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Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Northbrook

Scope of responsibilities included leading a team of 8 domestic and off-shore analysts accountable for the development and implementation of pricing analytics, data mining and identification of key financial and operational P&L evaluations.- Successfully implemented innovative pricing structures that fueled revenue growth from $220M to $455M. Key accounts contracted during this period included GM, AT&T, Volkswagen, Verizon, American Express, BMW, GE Fleet and Mercedes.- Developed cross functional teams that created analytical models that successfully reduced projection variances to well below 2.5% from established revenue targets. Created Retail Revenue models that achieved a 99.98% accuracy level with a variance of $19k on $110M of revenue in 2012. - Increased profitability $8.7M by reducing variable costs and leveraging operational metrics at the State, City, Zip level as well as through partnership with operational leaders.- Created savings of $1.7M in 2011 by leading Auto Network analytic market bid process rate reduction.- Created $5.6M in margin improvement through root level analysis and re-pricing of $45M Retail Membership block. - In addition to the Pricing role, served as Interim FP&A Manager for 1 year and led Finance team through an Operating Plan cycle, improved the Risk & Opportunity tracking process, and implemented a Deal Review process.- Discovered $1.9M in unbilled transactional revenue annually by conducting an end to end audit of the billing processes and source systems. Led project to resolution/billing collection within 90 days.- Earned President’s Award 2Q 2010 and Team Finance Aware 1Q 2015.

Schaumburg, Il

Provided risk-based analysis for Auto Club and Debt Cancellation Consumer Service Products including audits, process improvement recommendations, cost and usage pricing estimates based on benefit/product configurations. - Identified $1.4M in excess reserve cushion enabling accounting to improve financial position through detailed review of financial models.- Generated $1.2M margin improvement annually through the identification of profit area leakage in claim processing.- Corrected pricing models resulting in 14% incremental revenue growth in new business sales by reformatting the data infrastructure.

Scuamburg, Il

Functioned as business-wide Digitization Leader developing Business Objects reporting platform and acting as key IT liaison for database structure and reporting requirements. - In 2003, completed BB certification in 15 months; the fastest ever in company history.- Delivered a 16% sales increase across all products through a Do Not Solicit standardization project. Effort considered a company Best Practice that reduced name suppression from 12% to 1.5% thereby creating a lifetime revenue lift of $5.6M.- Generated $3.7M savings due to tighter forecasting and reduced FTE (72) requirements through streamlined and automated reporting. - Successfully certified 100% of Green Belt students (42).

Schaumburg, Il

Responsible for inventory distribution across 26 call centers to ensure equal distribution and maximized productivity.- Led the process for the transition from Montgomery Ward to GE ownership, assuring continuity in efforts.

Schaumburg, Il

Work with Marketing and Planning team to distribute telemarketing inventory across 26 call centers.

Addison, Il

Held various roles. Supervisor, Trainer, Data Center Manager and Quality Control.