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Fridley, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Primary finance partner supporting Food Service, Facilities, Education, and Digital Marketing segments; provided data driven insights for margin optimization, portfolio management, and inventory risk mitigation
• Led two financial analysts responsible for modeling for ware washing, hand care, and equipment innovation projects; partnered with Marketing and RD&E to define and forecast five-year project P&L impacts
• Led division’s validation and launch of gross margin analytics tool; partnered with Global BI to create customized logic for product cost allocation. Analytics tool helped inform strategy for FY23 innovations

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed FP&A process within Global Supply Chain for the direct materials forecast, plan, and internal reporting; partnered with Procurement and Treasury to ensure consistent delivery of monthly forecast
• Led forecast transformation process and roll-out of Materials EPM forecasting tool; provided change management, training, and support to six regional supply chain teams during global deployment
• Provided financial analysis and modeling of commodities and foreign exchange to support business partners
• Partnered with Procurement to update forecasting models which better reflected commodity hyperinflation

Minnesota

• Directly supervised the seven member portal billing; responsible for vetting all North American customer requests for non-standard invoice delivery including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) invoice delivery
• Accountable for consistent, timely, and accurate delivery of 232k portal invoices/year in excess of $360MM
• Provided guidance to division sales and finance leadership on support requirements for portal and EDI requests. This governance ensured that approved customer were fully supported and properly on boarded
• Actively managed the 10 member Pest Elimination Work Order Management Team; helped to create key performance indicators which have led to a 95%+ confirmed invoice delivery for monthly services

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Finance intern working in the Food & Beverage division.

Schofield Barracks, HI

Responsible for the operational planning of all long-term battalion events including the gathering of requirements and constraints, and course of action analysis. Assisted with coordinating and resourcing the battalion’s leader professional development program and officer development program.

Kandahar, Afghanistan

Actively managed 12 forward deployed route clearance platoons which operated across three regional commands in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Philippines & Guam

Planned and coordinated all pre-deployment training plans for the only modular construction effects engineer battalion in the U.S. Army Pacific Command.

Schofield Barracks, HI

Led 37-Solider Engineer platoon in executing two horizontal construction missions and five field training exercises. Directly responsible for planning, resourcing, and supervising the platoon’s training as well as providing expert engineer support to construction mission.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Corporate Finance

Activities and Societies: Finance & Investments Club Class of 2017

Bachelor’S Degree, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Selected for semester long exchange program to U.S. Air Force Academy (Spring 2009). Four-year member of the.