* Fully managed receipt plan and allocation strategy to generate sales for $30M department* Devised seasonal financial plans and in-season forecasts to guarantee optimal inventory investments and merchandise flows while communicating financial strategies to vendors and upper management* Managed department open-to-buy with timely receipts to support buying counterparts product selections in order to drive positive margins

* Increased $90M department sales, +9% to plan by executing timely and efficient allocation strategies * Prepared Spring 2014 department strategy documents presented to senior management; incorporated companywide goals, departmental trends, and growth opportunities* Streamlined merchandise planning process with the creation and implementation of a sell-through report by SKU/locations and lifestyle grid report that identified correlations among regions, customer preferences, and assortment depth* Partnered with Visual Merchandise and field teams to ensure all visual elements were in place to drive sales

* Responsible for developing the annual financial plans for P&L’s totaling $25M, including revenue, marketing expenses and print order estimates on a quarterly basis by department in accordance with corporate goals * Managed issue by issue inventory and audience readership promised to advertisers by initiating promotions, analyzing historical performance and monitoring activity on various magazine accounts and sources * Supported VP of Consumer Marketing by providing trend analyses and summaries of prior marketing executions in order to identify opportunities and develop a strategy to increase magazine readership * Prepared and presented weekly and monthly financial planning commentary relating to budget, forecast and actuals to senior management, including General Managers, Publishers, and Ad Sales teams * Partnered with marketing teams on all business-related issues to ensure achievement of annual business goals by providing strategic plans and financial guidance * Analyzed monthly overhead and fulfillment expense reconciliations to ensure proper accuracy * Created an agent business status report template that provided metrics such as: full year projected volume, weekly reforecast and flows which was implemented and rolled out to multiple magazine titles* Managed, trained, and developed Assistant/Associate Planners

* Managed six magazine circulation P&L’s totaling $45M with lines that include overhead, marketing expenses, subscription revenue and newsstand income to ensure division wide profitability * Performed monthly-close duties ensuring the proper accounting treatment of accruals, invoice processing, reclasses and prepaid expenses to the general ledger and balance sheet

* Managed monthly close and forecasting for L’Oreal Professionel’s $45M P&L statement and reconciled $15M in Public Relations, Market Research and Promotional budgets lines for Maybelline & Garnier brands * Analyzed monthly marketing fuel spending accounts for Mizani, Technique, and L’Oreal Professionel by reconciling P & L lines between Lawson database and OGWIN * Created a new tool using Microsoft Excel and Lawson database, called the i-Grid to effectively measure annual promotions for all Garnier brands * Prepared pro-forma P&L’s to evaluate new product development initiatives based on forecasted expense, sell through and market reach opportunities that were in line with strategic goals * Gained meaningful insights on marketing functions by shadowing brand managers on everyday tasks and responsibilities such as: assessing new product launches, preparing management meeting documents and conducting competitive analyses

* Facilitated daily trades of municipal bonds, specializing in current to 10 year maturity securities * Composed daily runs, entered new bond information, and used cusip numbers to perform research on company bond prices on the Bloomberg terminal