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Create strategic plans, provide market and financial analysis, financial planning, and cost of capital analytics for future products, optimizing launch strategy and rollout execution.Adept at identifying challenges that hamper business performance and providing innovative solutions for improving operational efficiency enhancing productivity and driving bottom line growth. Respected project team leader and collaborator, who excels at instilling a shared vision and driving consensus with diverse stakeholders to achieve goals and objectives.Adept at identifying market conditions that effect strategic material costs and availability. Able to combine knowledge of the sales and manufacturing cycles to develop accurate demand predictions for strategic materials. Specializes in developing and maintaining supplier relationships to aid in price negotiations and assure supply chain continuity.Designed and created a client’s finance department. Hired both an accounting and an A/P clerk, developed accounting procedures and organized work flow. Reorganized the Chart of Accounts for more accurate financial reporting.Provided a client with a market analysis and participated in strategic material negotiations saving the client between $2 and 4 million in material costs.Provided a client with a business case analysis showing a capital expenditure had no ROI, saving the client over $3 million.

Managed key strategic challenges, current opportunity assessment, gap identification and tools for gap closure, and the approval of process, including resources.Perform market studies and analysis of strategic raw materials and developed supporting business cases and implementation plans to maintain supply chain continuity.Collaborated to define a negotiating strategy for current suppliers to control costs and maintain supply continuity.Team lead for a program to vet new suppliers, negotiate delivery terms and track international shipments to ensure security of supply.Provided business case analysis for a proposed capital expenditure.

Developed a comprehensive business plan and launched Marshall’s Motorsports, a powersports dealership that produced five consecutive years of more than 30% sales growth.Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, all accounting functions, financial statement preparation and the selection and implementation of the ERP system. Managed five team members.Managed and sourced all inventory and capital expenditures. Maintained supplier relationships. Created a tiered supplier ranking system to maximize profit and maintain supply chain continuity.Engineered all performance engine and suspension modifications. Managed race team.Project Manager for the construction of a 5,000 sq. ft commercial building from building design and site plan to completion.Sold business and commercial property in 2014.

Performed as the Lead Business Analyst on several M&A and systems integration project teams. Developed the detailed workplan, including all project tasks, estimated hours for each task, assigning resources and timeframes for task completion. Gathered requirements and identified all merger related imacts. Developed dept. setup and implementation plans and identified critical success factors. Organized and facilitated team status meetings and tracked progress of all tasks. Provided direction for project team members and assisted in the escalation of any challenges.

Budgeted, planned and forecast salary and benefits expenses for 14,000 employees. Analyzed differences between monthly forecasted salary expense and actual. Drove changes in the general ledger hierarchy for more accurate general ledger reporting.

Performed as a integral part of the corporate banking revenue building initiative project team that reengineered the sales, credit approval and loan servicing process for middle market commercial lending. As a Data Analyst, provided direction for the creation, use and design of an MS Access staff and compensation tracking database. Created user friendly spreadsheets using Visual Basic to automate the update process. Worked closely with the Access programmer to ensure database design would allow the type of reporting senior management requested.Analyzed variances from the staffing model and produced reports analyzing the impact of variances from the staffing model on over-all project objectives, including compensation savings and severance costs associated with reengineering. Produced reports for senior management and predicted future staff reductions/additions and compensation savings/costs.

Accurately spread and analyzed the financial statements on commercial clients. Prepared credit risk analysis in accordance with credit policy guidelines. Analyzed financial and non-financial risks associated with each client