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• Oversee 5 direct reports and company financials for 200 employees and 4 locations. Manage internal controls while ensuring accurate accounts reconciliation processes. Guide ownership on investing opportunities and.
• Facilitated transition of servers to cloud-based service to create redundancy and loss protection; drove process to move to world-class anti-malware software implemented by IT team.

• Promoted to manage IT, raw materials, cost control, purchasing, and business transformation. Monitored raw materials average costs to ensure profitability for commodity purchases. Conceptualized and presented IT.
• Initiated biweekly cross-functional team meetings to strengthen cohesion and decision-making with common mission and goals; resulted in qualification of secondary supplier for major raw material after identifying risk.
• Spearheaded ERP conversion to replace 20+-year-old legacy system; developed P&L, financials, processes, procedures, and training after assessing entire organization to understand each departmental process and determine.

• Recruited to lead strategic sourcing and material supply management for 4 US manufacturing plants. Transformed organization from manual processes and 2 legacy systems to unique and custom-built MRP system that used SQL.
• Automated purchasing process in 6 months with dashboards and inventory transfer procedure; designed transfer tool to better forecast demand for 4 locations and allow for streamlined inventory pulling and stocking.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Purchasing Manager for largest pomegranate grower and packer in US, progressing from managing $20M in raw materials to full spend oversight. Created analytics dashboards to improve decision-making skills of executives.
• Saved $1M in annual costs by transitioning major raw component supplier to local organization; identified further cost savings and recommended movement to simplified design to optimize volume while increasing.
• Slashed waste management agreement costs by $250K annually by securing new supplier with better contract terms and higher scrap rebates.

• Managed A/P, A/R, Payroll, G/L, and a staff of five. Assisted controller in month-end closing activities. Interfaced with outside auditors. Analyzed and prepared tax returns and W2s. Discovered and corrected Moving.
• Reduced FICA taxes by tripling participation in the company sponsored Flexible Spending Plan
• Negotiated 2 years of credits from Kaiser, after first offer of 90 days, following initial audit of bills