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• Met weekly with leadership team providing analytical based data for key decision-making strategies.• Create annual budgets, forecasts, and reports for Senior Management and Leadership Teams.• File quarterly and annual reports as needed for federal grants ensuring accuracy and timeliness.• Created and negotiated contracts with medical providers and outside vendors. • Implemented process efficiencies to streamline month end financial reporting and medical data reporting.

• Reconcile company bank accounts ensuring AP invoices and cash receipts are recorded in a timely fashion• Prepare weekly payroll, setup new employees, set up new vendors, and compile required union documentation.• Submit 401k files for employees to financial institution. Adjust withholdings when applicable. • Create financial reports for executive team, discuss variances and implement changes where necessary.• Respond to ad hoc report requests for different business units

• Manage daily accounting functions, reconcile monthly books, compile month end accruals.• Manage all financial areas and oversee operational aspects.• Administered schedules, payroll, and deposits. • Oversee rental properties including tenant lease agreements, utilities, and general maintenance issues.• Scheduled necessary maintenance, snow removal, and material orders as needed.

• Set and maintained standard manufacturing costs including: Ingredients, Packaging, WIP, and Finished Goods. • Prepared month end accruals for COGS/Inventory accounts and reconciled month end inventory to the GL. • Worked on monthly PPV variances and helped to create reporting around the significant cost drivers. • Automated several of our reporting processes in order to reduce updating time and simplicity for the end user. • Created standardized reporting metrics at our manufacturing facilities to enable timely reporting of KPI's.• Created an optimized supply chain network for storage and distribution amongst two merging networks and identified significant savings opportunities.

• Prepared a $100M Storage and Distribution budget and analyzed plan and forecast successes and failures.• Analyzed operations, trends, and profitability for management teams offering key learning and improvement opportunities. • Generated month end storage, handling, diesel, and freight accruals utilized by the accounting teams.• Discovered 3rd party fuel theft through significant analysis and successfully recovered $100K. • Provided leadership and direction in determining and communicating variance drivers and estimating future projections (volume/mix impact, supply chain, advertising/promotions)

• Generated weekly financial and tracking reports for members of both Finance and Merchandising.• Produce margin tracking reports, break-even and mix analyses, and Retail/Cost reports, ROI, NPV, and IRR.• Built quarterly/annual plans for the merchandising teams and subsidiaries.• Prepared weekly, monthly and quarterly sales and margin variance results for Executive Meetings.• Created dynamic reporting utilizing pivot tables and streamlining formulas to consolidate several preceding reports into one.

• Compiled and distributed semi-weekly S&D financial reports to management. Reports communicated business-critical information and served as crucial tool in forecasting business performance.• Transitioned manual reporting to an automated, data warehouse driven system and transferred distribution reports from the Axs-one general ledger system to the Oracle data warehouse system.• Produced Adhoc reports on an as needed basis using Oracle/Hyperion Essbase data systems.• Documented all of my processes and reports for use as an on boarding tool on future associates.