• Building and developing a next generation FP&A team to be engaging in the business to improve budgeting, forecasting, and variance analytics for a $1.5B, private equity owned, foodservice company with 7 manufacturing plants

• Finance manager for the Foodservice Business Unit• Improve and create financial modeling in order to provide insightful and value added analysis on the business health• Review, summarize, and communicate monthly financial results and forecasts, identifying the key business drivers• Review and propose journal entries for accuracy and correct classifications• Partner with Sales Department to review contracts and pricing to identify business risks and opportunities

• P&L review and sales analytics to explain variances to plan and forecast, including, price, volume, and mix analysis and GL research. • Prepared the annual sales budget for the business unit.• Utilize technology to design and publish interactive sales reports via mobil apps on the iPhone and iPad via Roambi for management and field sales.• Build reports in SAP Business Objects that provide data to all levels of the organization.

• Managed the Global financial budget of $84 million for a start up solar panel producer, managed the planning and analysis required to achieve the strategic purpose and vision, lead and developed a team of two analysts.• Mitigated risks in the financial planning and forecasting process by streamlining and simplifying six databases to one and writing system reports in Management Reporter.• Provided multiple budgets and forecasting scenarios for business expansion from a start up business to high-volume production with capital expenses of $200 million to the executive management and board of directors.• Collaborated with all departments to deliver timely and accurate measurements of financial performance which were valuable to them and necessary to assist in maintaining effective cost controls. This includes: product costing and variance analysis.• Managed the preparation of monthly capital and operational forecasts at an expenditure-type detail level and full financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and cash flow) in both US GAAP and IFRS.• Developed and manage the annual budget and strategic plan process, being proactive with improvements.• Ensure continual review and assessment of reporting provided to ensure that it continues to meet the changing needs of management and the business, developed strategy and proposals where gaps were identified.• Educated the business in the understanding and use of business and financial information systems.

• Managed finance, accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll using ADP.• Trained, developed, and led the finance and accounting staff of nine, raising awareness and knowledge of financial management matters.• Provided business executive management team with a clear operating budget with clearly defined assumptions.• Ensured that all substantiating documentation was approved and available such that the business passed independent and funding agencies’ audits. • Oversaw the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: subsidiary and consolidated income statements, cash flow and balance sheet reports, and specific reports as required by funding agencies.• Oversaw the coordination and activities of independent auditors ensuring issues were resolved and all compliance issues were met, and prepared the annual financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP and federal, state and other required supplementary schedules and information.• Automated journal entries, where applicable; reduced the month-end close process to 10 days from 20. • Monitored banking activities of the organization and ensured adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs.

• Applied and taught local management at a foreign joint venture in Brazil; product costing analysis, forecasting, cash flow modeling, financial policies and ensured each month-end close was completed and correct.• Prepared annual budgets with detailed P&L, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet statements for a $25 million international business.• Provided a detailed discussion of monthly operating results with analysis of the financial variances between actual and plan, as well as actual periods. Explained the differences in terms of price, mix, volume, cost, foreign exchange and updated the forecasting accordingly.• Provided timely and accurate analysis to maximize capital spending through discounted cash flow modeling, feasibility studies, cost/benefit, market evaluations, ROI, payback, NPV and IRR.• Provided monthly supply and operations forecasts for multiple production scenarios, indentifying the EBIT and cash flow for optimization.• Provided detailed updates and presentations to the Board of Directors with forecasts of financial results and projections. • Suggested and tracked key operational metrics that had the greatest impact on EBIT and cash flow.• Developed and maintained sophisticated financial models that reliably demonstrated the return on investment, with a detailed 20 year forecast.• Analyzed channel distribution, segment- and customer-level profitability, as well as market-share performance to maximize company profit and align sales with the company's long-term strategic planning.• Supported sales and marketing with financial modeling of new and existing programs to increase profitability.• Developed upload program using VBA in Excel to make month-end journal entries into SAP.• Designed a datamart that combined information from three separate systems.

• Developed pricing models to support and quantify profitable performance of current activity and growth opportunities.• Performed site selection and optimization modeling for existing and new business opportunities.• Worked closely with the operations center managers to analyze profitability of current business activity to determine pricing adjustments.

• Provided budget and forecast analysis to integrate NiSource and Columbia Energy Group.• Analyzed risk measures to new products and services prior to market introduction.• Developed and maintained an $8 million capital budget and a $90 million operating and maintenance budget.• Reported gross margins and income statements for $70 million from gas and electric sales.• Tracked corporate goals through the use of sales reporting and balanced scorecard methodologies.