• Leading Finance and Accounting for one of the largest distributors of Pella Windows & Doors• Providing financial performance insights to CEO and Board of Directors• Driving EBITDA and Free Cash generation through P&L and Working Capital management

• Executive finance leader of the 2nd-largest subsidiary of PERI Group• Full P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow responsibility• Member of Executive Management Team, reporting to CEO• Provides leadership and direction to Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Collections, Contract Risk, Procurement and IT departments, including 7 direct and 25 indirect reports

• Coordinated key financial planning processes for a $10B global tools business, includingquarterly forecast cycles, Operating Plan and 3-year Strategic Plan• Led broad range of reporting activities, including monthly close meetings, P&L varianceanalysis, global portfolio performance reporting, POS reporting, and executive communication• Managed a team of eight finance professionals, focusing on continuous team development,ownership, collaboration, and succession planning

• Provided insight into $3B P&L to the Business President, the CFO and their teams through monthly variance analysis, quarterly financial forecast and risks and opportunities assessment• Led 3-year strategic planning process, ensuring full alignment of product and regional commercial teams around new product development, investment plans and financial objectives• Took financial reporting capabilities to the next level by applying best practices from across the enterprise, identifying right metrics and tailoring the messaging based on audience while preserving data integrity

• Improved profitability and reduced complexity by automating promotional pricingapproval process in Salesforce and embedding logic that favors higher margin products• Won a prestigious, CFO-sponsored annual finance excellence competition for the bestfinance project, among top 28 global peers• Championed implementation of a global QlikView BI platform to track sales, profitabilityand other KPIs across global portfolio of over 100,000 products

• Increased profit for promotional sales by 400 basis points through scenario modeling,simulation, past performance evaluation, and changes in product mix and pricing• Partnered with VPs of Marketing and Sales to formulate and execute commercial strategiesto exceed Operating Plan

• 3rd rotation, Business Unit Finance: Guided product managers in financial modeling for new product development• 2nd rotation, FP&A: Acquired strong PowerPoint skills by supporting Corporate reporting rhythms• 1st rotation, Treasury: Helped Corporate Treasury manage risk by enhancing several analytical tools

• Enabled P&L ownership at every level of a matrix organization by creating reporting tool thatcalculates sales and margin variances at thousands of customer – product intersects

• Designed process for consolidation of monthly financial results across the company• Centralized Accounts Payable and negotiated payment terms, resulting in $100k of free cash