Finance Operations team on Sales Audit activities, including daily sales reconciliations, tender reconciliations, and others, related to Ralph Lauren's Retail Sales Operations activities. Additionally, ensured Inventory Sub-Ledger and SAP General Ledger balances are correct and tie out each month. Compliance with internal and external audit.Key Contributions:• Analyzed monthly expenses and presented in meetings with different stakeholders to discuss expense trends and future project timelines.• Balanced and reconciled expenses for the month-end financial close process ensuring accuracy on entries recorded to general ledger accounts/business units in SAP, prepared accrual entries and analyzing variances to forecast.• Reconciled daily retail sales activities, Credit/Debit cards, inventory, and expenses.• Calculated and analyzed daily, monthly and quarterly reporting.• Improved financial reporting through Excel Macros saving three days of work per month.• Developed ad-hoc reports to monitor the progress of vital operational functions for senior management.

Conducted in-depth business studies on past, comparative, and future performance and developed detailed forecasts based on findings. Tracked and analyzed financial status by analyzing actual results in comparison with forecasts and explained deviations and variations from forecasts. Consolidated and analyzed budgets, income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows; drew conclusions based on analyses and reported on results.Key Contributions:• Analyzed past results and maintained financial models, performed variance analysis, identified trends, and made recommendations to management for improvements which resulted in a 7% revenue increase over the lap of 2 years.• Identified risks and opportunities in operation activities and reported to senior management and recommend solutions which resulted in an 11% decrease expense in packaging over the lap of two years.• Analyzed operating results against department budgets, prepared monthly forecasts and reported results to senior management.• Updated and monitored monthly operational re-forecasts and prepared PowerPoint presentations, comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts to FP&A Director.• Supported to develop capital budget expenditure in new company items to the portfolio, including the creation of ad-hoc reports, ROI analysis, and Excel dashboards.• Analyzed and reviewed financial data in General ledger in SAP, compared invoices against budgets and Forecast to ensure validity. • Supported management during month-end close which activities include journal entries, accruals, support documentation, balance sheet schedules. • Increased productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools with Excel Macros.• Collected market research data, and valuation comps to identify trends in emerging markets.• Reviewed closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting on income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.