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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.

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.

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.