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Greater St. Louis Area

Lead and prepare monthly budget and forecast reviews with senior management.Created a cost analysis that identified in-house printing costs by print job to evaluate the value of outsourcing print operations to a third party.Created a proforma to identify the profitability of Scottrade’s stock lending program. Worked with various levels of management to assure that profitability was accurately reported.Member of a cross-functional team responsible for identifying all back-office operations costs to evaluate the cost savings for moving to a third party provider.Prepare and consolidate yearly budget by department for Operations, Marketing and Finance.Monitor and analyze project spend and communicate variances and recommendations.

Greater St. Louis Area

Finance lead on a cross-functional team that determined the profitability of the digital business for out of region markets and reported to upper management.Cost analysis lead on team to analyze facility costs from moving from traditional office space to virtual offices and report potential savings opportunities.

Prepared capital submissions with variance analysis for senior management review and reconciled actual to budget spending. Led a streamlined budgeting process for a $185m corporate departmental budget, including analytical and financial support to the corporate senior staff. Assumed responsibility for the quarterly peer group analysis and improved the current report through market research and competitive analysis. Consolidated and validated each division’s monthly profit results. Prepared waterfall grids and charts in support of monthly operating review meeting. Created several market assessments for the Recycling Group; each analysis was communicated to upper management and included company background, executive summary and other company-specific information. Worked with the plant manager and controller at one of our Recycling plants to develop a detailed business case to expand the facility. Identified all costs and potential savings to ensure that management had all the necessary information to make an informed decision. Developed growth strategy reports for the Recycling organization that provided the division’s growth and timelines and incorporated the results for quarterly management review.

Managed a financial support team to provide financial analyses to division leaders and provided additional ad-hoc reports. Developed new monthly divisional reports that improved financial communications to business leaders and facilitated improved cost management. Led the budgeting process.

Developed a customer profitability report for top 15 customers that identified savings of $800k+. Received a company Spirit Award for this achievement. Provided several pro forma analyses on various proposed projects as defined by the marketing and sales groups, resulting in a team award. Prepared yearly budgets and monthly forecasts. Worked with the marketing group to reduce overall trade spending by $3 million, of which half went to bottom line profit and the other half to increased advertising and customer promotions.

Performed monthly closing activity, including evaluating gross profit, inventory levels and variances. Analyzed the inventory process and recommended improvements to the CFO and CEO. Developed sales forecasts and created product cost standards.

From payroll accounting to plant experience, R & D financial support to supply chain and logistics, the 15 years at Monsanto provided strong depth and breadth of accounting and financial analysis in a manufacturing environment. Monsanto's strong leadership development and training programs also provided a springboard for further success in the manufacturing industry.

Mba, Finance

Bs, Accounting