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Chicago, IL, US

Leatherhead, Greater London, GB

London, GB

• Facilitated the realignment of sales incentives with new business growth strategy through the development and implementation of streamlined commissions incentive plans
• Remediated material weakness in commissions financial reporting (2017) through improvement and creation of more robust controls and processes

Rochester, New York, US

• Provide leadership with clear visibility to Net Sales goal achievement through development and management of $1.8B grosssales and $55M promotion spend annual forecast
• Develop ROI, volume trend and P&L impact analysis to evaluate core business performance, new product launches,promotion changes and price increase impacts to assist in cross functional strategic decision making
• Empowered data driven selling strategies for field sales team by providing supplier and distributor margin insights by SKU
• Enabled critical volume planning strategy decisions through development of innovation product cannibalization model;validating ~5-15% higher than expected cannibalization rates and unforeseen impacted brands

Rochester, New York, US

• Cultivated relationships with sales, operations and finance teams to efficiently manage price and promotion changes,including development and maintenance of price models, promotion calendars and Demantra pricing system
• Lead budget development and ongoing tracking of $4M SG&A category costs for ~80 sales employees providing visibility tokey spend drivers and preventing budget overruns

• Own income statement for North America and Europe/Africa regions
• Own pricing analysis for all Services product lines
• Manage weekly sales and contribution margin estimate pacing
• Driving strategic operational action with creation of new weekly estimate pacing template with refocused KPIs

Schenectady, NY, US

• General Electric's (GE) Financial Management Program (FMP) is widely considered to be the premier program of its kind. It is the first step in many successful GE management careers. FMP develops leadership and.
• Revamped design of SG&A analysis & reporting enabling correction of ~$2M erroneous charges
• Identified customer synergies of $130M in orders/revenue by leading data consolidation process ofcommercial data for internal company merger
• Partnered with HR function to facilitate intelligent resource allocation during company merger throughexpanded headcount analysis and reporting capabilities
• Reduced cycle time and increased accuracy of internal reporting and budgeting by 40-60%; createdstandardized PPT decks with auto-updating links to excel files pre-populated with historic P&L financials
• Communicated key cost drivers to business leadership through ownership of cost analytics and reporting

• Utilize research techniques to compile and input data vendor information into Salesforce CRM system
• Employ Unix to pull source files from archives to input into Sales Force
• Perform quality analysis on new data feeds using SQL and Unix
• Assist with marketing by updating vendor profiles on LIM’s website

Arlington, VA, US

-Provide labor and non-labor cost performance reporting and analysis services on a weekly basis for staffing, headcount, overtime and monthly dollar variance reporting on non-labor and purchased services contracts-Assist in the development of quarterly forecasts or Estimates at Completion -Develop opportunities and risks to the forecast, complete with.

Assist in the creation of a data vendor databaseAnalyze and categorize primarily energy dataContact data vendors Identify out-dated contract terms to start renegotiation

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Finance, Energy Track

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