Provided financial support for executive management team including CFO, CEO and COO; created presentations for board and lender meetings. Managed month-end consolidations process and review of financial statements submitted by multiple business units.• Executed monthly, quarterly and ad hoc financial reporting and analysis for executive management and private equity sponsor including revenue, margin analysis, EBITDA, and working capital metrics.Key Accomplishment:- Standardized month end reporting across 3 divisions.

Responsible for Planning and Analysis function within Global R&D/Tech Ops in NY; acted as key business partner to 10 VP’s and 12 Directors in managing and growing budget from $40M to $220M expense and $5M capital.• Led 4 direct reports in tracking, reporting, and controlling expenses across 40+ departments; audited T&E, Purchasing Cards, and other spend to ensure compliance with established company policies.• Provided period forecasts and variance analysis to Pepsi Cola North America Financial Planning & Analysis team.• Proactively protected R&D budgets by initiating R&D information overview with key Finance personnel including CFO, to build/strengthen relationships and provide key insights to workings of R&D organization.• Oversaw period close ensuring journal entries / account reconciliations complied with company policy and GAAP; reviewed and approved all Capital Appropriation Requests for R&D and monitored all fixed assets.• Acted as Subject Matter Expert for T&E and delivered policy and best practices training sessions at corporate HQ.• Led cross-functional team in solving facility space constraints which resulted in increased workstations by 30%.Key Accomplishments:- Managed 12 person facility department and spearheaded initiative to secure $1.3M real estate tax abatement.- Drove $1M cost savings in R&D through real estate tax reduction, re-bidding and negotiating new service and maintenance contracts, T&E best practices, temp labor, and energy savings.- Executed government R&D tax credit survey which resulted in $7M savings over 2-year period.- Change agent for implementing new SAP procure-to-pay process and T&E systems. - Initiated best practices between three domestic R&D centers instituting centralized requisitioning process in SAP; consolidated requisition process down from 80 requisitioners to 2 for better control of expenses, provided more accurate project expense reporting, and increased productivity.

Managed 1099 process and escheatment of unclaimed property (primarily checks) for Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) and Pepsi Cola North America (PCNA) during PBG IPO, independently coordinated cross functional teams, discovered errors and took corrective action for accurate and timely submission to vendors and IRS.• Supervised and provided guidance to 2-member staff; clarified issues associated with mid-year IPO in regards to 1099 processes.• Managed escheatment of unclaimed property for PBG and PCNA and collected over $200K in unclaimed property.Key Accomplishments:- Instituted escheatment process including implementing new tracking software and defined procedures.- Successfully managed unclaimed property process; closed out pre-IPO bank account and researched $16M of stale-dated checks averting $7M from being escheated by PBG and PCNA.