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Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Lead all Finance and Accounting functions for a diverse collection of companies, including ten related entities and several additional client companies, through dynamic growth and significant change. • Significantly elevate level of Financial and Accounting support for executive leadership.• Assess and improve Charts of Account, Financial Accounting and Reporting, and Managerial Accounting across all entities, including start-up business with exceptional growth.• Strengthen Accounting team to provide expanded and enhanced financial controls, insights, planning, and reporting • Oversee financial aspects of ERP/Accounting system transition to NetSuite from QuickBooks• Supported business sectors and sales channels include: Consulting, Warehousing (3PL Operations, Business-to-Business Wholesale Order Fulfillment, Direct-to-Consumer Order Fulfillment, Logistics Management, Product Storage, etc.), Consumer Product Development and Sales (Retail, Wholesale, Brick-and-Mortar, Ecommerce), Construction, Education, Cattle Ranching, and Property Management

Consult with clients to address their specific challenges and pain points by improving Management, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, and other corporate aspects.• Reviewed organizational structure and provided recommendations to optimize and position for growth• Assess website content, organization, etc. and provide recommendations leading to dramatic improvements • Enhance ROI calculations used in sales presentations to more accurately address clients’ POV• Assist with planning, preparation, and execution of marketing approach for first time participation in crucial trade show• Rework various client presentations to strengthen impact by creating a more elegant and visually powerful sales story • Lead company efforts to expand marketing reach into new growth market

Lead Finance team responsible for all accounting and finance functions through period of triple digit growth and rapid change. Report directly to, and support, Co-CEOs.• Institute company-wide financial performance improvement plan involving all senior leaders, reducing expenses dramatically, and improving profitability• Provide unprecedented financial transparency to key leaders enabling better financial decisions and improved ROIs • Dramatically elevated Financial Reporting information • Added hundreds of thousands of dollars to the bottom line• Assess and enhance financial reporting structure and processes supporting three different Sales channels: Amazon, Direct to Consumer, and Retail• Upgrade ERP/Accounting system from QuickBooks to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Chicago, Il, Us

Consult with multiple Walmart departments to improve customer and shopper insights, and grow sales profitably. Elevate customer trip purpose knowledge, evaluate pricing and effectiveness, measures and reports promotional effectiveness, understand market share and changes, glean and reports highlights from national purchase panel activities, and assists with implementation of Walmart Point of Sales (POS) data into syndicated reporting. Assist executing numerous Walmart Requests for Proposal (RFP) and Requests for Information (RFI) responses, including domestic and international scopes. * Research and deliver insights and recommendations for ad hoc and recurring requests to drive growth, using a wide variety of data sources, including POS, Panel, and others. * Complete Insights, Analytics, and Solutions Certification (IASC).* Provide POS and panel data, customer and shopper insights and recommendations across a wide variety of merchandising categories, Strategic Business Units, and Walmart departments, including Prescriptions, OTC, Consumables, Food, Dry Grocery, Personal Care, Laundry, Frozen Food, Beverages, Dairy, Global Customer Insights and Analytics team, Modular Development, Merchant Finance, etc. * Develop, create, and deliver “Thought Leadership” projects to stimulate creative, leading-edge thinking.* Employ significant Walmart experience and knowledge to elevate understanding and foster effective relationships.* Support Walmart, Sam's Club, and numerous consumer goods manufacturing companies, ensuring correct client set-up, product visibility, system access, user maintenance, and system updates.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Create, maintain, and execute all Financial Budgets and Plans for $1.35B business with challenging seasonal aspects, margin, and assortment complexity. • Establish, track, and report financial plans to accomplish key company and department objectives.• Anticipate and plan for various financial contingencies to ensure aggressive financial objectives are met.• Collaborate daily with buying team to execute tactics and strategies for profitable and sustainable business growth.

Support Walmart with analytical, modular, packaging, and other assistance to achieve and maintain profitable and significant double-digit sales growth, far exceeding typical performance.• Implement daily, weekly, monthly, event and item performance reporting with recommendations for improvements. • Institute new analytics and insights reporting to address buyer and departmental needs and drive positive change.• Build and execute store clustering methodology and recommend adjustments to product offering.• Construct, maintain, analyze, and execute modular layouts using Space Planning (Pro/Space).

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Supported five Sr. Vice Presidents and all associates in several $15,000,000,000+ Walmart Merchandising divisions with needs assessment, design, development, and delivery of training and development. Recognized as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Finance, Accounting, Strategy, Planning, Budgeting, Analysis, and related topics for Merchandising, Marketing, and support divisions.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Invited to oversee all aspects of finance and accounting training for thousands of buyers, merchant leaders, support staff, and associates. Assessed training needs and designed, created, and implemented training. Evaluated effectiveness of training for merchant finance, strategy, planning and budgeting applications, analysis, and pricing. Taught 100-plus classes and thousands of students, from senior officers to hourly associates and suppliers. Consulted internally as Subject Matter Expert on several critical systems changes and initiatives. Added millions of dollars to the bottom line.

Bentonville, Ar, Us

Designed, developed, and taught capstone course in training program building Certified Retail Analysts. This program for future retail and marketing analysts, was designed to prepare candidates for success in analytical positions with Walmart and suppliers. Curriculum content developed included a standardized problem-solving methodology, retail and Walmart knowledge, Retail Link, applied practical statistics, merchant finance and key retail KPIs, building and using analytical thought processes, use of Excel as an analytical tool, data types and applications, deliverable creation, etc.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Recruited to lead all P&L accounting, accounts payable, finance, category analysis, and merchandising support for $30,000,000,000 merchandising division. Responsible for Gross Margin analysis, Net Income analysis, and management and reporting of other Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Supervised staff of five accounting and finance associates. Ensured accurate completion of monthly financial close process which properly accounted for performance in all material respects.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Recruited to manage finance, budgeting, and strategic-category planning, for $17,000,000,000 merchandising division, including products for the home, men’s, and boys’ apparel. Designed, created, selected, and trained professional analytical staff of seven, which supported seven Vice Presidents and Divisional Merchandise Managers responsible for hundreds of categories. Interacted with internal cutomers, suppliers, information systems department, and other finance professionals.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Supported all Wal-Mart merchandising departments with financial and managerial accounting expertise. Managed merchandising budgets, analysis, reporting, and merchandising recommendations. Analyzed Wal-Mart merchandise category, modular, department, and item performance. Developed and implemented permanent buyer and merchant leader financial tools, including the Morning Report.

Malibu, Ca, Us

Invited to teach semester long university level Business Management course.

Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Jp

Recruited to create and lead diverse team of financial and accounting professionals to successfully oversee financial aspects of $400,000,000 Tacoma U.S. truck-manufacturing start-up project. Established all financial and managerial accounting processes and procedures, created fixed-asset control and depreciation recognition systems, developed and implemented bill of material and cost accounting process, performed financial and operational audits, completed supplier compliance reviews, implemented regular physical counts of manufacturing inventory, reviewed accuracy of tariff and duty calculations on imported goods, and conducted regular financial accountability meetings with key stakeholders.

Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Jp

Invited to lead largest finance department team, and manage payment of all invoices for Fortune 25 company. Designed and implemented national training program for warehouses, regions, and ports. Created and implemented systems to provide throughput visibility, and also improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Jp

Completed and reported recommendations from audits, reviews, inventories, and other audit and consulting services.

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Coordinated, planned, and performed audits, inventories, reviews, and consulting engagements for diverse manufacturing, service, wholesale, warehousing, professional sports, and retail clients in five western states.

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Education record

Masters, Business Administration