Senior Global Financial Analyst with expertise in process improvement for a variety of companies requiring analytical skills, conceptual thinking and flexibility.

• Implemented process improvements within the finance organization including standardized forecasting templates for reporting and training for data warehouse software.• Automated processes in Excel using formula driven worksheets, macros, pivot tables, and automated email generation ensuring accurate and reproducible results.• Streamlined reporting for non-technical system users to summarize data and draw conclusions enabling non-technical employees to better understand data and how it affects the business. • Presented monthly and quarterly financial snapshot for presentation at business communications meetings for division with variance analysis for sales, volumes and technical spending.• Prepared budget for North America region including sales, SG&A and technical cost center budgets, and full business unit consolidation and analysis.• Prepared monthly and quarterly forecasts for North America, Latin America, and India and Middle East regions. • Led annual planning process for LifeScience division including key customer sales plan variance review, material margin review, sales volume and gross profit review. • Prepared financial models for five-year trajectory roll up for presentation to segment VP. Worked directly with business leaders, project managers, R&D and technical director, and business development manager and GM.• Led improvements to new product tracking by working directly with stakeholders to understand reporting needs and goals. Worked directly with product managers to understand specific product tracking requirements.

• Consolidated regional financials for monthly and quarterly business reviews. Prepared business review decks for presentation to GM and Group VP & Finance Director. • Analyzed and bridged variances, monthly and quarterly, actual vs. prior year, vs. year plan, vs. forecast. Work with regions to understand variances, corrective actions and forecast accuracy.• Completed weekly forecast consolidation, balancing of adjustment unit in consolidation system, maintained accurate forecasting and flash numbers reported up to worldwide group.• Created P&L statements out of HFM and created ad-hoc reporting for business VP GM, VP of marketing, various marketing and finance directors. • Developed monthly deck for reporting to global division leadership team including profitability by business segment and region.• Led improvements in conversion reporting and tracking as well as target forecasting and analysis as member of the Marketing Leadership Team.

• Created and implemented process improvements to save 400 working hours yearly by using data mining software to prepare unusable reports into usable data, MS Excel macros and Access Databases. • Managed accounts payable and fixed asset offshore teams to provide compliance feedback, maintain customer service levels in line with service level agreement and develop opportunities for growth of the organization. • Member of team that successfully transitioned $1 billion business to shared service center in Ohio and India. • Created process flow documentation, work instructions and guidelines and transitioned transactional work to offshore service provider. • Transitioned IT capital spend tracking into the Shared Service Center. Took over global IT spend reporting for group by leveraging current processes and adapting to IT global structure.• Collaborated with global team to write Global Policy and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for division VP and Controller for both fixed assets and capital spending analysis.• Improved reconciliations for SOX compliance and analyzed information for tracking, corrections, and process improvements. Adjusted credit refund process to accurately reflect monthly activity. Reduced outstanding credit lines to below threshold impact. 80% Line reduction, 95% value reduction.• Participated in global Kaizen to standardize fixed asset procedures resulting in a standard WW process that reduced variances in the process and ensured compliance with Corporate policy.

• Created new reporting utilizing Hyperion Financials to update P&L Data for reporting.• Worked with manufacturing staff to understand and correct PPV issues, MFG Pro scrap variances and inventory discrepancies. • Project lead for clearing approximately $750,000 of accruals in three months. • Designed, consolidated and loaded budget shells in Hyperion. Consolidated west region Flash results for reporting to regional controller. Consolidated all month end reporting for close to present to regional Sr. Management team including Division VPGM, Division Controller and Director of Operations.• Part of rotational program across financial areas as well as three production and one distribution facility.