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Houston, Texas, US

Procure to Pay and Order to Cash leader with focus on continuous process improvements. Partner with executive leaders to achieve targeted $1.5M SG&A savings through vendor management, process improvement, implement sourcing discipline and transaction processing workflows.- Delivered $2.1M direct SG&A savings in 9 months across multiple business functions..

Advising clients and leading initiatives of transformational process improvements for finance, accounting and operations functions, applying LEAN and Six Sigma principles, reducing costs, improving productivity, and improving EBITDA.► Provided Order to Cash (O2C) evaluations for one client yielding up to $63M improved cash flow through billing and.

Sauget, IL, US

Finance leader for privately-held 3PL based in St. Louis region. Responsible for financial operations, scaling business for growth, implementation of policies, procedures and internal controls. Managing treasury functions, finance back office, investment analysis, process improvement and improving cash flow through active management of DSO and DPO.

Served as the financial executive and strategic partner to the executive leadership team, working with finance, process improvement, RPA / AP, Operations, O2C, P2P, Global Interco Reconciliation automation, Facilities, and Sourcing.► Built teams of specialists to realize $1.7M productivity savings through automation of complex intercompany and balance.

Served as Vice President and General Manager leading North American Facility Maintenance P&L, Field Operations, Pricing, Compliance, and all LEAN initiatives ensuring KPIs were met. ► Implemented a unique service delivery model, standardized equipment, improved operating procedures, and developed business controls to move from decentralized to a.

• Served as a primary contributor to a $150M strategic initiative to improve margins to meet debt covenants associated with the leveraged buyout, reduce SG&A spending, manage sourcing, facilities, risk management.
• $23.3M annualized savings from a $44M global real estate portfolio. Created site optimization strategy for tenant property leases and site closures/consolidations. Developed strategic COEs and improved management of.
• $56.6M annualized savings attributed to eliminating non-critical spending and implementing process improvements (supplies, print, maintenance, energy consumption, and other services).
• $27M annualized savings through implementation of strategic sourcing discipline within $440M operating spend.
• $2.4M annualized savings from $20M travel spend through standardizing, sourcing, and controllership.
• $1.2M annualized savings from $5M global property, casualty, and FINPRO liability insurance portfolio.► Co-developed Ceridian/UCLA Pulse of Commerce index utilizing transaction data to predict US economic performance.►.

Boston, MA, US

Served as strategic finance, operations, and quality leader for various roles in GE Money, GE Financial Assurance, and related consumer finance business operations across North America.► Lead LEAN/Six Sigma workouts for insurance, mortgage, auto loan, credit card, and ATM service providers in 3 countries. ► Contributor to GE Consumer Finance net promoter.

Boston, MA, US

► Led day-to-day operations while managing asset sale of California insurance company for $10.2M gain on asset sale. ► Facilitated $3.9M annualized savings from six-month near-shore and off-shore outsourcing assignments.► Mentored 14 Green Belt projects ranging from call center monitoring to correspondence to IVR optimization, yielding average.

Boston, MA, US

► Led cross-functional teams to institutionalize pricing policy and procedures in support of business growth initiatives.► Created pricing and sales strategy to generate $64M in revenue in three new distribution channels. ► Increased productivity by 34.3%, created cross-functional deal review process to exceed production goal 105%. ► Integrated pipeline.

Mba Essentials

Finance, Bachelor Science