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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

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Facilitate the decision-making process by supporting category planning, vendor negotiations, promotional performance by leveraging data-driven analysis, building data pipelines utilizing SQL and Alteryx and providing actionable insights. ♦ Led project to build a category manager weekly performance Tableau dashboard for consolidated view of key metrics and financials that standardized and improved data visibility across merchandising♦ Built financial model to consolidate and highlight the financial implications of various departmental fiscal year plans♦ Develop data pipelines utilizing SQL & Alteryx♦ Led a project to implement the billing process for the missing negotiated vendor funding ($190k in billing so far).♦ Automated manual vendor form creation process saving 2 days a month of time and reduced manual errors

International , Il

Conducted comprehensive supply chain analysis to track savings ($2M+ annually) and support business functions, including analyzing and reporting spend and key drivers of variances on 80+ 3rd-party warehousing and tolling sites ($15M+ annually). ♦ Provided key insights on working capital goals relating to total US inventory (>$200M). Facilitated ad-hoc analysis of multiple, complex sets of data pertaining to supply chain to identify savings opportunities across the company.♦ Designed and produced effective financial models to demonstrate the cost-benefit analysis, resulting in ~$2M in annual savings target achievements.♦ Created and implemented standard reporting for purchase price variance, excess inventory, and days-on-hand reporting, providing visibility towards working capital reduction progress as well as timely, actionable insights.♦ Identified and led a freight billing project, delivering ~$150K in annual savings.♦ Automated standard processes by developing Excel macros, which saved hours of extra work and reduced manual errors.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Led small audit teams on global audits covering SOX, operational, compliance, and financial audits, providing detailed reports and action plans to management with recommendations for internal control improvements. ♦ Collaborated with a team to develop automated reports and dashboards to assist with risk management, audit planning, and scoping within a dashboarding tool.♦ Subject matter expert for Financial Reporting & Credit controls

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Drove system and process improvements by providing financial support, participating in weekly shipment forecast meetings, and implementing performance tracking including savings and supply chain metrics. ♦ Collaborated with data scientists to develop statistical models on demand trends for improved shipment forecast accuracy.♦ Led Performance Management workstream for supply chain planning transformation team, resulting in sustainable cost savings of ~$50M annually.♦ Received Director’s Award for the successful launch and adoption of the US shipment forecast process that resulted in a 3% improvement in shipment forecast accuracy.♦ Developed a dashboard within the dashboarding tool to assist with analyzing and facilitating demand reviews and weekly shipment forecast process that managed ~70k SKU's and ~50k customers.♦ Worked with developers to improve manual processes, saving several hours per week.♦ Forecasted and administered US planning budget of ~$5M in total spend to management.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Provided general ledger accounting support for EMEA entities, including the Principal European entity and the in-house bank entity which included overseeing accounting processes and reconciliations of $100M+ for cash, currency, hedging, intercompany loans.♦ Effectively assisted with the transitioning of Western European entities into a central location.♦ Played a pivotal role as a key member for the SAP integration of Ukraine entities.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Maintained full oversight of customer receivables as well as application of over $1 billion in cash across ~50k customers and 14 business units.♦ Received “ABC” Award for providing an effective credit card solution to the US brands which improved credit risk mitigation and cash flow.♦ Assisted with the transition of cash operations from regional offices into a central location.♦ Developed process workflow and implemented credit card processing for all US businesses.♦ Generated reports to identify misapplied payments, improving both customer and regional business trust.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration With Finance Emphasis, Economics Minor

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Master'S Degree, Accounting