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Champaign, Illinois, United States

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Champaign, Illinois

• Own the delivery of improvements in the Internal/Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Controls for Champaign factory
• Extract, format, and analyze data from SAP to provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting to Champaign Leadership Team (CLT)
• Responsible for recognizing and diagnosing financial and material management inconsistencies
• Analyze complicated business objectives daily and execute action plans accordingly
• Identify and initiate improvements external to the finance department, supporting overall executional excellence in the factory’s leverage of SAP
• Serve as subject matter expert on Material To Inventory SAP processes for the Champaign factory and other national Kraft Heinz locations as needed

Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

• Responsible for recognizing and analyzing complicated situations daily and executing action plans accordingly
• Developed and maintained reference guides documenting SAP procedures
• Ensured physical inventories of RAW/PACK factory materials were performed in a timely and accurate manner
• Monitored data transfers between factory floor and SAP systems to assure financial efficiencies and accuracies
• Provided root cause analysis for issues, identified corrective actions, and verifiedimplementation
• Lead two salaried employees and nine hourly employees

Addison, Illinois

• Championed change management with the customer service population
• Served as liaison between Corporate Offices and Customer Service Coordinators (CSC), Team Leads, and Associate Directors
• Facilitated dialogue and training on corporate policies and procedures
• Responsible for clear and concise communication on corporate initiatives, product changes, and system updates
• Managed the training and system access for all area new customer service new hires
• Supported daily functions of approximately thirty CSCs, five Team Leads, and three Associate Directors

Addison, Illinois

• Lead the planning, execution, and payment of a $1MM Thanksgiving Event for customer account
• Developed and utilized several Business Objects queries to monitor and improve account/region forecast accuracies
• Collaborated with Regional Team Leader on the design and implementation of corporate forecast accuracy tool
• Acted as a sub-team member for SAP deep dive analysis during cutover from legacy, order management system to SAP
• Managed accounts to ensure correct pricing, optimal order quantities and appropriate order sourcing
• Served as corporate liaison between sales, customer, transportation and operation staff