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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Manage team of financial professionals and oversee bank data load processes

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Manage team of quality and data analytics professionals to support quality improvement and operational data analysis* Manage quality improvement efforts for two warehouse operations leading quality staff in conducting process audits, managing data, and developing reports* Direct analytics team in meeting the data analysis needs of operations management

Greater Memphis Area

Manage team of finance professionals to support operations financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and costing system technology development * Recognized as Manager of the Year for employee development, virtual recruiting process improvement, and costing project improvement.* Guide business user development of activity-based costing system partnering with IT team and directing engagement with stakeholders worldwide.* Directed the development of annual budgets for $5-billion and $1-billion operating divisions and mentored a team of analysts to develop executive presentations to communicate opportunities and risk analysis for annual financial plans.* Managed the creation and implementation of a new financial forecasting process for $1-billion operating division reducing preparation time by 50% from prior process.

Greater Memphis Area

Managed financial analysis, forecasting, and budget development for ground operating division; regularly communicated and collaborated with senior executive leadership regarding operational improvements* Managed the annual budget development for $5-billion operating division; collaborated with various members of the executive leadership team in Operations and Finance to successfully implement budget and regularly present forecasts.* Recognized with an Excellence Award for the development of various financial models to analyze significant initiatives supporting operational and profitability goals.* Managed cross-functional development of business case analysis for operational investments securing capital funds to improve operations.

Greater Memphis Area

Financial analyst supporting ground operations division; manage financial reporting, productivity analysis, ground operations project evaluation, and business case development

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Project manager to develop Java/Oracle web-based enterprise bid workflow system spanning 28 months from business case through product release reducing turnaround time by 25% for 1,500 sales executives and saving over $1 million per year.*Drove user acceptance testing and application enhancements to increase efficiencies that reduced average response time from 20 seconds to less than 5 seconds (95% improvement).*Developed and executed on-time, on-budget the training plan for more than 2,000 end users including training the trainers, reducing cost of training delivery by $50,000.*Project manager to develop and deliver department's new employee training program and standardize manager orientation process reducing new employee orientation time by 50%.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Lead analyst for Pricing projects to reduce pricing system data entry time by 50%; managed efforts of key stakeholders within pricing, sales, and revenue management.*Redesigned customer document and delivered database system estimated to add over $3 million in profit over product life by reducing time to deliver pricing document to customer.*Managed web-based pricing scenario analysis software including first-line technical support and improvement requests from Pricing department users.*Developed training material and led training for Pricing, Revenue Management, and Sales managers and analysts on mainframe-based publication application resulting in a smooth transition and low resistance*Maintained and updated training material for web-based pricing analysis system and conducted periodic training update sessions.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Regularly analyzed bill data to determine account problem areas and recommended yield management strategies improving company bottom line by $300,000 -$500,000 per year.*Analyzed account data to determine accounts not meeting operating expectations and managed improvement initiative resulting in approximately $1 million profit per year.*Managed weekly pricing reporting and developed Excel tool to cut preparation time of a manually created financial summary report by 80%.

Provo, Utah Area

*Managed financial analysis and negotiation of auto liability claims, incident investigation, and department technology training.*Reduced claim document creation time by 50% by independently designing, recommending, and implementing document and spreadsheet templates for use within local service center leading to improved customer satisfaction.

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Undergrad Finance course teaching assistantInternship - State of Utah - Business Analyst *Recommended a strategy.

Certificate, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Studied Lean Six Sigma

Ba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Honor Society; Business Administration Department Student of the YearPresidential Scholarship.