Drives creation and execution of strategy for Smith Optics.Serves as part of the leadership team, with the President/GM, VP’s of Product Creation, Mkt, Sales, Sourcing, MFG.Leads the development of financial plans including long-range (3-year) plans, business cases, annual budget, and quarterly forecasts, and ultimately providing deep business understanding and financial analysis to inform and influence decision making at the brand and corporate levels.Leads the seasonal margin planning process, providing structure, timelines, target creation, and formal reviews for margin in future seasons

Part of the leadership team for both Supply Chain and Strategic & Financial Planning.Bring thought leadership, broad business acumen and financial expertise to drive productivity.Contribute to the creation of the CSC strategic plans, lead the development of long range plans, annual budget and quarterly forecasts. Provide deep business analysis to inform and influence decision making at the brand and corporate levels.Develop executive review materials to communicate financial plans and to inform related decisions, including strategic initiatives, marketing, capital expenditures, headcount and other forms of investment. Clearly articulate and present financial plans and business cases to executive leadership.

Strategy & Business Consulting.Led the Supply Chain Network Optimization project for a $2.5B company.Developed robust financial modeling to gauge and compare the different solution options that were available, recommended the solution that fit best the company culture, the growth potential and the investment desire.

Lead implementation of streamlined, standardized, scalable processes to improve effectiveness, lower costs and reduce risks.Serve as internal consultant for the Nike Finance function to continuously improve processes. Lead long term strategy for tool replacement as well as suggest organizational changes to support new processes and tools.Collaborate cross functionally to ensure alignment of processes and right sequencing of changes.

Lead financial processes for monthly, quarterly annual and strategic business reviews for Women's trainingSupport the Category VP with analysis on market share, pricing margin, penetration rates and ad-hoc requests to simplify the decision making processCreate the long term financial strategy for the business and evaluate expansion plans and investment opportunities. Assist in developing, managing and implementing initiatives and strategiesLead the business in the global implementation of a new planning tool (TM1)

Ensure the integrity and accuracy of the financial statements and advise the Controller and the CFO on financial decisionsSupervise general accounting and financial reporting in the region. Ensure adherence to GAAPProvide corporate officers and management with accurately and timely financial and statistical information required to effectively manage the company

Lead the design, development, testing and business handoff of Nike Supply Chain business processes for the implementation of SAP and BW, that result in optimal processing of transactions and ability to reportProject management; provide leadership role in defining business needs, benefits and costs to manage the resources and timelines to implement new business processes by target date

Facilitate the communication between WHQ and the EMEA countries to ensure an accurate forecastPrepare the business results’ package for the monthly staff meeting. Prepare and improve forecasting and budgeting processes and reporting packagesLead the monthly forecast process and consolidate the forecast to see the Retail results.Control and follow up the budget, analysis and explanations of deviationsProduce monthly financial reporting for the Management Team in Europe and for WHQ

Produce the monthly reporting to the European Headquarters and to the Management team in SpainHandle the relationship with internal/external auditPrepare budget and forecasts and improve forecasting and budgeting processesControl and follow up the budget, analysis and explain deviations.Improve management reporting packages. Superuser of Holos, Hyperion, Oracle, SAPEnsure the successful implementation of SAP in Spain

Annual budgeting supervision and control (both economic and treasury) and analysis of their deviations. Create the equivalent 10K forms for the yearly audit.Produce monthly and quarterly reporting for the Management Team of the GroupCreate the new Balanced Scorecard to report to the Management TeamImplementation of a new E.I.S. (Executive Information System) tool for Management Control