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New York, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn, New York

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for 36% of total girls volumeBuild departmental sales plans and maintain in season forecast Analyze current trend and historical data to identify risk and opportunities Present financial strategies in monthly planning meetingsManage OTB based on current trend Provide sku recommendations to merchandising and design on a quarterly basis Manage, train and create development opportunities for 2 direct reportsHindsight product performance in-season to provide insight to merchandising and designSupport the continuous development and implementation of financial strategies for complex merchandise departments and classes

New York City

Managed 54% of Ecommerce Volume, 50 departments.Built sales, margin, and inventory plans by week on a quarterly basis Developed buys by color for Core styles based on ladder plans Created promotional and markdown strategies on a weekly basis to maintain inventory levels.Analyzed historical data and trends, identifying risks and opportunitiesPresented financials in monthly planning meetings as well as quarterly hindsight meetingsProposed solutions and communicated a unified strategy during best/worst sellers weekly meetings with cross functional partners

Greater New York City Area

Increased Spring Ready-to-Wear sales by 10% and reduced markdowns by 22% to LY.Planned $100M in sales.Analyzed sales information, identified sales opportunities which improved margins Forecasted in-season sales and inventories on a weekly basisPresented forecast and action plans in monthly Merchandise Planning meetingsDeveloped item-level promotional and markdown strategies on a weekly basisAnalyzed and recapped actual sales results against Plan to LYCollaborated with merchandising to develop and communicate strategies which align future financial and product opportunities

Greater New York City Area

Identified total company financial risk and opportunitiesAssisted with the preparation of the annual budget process and long range planningCreated and forecasted monthly expense budgets Prepared monthly, quarterly, seasonal, and YTD variance explanations to identify business drivers causing variances to targetsPrepared Financial Slides for the monthly Operating ReviewWorked with various departments to effectively manage expensesMaintained and distributed IWOS, Class Flash, E-Com Daily Sales, E-Com Markdowns, Weekly ADS, and Returns ReportsDeveloped standard reports for E-Commerce

Performed monthly closing and analyzed spendingReconciled balance sheet accountsDeveloped annual site budgetsAnalyzed contract sales (Merck & Co. & Endo Pharma) and customer profitabilityResolved system discrepancies and interface issues between AS400 to SAP SAP super-user, demonstrated leadership skills by facilitating SAP training Invoiced contract manufacturing, provided BPCS interface detail to General Accounting, and prepared the monthly batch analysisPartnered with engineering to create yearly capital budgets and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for fixed assets. Responsible for all fixed assets at the site, which included monitoring, assigning Capital Appropriations Request (C.A.R) numbers, closing open commitments, closing projects,, bill Endo and Merck for projects, and generating capital reports for management reviewMember of the site Continuous Innovation Team

Managed and maintained monthly collection of bottler case sales volume through the STAR (Sales Tracking and Reporting System) for all regionsDeveloped standard collection and reporting procedures Created ad-hoc reports to provide comprehensive detailed and summary level reporting to Bottlers and internal business partners through Business ObjectsAnalyzed sales to reduce bottler misreporting of sales Assisted in the Audit & Control process by identifying and providing explanations of significant volume variancesPartnered with Bottlers to effectively communicate pertinent updates Leveraged reporting application to research data discrepancies an provide timely and accurate resolutionsProvided training to all PepsiCo employees on the STAR (Sales Tracking and Reporting System)developed by PepsiCoLiaison between Bottler and Pepsi-Cola North America regarding volume, restatements of volume, brand, package and customer informationParticipated in system testing by performing user acceptance testing of initial applications

Greater New York City Area

Performed the monthly closing process and analyzed spending.Reconciled balance sheet accounts. Assisted in the development of facility annual budgets.Analyzed contract sales (Merck & Co. & Endo Pharma) and customer profitability.Resolved system discrepancies and interface issues between AS400 to SAP. SAP super-user, demonstrated leadership skills by facilitating SAP training Invoiced contract manufacturing, provided BPCS interface detail to General Accounting, and prepared the monthly batch analysis. Partnered with engineering to create yearly capital budgets and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for fixed assets. Responsible for all fixed assets at the site, which included monitoring, assigning Capital Appropriations Request (C.A.R) numbers, closing open commitments, closing projects,, bill Endo and Merck for projects, and generating capital reports for management review. Member of the site Continuous Innovation Team.