Deedee Cooper Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Calabasas, Ca

Responsible for supporting the marketing and sales teams by producing sales reports, performing financial analysis, forecasts, and managing the setup of new products for sale in both internal and partners’ systems. Analyze sales performance, COG's and royalties, make product recommendations based on profitability, and create the annual budget for Retail sales. Responsible for general marketing tasks supporting the strategic sales (OEM) team including product copy writing and preparation of sell sheets and customer setups. Additionally support the Accounting Department by preparing Licensor Distribution Reports, including inventory, sell in and sell thru. Report on Monthly part numbers set-up in the system, with royalty information by Licensor. Prepare Quarterly Planet Art Royalty spreadsheet with revenue and royalty by designer by site. Support Operations by setting-up part numbers, maintaining inventory status, entering adjustments, price changes, cross-references, account restrictions and trouble-shooting order errors.

Moorpark, Ca.

Design and model incentive plans as part of an overall incentive compensation plan which is both motivating and cost-effective. Plan design includes gathering and utilizing information from field management regarding issues to resolve and significant behaviors to motivate. Monthly and quarterly incentive payout calculation, including the development of more reliable and auditable approaches to these calculations.Job analysis / Benchmarking; job structuring to help ensure clear career pathing; writing/updating job descriptions as required. Support the annual salary survey and market analysis project. Recommend annual revisions to salary ranges. Analyze and recommend improvements to the salary structure as a whole. Develop, run and distribute comparative analyses and advanced metrics-based reporting. Recommend and implement process improvements, solutions and procedural changes that enhance the effectiveness and internal cooperation of Human Resources as a whole. Analyze, model and administer PennyMac’s equity programs, partner payments, and Board of Director payments.

Calabasas, Ca

• Created and automated sell-through retailer and product line reports using data from retailer portals and other sources for use in sales analysis and forecasting. Analyzed data for trending and to ensure proper inventories at retailers.• Managed rolling forecasts for retail and end-user software business, including replenishment and product launches.• Set-up and maintain sku information in all major retailer vendor portals and maintain such information at third-party logistics providers. • Set-up finished goods and components in JDE; BOM creation, maintain wholesale customer pricing and cross-referencing; work with web engineers and marketing personnel and set-up and maintain web promotions in JDE.• Analyzed inventory data to yield trending, lifecycle management, obsolescence management, and turns.• Reconciled various inventory levels with outside systems such as those of third-party logistics providers and consigned products at retailers.• Analyzed COGs for various finished goods and components and report on cost trending.• Performed usage analysis and report on frequency of builds of core products and usage turns.• Through analysis, recommend courses of action to minimize obsolescence, maintain synching of various inventory counts between companies, and achieve the best balance between turns and on-hand inventory.• Provided ad-hoc projects and analysis for Finance, Marketing, Management, Sales and Operations.• Managed two inventory analysts; coordinating work distribution and ensured accuracy and work completion in a timely manner.

Pasadena, Ca

Commissions Analyst • Prepare monthly commissions for the B2R division of the Mortgage Bank, including creation and maintenance of dynamic analytical models.• Perform system reconciliation’s as well as G.L. account reconciliation’s, on a monthly basis. • Provide on-going metric reporting and analysis. • Perform on-going ad-hoc analyses. • Won “Over-the-top” Customer Service Award, for achieving the highest level of Customer Service in B2R LoanWorks in June 2004.Budget Analyst • Created, coordinated and maintained on-going Budget Plan for the Loan Resolution division of IndyMac Bank of $9mm. • Created and maintained financial models to evaluate present performance and forecast trends.• Analyzed FTE metrics and drivers associated with individual cost center owners.• Provided quarterly budget re-forecasts and updates.

Burbank, Ca

• Tracked and analyzed sales performance in the video hit sell-through business in North America.• Identified performance drivers in hit promotions by evaluating causal factors such as advertising and other media, account support, pricing, competition, seasonality, partner tie-ins, and cross-promotional activity. • Provided adhoc analysis to support management decisions involving demographic market focus and opportunity, product placement, re-pricing, in-store activities, product acquisitions.• Interfaced with brand and retail marketing, operations and forecasting, finance/accounting, research, media, sales force, publicity and programming.• Worked with I.T. department to test and implement Hyperion-Essbase before rolling out to entire division.• Managed two analysts.

Northridge, Ca

• Manage and provide analytical documentation and computer support in all sales administration areas including: new business proposals, new business presentations, commissions/splits, operating budget, monthly variance analysis, sales tracking, business reviews, and special projects as requested by executive management.