Manage department level P&L for $8BN Millwork businessResponsible for guiding profitable business strategies that achieve Department’s key performance goalsForecast, plan, and analyze product category sales and gross margin metrics to provide visibility into portfolio strategyAssist Merchandising Vice President and Merchants in identify opportunities that will maximize sales and gross margin, including opportunities to drive topline growth

Chris is a Senior Consultant in Ernst & Young’s Advisory Services practice in the Performance Improvement – Finance group based out of Atlanta. He has over three years of experience working on a wide variety of projects including process improvement and automation, finance transformation, cost optimization, and program management.

Chris is an Associate with KPMG's Financial Risk Management Advisory practice in Atlanta, GA. He has worked on a number of projects during his time at KPMG, with relevant experience across multiple projects including:• Performed global assessment at $30B financial services company to identify and roadmap opportunities for cost savings through intelligent automation to assist client in reaching 5 year targets, leading work streams in the global Finance, Actuarial, and Operations functions.• Performed maturity assessment of $6B financial services company's budgeting, planning, and forecasting process and identified opportunities for improvement within Corporate FP&A and Business Unit Finance functions.• Documented budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes and proposed desired future state to drive efficiency and accuracy across the organization, resulting in potential reduction of over $400M in variances to plan.• Executed and maintained program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality management; communications management; cost management; risk / issue management; change management.• Developed standard guidance materials (communications, guidelines, templates, etc.) and desired activity alignment for Finance organization to instill consistency across Business Units.• Led cost driver development initiative for $7B financial services company, developing cost baseline and value chains, as well as delivering key drivers in the Controllers organization to increase transparency around costs.• Proposed improvements to organization's model for allocating costs in excess of $4B back to Business Units to increase transparency of true business resource consumption.• Delivered budget targets based on leading drivers, using objective data to predict future performance.

• 1 of 30 students participating in highly selective two-year leadership development program within Terry College of Business and the Institute for Leadership Advancement• Emphasizes leadership training through academic courses, extracurricular activities, service projects, and speaker series, resulting in an academic certificate in personal and organizational leadership.

Chris was an analyst in Liberty Mutual's Product Management Auto Strategy team. He worked on a number of projects, gaining experience in a variety of areas, including:• Worked with Product Management Auto Strategy team to support department projects and goals.• Applied critical thinking and analytical skills to identify and assess opportunity areas and make actionable recommendations.• Developed a business plan detailing a proposed modification to auto insurance quoting process capable of reducing variable expenses by $12 million and assisted with implementation.• Developed analytical, technical, tactical, and presentation skills through 2 weeks of instructor-led training.