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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Baltimore, Maryland

• Worked remotely. Developed and maintained standard channel pricing Trade Letters based on national initiatives and local business strategy in collaboration with the Revenue Growth Management team. Reviewed pricing.
• Approved customer pricing exceptions for competitive situations and contracts. Created a one- stop spreadsheet with guidelines to speed up the approval process from two-days plus to one day average.
• Created and maintained Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and enforced related Internal Controls. Regarded as a Subject Matter Expert on internal pricing procedures and policies, and regulations.
• Planned and executed bottler’s frontline and promotional pricing programs utilizing robotics and scripting tools for set-up in SAP. Consistently achieved 100% on Individual Results that improved pricing and reduced.
• Prepared monthly client billing for Trade Letter maintenance. Streamlined existing spreadsheets and corrected formulas based on a re-review of Service Level Agreements, improving completion days by five.
• Led training workshops and administered user security access for pricing tools and databases. Shared best practices on pricing submissions which improved the team’s efficiency and quality.

Hanover, Maryland

• Provided financial insight and analytical support to eight Key Account Executives on the Large Store team. Managed pricing communications for key accounts and the Military. Coached team on improving pricing submissions.
• Audited and certified to management pricing accuracy for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and resolved issues. Proactively identified pricing errors and avoided product haul-backs.
• Prepared presentations, reports and analysis for key accounts using the Margin Minder software. Provided the team with selling tools to grow the business.
• Collaborated with the Accounts Receivable team to resolve payment discrepancies. Identified $60K in recoverable state deposits, and unpaid beverage taxes that would have been written-off.
• Monitored competitor’s retail pricing via the Market Track program and proposed requests for price matching. Reduced the wait time for pricing requests and increased the team’s efficiency.ADDITIONAL RELEVANT.
• Reduced payment discrepancies outstanding by 30% over prior year in the first year, and automated manual billing adjustments and processes.Staff Accountant – Maintained the General Ledger and Chart of Accounts.