Sylvia Mann Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

($4.9B USD Rev, 2023), Trade Marketing & Sales• Identified $3.8M of deductions missing from Sales IT system and worked with IT to remediate.• Performed weekly variance analysis of Retail, Bakery, and Foodservice current and aging open deductions, identifying root causes/major drivers. Developed action plans and collaborated with brokers to mitigate.• Devised a financial model to correctly allocate client deductions to proper material codes.• Conducted monthly reconciliation of Retail and Bakery slotting accounts.• Built financial models to conducted biweekly reconciliation of Off-Invoice rates to ensure correct payment rates and promotion periods. Worked closely with IT to resolve discrepancies from system interface issues. Corrected 70 agreements for 2024 H2. Volunteered to perform biweekly Off-Invoice rates and promotional period reconciliation for sister company, Back To Nature.• Implemented monthly audit of randomly selected agreements to ensure compliance with company requirements and correct accruals and prepare for annual KPMG audit. Items reviewed include trade rates, units, promotion dates, and package designation.• Executed Trade Marketing month-end close activities in preparation for KPMG audit. Assisted Finance department with their month-end close activities during colleague’s three-month parental leave.• Reconciled monthly YTD Trade Agreements (Retail, Bakery, Foodservice) in Vistex sales system to G/L (SAP). • Researched and analyzed variances between Vistex Sales system and SAP G/L Expenses. • Identified and reviewed PY Expenses that are eligible for reclass to CY Other Income & Expense account. • Worked with KPMG Auditors during semi-annual audit of Trade Marketing to provide selected Trade agreements and explain discrepancies.• Active member of Barilla’s African-American & Latinx, LGBTQ+, and AANHPI ERGs. Conceived and spearheaded an inter-ERG presentation involving a member of the African-American LGBT+ community.

• Functioned as a Customer Marketing Consultant for the Trade Marketing & Sales Department. • Analyzed Retail Trade agreements for over/under accruals rates. • Assisted with uploading and posting H2 2018 Forecasted Retail Trade Master Request files into Vistex Sales system.

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Tyson Foods, Inc., (#66 Fortune 500, $36.9B Rev), Trade Finance - Foodservice, Chicago• Responsible for the variance analysis and bridges of 38 Direct and Indirect Trade Variable Channels; explaining main drivers.• Reconciled Prepaid Accounts (Meat, Bakery, Vans, and Aidells) between Vistex and SAP. • Responsible for the month-end close activities for Prepaid Accounts (Meat, Bakery, Vans, and Aidells).• Worked with existing budgeting and forecasting financial models.• Documented month-end closing procedures for prepaid accounts.• Researched a $7K credit balance in billback accruals and reclassed to the correct business area.• Audited and corrected Trade Rate formulas (Off-Invoice, Recapture, and Rebate) • Compiled an Executive Summary for each Meat and Bakery Channel spreadsheet to show variance drivers across categories. • Updated Operator Indirect Fund Adjustments, Reconciled Indirect Trade accounts.• Downloaded data from SAP, SAP BEx, and Vistex into Excel 2016.

BrightStar US Inc., ($10.5B Rev), NA Strategic Finance, Libertyville• Assisted with the financials for the Open/Emerging Channels Sales Department (2016 Net Sales, $658.5M). Responsible for the daily reporting and reconciliation of four reports – o Daily Sales (Ecommerce) Report, reporting prior day’s inventory and sales; o Daily Inventory Cost Analysis Report, updating the variances between the correct cost price and actual cost price for various iPhone categories for adjustments; o Monthly Channel Reporting, ensuring prior day’s inventory is properly categorized amongst eleven Lines of Business, o Master Strategic All Selling Price (ASP) Report, compiling and auditing groups of iPhones by Type/Gigs/Color for errors and ensure inventory consistency.• Ran Daily Sales by Part report in JD Edwards, pulling previous day’s inventory by pertinent channels.• Consolidated monthly and quarterly Sales Commissions Calculations data for Sales Renewed Group into a fiscal year Executive Summary, using vlookups and pivot tables.• Compiled a Weekly Insurance Breakout and a FY 2016 Insurance Breakout for the VP, Global Channel Development.• Found and corrected unreconciled sales classified to the wrong line of businesses.

