Celia J. Thomas, Mba Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Responsible for executing pricing and pricing support activities across all channels for my accounts and markets. Executes pricing and develop quoting strategies for all of TI’s products serving as the single point of pricing execution across all channels for accounts. Contributes to growing TI revenue, share and profitability by providing timely and effective price quoting. Works to develop complete business cases to set pricing at the optimal price target to win business. Negotiates quarterly, bi-annual or annual customer pricing agreements. Communicates and coordinates with regional counterparts to streamline processes and strive to achieve worldwide price transparency. Develops, analyzes and owns performance metrics for Americas Sales and Operations.

Dallas, Texas

Prepared monthly financial and operational overviews for Quality and External Manufacturing. Analyze World Wide financial actual vs. forecast and vs. prior quarters. Worked with TMG Finance, Accounting, and planning team members to identify best practices and implementation in Quality and External Manufacturing or Facilities.Managed monthly close and tie out activities. Ensured compliance of annual internal controls checklist and international invoicing.▫ Drove actions to achieve specific cost performance expectations on all Subcon and Foundry off loads due to capacity issues. Performed benchmarking analysis with both internal as well as external for financial improvement of the factory. Provide ad hoc modeling, analysis and presentations. Managed all Capital projects and Capital asset audits for Quality and External Manufacturing. Was responsible for month and quarter financial close, including the Balance Sheet, P&L and Cost Center Manager reporting.

Richardson Texas

Builds solid strategic partnerships with cross-functional teams world-wide to drive positioning, profitability and maintain complianceMonitor the controls environment through compliance reviews, walk-throughs, self-assessment reporting and independent inventory observations in order to identify both SOX and operational control issues and process gaps and opportunitiesCollaborate with external auditors to coordinate and facilitate audit requests for planned audit engagements, SOX testing, internal audits and financial audit testingUtilize strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to work closely at all levels of the organization and apply analytical and problem solving skills by defining problems, collecting relevant data, establishing facts, drawing valid conclusions, and recommending improvement and corrective actionsWork with management on remediation plans, through use of excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, to close identified gaps and maintain controls emphasis in respective area by addressing common opportunities with managementRecommend and implement manual and system process improvements, which result in greater process efficiencies and effectiveness

Sherman/Denison, Texas Area

Managed $2 million customer order backlog to ensure production deadlines met customer demandMaintained distributor relationships and partnered with the World Wide Customer Team to minimize customer escalations and ship inventory to customers per expected standard delivery timeIdentified seasoned, customer date code agreements and collaborated with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to implement process improvements

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Consolidate and manage ASP P&L with a focus on the Embedded Processing segment including; revenue forecasting, overhead reporting and management, and margin improvement analysisCreated marketing trend analyses and prepare reports and assessments of key financial metrics to managers by using the Capital IQ model to analyze forecastsPrepared operational and competitive business analysis scorecard quarterly for Sr. Management to monitor the business growth verses the market growth Partnered with cross functional teams to develop automated reports that monitored detailed R&D costs and forecast to increase managements understanding of R&D investments, to improve the forecasting process and accuracy, and to provide ROI analysisStreamline financial forecasting processes and develop models and tools that offer greater financial visibility including suggestions and implementation of continuous improvements initiatives

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Mba, Supply Chain Management/Marketing

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma International Honors Society

Graduate Marketing Certificate

Bachelor Of Science, Business Marketing