Senior Manager Purchasing Finance
Current- Lead Financial Planning & Analysis processes for Global Procurement Raw Material Groups (Ingredients and Packaging), with approximate spend of ($1B).
- Collaborate with Procurement Teams to develop Annual Operating Plans and Quarterly/Periodic Forecasts. Lead process of communicating and ensuring consistency of volume and commodity price assumptions being input into.
- Designed & Implemented a Procurement Savings Tracking system. Streamlined tracking system which allows for consistent application of savings definitions. Key objective includes analyzing and reporting impact of.
- Designed a Procurement Savings Reporting (Score carding) system that ensures accurate and timely reporting of savings and weekly changes company wide.
- Prepared and managed all month-end closing activities including preparation and submission of journal entries and account reconciliations, monitoring and validating accruals and procurement variances to standard costs.
- Lead and consolidated month-end reporting, and collaborated with procurement team to provide monthly commentary explaining variances over $50K.