Rajan Bedi Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Finance lead for the Salty Snacks Business P&L portfolio with Net Sales >$600MM• Partner with brand, business development, and cross functional finance teams to deliver both top-line and bottom-line growth for the brands• Deliver in-depth monthly/quarterly commentary for variances vs. prior forecast, plan, and prior yearKey Projects• Streamlined the monthly R&O process for brand team by automating the Net Sales/Profit impact with base volume assumptions reducing overall time to build R&Os by 5%• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, expanded on existing Innovation Project Scorecard to highlight financial impact driven by Grocery and Walmart individually• In conjunction with Foodservice and Refrigerated/Frozen Segments, key project lead to revise the current Cost Planning Template to be intuitive and user-friendly to drive more accurate product costing (ongoing)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Finance lead for the Meals & Sides Business P&L portfolio with Net Sales >$800M• Partner with brand, business development, and cross functional finance teams to deliver both top-line and bottom-line growth for the brands• Deliver in-depth monthly/quarterly commentary for variances vs. prior forecast, plan, and prior year Key Projects• Opportunity to present key financials notes during Business Review and Fully Competitive Review• Isolated lost Volume Net Sales and Profit within a 9-month period due to a recall resulting in claim of $15M• Built out incremental fixed expense tracker to capture all incremental spend due to said recall resulting in a claim of $15M• Lead on all financial models related to largest innovation in segment history with Net Sales projected at $14M in Year 1• Streamlined the monthly R&O process by automating the Net Sales/Profit impact with base volume assumptions reducing overall time by • Collaborating with Supply Chain, expanded on existing scorecard for Innovation Financial Model to highlight impact driven by key customers

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Accountable for total Domestic Retail Marketing Investments with expenses ~$250MM• Partner with marketing and brand teams to develop AOP per strategic initiatives outlined by SLT• Lead the monthly/quarterly forecasting exercise and provide commentary for variances vs. prior lock, AOP, and prior year• Collaborate with business partners to review the forecast and identify flexible investments that could be repurposed for initiatives with potential higher ROI• Provide financial results overview to leadership across various mediums• Lead for development of the Monthly Marketing Meeting presentations by ensuring content is meaningful and will drive decisions from leadership Key Projects• Key contributor to the successful launch of Strategic Investment Tool (SIFT) by partnering with Marketing, Brand, Accounts Payable, Corporate Controllers Group, and I.T. • Lead for change management of investments from Brand specific to a Conagra holistic approach from planning, initiating, and analytics reviews• Thru PBI, developed eCommerce investments dashboards to track spend levels across multiple Brands/Customers• Contributed to the build of the ‘self-service’ marketing reporting dashboards and playbooks to allow business partners to obtain key investment data points • Co-lead on project to migrate SIFT for the Canada and Mexico cross-functional teams for more accurate tracking of marketing investments across the company (still ongoing upon transition to new role)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Finance lead for Marketing Investments for the Grocery & Snacks segment with expenses >$150MM• Collaborated with the marketing teams to align on spend levels for projects and accurate reporting of marketing service/activations• Presented financial results in Monthly Business Review with variance analytics and R&Os outlookFinancial Models• Built reporting models to track marketing projects forecast and open accruals to within 2.5% of budget• Developed R&Os tracker by brands and marketing services to anticipate month/quarter end resultsProcess Improvement• Automated monthly reporting suite and reduced creation time by 10% • Trained business partners on new MMA financial system to enter key project attributes for forecasting marketing investments

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Accountable for the COGS related expenses for two manufacturing plants which included monthly close tasks, forecasted cost analytics, and AOP planning• Took lead on providing monthly commentary to cross-functional partners for rate variance analyticsFinancial Models• Created cost estimate models detailing material, labor & overhead rates to assist in new product innovation, reformulations, and restating of Chef Boyardee product lineProcess and Programs Improvement• Automated data extraction processes for KPI reporting to reduce time spent time building reports by 10%

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Financial Planning and Analysis• Accountable for the Logistics/Supply Chain Department P&L with expenses > $125MM• Managed forecast within 4% variance of annual plan during rapid quarter over quarter economic changes• Lead for Month End Accounting Close Activities between CCG and Logistics teams to ensure discrepancies to plan/forecast are resolved prior to month close• Performed feasibility and ROI analysis on Capital Expenditure Request, including analyzing the project against its business case and evaluation of financial returns• Achieved $1MM in yearly savings with expense tracking models and identifying cost savings opportunities• Responsible for supplying data/documentation for Quarterly/Year End Audit to external audit firmFinancial Models• Built Financial & Operational reporting suites for regularly scheduled meetings with CFO and Controller• Maintained a database for Capital Expenditure to ensure projects stay within budget; prepare quarterly reports to highlight how each project is tracking against target as well as post project analytics• Created ad hoc financial analysis/query reports to assist top executives in key decisionsKey Projects• Automated financial planning models leading to reduction of 3 business days during budget/forecast build• Improved Capital Expenditure Requests process resulting in 50% decrease in approval turnaround time• Streamlined the physical inventory of fixed assets process valued at $50MM for entire logistics network

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Financial Planning and Analysis•Development of yearly $40M Budget for Logistics Warehouse and Operations Department; including financial analysis of each budget•Performed monthly expense forecasting and projection reports to assist in upper management in future decisions•Responsible for coordinating daily financial tracking of revenue generated to assist with warehouse productivityFinancial Models •Streamlined each budgeting and forecasting process by creating efficient models for analysis•Developed model to track expenses against budget for $5M warehouse migration project and provided weekly updates to Senior Management•Using MS Excel and AS/400, created ad hoc financial analysis reports to assist top management in key decision makingProcess and Programs Improvement•Trained warehouse management on new budgeting software; able to improve turnaround time of yearly budgets by 10 business days and meet corporate deadlines•Worked with Information Systems Department to ensure that vendor invoices transmitted over EDI are accurate and match each manifest manually created

Financial Analysis•Saved customers 10% on a yearly basis by conducting comparative financial analysis of multiple promotions •Conducted financial analysis and provide insights into promotions and marketing campaign effectiveness to customers (Fortune 100 Consumer Packaged Goods companies)•Responsible for financial reporting which ensured each promotion stayed within budget•Managed monthly project budget analysis including actual tracking, variance analysis, and projectionsAccount Management•Accountable for management of three multi-million dollar accounts. Responsibilities included monitoring and providing budgeting, revenue forecasting, and financial analysis reporting. Account values increased 13% since start dateProcess and Program Improvement•Worked on projects on software platform developed for marketing and promotions financial analysis (PARIS)•Developed and implemented training programs for PARIS software for internal account teams

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

Project Management Ce Certification

Bachelor'S, Biology