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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Responsibilities: Develop, maintain, and automate reports and dashboards of key performance indicators in Tableau, lead the development of advanced analytics capabilities leveraging multiple complex data sources to execute sales strategies, manage weekly and monthly sales reporting decks, develop the bi-monthly sales forecast, support sales and marketing leadership by conducting data mining and analysis and data driven recommendations, and provide ad-hoc analytical support as necessary.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Responsibilities: daily liquidity management and hedge account reconciliation, payment processing, balance sheet & statement of cashflow forecasting, price risk management operations, perform quarterly margin analysis of hedging portfolios to determine mark-to-market risk, month-end cashflow & balance sheet variance analysis, key support person for CFO budget, and ad-hoc analysis to enhance profitability.Achievements:Analyzed CME Henry Hub Natural Gas futures contracts and developed a recommendation to the CEO & CFO to extend our hedge position through 2023, exceeding the policy of 2 years, resulting in both realized and unrealized P&L gains of $1MM after natural gas prices increased 300% +.Analyzed, recommended, and implemented a currency swap to lock in Eurodollars for equipment purchased from Germany, which saved the company $200M from foreign currency headwinds.Developed & implemented a state-of-the-art Operator cheese hedging program with the Sr. Treasury Manager that allowed end user Operators to lock in cheese prices, which lowered pricing volatility and enhanced the value add relationships Grande has with its Operators, solidifying Grande as their supplier for cheese.Collaborated with the CFO on various strategic projects, including in depth cashflow & invested capital analysis against publicly traded benchmark companies, internal P&L scenario analysis, and the annual executive compensation analysis.

Irving, Tx, Us

Supported an additional manufacturing plant in Connecticut that produces Kleenex branded tissue with an annual conversion spend of $70MM per year.Achievements: Led and participated in multiple process improvement work streams that consolidated many reports across KCNA into a few dynamic Excel tools utilizing Powerquery and Powerpivot Excel functionalities.Collaborated cross-functionally to create a standard process for collecting and valuing research driven manufacturing process orders for IRS tax credit worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars of annualized savings for the organization.

Irving, Tx, Us

Supported one manufacturing plant near Toronto, Ontario that produces Kleenex branded tissue with an annual conversion spend of $28MM per year.Responsibilities included: annual budgeting, forecasting plant spend, variance analysis, month-end reporting, month-end accruals, analyzing and presenting out on plant spend variances to mill leadership, and ad-hoc analysis to drive profitability.

Bayport, Minnesota, Us

Audited, investigated, and reformed the transfer pricing model utilized in selling window pieces to internal customers that has an annual impact of over $30 million on the Andersen Window and Door DivisionUtilized problem solving skills to effectively allocate overhead and fixed costs that would more accurately describe each part cost