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Hauppauge, New York, Us

▪ Develop annual and multi-year three-financial statement models for internal management and external investors. ▪ Collaborate with business partners on inventory and cash flow models to support start-up company ▪ Oversee development of SG&A reporting, including variance and financial statement analysis. ▪ Partner with Commercial and Supply Chain teams to build and evaluate financial models for annual targets, identifying opportunities to drive growth, increase profitability, and limit risk from future changes in business or product mix.▪ Collaborated with leaders on variable contribution inputs to identify positive margin sellable units ▪ Assess size of opportunity and incremental profitability of eCommerce Marketplaces to support senior leadership on investment decisions

Dublin, Oh, Us

Finance Controller for East Region, partnering multi-functionally to support Kinray business end-to-end ($4.5bn), the operation of six PD distribution centers, and with the Acute and Retail Independent sales teams to deliver on go-to-market strategies and operational excellence. Lead a diverse team of 18 geographically dispersed professionalsCollaborate with business partners to manage annual budget processes for largest region ($35bn), incorporating business initiatives, economic trends, and operational effectiveness. Oversee development of monthly financial reporting, including variance and financial statement analysis. Communicate a cohesive and concise story around business drivers and potential implications on future results to both business and corporate partners.Partner with Sales, Operations, and other key functions to evaluate financial models for customer proposals, identifying opportunities to drive growth, increase profitability, and limit risk from future changes in business or product mix.Serve as an objective financial steward with an enterprise perspective, safeguarding company assets and ensuring the company's intellectual property is protected.Led and oversaw the finance transformation for 6 independent pillars of work across PD field finance. Worked across the organization internally with a global third party to transition significant work externally, ensuring strong knowledge transfer, controls and support of impacted employees.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Versatile Finance Lead for $4.0bn business unit with increasing responsibilities including FP&A, Credit and Collections, deal modeling, and sales compensation design Developed and implemented policies and procedures to achieve organizational goalsRequired strong understanding of market dynamics and competitors. Conducted complex analysis, synthesized, and summarized implications to business, influenced business partners using analytics and business understanding.Managed annual budget and long-range planning processes for $4B business unit, incorporating business initiatives, economic trends, and operational effectiveness. Drove business value by providing financial and analytical counsel to facilitate decision-marking around strategic business initiatives.Managed credit functions for the business, performed credit underwriting, handled dispute resolution, and structured debt repayment schedules with customers, and risk mitigation for the businessPerformed customer profitability analysis for retail independent market and made recommendation and pricing decisions. Identified opportunities to drive revenue growth, margin expansion and a more favorable mixCreated financial models and scenarios as a key input for business planning decisions in areas such as capital deployment, marketing strategies, and investments.Prepared monthly financial reporting including variance and financial statement analysis. Assisted with communication to both business and corporate partners around business drivers and potential implications on future results.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Finance lead responsible for deal modeling across Retail Independent, Regional and National Account classes of trade Partnered with Sales, Operations, Finance, and other key functions to understand key drivers of profitability and create financial models for customer proposals and effectively communicated recommendations to senior management. Identified opportunities that drove revenue growth, increase profitability, and limited potential risk from future changes in business or product mix.Facilitated the deal approval process to ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures and communicated recommendations to senior management.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Finance Manager responsible for coordinating Revenue, OCOS and SG&A plans for $1.0bn business unit Gained consensus from various parties involved for resolution of issues related to operations and/or projectsLed and aligned financial forecasts and long-range planning processes for $1B business unit with cross-functional business leaders.Provided financial and analytical insight that drove busines value by evaluating short term/long term impact of decisions on work processes, outcomes, and customersEnsured employees operated within organizational guidelinesPerformed customer and product profitability analysis