Strategic thought leader and finance professional with global experience, both public and private equity, providing business insights based on deep and thorough analysis of financial results to drive profitable growth. Collaborate with key stakeholders, senior leadership and cross-functional teams to promote and advocate the role of analytics in decision making processes of changing market conditions, identifying opportunities and shaping strategic initiatives. Key areas of expertise:Finance and Accounting | Strategic Planning | Risk Management | Financial Models | Budgeting and Forecasting | Financial Reporting | Sales Operations Support | Pricing | Sales Compensation Plan Development | Process Improvement | Project Management | Talent Management | Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)CAREER HIGHLIGHTSFinancial Strategy: Led financial modeling, pricing, and strategy on new business opportunities, created $100M of contracted revenue over two-year period, included first international program (South Africa, $27M over 15 months).Commercial Leader: Finance leader for the distribution transition from single-tier to two-tier; led financial modeling initiative, developed and defined process/procedures for pricing, rebates and sales order processing.Sales Operations: Reconfigured Salesforce platform to standardize sales process, increase forecasting visibility, and provide more efficient pipeline reporting for monthly financial forecast and budget; presented monthly information to Executive Leadership.Business Analysis: Modified the Americas outbound freight program to provide predictable quotes to partners, reduced bid response downtime by 48 hours and gained resource efficiency throughout the sales and operations departments. Salesforce, Essbase, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Infor LN, Cognos/TM1, BI-360 Reporting, PeopleSoft, SAP, QuickBooks, Hyperion Reporting, Hyperion Strategic Finance, and Microsoft Office with advanced Excel and PowerPoint