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Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, PA

$10 Billion Food Products & Distribution CompanyGrupo Bimbo North America Finance and Procurement Lead. Collaborate closely with clients (executives, business sponsors, program office, functional teams, vendors, and users). to successfully deliver all Financial and Procurement modules.

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Ivy League UniversityCo-managed large project to strengthen the administration of the graduate school. Process redesign and technology improvements to admissions, payroll, management reporting processes. ServiceNow technology implementation (with Big 4 consultancy), legacy systems improvements, new data warehouse design, build, and implementation, internal.

Philadelphia, PA

$14 Billion Insurance Company- Led FP&A assessment and improvement initiative to improve cost allocation process and provide recommendations to improve the process Oracle HPCM system. Led an comprehensive expense analysis effort to identify cost and performance improvement opportunities. Proposed and developed first time fixed vs. variable expense.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• $18B Insurance Company
• Strategic adviser and work stream lead Finance transformation initiative at a large Insurance Company
• Chart of accounts redesign with 80% reduction in accounts
• Common data model across 2 legacy ERPs
• First ever data governance model framework and implementation
• Financial close process and technology redesign from 11 to 3 days

Greater Philadelphia Area

• $30B manufacturing and services company
• Turn-around project manager to drive country shared services migrations to Mexico, provide structure and develop accountability to implement enabling technology projects and improve the operating performance of the.
• Shared service center operating with 280 FTEs and 9 ERPs serving 6 countries

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-$3B Chemical Company-Assigned as Global Business Services Lead to perform a diagnostic assessment to identify potential material cost reductions in G&A. Identified $53M in saving opportunities by Identifying functions within client's global organization that could be centralized (“non-core Functions”) or outsourced.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-$17B Manufacturing and Services Company-Designed, Built, and Implimented a Finance Shared Service Center for $10B global services company in Mexico; 7 counties, 300 FTEs, 9 ERPs

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• $13B Technology Services Company
• Prepared strategic and financial business case for the implementation of a global finance transformation
• Provided global service delivery model analysis and design for a $2B specialty chemical manufacturer$13B Consumer Banking Company
• Responsible for small team of 3 employees to develop tactical initiatives to reduce $35M in finance cost
• Identified and obtained internal capital funding for over $20M of self-funding finance function process improvements$10B Manufacturing Company
• Assignment as Global business transformation leader ($10M improvement in cash flow)

Atlanta, GA

• Led the growth of European consulting practice from $4 million to $22 million in less than 3 years by delivering Finance Function best practice analysis and project implementations.
• Benchmarked more than 50 multinational Finance organizations to identify and implement process, organization and technology improvement strategies
• Implemented improvement recommendations in 80% of these companies:
• Shared Service Center optimization
• Fast close
• Receivables management improvements (DSO reductions)

Miami, FL

• North America World Class Finance Practice Leader
• Various Finance function process improvement and benchmarking engagements identifying and implementing Finance efficiency and effectiveness improvement opportunities
• Process improvement consulting for Finance function at some of Latin Americas’ largest companies
• Finance Shared Service Center implementation at $4B industrial manufacturer (2 year project)
• Managed 2 year SAP implementation at Mexico’s largest private pharmaceutical company
• Failing ERP project turn-around

Plainville, CT

• Industrial Controls Division
• Managed capital budgeting process for $300 million investment portfolio for $8B industrial controls division
• Led the effort to reduce the cycle time of product shipment from national distribution center by 50%
• Responsible for the analysis and recommendations of commercial product pricing strategies for product lines totaling $700 million in sales. Lead the internal process to secure budgeted price increase to permanently.

Mcallen, TX

Four progressively challenging positions at 4 Mexican high-tech manufacturing facilities (largest $100 million output, 4,500 employees, 3 shifts); performed monthly forecasting and analysis, annual budgeting, as well as expense control activities.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, 3.97

Executive MBA Program sponsored by GE

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management