- Partnered with the global corporate purchasing group in identifying and analyzing financial benefits as it related to $2.5B of total company raw material spend in six regions across seven business units accounting for ~80% of COGS- Coordinated, consolidated, reviewed and reported raw material spend and forecast, including creating and reporting purchase price indices- Developed appropriate policies and guidelines around raw material savings and trained 75+ people globally on the guidelines- Assisted the business units with make versus buy analyses, market timing of purchases, and defending against customer price decreases/giving guidance on price increases- Prepared executive level presentations for monthly Valspar Operating Committee, global procurement meetings and participated in preparation for quarterly earnings calls- Led the global implementation of a cost savings software and created monthly reporting for regions and business groups to report actual and forecasted savings of ~$75M a year of hard savings

- First class honors average - Heinz 2012 scholarship recipient and MBS Commendation Award winner - Leadership position in the Women and Management Club - Member of the Consulting Club, Marketing Club and Sports Club

National supermarket, liquor, and fuel retailer with more than 100,000 employees and over $32B AUD in revenue. Coles is also currently in its third phase of a turnaround strategy. - Interviewed over 40 stakeholders at the corporation across various departments, as well as in-store personnel, to ascertain how $40M AUD of credits were dispersed to the store level from headquarters and provided both short and long-term solutions to improve those processes to increase reporting accuracy and reduce workload - Identified $2M+ in cost savings for training programs that also increased store compliance - Recommended SAP improvements to save $250K+ per year and resolve in-store grievances

- Planned and executed the audit of financial statements of private and public companies, specializing in asset management clients, including the supervision and review of staff auditors- Led an audit of over 70 mutual funds with a team of 43 people, in 4 service lines, 8 cities and 2 countries- Led meetings including the client CFO/Controller and EY Partners to report the status of the audit - Consistently ranked as exceeding expectations in formal reviews- Effectively managed up to 8 client engagements at one time- Strategically reorganized work responsibilities and implemented the new structure to meet a goal of redeploying 30% of staff hours to the EY India office on 2 large clients

- Communicated project spending to upper management and project managers through monthly reports - Prepared and distributed weekly and monthly labor utilization reports from information contained in Deltek Costpoint software to over 130 people

- Researched commodity markets to develop and execute trading strategies based on fundamental and technical analysis- Utilized futures and options to manage risk, employed both long and short strategies, and assisted with hedging against sales from family farm to increase an initial investment by over 400%