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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Rockford, Il, Us

Senior Finance Leader with responsibility for comprehensive financials (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow), monthly commentary and presentations to Board of Directors, Annual Budget, Forecasts and Strategic Plan, Capital Planning, Operational analysis across multiple sites, Pricing and IT Team. Promoted within 5-months from VP FP&A to Vice President, Finance and Information Technology.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Financial leader for $1.3B COGS P&L for Salty Snacks Business. Cross-functional business partner for Snacks Supply Chain. Responsible for financial analysis, planning and reporting (FP&AR) for strategic, annual and monthly results.

Massillon, Oh, Us

Financial leader and executive business partner for Supply Chain. Led FP&A and variance reporting for weekly, monthly and annual forecasts for $1B in COGS expense across 11 plants, included productivity target development and performance evaluation. Transportation / Logistics expense forecasting, actual performance reporting and monitoring. Financial guidance and counsel to Supply Chain Leadership. Team coaching and development.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Led the Materials Management and Logistics functions for Chicago Bakery. Responsible for strategic planning, MRP, production and labor scheduling, plant warehouse management, Distribution Center, Re-Pack services and inventory controls. Manage both managerial and hourly team member performance through safety, quality, delivery, cost & morale. Supported IL6S methodology, TPM - Pillar System and high-performance work systems (HPWS).Financial consulting projects for plant controlling processes with Chicago & Naperville bakeries. Developed financial models, FP&A, annual budgets, variance analysis, finance transformation, change management and leadership coaching. Performed risk assessments of controls environment.Led turnaround in Materials Management at Naperville Bakery. Identified and eliminated segregation of duties (SODs) issues in inventory management. Developed sustainable warehouse practices for FIFO and inventory controls. Implemented over 25+ corrective actions. Re-established "Tone at the Top" in financial and operational controls.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led corporate-wide COSO entity-level internal controls framework update for SEC compliance for $19B organization. Internal Controls leader for multiple Business Process Excellence (BPE) teams and Plant Controllers. Managed and evaluated risk assessments for SOX 404 compliance in BUs and HQ-Mfg Accounting. Provided controls guidance on SAP projects, process improvements and organizational changes.

Led annual E2E product cost standards development for $10B of expense across +55 Plants. Provided financial counsel and guidance to BU-Finance Directors and Plant Controllers across all CPG categories. Developed SAP testing protocols to ensure system readiness for company split into two entities. Managed multiple strategic finance and accounting process improvements projects.

Project Manager for multiple cross-functional teams to implement product cost standards in SAP. Developed exception reporting to improve product cost accuracy, reduced Master Data errors by 88%. Master Data Governance. Created and delivered SAP-CO training for product costing.

Financial leadership for $1.4B CPG categories. FP&A - annual and strategic planning cycles. Developed risk and opportunities analyses to deliver committed results. Financial modeling. Partnered with Sales to manage the $325MM trade spend. Evaluated new product commercializations.

Directed month-end close process and monthly variance reporting. Provided financial direction to Plant Controllers and Network Accounting Managers for +50 manufacturing plants. Led change management efforts for organizational restructuring from centralized to decentralized organization. Managerial oversight for external and internal audits. Supported Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance testing. Served as the COE (Center of Excellence) in financial leadership for Operations Finance.

Lisle, Il, Us

Financial leadership, guidance and counsel directly to VP/GM of Bus Vehicle Center (BVC), annual revenues of $1B. FP&A for annual and strategic planning. Developed monthly forecasts with risk and opportunity identification. Collaborated with VP Sales and VP Pricing to establish sales programs with financial viability to grow market share and ensure strategic fit in BVC. Monitored production schedules, operating efficiencies and plant performance to ensure alignment to financial targets.

Lisle, Il, Us

Provided counsel to Senior VP and Regional VPs of $500MM Export business on development of strategic and annual financial plans, analyzed pricing proposals, negotiated with dealerships on loan agreements, analyzed monthly/quarterly plan variances. Evaluated on-going and new business initiatives. Strengthened internal controls.

Lisle, Il, Us

Reduced SG&A programming expenses by $300K through automation of legacy financial system. Developed new Working Capital Metric report; identified issues with inter-company working capital allocations.

Lisle, Il, Us

Project Manager, Activity-Based Budget (ABB) financial model for Chatham, Ontario heavy-duty truck plant. Earned IL6S Six-Sigma-Greenbelt for development of strategic and economic project evaluation tool for Procurement ROI. Public speaking engagements for: AICPA, CAM-I (Consortium Advanced Manufacturing – International) and Cost Management Congress. Topics included: Activity-Based Management (ABM), Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB), Target Costing and various strategic costing topics. Corporate Renegade, award winner from Cost Management Congress, 1998.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed cross-functional Activity-Based Management team dedicated to implementation of strategic cost management.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

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Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Strategic Management

Bs, Accounting

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