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Seattle, WA, US

• Lead / develop team of finance professionals to drive continuous improvement in operations while prioritizing resources and competing deadlines. Led project that resulted in reduction of Memphis YoY downstream.
• As member of senior leadership team, provide sound financial strategies and forward-looking modeling of interpretive data analysis to support operational objectives for two major regionally dispersed Amazon Robotic.
• Lead development, review, and prioritization of rolling budget and forecasts for both capital/expense, performance against plan, and post-audit reviews.
• Build strong cross-functional stakeholder partnerships and procedures with operations, engineering, human resources, IT, safety, and procurement departments. Champion projects to be fiscally aligned with goals and.
• Develop routine presentations to senior leadership on regional performance vs plan, highlight impact of potential headwinds / tailwinds, provide strategies to mitigate risk and/or maximize opportunities, and highlight.
• Develop labor optimization model to ensure correct amount / type of labor is allocated to expected volumes.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

* Drive Portfolio Optimization through evaluating / recommending balanced strategic investments in innovation and product expansion/renovation* Strategic Business Partner w/ R&D, Engineering, Plant Ops, Sales, Commercial Strategy Team* Evaluate financial feasibility of new projects using DCF methodology (NPV, IRR) * Develop flexible financial models that.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

* Responsible for successfully managing monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial close processes.* Developed innovate monthly executive reporting suite that translates financial impact of KPI's and highlights risks and opportunities.* Spear-head process designed to reduce inventory inefficiencies: (Raw Materials, Packing Materials, Spare Parts).*.

* Financial project manager for three-year privately funded faith-based research grant. Managed small staff of three focused on connecting community resources, projecting key trends within target demographic groups and innovative problem-solving.

• Constructed flexible financial models that empowered executive management to simulate strategic operating scenarios and view the cascading effect across business lines.
• Served as lead business analyst / finance liaison responsible for helping internal departments build, consolidate, and prioritize multi-million dollar capital / expense budgets and associated risks.
• Forecasted short-term and long-range capital / expense, domestic / international express and freight shipments and call volume, automated revenue collection by product channel, and related bad debt expense.
• Created financial model that helped predict optimal balance of call-center variable employee workload by Full-time Equivalent (FTE), Vendor, and channel mix. Helped reduce footprint of call center real estate portfolio.
• Prepared executive business case analyses on major capital/expense investments, which included providing recommended course of action, clear insight into cost drivers, risk analysis of discounted benefits / revenue.
• Provided enterprise-wide financial reporting to Executive Management on monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Entered accruals, researched general ledger, and performed routine variance analyses as needed. Provided.

• Prepared consolidated financial reporting, developed capital and expense budgets, and performed variance analysis to business plan and rolling financial forecasts. As variable lead analyst, responsible for forecasting.
• Spearheaded team of inter-plant analysts to successfully reduce $25 million of FY07 operating costs by modeling cost-volume-profit margins of different brand-mixes, reallocating production between plants, and FTE.
• Led financial analysis to quantify cost of new product development (forecasted new revenue less cannibalization costs of existing products) while minimizing new investment costs through strategically repurposing.

• Performed financial review and project management on hardware and software purchases to ensure scalability and compliance with existing technological architecture. Focused on client retention, brand management, and new.

• Provided metric driven executive financial reporting and evaluated major production related capital/expense requests. Developed self-contained incentive pay program for Ramp Agents that tied payouts to measurable.
• Finance matrix to several geographically dispersed Information Technology Department VP organizations. Led team of analysts in development of multimillion-dollar capital and expense budget. Performed long-range.
• Career Progression: Financial Analyst Trainee - Associate Financial Analyst - Staff Financial Analyst - Senior Financial Analyst.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance