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Roswell, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Led a team of finance professionals supporting FP&A and accounting for Carter's $300M distribution and freight networks.- Communicated supply chain financial results and projections to executive leadership.- Identified opportunity to consolidate store shipments savings $3.0M annually.- Built KPIs/metric and analyses to validate savings from key supply.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Responsible for FP&A and accounting leadership for Carter's supply chain network.- Built tools to automate distribution financial reporting and analyze results to improve speed to produce and increase depth of analytics.- Created consolidated reporting and analytics to give leadership first enterprise-wide view of supply chain expenses.- Implemented.

• Responsible for planning, forecasting and strategy for Home Depot’s +$6B store and management payroll budgets
• Forecasted and analyzed estimated impacts of Home Depot’s strategy to re-invest tax savings into wage
• Developed tools to better understand wage trends across stores to help inform weekly payroll forecasts
• Engaged with senior leadership to determine strategic wage investments and created financial model to forecast the impact of those investments

• Responsible for planning and forecasting $700M in delivery expense and $200M in delivery revenue
• Partnered with operations to create annual financial and long range strategic budgets
• Identified and remediated gaps in delivery invoicing resulting in $2.5M in annual savings
• Developed process to calculate end-to-end profitability analytics to provide Sr. Leadership with first ABC cost model of profitability by category for delivered product
• Enhanced and automated reporting processes to increase financial visibility while reducing time and effort to produce

• Responsible for planning and forecasting $1.1B domestic freight, $89M specialty freight and $1.1B supply chain discount budget
• Identified opportunities to optimize transportation network that will save $0.3M in annual freight expense
• Identified $0.9M savings opportunity by identifying under-credited 3rd party backhaul activity
• Created an automated supply chain discount planning model using SQL and VBA
• Automated and enhanced the previously manual process of analyzing month end SDC inbound results
• Built automated tool to identify carrier billing errors which has resulted in over $30K in refunds to date

• Supported merchants during Product Line Reviews (PLRs) to analyze costs and vendor bids to drive cost out
• Provided support for PLRs that covered $620M in annual purchases
• Analytics provided drove $20M in annual cost savings
• Developed rebate contract analysis tool used by COGS Analytics Team and Merchandising Finance to analyze and negotiate volume rebates with vendors. Tool helped create $18M in savings through improved rebate structure.
• Developed excel/VBA based tools to automate the formerly manual process of gathering product dimensional data and category baseline data to streamline the team’s data collection processes

• Responsible for planning and forecasting outbound $468M domestic outbound and $457M international transportation budgets
• Modeled business case for Dynamic Allocation program and $4.0M in annual Supply Chain savings
• Modeled business case for Partial Unload program and $1.9M in annual transportation savings
• Identified carrier billing errors for outsourced activity, resulting in $1.2M refund
• Redesigned planning and forecasting process to reflect accounting changes for $468M outbound freight budget
• Created a month-end close validation template to quickly ensure all transportation accruals were posted

• Created business case for Free Trade Zone program and $11M in annual duty and broker savings
• Created planning, reporting, and forecasting process for store landed import results
• Created a weekly suite of reporting dashboards to provide International Logistics Operations visibility into the operational drivers of their financial results
• Expanded International Logistics planning process from DC level plan to have class, vendor, lane, equipment type detail to allow deeper variance analysis to identify variance of controllable cost drivers

• Created reporting and analytics for The Home Depot’s $9.0B Private and Control Brand business
• Enhanced reporting on $6B Direct Import business to provide class, subclass, and SKU level insights
• Developed model to identify import breakage, which has provided insight into performance variances
• Managed project to develop first Private Brand sales and margin plan
• Developed financial model to show $3.0M benefit to introducing import private brand garbage disposals
• Built and managed $35.0M Global Sourcing/Private Brands expense budget

Roseland, New Jersey, US

Retirement Services District Manager responsible for outside and inside sales to small businesses.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor'S Degree