Director Supply Chain Finance (2018 – Current)•Lead the development and delivery of financial and non-financial information that provides insights and supports the analysis of supply chain performance. This would include costs, yields, efficiencies, and other KPI’s.•Recognized for successfully leading several supply chain projects; warehouse consolidation, fleet integration, OTM, 3PL Integration.•Lead financial liaison supporting the supply chain leadership team.•Oversee supply chain budget/AOP process and coordinate activities with the Ingredients and Consumer Products FP&A teams, Operations management, and Corporate Accounting.•Lead team of high performing financial analysts.•Create and maintain Supply Chain models to accurately track annual spend of more than $500 million.•Finance liaison for several union negotiations.•Perform multiple project presentations to Board of Directors and Senior Leadership team.•Facilitate the development of standard reporting protocols and definitions that are aligned across the organization.

•Full P&L responsibility for both consumer products and commodity divisions with over $2.5B in revenue.•Oversaw commercial finance budget/AOP process and coordinate activities with Cost Accounting, Operations management, and Corporate Accounting.•Partnered with risk management team to develop hedging strategies to improve and protect product margins.•Prepared, updated and presented monthly financial packet to senior leadership team.•Lead team of high performing financial and pricing analysts.•Primary focus of improving, communicating and maximizing margin performance across multiple product categories•Key member of Business Intelligence development team. Primarily focused on building concise data structures to enable timely business decisions.•Led extensive margin research project for Consumer Products division; presented findings and recommended improvements to promote stronger profitability to senior leadership team.

•Led the Cost Accounting team with primary focus on cost reduction and continuous improvement.•Managed annual budgeting process for 13 manufacturing plants as it pertained to plant expenses and standard cost creation.•Project leader and steering committee member for several special projects.•Led 18-month project to recreate and improve standard cost reporting using the SAP BPC system in collaboration with Operations Management and Plant Controller teams to drive greater visibility and profitability.•Finance liaison on 3 company acquisitions, including due diligence and integration•Interact with all levels of the organization Including finance, procurement, tax, marketing, sales, operations, and internal audit.

•Partnered with Finance Directors to continually evaluate and develop new product costs.•Analysis of production batches, shrink, overhead absorption, flex budget, layered cost of goods sold, and lower cost or market inventory valuation.•Communicated regularly with plant controllers to provide clarity relating to standard cost changes and manufacturing variances.•Accelerated the development of new labor and overhead costs annually for 13 manufacturing plants.•Worked directly with Procurement managers to establish and solidify communication of monthly cost updates.•Led monthly closing process, including preparing reports, approving journal entries and reviewing cost updates.

•Business partner of leadership teams in manufacturing, engineering, procurement and tax.•Lead role in the implementation, testing, training, and maintenance of the Oracle Cost Module as it is rolled out worldwide, required international travel.•Lead role in acquisitions: responsibilities included supervision of full physical inventory counts, inventory management and account reconciliations for multiple acquisitions.•Worked directly with Finance managers to establish reporting needs to communicate, analyze, and improve product margins.•Reconciled inventory accounts monthly of more than $500M.•Interim Cost Accounting Manager while the position was in transition.