Led all aspects of strategic and detailed planning, forecasting, and management reporting and analysis. Financial liaison between Latin America, Europe, and Asia finance teams and CFO.• Created and implemented full portfolio of management reporting for senior management and Board of Directors, reducing closing cycle from 15 days to 4 while facilitating timely and accurate business decisions.• Developed company’s first comprehensive, business focused 5-year strategic plan including full financial statements, Capital Investment plans and M&A impact analysis, assuring that all investment and business decisions supported company’s long-term objectives.• Worked with finance teams in Latin America, Europe and Asia, developing long-term programs which improved business results in underperforming countries, saving over $18M in first year.• Implemented 10-year projections by legal entity, facilitating tax plan that saved over $40M in first year.• Analyzed M&A alternatives and made recommendations resulting in acquisition of 150 franchise restaurants.• Developed capital investment allocation and analysis process which assured consistent measurement of returns across all regions, optimized returns on investments, assured compliance with debt covenants, and provided early warning of possible tax issues in Mexico, Germany and Switzerland. • Analyzed all major regional and corporate capital investments which assured compliance with capital allocation process and comparison of alternative investments in other regions.• Worked with Global Human Resources, developing annual bonus calculation and accrual process.

Directed all aspects of strategic and detailed planning, forecasting and management reporting. Managed professional and clerical staff of up to four.• Implemented company-wide monthly forecasting process which assured accurate and timely decision making, and significantly improved earnings estimates provided to the investment community.• Designed and published all company-wide management reporting, as well as external reporting packages for equity analysts, financial institutions, and potential investors, including full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow projections, resulting in completion of sale of company to Cerberus Capital.

Directed all aspects of company-wide strategic and detailed financial planning. Conducted plan reviews with senior management team. Managed professional and clerical staff of up to five.• Developed and implemented processes and templates which allowed completion of zero-based three-year strategic and one-year detailed plans from cost center level through full financial statements by business unit.• Developed and implemented reporting system using MS Excel, Hyperion Essbase, and Wired for OLAP, reducing closing time by 4 days and facilitating more timely and accurate business decisions.• Implemented planning and reporting system, reducing annual plan cycle time from 5 months to 2 months.

Developed and implemented financial planning, reporting, and analysis processes for $1.75B, 7,000 employee manufacturing operation, including strategic analysis and cost reduction recommendations.• Developed and implemented $60M restructuring to outsource 20% of products and close two manufacturing plants, resulting in $50M in annual savings.