Grace Wong Email & Phone Number

Janesville/Beloit, Wisconsin Area

• Provide financial insight and support for the Global Food Protection and Fermentation business
• Developed global pricing strategies which resulted in retaining partnerships with major customers while maintaining desired margin
• Analyze new business opportunities and work with business development to establish best pricing strategy for potential customers
• Provide financial and analytical support to the business development team for core market strategy planning and execution
• Reduced outstanding receivables through developing an AR Scorecard metric and proactively managing receivables
• Coordinated with the EPM team to ensure master data integrity in EPM and maintaining processes to support data quality

Johor, Malaysia

• Commercial finance for branded product lines for the APMEA market which includes overseeing pricing, market performance, individual country requirements, rebate management, and other financial control activities.
• Initiate and conduct secondary sales analysis for APAC countries to understand the behavior and preference of individual markets and developed brand activation strategies accordingly
• Partnered with individual countries to develop and track overall marketing budget to ensure support is provided to distributors
• Managed price increase process for all APMEA customers to ensure that prices are in line with market/competitors and at the same time maintaining the premium brand image
• Ensure that currency exchange exposure for sales and purchases is accurately hedged against on a monthly basis
• Partnered with supply chain to provide improvements to plant processes to meet country product quality requirements

Janesville/Beloit, Wisconsin Area

• Analyzed product market trends and manufacturing costs for quoting and pricing of products to ensure that profit margins are adequate and in line with current market movements
• Developed and enhanced an excel model to track monthly margin performance and investigate causes of fluctuations
• Automated daily orders report by utilizing Excel VBA to manage order pricing and proactively mitigate pricing discrepancies
• Supported yearly price increase process across technologies through analyzing pricing data and negotiations with sales team
• Involved in quarterly sales forecast process by preparing templates to the sales team and consolidated global forecast data

Walnut Creek, CA

• Assisted State Management team with analytical and reporting support by retrofitting existing SAS programs to accommodate new data sources that is unique for different states
• Revamped sales performance report that resulted in greater efficiency in agent coaching and enhanced performance measurement
• Performed deep dive analysis using customer segmentation models and regression analysis to identify potential valuable customers for the company and to further understand the profile and propensity of these customers
• Produced insights and recommendations from a marketing standpoint that led to the discovery of a new market for the company and presented to senior executives across various departments

Cfa Level Ii Candidate

Currently studying for the Level 2 exam which will take place in June 2019 after passing the Level 1 exam in December 2018.

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, Investment, And Banking; Risk Management And Insurance, Gpa 3.8/4.0

A double major in the Wisconsin School of Business.