Managed all aspects of the accounting and finance for a small business, including month-end close, A/P, A/R, payroll, financial reporting and analysis, cash flow, and insurance. Established policies and financial controls that reduced the risk of financial loss. Developed strategy to increase revenue and reduce A/R days outstanding. Manage relationships and activities with customers, banks, tax accountant, legal, and regulatory agencies.

Responsible for month-end close, financial accounting, inventory control, financial statement review, cost accounting. Manage a staff to deliver standard cost budget. Identify and lead implantation of process improvements and standardization. Reduced month-end close from 4 days to 2.5 days. Implemented standardized process for Inventory reserves across multiple plants. Calculate product cost estimates for establishing margin and pricing.

Led a shared services business support team. Delivered business support in a highly collaborative manner that generated buy-in and enthusiasm from peers, counterparts, and stakeholders. Executed staff development through maximizing creation of individual development plans with specific actions and timelines. Supported global system and process implementations and improvements, with a focus on cost reduction, system and process efficiency, standardization, and improved customer service. Successfully led regional and supported Global Core Team rollout of Concur Expense system. Identified and improved key performance indicators, including end user experience, reduced system errors.

Provided cost accounting and financial reporting for multi-site manufacturing locations. Completed COGS, Gross margin, and other variance analysis. Developed annual standard cost forecast. Completed financial close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, for month, quarter, and year-end. Streamlined the product standard cost forecast, resulting in 15% time savings. Collaborated with FP&A, Operations, and Brand teams to ensure timely and accurate deliverables. Interacted with external auditors and prepared audit review documentation.

Completed monthly Gross to Net sales reporting, monthly and quarterly actual to budget review of sales, managed market rebates, discounts, and returns. Provided financial reporting and analysis to the business. Automated Gross to Net sales reports, created sales trend graphs and variance analysis. Interacted with internal departments to ensure sales recognition accuracy. Streamlined sales variance analysis and commentary, which provided better and timely insight to Sr. Leadership.

Guided planning and reporting cycles, forecasting, actual to budget comparisons, and analytical support for the Oncology brand team. Prepared journal entries and account reconciliations. Engaged with Commercial for $1B sales forecast and delivered expenses within 2% of $114M budget. Collaborated with Financial Planning & Analysis group to ensure timely and accurate deliverables. Initiated collaborative effort to improve expense accrual calculation, producing more accurate and better documented result, along with significant time savings. Delivered approximately 10% cost saving by piloting commercial purchasing program.