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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Springdale, Ar, Us

Tyson Foods (TSN) is the world's second-largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork with $40B in annual sales. It operates major food brands, including Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright Brand, Aidells, and State Fair.Leads team responsible for costing and forecasting $9 billion of annual COGS across 36 production facilities supporting 25 retail and foodservice business units.Provides drivers and deep-dive commentary of cost savings and cost increases in commodities and conversion by bridging standard rated COGS vs latest estimate, quarterly estimate, AOP and prior year.Manages team of 7 analysts with responsibilities including the annual operating plan, 18-month rolling forecast and monthly costing.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Responsible for coordinating FP&A responsibilities across supply chain finance team including monthly financial close, COGS variances forecasting and annual budget process.Reported monthly financial results including variance analysis vs latest estimate, quarterly estimate, AOP and prior year to business units.Managed 2 direct reports responsible for the pork and turkey commodity P&L, capital expenditures with associated project expenses, procurement savings, FG production sourcing and volume variance reporting and forecasting.

Springdale, Ar, Us

As the interim Finance Trade Manager, was responsible for the monthly close accounting activities and analysis reporting for the Meats and Bakery Foodservice divisions. Activities included bridging trade actual financial results to AOP (annual operating plan), monthly forecast, and prior year actuals. Other projects included documentation of monthly process and creation of step-by-step training aids.

Chicago, Il, Us

The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) is the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world with over $27B in annual sales. The company’s iconic brands include Kraft, Heinz, ABC, Capri Sun, Classico, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Lunchables, Maxwell House, Ore-Ida, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Planters, Plasmon, Quero, Weight Watchers Smart Ones and Velveeta.Operations finance lead for the Meats categories, managing $2.6B of annual product costs across 10 production facilities. Prepared monthly cost bridge reconciling actuals vs. plan, and vs. prior year for gross productivity, business investments, manufacturing costs, and commodities. Assisted in the transition to new organization structure by documenting & training on forecasting, rebills reporting, & product reformulation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Operations Finance lead for the Powdered Beverages and Liquid Concentrates categories (Kool-Aid, Country Time, MiO, and Crystal Light), managing $300MM of annual product costs across 8 production facilities. Responsible for monthly risk & opportunity calls using Integrated Business Planning (IBP).Monthly responsibilities included analysis of actuals for key drivers and trends in gross productivity, business investments, manufacturing costs and commodities. Partnered with cross-functional brand teams to provide in-depth analyses of various business initiatives, including new product commercialization, reformulations, sourcing, and productivity.Communications Chair for the OLA, Organization of Latin Americans at Kraft; responsible for marketing of events via internal social media, teamsite and email.

Chicago, Il, Us

Maintained full monthly reporting for 17 beverage categories and provided cost support to five Cost Managers. Monthly reporting included plant conversion results, raw & pack productivity, plant rebills, and raw & pack commodities.Led cost team in standardizing the month end operations cost bridge to be used across all beverage categories.Led the Cheers culture team in the Beverage Business Unit; organized and participated in monthly team building events.

Chicago, Il, Us

Served as finance lead in the transition to integrate all Canadian sites into Corporate HQ for reporting and accounting purposes.Conducted month end close activities for US and Canada finished goods accounts.

Chicago, Il, Us

Provided support to four different manufacturing plants by offering training on new processes, cost analysis, completing the annual budget standard cost process and responding to any ad hoc requests.Lead month end close for 4 plants, including the allocation of costs associated with the monthly production of $50MM in finished goods.

Chicago, Il, Us

Provided finance support to Dairy Procurement group via actuals reporting and variance research.Responsible for SAP month end close process of raw cheese inventory for two Kraft plants.