• Developed and implemented direct (13-week), indirect, and discounted cash flow (DCF) forecasting models for executive leadership to inform decision making.• Established comprehensive debt & equity based KPIs to enable key insights, drive organizational results and forecast future outcomes. Key initiatives: forecasting debt service coverage ability (DSCR) on adjusted EBITDA & max leverage for existing and prospective debt covenants and ongoing cost of capital. • Prototyped driver-based forecasting assumptions on P&L COGS / headcount planning through correlation and linear regression modeling.• Developed an initial AP reporting tool to drive actionable insights over payment term opportunities w/ key vendors & suppliers.• Collaborate with strategy, treasury, controllership, and finance operations to establish annual operating plan (AOP) and long range plan (LRP) based on historical trends, external benchmarks & target setting process.• Coordinate with external reporting to review areas such as debt, cash taxes/interest, acquisitions/earnouts, goodwill impairment, and capex.• Track and report ongoing market risk & opportunities (R&O) to translate into EBITDA / cash impact.• Review investor facing information including MD&A packages and earnings release scripts as part of quarterly filing process.• Ownership of corporate financial reporting, FP&A, and investor relations close calendar.

• Led a team of four senior analysts responsible for costing & inventory valuation financial models for the company’s most mature and competitive market. • Collaborated with senior finance teams & regional executives on route to market strategy including: product innovations & launches, product redesign, price pack architecture, and bottom-up costing analysis to assess overall profitability factors.• Generated insights on product profitability drivers through price volume mix (PVM) including discounting analysis.• Drove standardization techniques across all financial models to increase completeness and accuracy of model outputs. • Oversee financial close and external audit procedures for quarterly and year-end evaluations. Documented SOX controls and narratives for all market regions.

Broad experience across key segments including: Chocolate, Confectionary, Food, Pet Nutrition, Veterinary Health, Global Shared Services, and Multi-Sales Units. • Collaborated with cross-functional leaders to establish strategic revenue mgt e-commerce trade architecture KPIs aligned to the Unit’s retail sales value growth equation. • Performed post-acquisition integration consulting over reported revenue benefit drivers (execution, distribution outlets, category influence) and one-time cost synergies. • Developed prototype for the 3-5 year long range planning financial model. Established P&L guardrails to track target rate variances across brand-tech gross/net sales, margin after conversion, earnings, and variable contribution margin.• Performed ad-hoc consultations over financial reporting treatment, forecasting, and economic variables (inflation). Identified root causes and forward-looking recommendations to prevent/reduce additional financial loss. • Led the development and implementation of the working capital mgt. global program with emphasis on governance, sales and operations planning (S&OP+), and financial forecasting techniques.• Led finance transformation initiative governance evaluations including: supply chain insourcing arrangements, ERP system consolidations, and assessing financial cycle processes standardization across segments to improve efficiency and effectiveness of regional shared service delivery model optimization plans.• Led financial and operational assessments across various regions (North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific) and subject matter (strategic revenue mgt, trade, revenue recognition, working capital, capital expenditures, transfer pricing, e-commerce).

*MB Financial Bank was acquired by Fifth Third Bancorp (May 2018)*• Planned and performed analysis of banking operations, financial performance, accounting systems and internal controls to assess areas of risk or weakness and provide suggestions for improvement.Project experience:• Sarbanes-Oxley 404 (SOX): Derivatives & investments, tax, financial reporting, commercial lending, deposits / wires operations,• Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) / Anti-Money Laundering (AML),• Treasury Management Foreign Exchange & International Banking,• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Lending / Credit Issuance & Underwriting,• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Vendor Management

• Focused on improving operational processes for companies in the financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer, and industrial products industries.• Planned and performed analysis of client information technology operations and internal controls to assess areas of risk or weakness and provide suggestions for improvement.Project experience:• Sarbanes-Oxley 404 (SOX),• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Examination,• SOC 1 (SSAE 16 / SAS 70) Readiness Type I / Type II,• AT601 (HIPAA / HITECH)Special projects:• New systems implementation to ensure the accuracy and completeness in design.• Mining and data analysis using MySQL™ to support an integrated business process review around freight discounts/trends on sales for a technology services provider.• Performed the post-implementation review and designed automated evaluation tools to independently verify the business process design of a bid pricing system for a technology services provider.