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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 transportation costs by $2 million and improvement in fulfillment deadlines. • 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 facilities (Memphis and Little Rock). Drove 33 % increase in YOY TPH and 7 % decrease in YOY variable headcount while handling volume increase. • 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 metric based deliverables. • 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 external competitive factors. • Develop labor optimization model to ensure correct amount / type of labor is allocated to expected volumes. • Report to Senior Regional Finance Manager

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 provide sr. mgmt. levers to simulate financial effects of strategic operational changes* Develop cost analysis for innovation projects in adherence with balanced Revenue Growth Model strategy.

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).* Responsible for driving collaborative development of expense budget across multiple departments, eliminating duplication, and ensuring details are tied to plant goals and operational metrics. * Ensure master recipes are correct at BOM Level in SAP for all SKUs and Product Formulas.* Determine standard product costs, overhead costs, and provide cash flow analysis.* Provide monthly and quarterly P&L expense, production volume, and energy usage forecasts. Ensure these updates relay strategic insights that bridge key performance indicators and financial objectives.* Manage critical deliverables and continuous development of financial analyst & finance contractor.* Ensure accurate and timely reporting/reconciliation of daily production, including raw/packing materials, machine and FTE hours consumed. * Developed collaborative process with Operations Mgmt, Production Scheduler, and Materials Manager that resulted in more effective materials planning and accurate financial forecasts of proposed production changes.* Serve as Memphis Finance Plant Lead on Major RTEC Projects, New Product Costing, & Financial System Training. * Cultivate strong business Partnerships with senior leadership team and key support personnel to provide value-added decision support.* Interim Controller (October 2020-February 2021).* Develop and Present Executive-Level presentations.* Proven independent learner able to synthesize and tie-out data from multiple sources, translate financial concerns using customer friendly language, and handle multiple competing deadlines in a fast-paced changing environment.

* 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 streams, and audit metrics. • 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 routine guidance and skill-training to staff level business planners and operations forecasting team. Proactively identified opportunities to eliminate redundancy, incorporate innovation, and introduce scalable automation into operations. Managed / supported projects that crossed multiple platforms and/or operating companies.

• 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 deviations to total manufacturing variable production costs. Monitored key industry performance indicators and translated the effect on internal variable costs. • 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 savings at high-speed facilities. • 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 capital assets in underutilized facilities.

• 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 revenue generation projects. Left entrepreneurship to attend MBA school full-time.

• 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 corporate objectives. Developed FTE models to simulate wage rate / benefit levels. Finance matrix to Memphis Hub VP organization.• 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 capital/expense forecasting and in-depth financial evaluations on major capital requests and Board Projects. Created routine financial reporting and analyses for presentation to Executive Management outlining financial progress toward corporate objectives. Provided financial leadership for Global Year 2000 project and multiple phased software and hardware rollouts. • 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