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Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Richmond, Va, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Responsible for the oversight of several functional areas such as: Profit Management and Financial forecasting and reporting. Responsible for providing insight and analysis of financial operating results. Identified trends and provided recommendations for various profitability drivers, including revenue, margin, expense management, and working capital management.• Reviewed and ensured that all vendors' billings were paid in a timely fashion and uncollectible vendor receivables were properly handled.• Monitored the Customer Performance Activity System (CPAS) to provide reports and communicate financial impact as necessary. • Determined the key drivers of variances versus last year results, provided recommendations to management to improve profitability and ensured overall trends and the impacts of key initiatives were reflected accurately in the profit plan.• Identified under-performing customers and vendors and the key drivers of profitability.• Participated in shrink committee, credit committee, and other initiatives.• Assist Local CFO and Market CFO with the performance of the forecast.• Worked with each department to ensure they understood the overall forecast and how the impact of the key initiatives they were responsible for were reflected in the forecast.

Rosemont, Illinois, Us

Providing support for corporate accounting/corporate finance team through acquisitions and integrations leadership. Providing internal expertise of our consolidation tool, Hyperion to our ~70 global locations with over $1.8B in revenue.Financial Systems Administration• Maintain Hyperion system entity structure, dimension library (chart of accounts) and other system-related operations process• Ability to understand financial information flows from various ERP source systems to Hyperion consolidation system• Maintain user security access for all Hyperion applications• Oversee support and issue resolution for Hyperion and SAP users• Coordinate with IT for Accounting and Finance as issues arise• Create new reporting, as required, within Hyperion systemAcquisition & Integration• Map G/L accounts for newly acquired businesses into Hyperion system and MCC global chart of accounts• Assist the Acquisitions Manager with purchase accounting (ASC 805) tasks• Lead in training new users on Hyperion operations• Load and validate historical data for new acquisitions into Hyperion• Load and validate historical data – balances and subledgers – into SAP for companies transitioning onto SAP from legacy systems

Providing support for corporate leadership team through identifying & communicating key business drivers & trends recommending actions to maximize operational and financial performance. Lead monthly financial operations reporting preparation for Monthly Report, Board Meetings & Town Halls.• Prepared and implemented procedures for the preparation, writing and filing of all corporate quarterly and annual SEC filings including Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and the Annual Report. Assist in budget & quarterly forecasts streamlining processes and increasing continuity. • Led acquisition integration of AdvancePierre Foods ~$1.7B sales into Tyson Foods ~$37B sales to align segments, categories and SKUs to assign within Tyson Foods hierarchy of products.• Provided extensive analysis of Standard Product Cost, Volume/Mix/Rate, and price per lb. to develop accurate and comprehensive financial reports to facilitate management decisions.• Streamlined financial reporting process shifting the effort from statement preparation to analysis integrating data through the acquired Allied Foods within Targit and JDE systems.

Chicago, Il, Us

Oversaw key financial analysis for all Global R&D teams. Key business partner with the various Product Development teams working directly with members of the Executive Leadership Team including the CTO, Senior VP of Quality, & Senior VP of Legal & Corporate Affairs. Led financial analysis of Ad Hoc projects (R&D tax credit assessments, team structure changes, product profitability analysis, cost of quality) participated in financial modeling, system implementation, and capital investment financial analysis. Prepared and analyzed IS, BS & key metrics in conjunction with Monthly Close (JDE, Hyperion, Cognos).• Developed countermeasure actions as needed and provided identification and quantification of both risks & opportunities (approx. $150 million budget).• Led & excelled in process improvements (financial & non-financial) within R&D demonstrating excellent documentation techniques & organization.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Coordinated and supported finance activities for divisions within IT. Monitored expenses, analyzed & prepared financial reports and assisted in development of recharge rates & cost analysis. Assisted in budget preparation (approx. $35 million budget). Team lead for UCIT transformation, new units and cost centers managed within SAP.• Performed internal audits testing divisional compliance of financial policies.

Designed queries to determine customer’s profitability, tech utilizations, SAM’s accounts, credits issued and contract gain/losses. Extracted information from SQL server into Microsoft Access to prepare queries. Updated general ledger daily using Tigerpaw and MAS90. Prepared monthly reports including KPI, WIP, P&L and commissions.• Improved outstanding accounts by 30% through collections for IT division.• Reconstructed commission plan from lump sum payments to residual payments based on terms improving accurate tracking of incentive payments.• Designed PRO OnCall’s KPI report for IT division and expanded to include Telecom reports for president and the board helping to identify problem areas.• Developed and maintained monthly customer profitability report for IT contracted customers resulting in changes to both contract and hourly prices.

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science, Economics

Associate Of Arts, Economics