• Responsible for overall accuracy of monthly forecast and annual plan (budget), as well as ensuring financial planning meets internal as well as external requirements.• Report results for the Nordic countries to headquarters through established weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting requirements.• Provide appropriate financial information to management to enable informed decision making, including the impact of promotional planning and gross profit.• Analysis of trends and execution of timely corrective actions.Results:• Contribute to the abolition of an older pricing system, used to create prices for products for catalog and special offer items. The new pricing system is located directly in the Distributors' ERP, and automatically adds new prices in the internal ERP used for invoicing Distributors. In addition, also worked directly with system developers to create reports in the new pricing system, used for various reporting, bookkeeping and forecasting purposes.• Achieved a close collaboration with Marketing Manager, to align forecasts on retail sales between Finance and Marketing. This has contributed to consistency between marketing promotion campaigns and finance forecasts.

• Support all areas of the organization through month-end analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.• Collaborate with Accounting on month-end close and accruals to ensure accurate financial reporting.• Closely communicate with Chief Financial Officer to prepare and review monthly forecasts.• Perform variance analysis to compare actuals vs. budget and forecast.• Track franchise outlet and operator count for an organization of over 200 franchises.• Prepare and analyze monthly financial reports for senior management and the board of directors to review.

• Delegate and coordinate artwork from the National Account Managers for the company’s largest clients, as well as franchisees and the internal Marketing department, to ensure art is completed, proofed and returned timely.• Work independently to develop html emails, and conduct email blasts.• Maintain the company’s corporate Facebook profile with weekly/bi-weekly posts.• Generate Customer Acquisition Reports to attract franchisees to the Art Center.• Solely responsible for generating the Art Center billing report monthly.

• Manage all aspects of A/P, including all operating invoices, check schedules, analyzing and correcting any discrepancies.• Manage client money in five separate client trust accounts.• Proactively manage four employees in two separate divisions of the department.• Troubleshoot malfunctions in the accounting department, and recommend and implement solutions to these.

• Assist with accounts receivable and accounts payable. • Handle all customer e-mails and orders.• Reorganize systems for answering customer e-mails and processing orders.

• Work independently and in teams, to dress models and actors for various still photo shoots and TV commercial shootings.