and analysis of root causes and trends in inventory shortage loss. • Received a VP Profitability Award for uncovering a significant opportunity in Point-of-Sale processing errors that led to lost sales and increased shortage annually.• Developed new shortage forecast process by merchandise division, predicting biggest drivers of shortage and working with partners to identify root causes in processes or theft. Identified category focus areas and created strategies to reduce shortage. • Developed stores segmentation strategy and gained buy-in to revamp store leadership incentives centered on risk factors.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Provided superior client service and analysis for HR, Finance and Legal division heads.• Conducted capital investment NPV analysis for technology solutions for internal clients.• Enhanced forecasting process and provided driver-based analysis for HR expenses including recruiting, relocation, travel, corporate jets, and payroll. Provided insights and strategies to reduce expense rate despite external factors in the housing market. Implemented new monthly dashboards to increase visibility and accountability to expense drivers for VP’s.• Earned a leadership award for creating a new training, development, and on-boarding program for junior analysts, improving team survey results from 40% to 80% favorable year over year.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Produced and analyzed the company balance sheet goal and forecast. Also responsible for Economic Value Added calculation for company incentives and store level analysis.• Collaborated with IT teams to build a store-level Economic Value Added (EVA) model using Hyperion Essbase on an aggressive 4 month deadline, reducing production time results by 6 weeks.• Received a VP award for spearheading a roadshow event designed to educate 200+ team members about the new EVA tool and creating training materials for new users. • Partnered with compensation team in the development of a new calculation matrix for Incentive Bonus Scoring for executives to drive total company results.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for month-end close processes, including preparing P&L for senior management.• Streamlined and automated data sources and processes to reduce P&L report production time by 6 hours, while also enabling increased accuracy.• Assumed corporate debt accounting and created calculation worksheets for new deals and deferred expense adjustments. Assisted Treasurer in forecasting Interest and deferred expense.• Responsible for the price Index calculation and year-end LIFO adjustment to inventory. Partnered with Ernst & Young and buyers in sampling merchandise items to ensure accurate price index.• Managed accounting for stock options and Board of Directors’ compensation.

Ba, Accounting

Mba, Finance