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Harrisburg, Pa, Us

- Engage with the operations and sales teams to ensure accurate reporting and invoicing for the supply chain services division in the US and Canada. Primary responsibilities include invoicing analysis, modeling contracts, capacity analysis, and customer support. - Analyze on hand inventory and inbound/outbound volumes weekly to provide management with KPI's to understand open capacity by distribution center, along with performance statistics by sales team, sales category, vendor performance, and aged product. - Build Labor Forecasting models to predict the required support staff for the next three years based off productivity metrics, volume growths and reorganization of responsibilities.- Produce detailed forecasts, budgets and trend analysis by customer to understand and project changes in volume, prices and bottom line margin.

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

- Manage the treasury function for the company to meet short and long term funding requirements- Oversight of the A/R Department, which consists of four employees- Develop strategic financial forecasts, budgets, and other ad-hoc analysis, such as ROI analysis for capital expenditures, employee performance metrics and fleet replenishment strategies- Provide leadership and mentoring to the finance team, that provide additional insight on analysis and develop skills - Continuously improve our financial reporting systems, by adding additional analysis, training additional users, or integrating supplemental data streams for KPI's and sales analytics.

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

- Function as a key advisor to the CEO and CFO, providing financial justifications and profitability analysis for any project exceeding $150,000 in costo Work closely with Operations, Sales, Information Technology, Human Resources and Environmental Health & Safety to identify the savings opportunities and additional costs of the proposed projects. Understanding each driver and the needs of the departments allows for greater insight on the business trajectory for forecasting/budgeting, and aids in critical thinking to ask the right questions to form a valuable opinion on the project for the CEO/CFO.- Construct quarterly forecasts and budgets with line-by-line detail and prepare a compressed schedule to present to the board of directors.o Through building the financial reporting software I have developed a platform which can accurately track, analyze, forecast, and budget down to the transaction level. Prior to implementing the program, the company used excel spreadsheets for financial reporting, which contained many errors and was inefficient. - Identify cost savings internally and externally to promote profit margin and EBITDA growth.

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

- Provide monthly and year to date metrics for marketing through Scorecards, detailing sales plan attainment using closes, opens and leads. Tracking consists of alignment between estimated values from Salesforce.com and actual data from SAP and Hyperion. The process also prepares global reports for North America, Europe and Asia to determine customer variances. This clearly identifies which customers are increasing or decreasing volumes, revenue and gross margins.- Prepare month and year end close data for management review using Business Warehouse, which downloads from SAP. This data is entered into an Excel file which drives a pivot table for ad hoc analysis throughout the month. - Distribute Daily Sales, Weekly closes and Open Order reports on a timely fashion. These reports are sent to upper management, including the CEO, to detail the revenue, volume and gross margin movements on a daily or weekly basis. The open order report details what the next month performance is estimated to be, by detailing the orders that have been placed in the current month, for next month. - Compile the monthly reporting package for Senior Management using PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Standard- Assist the Global Finance Manager in setting up the yearly Operating Plan, Budgets and Forecasts for the following year. Once the data is compiled, it is uploaded and finalized in SAP and lined up with HFM.- Calculate the monthly rebates for the largest customers and how the performance is lining up with the yearly rebate quota. Have renovated the process in excel to be more streamlined with Pivot Tables, Lookups and conditional formulas to minimize manual changes in the document, ensuring accuracy.

Itasca, Illinois, Us

- Analyze financial statements semi-annually to ensure proper movements against the G/L. Key metrics such as investment income, operating costs contributions, shareholder equity, distributions and specific liabilities are tested for variances using advanced Microsoft Excel Functions. The results of the analysis are communicated to management along with a recommended course of action.- Conduct situational analysis to forecast impacts of various propositions discussed in board meetings. Over the past six months, analysis has been done to understand the impacts of changing the insurance retentions/deductibles, allocation methods for IBNR, and increasing the confidence levels for the distributions.- Prepare the board meeting presentation and board book materials for the Vice President and Board of Directors. Microsoft Powerpoint is used to display performance in the company’s financial statements and investment fund. Information from other segments of the company such as risk control, actuarial, and production is formatted and added to the end product.- Assist on projects throughout the various business units within the company to reconcile accounts, track wires, or simplify accounting processes. Within our business unit, my skills in Microsoft Excel have allowed me to develop spreadsheets that allow us to conduct reviews with much more accuracy, while saving time. Some of these are added into the detail of the financial statements to recalculate and highlight variances, using macros to insert and implement the formulas.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Aid the CFO directly by preparing year’s end financial spreadsheets for domestic and international subsidiaries and analyzing year to date actual costs and budgeted costs using Microsoft Excel functions.- Work with the Controller and Credit Manager to reconcile Purchase Orders, Sales Invoices and to record monthly Account Receivables.

Bachelor Of Science, Finance

Marketing, Sales