Successfully led company through 2 audits transitioning from managerial centered financials to CPA audited financialsExpanded accounting and finance teams positioned for growth serving new mass merchandiser, drug, wholesale, and specialty retail channels including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and EDI backbones via SPSHelped build revenue and sales tax framework for Hempz.com launch partnering with Avalara and internal partners. Launch enabled company to capture substantial demand from pandemic related products and become branding foundation for brandPrepared, reviewed, and submitted bank covenant and LOC documents with ownership and bank partners for quarterly and annual filingsLowered monthly close from 20+ working days to 5Partnered with marketing and product development to enhance effectiveness and compliance around spend to deliver ROIs for all channels and associated quantitative researchWorked as office lead dealing with HR / Facilities / Payroll issues as they arose for business continuity purposes

Specialty data and finance consulting with businesses <$250M in annual revenue - focused on structural or software process and profitability improvement or specialty projects. Fields of expertise in the medical practice field, HVAC, mobile technology, non-profit, financial services, manufacturing and distribution. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure implementations and analytical frameworks.

Lead US team tasked with revenue and margin management and analysis in Grocery, Mass, Club, and Food Service channels. Support sales teams with revenue analytics and general business analysis to enable efficient and profitable promotions and mix. Analyze effects of volatile commodity pricing and foreign exchange (Forex) movements and how P&L projections need to be managed to maintain internal targets.

Multi job experience in sales management, revenue and business analytics management in consumer packaged goods through multi tiered distribution system. Geography covered Southern California and Las Vegas as well as Texas/New Mexico/Colorado.Developed and executed on profitable sales and pricing strategies to compete with hyper growth from changing craft beer landscape as well as base portfolio. Built targeted distribution strategies for new product launch and subsequent organic growth. Led and collaborated wholesale and retail price strategy recommendation process with >35 independent distributors with revenues >$1B in some of highest focused markets for marketing targets. (Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston, Southern California)

At Diageo I worked in 3 different roles -- Finance Manager, Sr. Financial Analyst, and Category Analyst. On the finance side, I helped lead the planning process for full business unit level P&L including subsequent quarterly updates for centralized planning. My job was also to act as business partner for sales and marketing when evaluating the efficiency and profitability of spend within very stringent company guidelines. I also was responsible for planning/accounting for all trade and marketing spend and pricing management/administration of ~35,000 sku and channel combinations and did so with a 99.9% accuracy rating. I presented at numerous national finance meetings/conference calls to share best practices or ensure alignment on processes we were all tasked with accomplishing.

Multi job experience in high tech manufacturing environment and technology development. I worked on front end of business supporting sales/development groups for customer growth and later in manufacturing and accounting for capital and intellectual property intensive business areas. Depending on job I was either responsible for closing monthly books or producing estimates and updates for management where we'd land.

Audit assistance on 4 summer engagements