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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leading team and related processes to improve cash flow; resolve, prevent and recoup operational customer deductions; establish and monitor credit limits; minimize loss through proactive collection efforts; and maintain strong relationships with customer service, sales and operations.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Managing AR, Credit and Deductions for Hometown Food Company.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Created and managed a team of AR professionals. Improved AR reporting. Created and enforced a Credit policy for an acquired business. Developed strong relationships with our sales team and key customers in order to ensure business decisions were consistent with policy while allowing for business growth.

Vernon Hills, Il

Led the Accounts Receivable team including Credit, Collections and Cash application. Completely restructured the team enabling improved reporting, analytics, and career growth. Shifted core processing to our 3rd party partner, thereby streamlining key activities and creating cost savings. Established strong partnerships with our OTC stakeholders focusing on improving the customer experience. Worked to better align SAP capabilities with transaction processes to improve controls, data accuracy and resource utilization.

Mettawa, Il

Managed the processing and payment of all vendor invoices.

Lake Forest, Illinois

Responsible for General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Tax compliance.

Northfield, Il

Led a team of onsite and off shore professionals that were responsible for the processing and control of all disbursements, withholding tax reporting, cash and liability account reconciliations and related reporting activities in support of Kraft-Heinz's Accounts Payable.

Northfield, Il

Led the transition of AP reporting responsibilities from Kraft to our off-shore business partner.Created, monitored and analyzed performance metrics to increase processing efficiencies and identify continuous improvement opportunities with our off-shore business partner.

Glenview, Il

Responsible for ensuring that all Quality Audits for Kraft Foods Ingredient suppliers are scheduled, completed, recorded and reported in a timely manner. All significant variances to plan must be communicated to Procurement and Quality Audit management.

Chicago, Illinois

Led the accurate and timely transaction processing and reporting of all employment, benefit, and salary information. Led the end to end review and documentation of all HR administrative activities in an effort to create a centralized HR Administration center.

Led a small finance/IT team whose charter was the development of customer profitability reporting and bringing a finance discipline to customer negotiations.

Led a team of 45 Finance and Customer Service professionals. The team significantly reduced the Customer Deduction balance via efficient processing, partnering with sales and our customers, and identifying and focusing on meaningful KPI's / metrics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accountancy

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting