David P. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Oberkochen, De

Oberkochen, De

Oberkochen, De

Oberkochen, De

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Led seven finance workstream leads through planning process for transformation initiatives and provided customized dashboards for financial reporting. • My personal change story video was shared company-wide, which captured the capacity for personal change and linked it to the transformation to inspire associates to embrace and believe in the power of change. • Led initial ideation session on G&A workstream presenting the transformation concept and process.• Built modeling tool for top customers to measure the profitability of promotions and proposed changes to promotions to improve profitability. • Created process to calculate improved promotion recommendations, break-even, and high achievement. Directly worked with sales force to gain alignment on promotion changes to be executed.• Created custom dashboards in data visualization software to report out on financial results of business transformation for key leadership.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• At the request of the VP Finance & Corporate Controller managed team of finance managers supporting the North American CEO, Executive CFO, and Global headquarters in Paris.• Responsibilities spanned several areas including Executive presentations, business health analysis, systems, revenue, corporate and field G&A, reporting, planning/budgeting, forecasting, and providing actionable insights.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• At the request of the Retail CFO took on the Global Customer Planning and Managing Trade Promotion management software tool project across that spanned all North American Nestlé companies. • Finance lead and overall project co-lead for cross functional sixteen person team to develop a global trade promotion management tool. • Worked exhaustively to ensure the software tool met all Nestlé Waters requirements while balancing needs across all North American market Nestlé companies. • Role required extensive travel and leadership within Nestlé Waters team and across the North American market to develop very specific functionality needed for success.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Led team of three full time managers supporting the Retail Sales controllers and Retail CFO. • Led all trade promotion management system improvements and report development to support sales managers acting as finance liaison between sales controllers and IS/IT. • Led trade activity audit process, which improved Trade Promotion Management system accuracy to improve trade spend forecast and accrual accuracy.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Held three Division Finance Manager roles spanning all customer sales channels. • CLUB - Finance Co-pilot working directly with account managers of club channel for Costco, Sams, BJs, Jetro, & Restaurant Depot. • Led Customer Managers and Business Analysts through price increase implementation process and changes required in trade promotion management system. • MASS MERCH - Finance Co-pilot for customer managers of Mass channel retailers Walmart, Target, Kmart. Held monthly account review calls to review trade promotion accuracy and completeness to ensure accurate forecasting. • Transitioned new Sales Controllers into role.• NATIONAL SUPERMARKET - Supermarket channel finance lead with core responsibility for National Supermarket. Kroger was the customer with the major focus. • Consolidated total Supermarket channel plan and forecast for Finance Director review. Had a six month streak of achieving perfect forecast accuracy of trade rate across channel.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• At the request of senior leadership relocated from Southern California back to Connecticut to learn and train the accounting and finance organizations on financial reporting in the new GLOBE SAP system. • Prepared materials and held F&C training sessions to teach the organization financial reporting in the new system as well as participating in extensive software testing of the FICO (Finance & Control) SAP module.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Relocated to Brea California to support the West Coast Division Finance Manager. • Performed the Retail Finance Co-Pilot position for the West Regional customers across all sales channels. • Direct customer account manager support, forecasting, planning, driving headquarter initiatives in the field, and variance analysis in the most competitive market in the US.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Prepared all CFO executive team decks utilizing my own financial (Essbase) database cube, Performed G&A budgeting & forecasting, Market & Business Strategy, Investment Measures (Economic Profit, ROIC, IRR) during heavy capital investment periods, company-wide forecast consolidation, review, and reporting to Global headquarters, and balance sheet forecasting.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Senior accounting role supporting all West Coast manufacturing plant controllers including process improvements, planning, forecasting, and variance reporting. • Participated in annual physical audits at factory and warehouse locations.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

• Accounting role supporting East Coast manufacturing plant controllers including planning, forecasting, and variance reporting. • Participated in annual physical audits at factory and warehouse locations.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Financial Accounting