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Columbus, Wi, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Fridley, Minnesota, Us

Greenfield, Mn, Us

McCormick Construction is a $35M industrial construction organization. I led the finance function of the organization as well as the HR and IT functions, reporting to the President/CFO and managed a team of seven. Provided forward thinking, strategic leadership as well as standardized processes and created efficiencies. I worked across departments to help establish best practices and increase profitability. • Established and led forecasting and budgeting process and presented monthly financial results to leadership team. • Shortened month-end close process by 50%, reducing a six-week close process down to a three-week close process.• Implemented cash flow processing procedures and coordinated cash management strategy with CFO; forecasted monthly, quarterly, annual cash positions.• Executed companywide expense reporting process utilizing a 3rd party expense tool. Increasing field expense reporting consistency from months to weeks.• Developed and led monthly sales pipeline and forecasting review with Sr. leadership and sales team.• Developed, mentored, motivated and retained high performing financial, accounting, HR and IT staff.• Gathered market intelligence to maintain employee compensation competitiveness. Provided support to managers during annual salary review and mid-year salary adjustments. • Launched McCormick’s first ever annual employee engagement survey to 140 employees with 85% participation. Led efforts to implement action plans developed from survey results to help increase employee satisfaction and engagement.• Instituted and rolled out company-wide year-end and mid-year performance review process, helping managers and employees better communicate expectations and successes.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Recruited, trained, mentored and led a team of six of financial analyst, coordinating with sales, marketing and customer service staff to provide strategic global pricing solutions. led international pricing efforts for clients with travel budgets in excess of $500M and those with travel budgets as low as $50k. • Consulted on financial strategy for over 250 global/regional RFP’s annually. Contributing to a 98%+ retention rate and $1.5B in annual new sales.• Created and maintained client budgets and was responsible for leading quarterly forecast reviews with clients. • Solved ambiguous RFP requirements and communicated complex proposals to stakeholders in simplified manner. Ensuring that global counterparts had a clear winning strategy. • Experience interacting with C suite leadership, communicated global pricing and configuration strategies through approval calls. • Provided strategic guidance to PM and sales teams contributing to higher client retention and increasing sales win ratios.• Awarded the CWT CEO Award (2016) and the Impact Award (2014) in recognition of contributions toward key RFP wins.• Navigated system limitations to develop and implement pragmatic pricing tactics. Providing a competitive advantage in segments where CWT has historically struggled.• Streamlined global RFP process and global financial documents; improving communication, effectiveness and RFP turnaround times. Contributing to a record GPS new sales wins of $1B in 2016.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

As part of the North America pricing team, I provided strategic pricing guidance to program management and sales staff. Communicated RFP strategy to global stakeholders ensuring consistent and winning pricing strategies. • Directed global counterparts ensuring RFP requirements were met and presented to program management and sales with market specific competitive advantage. • Managed 8+ RFP’s at any one time and provided accurate and desired pricing while never missing a deadline. • Developed and implemented creative pricing structures to provide clients with low cost of ownership while ensuring the highest client margin possible for CWT.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Reporting to the Sr Director of Commercial Finance, I led revenue initiative projects with key stakeholders from across the organization. Contributing to $5M incremental annual revenue globally. Tracked incremental revenue results and presented to management monthly.• Created complex reports utilizing various databases and provided recommendations to all levels of management.• Implemented a process to track and bill limo transaction fees resulting in $200k+ incremental revenue the first 5 months after implementation and $436K in the following year. • Rolled out an excess contact process, generating $250k incremental revenue in the first full year of rollout.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for general and revenue accounting for TGI Friday’s Restaurants. Accountable for monthly invoices for over 500 US restaurants. • Posted monthly revenue accruals and revenue general ledger accounts. • Implemented new process which improved billing accuracy and timeliness of royalty reporting, resulting in AR collections from 60 days to 38 days, a 40% improvement.• Shortened month-end process time by 50% through the creation of various spreadsheets.

Greenfield, Mn, Us

Managed payroll process for 500+ employees in multiple states on a bi-weekly basis. Always maintaining a high level of accuracy.• Responsible for company’s compliance for all federal and state payroll regulations.• Responsible for the successful implementation a new payroll/costing enterprise system.

• Supervised all financial aspects of the company including financial statements, cash management, job costing, payroll processing, and staff supervision.• Reduced outstanding accounts receivable balances by improving communication with the customer ensuring prompt payments.• Increased timeliness of vendor payments, improving cash management.• Supervised the development of residential buildings and management of employees.

Master Of Organizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General