Robert S. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed the process of collecting raw materials and currency data and the reporting of related key trends and metrics to merchants, Pricing team management and upper management.
• Worked with product management teams to analyze raw materials and currency data to help effectively negotiate vendor pricing.
• Spearheaded efforts to obtain cost reductions from vendors based on favorable raw materials and currency trends, achieving over $10 million in annualized savings.
• Designed and modified multi-dimensional charting tools for top selling products, highlighting margin and raw material trends, supporting annual pricing decisions by upper management.

• Managed various pricing functions and special projects for the Director of Pricing.
• Produced raw materials forecasts for senior management based on analysis of macro-economic trends, market research and regression models.
• Maintained competitor pricing database and provided reporting to senior management.
• Spearheaded effort to implement web scraping application to gather competitor pricing data.
• Directed catalog cutover activities related to pricing functions.

• Made pricing recommendations on new and existing catalog and web products based on review of cost history, margins, sales performance, and competitive information.
• Reviewed gross profit reports, reducing low profit transactions by $60K per week.
• Implemented and documented process for international price changes.
• Reviewed pricing for over 6,000 new and existing replacement parts.
• Developed queries to automatically update pricing for existing parts based on cost changes.

• Supervised cash applications team of 4. Processed 1,200 transactions ($500 million) monthly.
• Reduced monthly unapplied cash by 90% from $100 million to $10 million.
• Developed unapplied cash & receivables reports for distribution to 700 client finance managers.
• Designed customized cash applications solutions for complex customer scenarios.
• Documented monthly compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Worked with auditors to improve internal controls.

• Rotated for two years on SAP conversion and implementation.
• Performed impact assessment and resolution, testing, and training.
• Coordinated SAP end-user training sessions for groups of 15 - 20 employees from Controllership, Accounting and Client Finance Management teams.
• Led project to remediate Finance portal database with 50 forms and 200 content documents.

• Performed accounting functions for the US and Canada.
• Partnered with client finance management teams to troubleshoot accounting and finance issues.
• Executed monthly subcontractor revenue recognition process.
• Managed monthly search for unrecorded liabilities.