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• Coordinator for global small package and freight forwarding brokerage P&L’s, supporting a global trade and compliance innovation project.
• Lead finance team of 5 analysts, improving and maintaining financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.
• Develop performance tracking and financial analytics for the enterprise wide project to report to leadership.
• Develop financial models and analysis to support strategic global initiatives, and secure project funding.
• Joint effort with Marketing to evaluate customer risk through CVA analysis, and drive improved cash flows.
• Communicate recommendations to senior leadership, based on in-depth trend and performance analysis.

Greater Atlanta Area

• As part of the implementation team, partner with consultants to deploy ZBB throughout the organization. Additionally, support the Transformation Office financial and cost savings tracking.
• Develop and support the Asset Management work stream, a Greenfield project to source funds for capital investment through Procurement initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally with Procurement commodity managers to validate projected cost savings and pull through.
• Manage procurement savings tracking and integration to business planning: designing engagement, implementation process and measurement tools from the ground up.
• Accountable for 5 enterprise wide cost categories, with a goal of delivering $10M in additional cost savings through policy change or process improvements.
• Lead GL Mapping project to align all in scope ledger accounts to the Zero Based Budgeting cost categories.

Alpharetta, GA

• Head of finance for Business Planning Unit, responsible for managing profitability of the trade lane portfolio and reporting overall fiscal performance.
• Network Utilization study that lead to a detailed network cost reduction plan, improving margins approximately 7%.
• Cost reduction initiative on fastest growing product resulting in an improved Operating Ratio.
• In 2018, held accountable to 30% profit growth on trade lane product portfolio, finishing the year above plan.
• Responsible for Business Plan: providing guidance to individual business units through the planning cycle.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to forecast revenue and profit, sustaining less than 5% margin of error to actual.

Alpharetta, GA

• Oversee, maintain and develop month end financial reporting.
• Design and support financial content presented to the Management Committee in the monthly business plan reviews, including month close financials, KPI’s, and revenue forecasts.
• Conduct in depth product level costing studies, customer specific cost to serve and post profitability analysis.
• Key asset in 2016 and 2017 COE business plan development. Working with individual business units and conducting seasonality analysis to recommend final plans.
• Implemented and produce a financial forecast to be reviewed with the Management Committee on a weekly basis.
• Built and maintain a costing model for ground service. Leveraged model to launch a revenue initiative in collaboration with Marketing to expedite pricing requests and provide aggressive market rates.

Alpharetta Ga

• Team Lead, worked with new hires to strengthen analytical skills, train in advanced data management tools, and understand how data impacts business decisions.
• Developed and presented business case to senior management for Business Intelligence suite. Successfully demonstrated the need to upgrade, employing real world application, and secured approval. Effectively tested and.
• Performed ad-hoc reporting using a diverse combination of data management tools to evaluate Global Freight Forwarding volume, shipment, and revenue performance data for senior management. Key data support analyst on.
• Review data requests to identify customer requirements and design retrieval plan to efficiently mine information from the data warehouse. Successfully designed SQL script to link Broker and shipment data on a Global.
• Create detailed project plans, assigning resources and tasks to meet project deadlines and milestones.
• Manipulate and analyze large data sets to meet business needs. Identifying millions in untracked revenue.

• Global Freight Forwarding
• Review and analyze requests for quotes and proposals to tailor pricing to customer’s defined needs.
• Build pricing proposals for RFQ’s utilizing strategic analysis and BIA tools to gain a comprehensive understanding the current variables impacting UPS costs and profitability.
• Work with both Sales and Operations to provide market competitive rates.
• Manage book of business and built custom tools to efficiently price customer specific templates.
• Implement customer rates for new and retained business.

• Evaluate and recommend pricing strategy for special pricing requests to customers.
• Request and negotiate costs from Germany in order to achieve profit margin targets.
• Gather and analyze point of sale data to report distributor strength and effectiveness to Regional Sales Managers.
• Establish list price for all new product launches and product variations.
• Monitor inventory turnover to adjust safety stock levels and re-order points as necessary.
• Forecast inventory needs to plan ocean freight and air shipments from Germany. Projects / Awards

G.I.S. Analyst First as an intern and later as a full-time employee, applied acute attention to detail and thoroughness to review raw field data for accuracy and completeness. Developed a reputation for displaying good judgment when presented with unclear information and as a problem solver by communicating effectively to resolve identified issues..

Provided critical strategic, operational and technological services, and solutions to clients for this start-up company. Conducted on-site brainstorming sessions at client sites then analyzed results to prioritize high-value recommendations. Assisted in business startup activities including marketing collateral design and development. Mentored by company.

Served as an intern to this $7M IT/business consulting and operational solutions firm. Created and organized the company's client/consultant strategic plan engagement procedures manual. Assisted in the organization of sales force marketing campaign. Assisted in the redesigned of the company's logo and contributed to the design of the company website. Also.

B.S., Entrepreneurship And Small Business

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Phi, Alpha Theta Chi Honors Society, Auburn Lacrosse Team

Diploma