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Big Lake, MN, US

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Finance leader North American based business with global annual revenue of $6.8B.
• Spearheaded finance transformation to create controllership and FP&A organizations in 4 countries and reduced staff by 13, saving over $3.5M in SG&A.
• Led the FP&A organization and developed new capabilities for planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting to collaborate with strategic business partners to drive insights and decisions.
• Designed, developed, and implemented a driver based financial planning model used for budgeting and the 36-month forecast with an accuracy rate above 93% for past 16 months.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Finance Lead for a medical device manufacturing company with $80M in annual revenue with 7 locations globally.
• Co-led the consolidation of multiple Nordson divisions and developed the roadmap to create the financial planning and analysis organization.

Construction projects and home inspections

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Created the Global Decision Support infrastructure and to lead an international team responsible for partnering with the Executive Leadership Team on financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting..
• Key member of executive team that developed the 2025 strategy with a projected CAGR of 9.7%.
• Initiated and co-led the SG&A cost reduction project resulting in $16M of savings.
• Established global processes and the business requirements to generate a monthly 24-month forecast.
• Developed and measured the Global Key Performance Indicators across 41 counties and communicated d the monthly results to the Executive Leadership Team.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Spearheaded the stabilization the finance transformation, streamlined accounting processes, and enhanced reporting capabilities for a North American based business with global annual revenues of $6.4B.
• Led a finance staff of 22 in executing internal controls and finance operations with a focus on business partnering through insights generated from IBP forecast, customer profitability, and financial planning.
• Simplified month end close processes and enhanced reporting capabilities to reduce operational costs by over $1.5M, reduced the shared service team by eight, and shortened the month end close timeline by over 100 hours.
• Partnered with Global IT to develop a 5-year SAP implementation roadmap and co-led the streamlining of the business’s cost structure.
• Key Team member on an M&A team that analyzed potential Cargill acquisitions ranging from $1.2B to $4.5B.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Partnered with Commercial and Sales Leads to Analyze market and competitive intel, design pricing strategies, and to lead customer negotiations for a North American business with global annual revenues $2.1B.
• Led customer negotiations that generated $2.2M of incremental margin.
• Co-led the Bakery strategy that increased market share by 6% over 5 years
• Developed pricing strategies to increase revenue and reduce costs, resulting in $733K of incremental margin.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Finance Leader selected to join Corporate Audit as an Auditor and Risk Advisor to expand my knowledge of Cargill’s global footprint, gain experience with global senior leaders, and to develop a control mindset.
• Advised senior leaders across 10 global Food and Ingredient businesses and deployed 13 audit projects to mitigate risk.
• Led multiple global audits and assessed controls on 19 projects in 12 different countries.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Due to business knowledge and ability to streamline processes was asked to lead the development and implementation of 2 SAP deployment cutover plans for Cargill’s Horizon Milling business across 26 locations though out United States and Canada.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Managed the Grain Accounting team of 23 team members that created and monitored the internal controls for purchasing wheat, reporting the daily grain risk position, executed the period end close and reporting activities for 21 grain elevators in the US and Canada.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Managed the Accounting & Reporting Team of 10 team members that created and monitored the internal controls, executed the period end close activities and created the monthly financial statements for the 19 flour mills and 3 bakeries in the US and Canada.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Managed the Risk Accounting Team of 7 that were responsible for the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of the US and Canadian commodity risk position, generated the daily trading P&L, executed the period end close activities and manged over 2300 the export filings on an annual basis.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Wayzata, Minnesota, US