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Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Responsible for $120M annual plant operating budget, regulatory and policy financial controls, and driving cost reduction, visibility, and accountability.• Develop Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint insights for corporate finance, Glad BU, and site operations leadership.• Model labor, maintenance, depreciation, and other operating costs based on product planning volume and capital project forecasts.• Manage direct reports in Payroll and Finance Specialist functions, focusing on analysis and reporting skills development.• Analyze KPI's, gaps, and risks for site steering committee and Glad BU leadership.• Identify staffing strategies and gaps for 700 production employees, cost reduction opportunities in operating behaviors.• Achieved FY23 plant cost variance -0.5% to financial forecast (0.0% volume-adjusted variance).• Achieved FY24 plant cost variance +0.2% to financial forecast (+0.1% volume-adjusted variance).• Helped reduce attrition by 30% in FY24 by successfully advocating fixed crewing model and night shift pay increase, and targeting termination and productivity loss hot spots segmented from Workday and UKG.

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Drove financial understanding in manufacturing, finance projects, and plant budgeting.• Built internal plant data lake to enable historic data visualization and dashboarding initiatives. Built Power BI dashboards for crewing behaviors and insights, demand-based headcount modeling.• Conducted $200M annual raw material and packaging usage reporting and context for local team and corporate finance.• Managed Accounting Specialist direct report, focusing on transitioning non-capital/MRP procurement to Coupa.• Instituted monthly operating department meetings with spending insights customized to cost center level.• Enhanced month-end reporting timing accuracy with improved journal entries and accrual tools, led site transition to Blackline application.• Built data sets to support savings harvesting initiatives from third parties such as Price Waterhouse Cooper, Kearney Consulting, and CCi TRACC.

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and inventory resource.• Cost and volume projections for daily leadership meeting via aggregation of SAP, BW, payroll, and P-card data.• Invoice payment and resolution for vendors, plant operations, capital project team, and corporate accounts payable.• Streamlined budgeting with standardized budgeting templates and historic reference tools for department leaders. Developed depreciation and asset write-off projected costs based on engineering inputs.• Budgeted film extrusion pounds demand based on planning finished good volume recommendations.• Inventory cycle count oversight, raw material inbound auditing, and equipment asset value reporting and auditing.

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Managed $40M+ annual compensation for 650 production employees • Developed labor insights for finance and operations groups.• Administered pay, attendance, disability, and garnishments in compliance with compensation laws and company policy.• Liasion to on-site temporary staffing agency, responsible for billing and reporting.• Supply chain subject matter expert for Kronos software platform, Project Timepower, and transition to ADP eTime payroll system.

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

Performance Tracking and Understanding Losses Pillar Lead for site lean manufacturing program.• Managed equipment performance tracking software (LEDS): system management, coverage expansion to new assets, data auditing, and employee training.• Built line study and efficiency reporting for capital construction expenditures and cost savings projects.• Developed KPI's for roll-out of Autonomous Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, and Continuous Improvement initiatives.• Finance team data liaison to WCM coaches and production floor operators and technicians.