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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Leading strategic project in Tableau to help the company gain insights into pricing behaviors, portal usage, and system performance for Franchises. • Develop, maintain, and refresh revenue reports and analytical tools which track historic vs current pricing across six restaurant brands. Provide pricing recommendations to Brand Leadership.• Lead Brand Pricing Cycle to help identify strategic and tactical pricing for items across the menu to help maximize revenue and profitability.• Actively gather useful market intelligence and industry trends that impact the pricing approach for the Inspire Brands Portfolio.• Work with cross functional partners to execute pricing strategies to the market.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Manage and create reporting for cost controls, warehouse utilization, and warehouse metrics across PKG division to help Leadership make important financial decisions.• Build high-level dashboards and reporting for the Corrugated division that helped identify $6M in cost savings. • Monitoring activities of G-P’s 3PL providers to identify risks and implement corrective actions.• Create interactive dashboards for OTIF that will improve predictive analysis to minimize risk and cost with Corrugated External Warehouses.• Manage several key projects for the PKG divisions to improve spend visibility and invoice standardization.• Manage long term data needs for three separate divisions for additional business metrics, report enhancements, and dashboards. • Develop performance metrics for external 3PL warehouses. • Participate in weekly requirement meetings to understand business needs. • Work cross-functionally between 3 groups to help drive analytical ad hoc reporting and dashboard creation.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

• Manage Business Units KPI’s to help drive cost savings across the business• Analyze, draft ,validate, and finalize business and technical requirements • Provide recommendations to Executive Vice Presidents (EVP) & Vice Presidents on actionable plans for cost savings and best practices • Support and align with internal and external customers to meet business needs • Convert raw data into a Reporting Model by comprehending the business requirements • Transform the Reporting Models into Power BI visuals and Dashboards• Project Manager for integrating Procurement & Supply Management (PSM) data into Power Business Intelligent (BI) system and creating departmental KPI metrics for Senior Leadership • Work with Senior Leadership and the responsible contacts in our Germany Headquarters to improve internal data quality • Forecast commodity prices• Identify, calculate, track and report material cost savings on a regular basis • Prepare and run E-sourcing events• Support indirect spend programs like travel and temporary labor

• Developed and actively managed 12-million-dollar Purchase Card Program for tKE North America by implementing new policies, managing the relationship with the card holder provider, creating SOP’s, consequently delivering $ 1,200,000 savings through reduction of non-authorized transactions and vendor consolidation• Essential cross-function partner in an initiative to develop OPEX reporting in Business Warehouse/MicroStrategy with complete responsibility for the delivery of four dashboards. This initiative resulted in reporting automation reducing manual reporting workload by 50%. • Create and maintain standard reporting to drive cost savings for Corporate Cost Centers • Partner with cross-functional teams to drive projects and initiatives including analysis, coordination and measurements of the results • Drive functional excellence through being a reliable and proactive FP&A Business Partner for functional leadership• Develop and deliver accurate budget projections for corporate departments based on key performance indicators• Develop business models from various data sources (ERP, CRM, BI, EPM) to enable and scale data driven decision making within Finance and the executive leadership• Combine industry specific business intelligence and data analysis to develop actionable recommendations for executive management

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Leads multiple projects to identify process improvements for Boston and New Jersey offices and create PowerPoint presentations to show top level recommendations.• Leverage big data to build processes to identify high risk items that should be paid through Accounts Payable. Created and lead company wide digital implementation Expense Report submission trainings to all of the North American Region.• Review expense submissions for the South System using a risk based approach to ensure compliance with the America's Travel and Entertainment policy, annotate anomalies identified, and conduct follow-up and document production initiatives to satisfy exceptions.• Conducts multiple team trainings on new processes or software such as SAP Business Objects.• Identified roughly $300,000 to be deducted for fiscal year 2016-2018 as a result of policy violations, ultimately impacting the bottom line.• Communicates updates to policies through trainings for all customers.• Analyzes trends quarterly to illustrate high risk items & quantify exceptions identified.• Heads New Hire Finance, Timesheet and Expenses Orientation & Training every 30 days.• Perform any Ad-Hoc reports on a weekly and monthly basis.

Aurora, Co, Us

• Performed General Ledger adjustments, reconciliation and audits researching all issues. • Processed time sensitive payment requests and audit and approve relocation expenses for the Client's employees per their policy. • Monitored banking activity daily to ensure funds were available to clear wires and checks.• Completely owned assigned accounting areas, including journal entries and reconciliations. • Provided support and back up for accounting staff as needed during month end close.• Reviewed and approved supplier invoices and posted payments in Oracle. • Ensured tax regulations were followed according to the IRS reporting standards and converting multiple currencies based on the daily foreign exchange rates.

Windsor, Ct, Us

• Maintained detailed Excel spreadsheets that record and track payroll benefits. • Prepared financial reports in Excel for Health and Dental benefits.• Preformed month end reconciliation of benefits accounts.• Suppored Payroll Manager by completing special assignments and other miscellaneous duties assigned through department needs.

Norcross, Ga, Us

• Provided weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial summary reports, and performed analysis as required.• Developed standard operating procedures and improved business processes through process re-engineering. • Monitored and entered weekly KPIs. • Performed account research and provided resolutions on account inquires and disputes.• Monitored 66 plant sites to ensure that representatives are in compliance with use of 3rd party payment providers.• Processed freight invoices and assigned them to the correct general ledger account.• Resolved invoicing discrepancies through the usage of AS/400, JDE, rating system, and rate contracts.• Performed month end accruals and removed them from the reports.• Assigned receivables to the correct cost center and submitted checks to Accounts Receivable in a timely manner.• Audited and checked rate contracts on a monthly basis to ensure Rock-Tenn policies and procedures are followed. • Analyzed and tracked key financial metrics including expenditures and budget estimates for various cost centers.• Trained new hires and other employees. • Processed an average of 100 invoices daily.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

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Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting