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Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Analysis of top customers detailing performance of end markets, margin analysis, and volume trends.
• Evaluates financial and margin performance to identify opportunities to improve profitability by Product, Region, and Customer.
• Counsels Sales Team during tender reviews and justifies/challenges new pricing. Validates the financial impacts of agreed upon pricing and ensures adjacencies across products and customers.
• Identify business growth opportunities and strategic projects given knowledge of customer, competitor, and end market trends.
• Develops and maintains competitor analysis comparing financial KPIs
• Launches tools to support business needs, striving for automated business analysis and management reports.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Developed and led margin improvement process responsible for YTD realized savings of £105K with an additional £300K forecasted and a savings pipeline of £796K, reported monthly to GM and UK national commercial teams
• Implemented a strategic and analytical approach to commercial functions leading to targeted sales success and operational optimization
• Coordinated commercial function during critical year that saw turnaround from red 2018 to black 2019 resulting in the highest achieving year on record
• Adjusted contractual price obligations based on monthly reviews of industry publications and market values in line with commodity supply prices
• Managed Commercial Pricing Analyst to overachieve the agreed two-day pricing SLA to an average of less than one day and optimized reporting suite for management meetings

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Built Excel based pricing model that accurately accounts for fixed and variable cost inputs allowing for detailed representation of hourly value for customer tenders and quotations
• Launched and managed daily cross-departmental touchpoint to prioritize commercial and operational strategy and coordinate incoming projects
• Reported and analyzed monthly sales and profit KPIs to multi-level stakeholders, tailoring the message to department needs and summarizing key trends, outliers and opportunities

Mason, OH

• Designing accurate annual plans worth in excess of $300 million to drive enhanced financial outcomes having regard to varying business needs and structures. This includes undertaking modelling within Excel based on.
• Evaluating and updating administrative plans as new information becomes available in order to refine forecasting, noting areas of risk to track and opportunities to save or to cover any unfunded projects and programs.
• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with business partners to provide forecasting services ensuring organizational needs can be met during peak periods with minimal disruption and personnel variances..
• Managing monthly administrative results and reporting variances, improving and consolidating journal entries for allocated work portfolios, and ad-hoc reporting

Cincinnati Area

• Executing and auditing administrative plans and forecasts for Specialty Insured business and Western States portfolios worth in excess of $100 million dollars.
• Creating month end journal entries, managing accruals and re-classes of major external labour and marketing costs, booking Sales Incentives, and ensuring cooperation with US GAAP.
• Collecting and analysing month end data, including general ledger, associate headcount, and actual to forecast/plan variances for ad-hoc requests from Business Partners, to create easy-to-understand tables and graphs.
• Providing support to Lead Financial Consultant to ensure all Business Partner and internal corporate requests were processed and completed in an accurate and timely manner.

• Creating detailed schematics in AutoCAD, including transferring hand-drawn schematics to electronic versions for Ford Motor Co.
• Installing and programming various robotics systems for Ford Motor Co. plants across the US, including transportation of equipment, on-site assembly and testing, and collaborating with onsite union workers.