Providing services to large and small organizations in the area of strategic development and execution, leadership development and faciliation, foundational financial planning and analysis and accounting services and insights.

Lead the North America Finance Planning and Analysis team and the US Pet Care marketing finance team.Responsible for overall long term financial planning, annual operating plan, and current year forecast and provide insights to senior leadership team to ensure financial output is aligned with strategy, and provide insights and recommended actions to leadership team to ensure unit delivers annual objectives.Lead the senior market finance team that business partners with the VP of marketing and the marketing team on new product propositions, overall strategy of brand portfolio along with ensuring effective and efficient advertising and consumer spending.Key member of the finance leadership team to ensure overall finance strategy is aligned with unit strategy, succession planning, and associate development

Oversee all financial aspects of the supply chain including the inbound and raw materials, manufacturing costs to customer shipment. Total budget of +1.5B in total expenditures. Oversee the development of a 22 person finance team including 6 direct managers.Key member of supply leadership team

Lead the Exclusive Brands Finance team which is responsible for co-creating the long term strategic vision with other functions, for example: sales/marketing/supply chain, along with annual planning, optimizing customer mix and pricing opportunities in conjunction with commodity hedging strategies. Responsible for the long term strategic planning of the private label business along with full profit & loss responsibility ensuring delivery of the annual plan, people and talent development in the finance organization. Also, responsible for leading the activity management/sales and operations planning process and cost lean leadership process to ensure price competitiveness within the industry.Key member of the Exclusive Brands Leadership Team.

Led Americas supply chain finance teams, including the 5 factories. Worked with the regional supply chain director on long term strategic sourcing analysis, capital budgeting for the region, and product costing and ad hoc financial analysis and strategic insights. Also, led the finance supply chain teams through the monthly forecasting and annual budgeting process.

Oversaw income statement and working capital responsiblility of the US sales and marketing through actively leading a finance team of 12 (3 direct reports). In addition, responsible for ensuring accurate financials, budgeting and monthly forecasts along with strategic insight with 3 year strategic plan and new product launches and discontinuations.

Led Finance organization for the Wrigley Espana and oversaw all aspects of the finance function ensuring compliance for both US GAAP standards and Spanish Accounting Standards. Also, responsible for budgeting and forecasting along with risk assessment of delivering the year end financials to the corporate controllers group.Led team of 5 analysts and accountants. Executed refinancing of 5MM Euro loanLed and ensured smooth integration of Joyco acquisition based out of Barcelona Spain.

SAP integration team member and Business Warehouse project LeaderLead Business Warehouse reporting rollout for the Americas region. Led all fit gap analysis and ensured that reporting post go live was in place and available to continue to run day to day operations.Also, supported and highly integrated in Forecast To Stock, Order to Cash, and Finance during the 2 year project.

Responsible for rolling out and analyzing 5 year strategic plan, exploring both organic and acquisition growth opportunities.Performed NPV, IRR, and cash flow model analysis on asset acquisitions and stock acquisitions.In addition, performed competitive intelligence analysis preparation and presentation.

Oversaw corporate accounting, accounts payable and payroll functions.Also led the financial analysis supporting the national sales teams for proposal