Jay Morrow Email & Phone Number

Irwin, Pa, Us

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

• Freight Finance Manager for Hygiene, Health, & Nutrition

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

• Finance Controller, Hygiene Business Unit• Driving forecasting & budgeting process for North America, overseeing cost reduction from $187 MM to targeted under $130 MM, over 200bps of margin improvement in 1 year, through productivity initiatives, additional operational efficiencies, and market improvements.• Overdelivering 2023 productivity savings targets through collaborating with operational, procurement, and commercial teams to identify, analyze, and drive execution and tracking of over $15 MM in cost savings initiatives through operational efficiencies, bid negotiations, and lane optimization.• Improvement in accuracy of internal reporting across supply services through coordination with commercial team and information systems teams, as well as construction of financial models to validate and correct existing internal data and processes of costing allocations.• Supporting development of college-aged new hires into leadership positions in finance as part of the company’s graduate rotational leadership program, acting as an interviewer and decision maker in the hiring process, as well as manager or mentor of analysts who have entered the program.• Active leader in internal educational development initiatives, including creation and presentation of systems training courses, including fusion and excel.

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

• Standardized planning and forecasting process by building a template for continuous use and collaborated across the Category Finance team, streamlining inputs to provide their GMVAs and Mix Analyses for their 2020 plan views. Identified areas of improvement among dilutive portions of brand portfolios.• Provided pricing forecasting and analyses.• Enhanced planning processes by improving accuracy and transparency of embellishment plan & forecasting process ($30 M+ portfolio).• Led implementation and documentation of SAP Decomposition Error Reporting process for HyHo US. Worked with SAP team to identify and solve common issues and errors in the decomposition reports. • Developed and implemented a monthly reporting model that enables self-service viewing of financial data across all segments and channels within the RB US Hygiene business, with item level granularity.• Created and presented an advanced Excel course for the RB US Hygiene Finance team.• Led a function-wide community service effort in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity and local parks.

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

• Constructed financial data books with a top-down analysis from brand level to SKU detail to guide strategic decision making by identifying 200 margin dilutive products across all brand segments. • Constructed brand portfolio books used to identify inefficiencies by individual product and overall mix by segment and used to identify $25 million in potential GM impact from 2019-2020. • Delivered 80 bps of GM growth P4 YTD vs prior year via building streamlined analytical tools and processes to identify and track an end to end pipeline of GM improvement initiatives and coordinating efforts across functions to drive a holistic approach to business decisions. • Reported monthly squeeze tracker providing detailed pipeline of savings opportunity stemming from bill of materials, materials procurement, and conversion with 2019 target of $10 million.• Reported GS and NR impact of sizing/pricing changes across the RB Hygiene Home business, $11.8 MM April 2019 YTD vs projected $12.8 MM.

Slough, Berkshire, Gb

• Controlled, reported, and analyzed finances for operations of embellished products totaling $65 million in annual embellishment costs.• Performed cost analysis on copacker quotes versus in house spend to determine the additional cost of using copacker based on $10 MM annual in subcontractor invoices.• Engaged with supply team and built tool to identify and resolve $X MM incorrect work orders to resolve $X MM in Bill of Materials Variance and improve accuracy and speed of work order processes. • Created an onboarding guide for the direction of the role and responsibilities of a financial analyst for custom manufacturing, including month end close processes and best practices.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Achieved or exceeded 100% of quarterly and annual sales goals since entering the position by balancing outreach activities and analyzing sales and service data.• Develop detailed retirement plans in conjunction with a financial advisor to help meet customers’ income needs.• Analyze customers’ personal and commercial financial portfolios to create and implement a plan for financial success and identify products and services to help meet set goals.• Perform financial analysis to determine best borrowing, savings, and investing options for customers’ financial gain.• Support the supervision, coaching, and development of team members and new employees.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Achieved or exceeded 100% of quarterly and annual sales goals.• Built customer trust by proactively performing account servicing and maintenance to enhance customer relationships.• Conducted detailed financial reviews to create measurable, achievable goals geared toward the customers’ financial success.• Engaged in community involvement by conducting educational seminars and reaching out to existing customers and local businesses.• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Wells Fargo partners to meet customers’ various financial needs.

San Francisco, California, Us