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Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

• Led the Strategic Analysis team in data driven approach to addressing complex business questions and providing stakeholders with actionable insights used to inform business decisions
• Testing & Analysis of Corporate Initiatives:o Partnered with internal stakeholders to gather test details, understand objectives, and measures of success.o Analyze, interpret, and communicate test results to Senior.
• Point of Sale Transaction Analysis:o Performed ad-hoc analysis for Merchant team focusing on transaction composition and profitability (see examples below).o Recommended optimal required minimum purchase in order for.
• Marketing Effectiveness:o Quantified impact of print marketing by determining if featured items experienced a lift in sales & margin during the promotion and whether the lift was enough to offset the marketing.
• Customer Level Analytics:o Enhanced analyses, when applicable, to understand if results were driven by top tier, medium, or lower tier customers. o Built a profile to better understand the historic behavior of specific.

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

• Accounts Payable (A/P) Post Audit:o Established Shopko’s internal a/p post audit process resulting in several million dollars in recoveries.o Developed audit procedures to generate recoveries from multiple sources.
• Vendor Compliance:o Developed processes to identify shipping & pricing violations and generate chargebacks to vendors.o Negotiated vendor settlements and provided coaching to vendors aimed at achieving improved.
• Accounts Receivable (A/R):o Managed the prevention and collection of vendor debit balances.o Managed commercial accounts receivable process including customer set up, monthly statements, and collection.
• Unclaimed Property Reporting:o Ensured compliance with reporting requirements of each state, record retention, and researched potential escheatment exemptions.
• Performed budgeting and forecasting associated with the above functions as well as any necessary journal entries.

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

• Developed relationship building skill set along with broad knowledge of Shopko’s store operations thru audits of various store-level programs
• Conducted store audits to measure shelf price scanning accuracy, sales floor in-stock, and observed inventory counts & variance research.
• Facilitated ‘team review’ audits overseeing a group of 2-5 associates from other stores that would converge on one store to audit multiple aspects of its operations over a 1-2 day period.
• Planned and conducted construction audits to ensure contractors accurately charged job costs to Shopko.