• Partner with the NAM Production Team as well as many of the Global Functional Teams, including Customer Care, Planning, QA, Mfg Tech, Foundation Seed, Production, to provide financial analysis and cost management guidance, including budget and monthly forecasts. Provide support/financial analysis for Optimization projects at a regional and global level.

• Lead the analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and development of metrics for the Vegetables Supply Planning Organization. Serve as a focal point between the team and other functional areas, including Finance and Production to lead the development and completion of certain cross-functional projects, such as budgeting, metrics development, training, and forecasting. Provide training and guidance to the team about topics related to valuation of inventory balances and obsolescence.

• Built and led a team of 8 which oversaw all aspects of the EMEA manufacturing finance duties, including: product costing, month and year end closing activities, WIP management, grower accounting processes, activity rate calculation and management, development of standard unit costs, LCM testing, internal and external audits, annual balance sheet reviews, SOX compliance, transfer pricing, and scrapping processes• Managed and developed a team thru 2 restructurings and the integration onto SAP. • Designed and led the implementation of the first stage of a single entity concept for overhead allocations within the core EMEA processing plants.

• Assisted in the development and led all implementation and training of all aspects of data gathering, analysis, and reporting for use in back-charging our partners in newly developed collaboration agreements.

• Lead all financial aspects of the Biotech Research site at RTP, including budgeting, forecasting, analysis and compliance.• Lead the creation and presentation of the financial package of the $20+million Automated Greenhouse Capital Project.• Lead the Contractor Safety Program at the Site

Provided cost analysis and financial support for various aspects of the site, including the Furnace Dept., Rock Springs Coke production site, and Capital Accountant

General Costing activities, A/P for bulk ingredients, Month end closing