• Performed daily reconciliation of the suspense account of a newly acquired insurance company.• Prepared month-end reconciliation and variance explanation; identified $45K in unmatched payments.• Responded to accounting inquiries from Operations department.

• Responsible for full lifecycle recruitment from sourcing to hire for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire positions for clients in an array of industries.• Personally sought and landed new business accounts.• Advised senior management team on strategic and day-to-day issues.• Identified new clients for placements.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Zurich NA, Investment Department, Schaumburg Office• Analyzed and reconciled over 150 monthly balance sheet accounts.• Prepared and processed preliminary, final, and true-up journal entries, including foreign currency, to facilitate month-end reporting.• Performed month-end investment analyses for twenty different investment companies.• Processed monthly consulting, management, legal, maintenance, and membership fee invoices for payment.• Assisted with the preparation of quarter-end and year-end statements in WINGS Financial Reporting system.Walt Disney Company, Blockbuster Audit, Burbank, IL office• Audited and certified the reported totals of three categories of Buena Vista.• Reported variances between reported totals per regional office and actual totals.• Provided compliance percentage.Hewitt International, Treasury and Payroll Departments, Lincolnshire and Chicago Offices• Performed reconciliations on ten-month out of balance bank statements to payroll subledgers and payroll/bank balances. • Revamped and streamlined the reconciliation process and reporting. Analyzed and researched reconciliation variances. • Worked with Reconciliation Project Team to standardize new reconciliation process.• Compiled the weekly/monthly payroll subledger and identified outstanding items.• Met with Payroll and Treasury managers to discuss bank account issues and recommend solutions.• Identified $40K in bank statements discrepancies, notifying Treasury and Payroll departments.Zurich NA, Reinsurance Operations, Schaumburg Office• Processed nineteen accounts on a monthly and quarterly basis.• Generated loss invoice bills.• Performed weekly and monthly updates of treaty claims' reserves and losses.• Reconciled a one-year out-of-balance account.• Documented account procedures and trained company employees on account procedures.• Worked with SAP system, various company-specific systems, and Excel.

Braintree, Ma, Us

Baxter Healthcare, Finance Department, PharMEDium Services LLC, Kraft Foods International• Prepared quarter-end and month-end financial reports.• Analyzed and researched budget variances and corrected budget line-item overages. • Prepared and analyzed daily inventory backlog reports and weekly inventory reports for three centers.• Prepared weekly sales reports; improving the process by automating using Excel formulas to streamline the data input process.• Compiled YTD Discard analysis for possible sales credit.• Assisted with restructuring Corporate P&L from region-based to product-based by validating and reconciling data across multiple countries using multiple foreign currencies. Used Oracle and Excel.

Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield Facility II – Senior Financial Analyst• Analyzed, researched, and reconciled discrepancies in inventory accounts.Danaher ICG (Fortune 500), Gurnee Facility – Interim Senior Accountant• Used comparative analysis to analyze and research financial variances (actual/forecast, actual/plan, month-end, QoQ, YoY). • Provided actuals for budget and revised forecast based on trending.• Researched and performed detailed forecasting for trade sales by product, intercompany sales, and returns and allowances.• Trended YoY 2004 freight surcharge rates to insure proper recoveries.• Researched and analyzed products recovery cost percentages discrepancies.ABN AMRO LaSalle Bank, CSO Finance – Financial Analyst • Analyzed and researched month-end budget variance reports.• Assisted with annual CSO Finance Budget.• Instituted downloading monthly pro-forma EOM reports early for corrections before month-end close.• Prepared and analyzed profitability reports.• Reallocated quarterly supply credits.• Researched and corrected profit-sharing expenses.• Tracked leased fixed assets and depreciation expenses.Southern Pacific Wine Distributor, Accounting Dept. - Senior Accountant• Analyzed, researched, and reconciled Cash account; locating a single transaction of $360K.• Analyzed, researched, and reconciled A/R account.• Analyzed, researched, and reconciled A/P accounts; decreasing total outstanding amount by $4M.RGL Forensic Accounting – Financial Analyst• Researched and analyzed home insurance damage claims for national product liability case using Excel.

Mba, Finance/International Business

Non Degreed, Accounting

Bachelor, Psychology/Biology