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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Manage the Commercial Finance Team. Team oversees financial accounting of the Top-Line activities including Volume, Revenue, Coupon Accounting, Contract Accounting, Customer Agreements, Brand Funding Activities, and Direct Marketing Expenses. Supporting the functions to help deliver profitable growth.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Managed the Finance team for the Central Group which included Texas, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio, SW Pennsylvania

Greater Atlanta Area

Planning and Analytical Team responsible for making business analytics a competitive advantage at Coca-Cola by providing end users with integrated information solutions that seamlessly address fundamental business questions.

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

Managing the AR/Credit centralization project. Group leader for corporate initiative CPS2 (Control Process Simplification and Standardization)- AR centralization project saved group $900k annually with a FTE savings of 16- Lead the implementation of 17 key CPS2 strategies

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for managing the pricing strategies, coupons, contracts, and funding activities for the Business Unit.- Worked with business development team to ensure compliance with pricing strategies- Coordinated P&L activities with shared services finance group in Tampa- Worked with deductions team in resolving and creating processes to reduce pricing.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed the business unit field finance team with revenues of $2 billion and an operating income of $450 million.- Collaborated with other departments and managed the weekly forecast process - Coordinated the annual budget for the business unit- Prepared and presented financial results to business unit leadership team- Developed tools for improved tracking.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managing an internal control staff of 28 oversaw the compliance of all operational controls and field Sarbanes-Oxley control requirements. - Developed standard business unit Sarbanes-Oxley control handoff grid used during reorganization- Developed key business indicators to monitor critical high risk areas

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Collaborative leader working with production and branch management to improve the control environment. - Used TRP tools to monitor locations internal controls and measure improvement- Validated and assisted in remediation of the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 requirements for the Division

Greater Atlanta Area

Member of team that assisted in developing, training, and implementing a new forecasting model and budgeting model. - Uniform Forecasting Model became the standard sales forecasting tool for CCE- Business representative on the team that developed the Process of Uniform Budgeting (PUB) tool used to develop and update annual and monthly divisional budgets

San Antonio, Texas Area

Division’s accounts payable, general ledger, and cost manager with Project Management experience.- Implementation Coordinator for SAP Legacy system - Improved and streamlined Cost, A/P, and GL closing procedures - Converted existing rolling account reconciliations to detailed based reconciliations

El Paso, Texas Area

Strategic financial leader for the Wolslager Coca-Cola Group. Comprehensive responsibilities included long-term cost savings planning, managing company cash flow, and maintaining compliance with bank covenants. - Managed the centralization of the accounting functions for all Wolslager facilities saving $750k per year- Implemented delivery handhelds.

El Paso, Texas Area

Detailed oriented manager responsible for the accounting office with a staff of 20 at the El Paso plant. - Created cost group and developed processes for reconciling inventories to general ledger- Developed detailed cost per SKU analysis providing sales team with a SKU level margin analysis