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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Assisted founder/CEO raise and secure three rounds of funding for over $5.5 million from 20+ investors.• Created, maintained and reviewed business plans, monthly financial results, forecasts and other KPI's for shareholders.• Designed and implemented new order fulfillment SOPs for retailer, trimming execution issues from 30% to <5%.• Established company infrastructure successfully rolling out general ledger software, payroll, data center, employee benefits, and treasury services.• Implemented segmental reporting, resulting in P&L visibility to geographic regions.• Identified and implemented cost savings/reduction in force, translating a segment of a business from a cash deficit to cash flowing from operations in <4 months.• Evaluated and mitigated risk for a retailer with a history of high turnover through on and off-boarding compliance and cross-functional training.• Formed and developed a cadence of weekly revenue and cash flow reporting to report-owners and executives.

• Restructured the entire sales team’s compensation plan from a draw/commission plan to a quarterly performance pay/quota plan limiting the balance sheet liability to $1 million+ in prior years.• Developed a plan for the merger of all systems including dashboard reporting, ERP, CRM and PM to save hard costs of an estimated $200k annually and create selling and operational efficiencies across the organization.• Identified and eliminated the continued spend of inefficient capital expenditures related to IT.• Discovered revenue forecasting discrepancies and implemented new controls.• Automated pricing to CRM system across the entire company alleviating bottlenecks & increasing historical visibility.• Created segmental P&L’s and identified underperforming product lines resulting in EBITDA increases of $300k+ annually.• Introduced semi-0 based budgeting and quarterly re-budgeting resulting in increased department ownership and buy-in.• Prepared, reviewed and wrote MD&A for monthly reporting package sent to lenders and shareholders explaining variances to plan and prior periods.• Assisted CFO in the execution of several cost reductions/reductions in force and maintained tracking to shareholders.

Plymouth, Minnesota

• Lead the entire budgeting process, developed reports and KPI's for departments to easily track progress.• Prepared monthly and quarterly board and lender review materials for CFO, CEO and VP of Operations.• Successfully automated tasks including treasury service positive pay file, sales rates and units and monthly margin review.• Developed a monthly CFO packet and year end sales biographies for CFO and CEO review.• Reviewed monthly financials explaining discrepancies often at the line item level.• Assisted the executive and private equity team in the due diligence of several acquisitions.• Assisted Controller in the implementation of new general ledger system

Edina, Mn

• Drove revenue at the corporate level and assisted store managers at the local level to maintain and grow their book of business.• Conducted sales meetings with current and prospective customers, both individually and as a team.• Analyzed price files and presented the changes to the customer.• Participated in contract negotiations.• Called upon local Fastenal stores to gather field intelligence on customers.

Edina, Mn

• Coordinated and lead various projects with all divisions of the company. • Transition between different projects consistently and in a timely manner.• Create agendas, project plans, and project charters using Microsoft Project, Word, and Excel.

Fairfax, Mn

• Responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of all city-owned property.• Expected to apprehend a presumed set of rules and procedures with little instruction.• Worked independently on normal duties with occasional disruption for emergency assignments.• Entrusted with various types of machinery including lawn mower, bobcat, tractor, and street sweeper.

Fairfax, Mn

• Managed daily activities for one of eight towns involved in youth baseball program.• Worked closely with directors through email, text messaging and phone calls.• Supervised a staff of five adults and approximately 75 children, ages 7-15.• Wrote weekly newsletters to parents for upcoming events. • Coordinated busing and umpiring. • Addressed parents’ concerns and applied necessary disciplinary actions to kids.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Financial Management Association Club, Intramural Basketball, Intramural Football

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Science Fair, Band, Varsity Baseball, Basketball, & Football, Town Team Baseball.