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Los Angeles, CA, US

Santa Monica, California, US

Cardiff, GB

Los Angeles, California, US

Vernon, California, US

• Hands-On Financial leader, overseeing General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, banking and treasury activities, cash flow coordination, regulatory compliance, and financial reporting for four.
• Prepared financial statements in accordance with GAAP and prepared executive summaries with financial analysis with assistance from Operations, Marketing & Sales leadership.
• Reduced financial close from 40 to 10 days and implemented new Board reporting package.
• Responsible for managing all International and local financial audits, sales tax compliance and responsible for insurance compliance.

• Serve as Interim Director of Cost Accounting, documenting and streamlining the role, and training the new Director.

El Segundo, CA - California, US

• Led the FY20 Budget reforecast process and recommended cost savings initiatives during Covid eliminating the need for staff reduction.
• Accurately submitted applications and forgiveness for two PPP loans during Covid, generating $1.2M in cash.
• Led process to clean up five years of reporting errors in the Australia division.
• Developed a 6 month rolling cash forecast and worked with China vendors to continue production during cash flow challenges allowing the company to meet its sales projections for FY21.

• Served as Project Leader for 3PL transition and manufacturing footprint optimization.
• Member of the Executive Team and makes financial presentations to the Board of Directors.
• Used technical and forensic accounting skills to clean up the books which had not been closed in 6 months and transitioned to a 15 day close from a 60 day close.
• Served as Project leader for 3PL transition and Manufacturing Footprint optimization to New Jersey which saved the company 35% in freight costs and 25% in labor.
• Led the team to implement Microsoft Dynamics Solomon and Blue Cherry ERP systems amidst the 3PL transition. resulting in faster order processing and increased inventory accuracy by fifty percent.
• Served as hands-on CFO, overseeing human resources, IT, and operations, and as key advisor to the CEO.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Worked with operations finance leads across all divisions to drive efficiencies and streamline reporting and processes across all manufacturing plants.
• Developed and implemented division-wide Cost of Poor Quality Metric and partnered with Quality and Operations to develop strategies and processes to reduce costs, resulting in a 30% YOY reduction in costs.
• Implemented, tracked, and forecasted all division restructuring and non-recurring expenses.
• Led a Division-wide restructuring effort to move North America Operations to Better Cost Countries resulting in overall savings of $60M annually.

Irvine, CA, US

• Supported the Operations team with financial modeling and forecasting while overseeing and providing analytical support for business optimization initiatives.
• Developed and published weekly operational KPI’s to measure cost efficiency and profitability.
• Partnered with marketing to develop incentive programs to maximize revenue and minimize freight costs.
• Formalized E&O policy and lead multi-functional team to create strategies to reduce obsolete inventory.
• Recommended and implemented policies and programs to guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and the profitability of the operation.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Recommended and implemented many cost cutting initiatives, resulting in 30% monthly expense reduction.
• Partnered with Supply Chain and Operations to reduce inventory 25% via using lean initiatives.
• Developed and implemented division-wide Cost of Poor Quality Metric, and partnered with Quality and Operations to develop strategies and processes to reduce costs, resulting in a 30% YOY reduction in costs.
• Partnered with the Logistics team to create a Freight forecasting tool resulting in a 97% forecast accuracy.
• Developed a forecasting tool for the North America division to accurately forecast sales and operations costs for the Lifestyle Division streamlining the close process by two days.
• Managed division-wide project to validate all cost standards reducing process order variances by $3M, and shared variance mitigation strategies with North America Controlling group.

Chatsworth, CA, US

*Serve as key business partner to Sales, Program Management and Production to establish controls over inventory movements, valuation and tracking.*Develop cost structure for new products and developed model to assist program managers in pricing products.*Performed an inventory and cost audit and recommended process changes and controls to maintain the.

Chicago, Illinois, US

*Supervisory and hands on experience in accounting including period end closing and quarterly and annual financial statement preparation. *Experience in preparing annual operating plans, budgets and forecasts for multiple companies and industries, utilizing top-down, bottom-up budgeting methods.*Developed models and analytics to evaluate the resource.

Glendale, California, US

*Managed the preparation of the annual budget and re-forecasting of financial statements to the previous year end.*Performed an inventory rollback to the previous year end, and assisted in the process to re-cost all inventory. *Directed the re-location of the warehouse move, and created internal control procedures to ensure the accuracy of inventory.

St Louis, MO, US

*Performed daily sales ROI and margin analyses for marketing department for all customers.*Generated inventory, labor costs, and shipment reports for analysis. *Responsible for creating quarterly and annual financial statements.*Prepared financial documents for annual budget process.*Streamlined close procedures resulting in a 20% decrease in time required.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

*Identified complex financial problems and issues related to workflow processes, research solutions, and implemented corrective steps to achieve higher level of operational efficiency. *Prepared financial planning and budget reports. Analyzed data of past and current operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting