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Casper, WY, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Worked directly with Chief Financial Officer to provide analytic support, including creation of the 5-year strategic plan, in facilitating a business turnaround. Directed operational, corporate, and franchise finance.
• Oversaw more than $200M in share repurchases as part of capital deployment strategy.
• Generated new enterprise valuation models that facilitated salon sales to franchisees.
• Achieved $20M in annual capital spend savings by improving analytic rigor before approving projects. IMPROVED OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH DATA AND ANALYTICS
• Improved profits by optimizing salon labor through improved scheduling.
• Improved profits through annual G&A savings by identifying areas for expense reductions.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of Best Buy For Business, Best Buy Services, and Best Buy Mobile business units. Carried out strategic planning, M&A valuation, financial due diligence, financial reporting, forecasting.
• Led M&A valuation and financial due diligence activities for the BBFB and Services groups which led to the acquisitions of Partsearch, Andrews Electronics, mindSHIFT and White Glove.
• Grew repair profits, and reduced repair times, by instituting a program to harvest viable parts from products before disposal. This also contributed to Best Buy’s sustainability efforts.IMPROVED OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE.
• Saved $20M in profit and $400M in sales by restructuring sales strategies and eliminating $18M in expenses as CFO of Best Buy For Business business unit.
• Saved millions per year by identifying pricing discrepancies between service plan contracts.
• Increased performance by creating an analytic platform to collect several million dollars in reimbursements from manufacturers for faulty product.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Partnered with senior leaders to provide financial support for their business units. Established reporting and performance management rhythms and scorecard packages which improved accuracy and alignment of financial.
• Successfully developed a reporting process that provided each store, district, and territory with P&Ls that improved alignment on performance between Corporate and the Field.
• Designed methodology to evaluate the merits, and required returns, for Best Buy’s Business Development “R&D” projects.
• Improved efficiency by creating and implementing new financial reports to meet rapid growth needs.
• Analyzed KPI variances, including traffic, close rates, tickets, attach rates, and labor utilization, then partnered with business owners to develop improvement strategies.RECOGNIZED AND AWARDED FOR LEADERSHIP AND.
• Recipient of Finance’s Shadow of the Leader award. Award is given to the leader who is able to Inspire Vision, Build Talent, Drive for Results and who Lives the Enterprise Values.

Denver, CO, US

• Chronimed, Inc., which became BioScrip, Inc. in 2005, is a disease-focused, drug distribution company that serves the prescription drug needs of people with chronic health conditions. The Company distributes.
• Conducted due diligence, and negotiated definitive agreements, on all acquisition candidates.
• Recommended go/no go decisions to Board of Directors based on strategic and operational fit, performance, and opportunity.
• Prepared SEC related documents to spin-off test strip business unit (unit was ultimately sold).SUPPORTED OPERATIONS TO IMPROVE RESULTS
• Responded to FDA warning letter. FDA cleared Chronimed within 4 months.
• Coordinated a cross-functional team of clinicians, marketers and information systems personnel to develop industry leading compliance program for transplant recipients.BUILT INVESTOR RELATIONS FUNCTION

Minnetonka, MN, US

• Grand Casinos was a $750 million publicly traded NYSE Company that owned or managed eight casinos in four different states; it was voted Fortune magazine’s fastest growing company in America during 1995. The Company.
• Developed critical skills in reviewing Commercial Banking and M&A related documents.
• Charged with analyzing proposed debt indentures to determine operational and financial constraints on two rounds of bond financing totaling $773 million.
• Supported CFO on negotiating terms and covenants with investment bankers.
• Analyzed acquisition candidates and made recommendations to senior management. IMPROVED OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH DATA, ANALYTICS AND PROCESS
• Assisted the CFO in establishing performance management and budgeting processes.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Prepared U.S. Tax returns for many of Cargill’s foreign subsidiaries in Canada, Europe, Africa and the Pacific Rim. Developed tax minimization strategy that saved millions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Generated cost savings and improved information accuracy by developing standardized spreadsheets to calculate depreciation and tax liabilities. Specialized in.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Accounting & Finance