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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Lead consultant/analyst for the Promotional Customer Success and Production teams, identifying root cause issues and analyzing service gaps to improve customer experience and customized product production efficiencies. Conduct analysis of production activities via creation of ad hoc data tables, routine audit / service trend reports, and personally performing time studies on various processes and workflows to monitor results. Business teams supported include 20 Promotional Account Managers, 8 National Sales Managers (internal / contracted), 7 Internal Promotional Sales Managers, 12 Custom Designers and Production teams producing annually: approximately 40K virtual designs, 35K samples and 25K sales orders.Recently promoted to analyst for the Retail business, including OEM and Farm Fleet & Other Networks

Poplar Grove, Il 61065

• Managed and directed a team of three direct reports to execute all aspects of accounting, finance, investment, and administrative office functions for an unincorporated gated community (approximately 1,800 homes and 8,000+ residents) with 99 % accuracy and on deadline. Managed accounts payable and receivable activities, all month-end closing activities, including balance sheet activities and adjusting entries. Collaborated with General Manager on annual budget process and drafted documentation to facilitate Board approval. Coordinated all aspects of monthly Finance Commission Meetings, prepped for and addressed questions at Board Meetings, managed the annual audit with external auditors, and completed Labor Relations audits. Supported community management efforts / events and created strategic plans to ensure financial stability of the community. • Continuous oversight for collection efforts of unpaid dues and fines within the community resulted in a 10% increase in collected revenue. Streamlined processes to ensure payment tracking and arranged payment plans.• Utilized Lean Six Sigma efforts to create process maps and streamline processes for administrative roles and tasks – increasing productivity; ex: reduced new-resident onboarding process by 67%.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Developed strategies to streamline process and create best practices across Walmart’s Global Shared Service (GSS) centers, including gap assessments. Maintained and updated global standards foundation for future strategy; providing the road map for senior leadership in 5 countries, leveraging influence and communication skills to gain alignment for moving projects forward. Supported Implementation and Change Management teams during in-country project implementation. Oversaw all aspects of global projects, including project oversight, process and design mapping, collaboration with project and change management teams, 3rd party vendor management and contract negotiations, security alignment, bug and design flaw resolution, budget and timeline.• Designed business case around best practice project solutions and gained buy-in from shared services and in-country leadership to align metrics and reporting in all 5 country GSS centers. • Assessed feasibility of productivity improvement projects and led design and implementation phases of automated portal solution for U.S. and Costa Rica shared service center, with annual payroll savings of $2M.• Continuous oversight of processes at each center ensured KPI, metrics, and reporting best practices were followed across the globe, and were streamlined and standardized, resulting in additional time/cost savings of $2M globally at DCs/Stores.

Bentonville, Ar Area

Managed designated Information Systems Division (ISD) financials of $1.2M expense and $700k capital budgets, including reporting, budgeting / planning, forecasting, and analysis for divisional and corporate leadership. Served as finance representative for the ISD annual budgeting team to manage finance deliverables and keep the team on target to meet deliverables. Oversaw reporting and worked with corporate planning team to build the three-year plan. Maintained budget records and data in all corporate systems as well as data entry of forecasts, incorporating actual data. Personally reported at executive levels (department, division, and corporate). Reported to Sr. Director IT Finance; led one direct report.• Developed and delivered finance 101 training to the ISD division.• Led streamlined processes and documentation, initiatives, with oversight of multiple SAP implementation initiatives (ISD).• Served as financial liaison and partner to various departments.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Managed budget, forecast planning, reports, and analysis for $13B capital expenditures, including all divisional and corporate reporting, leading to management of capital for entire company. Designated liaison between RE accounting, store planning, real estate, operations finance, and other divisions for capital spend. Reported to Sr. Director, Real Estate; led one direct report.• Facilitated division's paradigm shift moving from an expected annual growth of 8% square footage year-over-year to ensure project returns met or exceeded criteria for ROI/NPV model – with 99% success rate. • Assigned as finance member on cross-functional task force to redefine store remodels, enabling a greater number of remodels with less spend, reducing dollars spent by $500M per year.

Rockford, Illinois Area

Supported accounting for company engineering costs and managed finances for government program. Served as cost accounting manager for $59,000,000 government program (Comanche Helicopter). Led financial contract compliance. Directed accurate analysis of cost reporting utilizing earned value. Consolidated and analyzed business unit financials, including budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Analyzed and forecasted engineering billing rate for business unit. Implemented finance portal for Hamilton Sundstrand finance personnel.

Greater Chicago Area

Oversaw monthly billings to global partners as well as all updates to legal document outlining chargebacks to partners. Managed $1,400,000,000 global cost pool. Forecasted anticipated costs and billings to member firms. Analyzed cash flow position of firm’s billing entity. Managed two financial analysts.

Master'S Degree, Finance And Financial Management Services, 3.6

Certified Retail Analyst Certification Program, Consumer Goods Analytics, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Received Certification dated July 30, 2021 Curriculum: CRA Intro to Microsoft Office Excel and Database.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.95

Activities and Societies: Graduated with Honors