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Saint Paul, MN, US

St. Paul, MN, US

• Partner with the corporate/key account managers in the fiscal management of the corporate account and field sales business to drive profitable margin growth
• Work with Legal and Sales teams to prepare new letters of agreements, renewals, and extensions
• Coordinate deal / contract approval workflows and appropriate signoff for defined customer chains
• Partner with corporate/key account managers to manage customer pricing expectations and execution
• Partner with Marketing and R&D to model Total Value Delivered for potential customers and maintain and evaluate contract price lists to ensure integrity
• Evaluate capital expenditures and customer investment opportunities

St. Paul, MN, US

• Owned monthly and quarterly financial close deliverables and reviews
• Led monthly review meetings with key business partners to hold leaders accountable to their SG&A expense financial plan and forecast
• Managed the forecast, planning and analysis activities for the North America Pest Elimination Division
• Oversaw divisions headcount modeling and analysis to help management make informed decisions and strategic plans
• Analyzed financial results and provide actionable commentary to help management understand business drivers, performance, trends and actions to manage spend
• Prepared journal entries and reconciliations of key accounts to ensure compliance with accounting standards and accuracy of financial statements

St. Paul, MN, US

• Managed the planning, forecast, and analysis activities for HR G&A Expense ($40M+)
• Coordinated with cost center leaders to understand accrual requirements and execute monthly journal entries for HR G&A
• Delivered monthly cost center reviews with HR business partners including plan/forecast variance analysis, load EPM and support CP&A monthly close activities
• Oversaw capital and expense reporting for One-HR (Workday) CAR
• Ran Global HR Function headcount and spend reporting ($100M+)
• Supported the annual Global Bonus Grid setting process which includes management of the EPM based tool/process, coordination with Divisions/Regions finance and opportunity to drive process improvement

St. Paul, MN, US

• Supported Ecolab’s Global Business Services by completing ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests for Credit, A/R, Billing, and Divisional Finance teams
• Conducted ongoing performance tracking and success metrics to support Ecolab’s Credit Collection teams and help Ecolab's Credit associates collect outstanding A/R
• Reconstructed and improved legacy reports in new reporting platform called PowerBI to meet growing company reporting needs and facilitate company’s transition to SAP
• Managed several databases utilized by Ecolab's Credit Services to support day-to-day functions and initiatives
• Provided trend analysis for cash flow, cash application, corporate customer aging, and DSO
• Oversaw GetPaid collection software tool including monitoring of data loads and ad-hoc trouble shooting

St. Paul, MN, US

• Processed over $20 million of monthly distributor resale activity for 158 distributors
• Provided ad-hoc analysis to both internal and external customers relating to sales, refunds and distributor inventory levels
• Rectified errors in sales reporting by performing sales adjustments, therefore allowing sales personal to receive appropriate compensation based on accurate sales reporting

St. Paul, MN, US

• Supported the distributor resale processing team representing over $1.5B in annual sales, and $834M in refund payments for more than 1,200 distributors
• Worked through a backlog of dispute cases, helping to compensate distributor partners for credits due, issue field sales, and uphold the integrity of internal audit controls
• Completed ad-hoc requests reconciling retro discrepancies with Ecolab’s distributors

Brookfield, WI, US

• Performed quality assurance testing to discover and resolve errors in the newly established EDI process ensuring accurate EDI transactions with distributor partners
• Created process development to accurately test the compatibility of invoices and purchase orders using Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Wrote training documentation describing the process of how to test EDI procedures
• Executed cross business training that taught employees the EDI testing process

• Reconciled several corporate banking accounts utilizing QuickBooks Pro
• Developed master files for the implementation of a new EMR system, which helped reduce rejection of medical claims thereby increasing profitability for the company
• Ran various company reports to track profitability of the corporation
• Entered insurance payments into patient accounts, calculating inbalances for patient and insurance payments to include any write offs and sequester any further adjustments
• Trained employees on the implementation of a new EMR system called WebPT
• Prepared patient files for bad debt collection

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Shadowed a Supply Chain Regional Manager to learn more about the profession
• Worked closely with supply chain employees providing insight into how a large retail corporations supply chain operates
• Observed confidential meetings providing me with valuable team experience