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Responsible for the accounting operations of the company, including establishing the financial infrastructure, production of financial reports, maintenance of the accounting records system and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk. Ensure the accuracy of the company's reported financial results and results comply with GAAP.Manage relationship with external public accounting firm to ensure completion of quarterly and annual tax reporting. Develop and monitor the company’s strategic plan.Act as Interim Financial Controller for clients on a short or long-term basis•Manage day-to-day accounting operations; create new internal accounting policies and maintain existing policies.•Monitor emerging technology to determine ways to automate processes without sacrificing accuracy and accountability.•Develop monthly and quarterly accounting reports for management and executive teams including robust analysis and summary.•Implement and monitor the month, quarter and year-end close.•Budget and periodic forecasting to enable senior leadership in decision making.

Support the Global Auto Care Finance department in the areas of analysis,and reporting. Also assisting in the business planning forecast and close cycle on a monthly basis.

Management responsible for achieving strategic and operational goals, with a focus on financial performance. Prepare annual budget and provide advice to Directors and Vice Presidents to identify issues that impact departmental performance, enhance variance explanations and projections. Participate in work teams to improve the budget preparation process and other financial and operational processes. Provide financial and system related education and training to all levels of management.

Supported the control team during the monthly close process, performing reconciliations and research of variances, executing and documenting SOX control. Periodic review of cash received from suppliers versus what was expected and database uploads/maintenance for the sweetener COE team. Performed reviews in the accuracy of accounting in commodity reconciliations, and ensuring that supporting documentation included with transaction validation.

Managed the financial planning & control of the trade budget for the Beverage BU. Responsible for the performance based trade initiatives ensuring customer specific budgets fit within the total Business Unit financial plan and align with strategic business direction. Collaborate with the Sales and Marketing teams to maintain the most effective trade spend to ensure gross revenue and operating income targets are achieved.Oversee the financial month end close process for the Ecommerce business with two direct reports. Manage vendor partner relationships responsible for warehousing and fulfillment. Supervise the accounts payable/receivables, product costing and SOX reporting.

Managed monthly financial closes for a $200mm division including monthly journal entries, sales and accounts receivable transactions and managed inventory with an approximate value of $15MM. Performed balance sheet reconciliations, actualized profit and loss statements to assess performance against prior year and latest estimate financial objectives. Prepared state and federal tax work papers and annual SOX reporting.

Performed balance sheet and P&L reporting actualized data to assess performance against prior year and financial objectives.