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California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led international team through Finance process rationalization on ~50 RTR, OTC and PTP processes; created industry agnostic leading practices, including tech enablers, ERP configuration, reporting requirements and metricsDefined requirements, created logic, and led development of planning tool for retailers with 1000+ locations; presented tool to clients.

Irvine, CA

Managed semi-variable accounts on the P&L (including utilities, maintenance, supplies, consumable equipment) for ~950 company owned stores totaling $180MM; redesigned the logic for the Annual Operating Plan to better account for differences in spend caused by geography and sales volumeDetermined the hourly revenue necessary for a store to break-even based.

Rebuilt a financial model to allocate $26MM outbound freight budget from distribution centers to ~2000 stores; trimmed the existing budget by $1.7MM by including seasonality in gas prices and sales trendsAnalyzed daily sales reports, weekly product margin reports and commodities price change report to ensure on-target sales results, profitability and.

Defined requirements during the first implementation of SAP finance module; created training curriculum and delivered group instruction to 250+ department leaders on navigating, running reports and using budget moduleIdentified business needs for new IT projects and defined system capabilities to enable implementation of solutions; restructured the IT.

Identified and removed $125K of one-time expenditures left over from previous budgets; ensured increased accuracy of IT operational budgetCreated a process to charge departments for IT usage, totaling $525K and increasing accountability Analyzed budget variance reports and summarized key areas of concern; presented to senior IT staff

Created a process to recalculate the true cost of goods sold; included a detailed time study of labor inputs and comprehensive review of all inventory used during manufacturingIncreased the average product’s gross profit by 17%; lowered costs by decreasing materials lost during manufacturing and better forecasting of purchases to limit expensive overnight.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Membership: Marshall Consulting & Strategy Club, American Finance Association Overseas Research Trips: USC Marshall Cuba Business Research.

Bs, Business Admin, Finance