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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Corporate FPA

Chicago, Illinois

- Manage corporate information technology infrastructure expenses and P&L.- Discuss financial trends with senior leadership teams and develop monthly and yearly forecasts.- Provide recommendations on the efficiency of information technology expenses including the consolidation of vendors, cost avoidance projects, and exploring new opportunities through request for proposals to achieve long-term benefits.- Partner with information technology teams to develop business cases for potential projects and initiatives.

Greater Chicago Area

Financial Analysis Consultant - Financial Planning and Analysis – Corporate FPA- Manage over 180 million dollars in corporate information technology expenses.- Lead monthly meetings on financial results that investigate trends in variances to budget and provide insights on key metrics to senior leadership teams.- Collaborate with architecture and infrastructure teams to build a total cost of ownership model for all applications within information technology.- Part of a team that has the responsibility of developing and maintaining a dashboard built in QlikView that displays companywide expenses for senior level leadership teams including the CFO, COO, and CEO.- Provide assistance with data and analytics to team members within financial planning and analysis to ensure best practice techniques are utilized and all reports are streamlined.

Greater Chicago Area

Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning and Analysis – Sales & Distribution- Manage multi-million dollar profit sharing program with insurance brokers.- Collaborate with branch vice presidents to create custom incentive programs to grow profitable business with select insurance brokers.- Design complex financial models based on large data sets that have the ability to present multiple scenarios for different business decisions and cost savings initiatives.- Monitor variance trends in finances to find irregularities and develop solutions to prevent future occurrences.- Analyze historical financial data to project future quarterly and annual estimates for budgeting purposes.- Provide financial analysis support for ad hoc projects requested by senior vice presidents.- Create automated reports using Alteryx that combine raw data from different sources within an Oracle database that can be exported to Excel or Tableau.- Maintain and make process improvements to data quality and performance in a financial analysis database.

Chicago, Il

Negotiate contracts for clients which resulted in up to $1,800,000 in annual savings on transportation spend.Create financial models that present multiple scenarios to decrease clients’ transportation spend.Specialize in big data analysis using programs such as Excel and SQL.Analyze shipping data to identify areas of improvement to ensure efficiency of clients’ internal supply chains.Complete time defined ad hoc report requests from clients using analytic problem solving techniques.Consult clients on their organizational procedures and offer recommendations for the implementation of new strategies to increase operational productivity.Responsible for the implementation and project management of request for proposals.Publish monthly reports that present clients' current finances and forecasts future spends.Monitor trends in finances to find irregularities and develop solutions to prevent future occurrences.Design customizable SharePoint pages that display key performance indicators such as organizational goals, shipping volume, and trade compliance.Manage over $20,000,000 in a client’s accounts payable per year including general ledger allocation.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management, Finance

Graduated with 3.62 GPA Concentrations Management and Finance

Ba, History, Economics

Activities and Societies: Dean's ListGraduated Cum Laude with a 3.58 GPA In Major History GPA of 3.71 In Minor Economics GPA of 3.72