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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Help clients improve financial performance and overall financial acumen by developing insights into business results, implementing processes to review results timely and develop mitigation plans, as needed, ensuring financial targets are achieved.

Delivering and leading complex projects across client engagements. Leveraging extensive finance and strategic sourcing leadership experience to transform business processes, influence key decision makers and deliver value.

Greater Chicago Area

During tenure, held various leadership roles in supply chain planning for phones and accessories, technology procurement, indirect procurement, network logistics, purchasing and supply chain effectiveness. Staff of thirty, eight direct.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for CFO “chief of staff” duties including preparation of board of directors’ materials, other executive level communications, and special projects. As a special assignment, assumed additional leadership duties of the Supply Chain Services department, staff of twenty-three, three direct.

Responsible for creating a new Enterprise Program Management department by developing standards, processes and tools for $50 million annual enterprise project portfolio. Assumed leadership role for managing the enterprise-wide project portfolio on behalf of senior leadership, ensuring resource alignment and predicting financial outcomes. Staff of five.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for company’s short and long-term financial plans while identifying financial opportunities to improve the organization's profitability through proactive analysis. Staff of eight, two direct.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for management reporting, variance analysis and net present value models for market acquisitions & divestitures. Staff of three.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for cross functional effort to enable profitability reporting for retail stores.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for developing a new department to establish cash and inventory control procedures for retail stores and field business offices, as well internal control design for all corporate projects. Staff of six, two direct.

Oakbrook, IL

Responsible for special projects related to subsidiary and implementation of the Cash Re-Engineering Project.

Oakbrook, IL

Supervised the cash management team that reconciled corporate bank accounts, executed funds transfers, and collaborated with Treasury to solve cash management issues. Staff of four.

Oakbrook, IL

Conducted audits of licensee’s financial statements and reported sales, company owned stores, suppliers, distributors, and contractors.

Oakbrook, IL

Coordinated the duties of three staff accountants, trained newly hired accountants, prepared & analyzed financial statements for selected company-owned stores, and communicated with field management regarding accounting issues.

Oakbrook, IL

Responsible for financial statement preparation and analysis for company owned stores, and communicated weekly with field management regarding accounting issues.

Bachelors Of Science, Accountancy

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