Christopher Paulson Email & Phone Number

Oxford, Ct, Us

• Led annual planning between FP&A and Procurement by to provide the price outlook by month for all major ingredient and packaging categories based on hedges, futures, and vendor contracts, as well as input from the Procurement and Supply Chain Finance teams. • Developed monthly forecast report for all major ingredient and packaging categories including hedge vs non-hedged exposure, price variance by item, and inflation/deflation.• Provide detailed price variance and inflation/deflation reporting package for commodities, ingredients, packaging, co-pack, imports, and FX.• Worked across North America including Procurement Finance in Canada to standardize processes, leverage best practice and provide insights across both US and Canadian businesses.• Led 18-month IT project to provide detailed item level usage and pricing by bakery as legacy systems were sunset as part of Oracle financial system upgrade.• Tracked, supported, and validated procurement productivity projects.

Stamford, Ct

• Collaborate with senior leaders and their leadership teams to ensure all reporting and analytics are performed in an accurate and timely manner• Provide superior analytical and business support to the corporate services business units to ensure they are equipped with the insight and analysis to support investments• Lead the annual budget for CAS• Identify areas of risk and opportunities to enhance business models• Provide analysis to the CFO for the quarterly earnings release

White Plains, New York

• Key Finance contact responsible for providing the financial expertise and recommendations that enable effective decision-making within the business• Provide financial leadership and decision support to the PLP Sales and Finance functions• Critical role in the review and assessment of period end results, preparation of volume and trade forecast• Build of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Innovation Growth volumes, along with financial analysis and responsibility for Trade Spend initiatives

Purchase, Ny

• Developed the Annual Operating Plan and delivered monthly Forecasts for over 150M of expense related G&A and A&M across Beverages, Snacks, Insights, Sustainability, Strategy, Design, and Security• Consolidated and pitched extensive performance review package to Global Group VP and the broader management team as part of our periodic cadence• Ensured regular transparent communications among Global Teams and deliver insights into drivers and proactively manage upsides or risks• Led integration from team for SAP and BPC tools to increase productivity and deliver time savings on periodic close process• On-boarded and trained three new employees for Global Team

Somers, Ny

• Designed new process to cover weekly forecast status and year-end financial close for North America• Consolidated extensive package for quarterly performance review with North America GM • Coordinated and packaged weekly forecast of revenue and signings to present to management team

Armonk, Ny

• Promoted to be the focal of the Ops team and transitioned standard reporting to remote resource in order to provide guidance and oversight to the operations team members on the Sales Model• Mentored new employees and managed several members of the operations team to ensure proper work distribution and productivity • Developed and reported monthly performance metrics on 40B portfolio of Top IBM Clients, which covered trending, signings, profit margin analysis, as well as, presented the package to our Client Set Director • Established global guidance and educational materials to operationalize IBM strategic imperatives across all geographies and sectors worldwide• Improved sector reporting process and ensured accuracy across KPIs by streamlining and reducing duplication of data extracted, which saved over 10 hours per monthly financial close• Developed expertise in Essbase reporting IBM total revenue of 88B by Line of business and Geography, Hyperion Brio for Big Data during Coverage Model Transformation, and led transition to TM1 Cognos environment for supporting new management reporting requirements as strategic model changed

Armonk, Ny

• Deployed financial targets across coverage model segments by geography• Covered for full time person’s role during personnel transition on team for coverage model reporting and developed new templates to support reporting in order to improve efficiency in monthly close process• Assumed responsibility for analysis of over 1400 resources and expanded analysis to include client metric and dedication

• Organize daily catering jobs• Prepare orders and review accuracy before deliveries were sent• Train new employees on safety and process