Tom Spedale Email & Phone Number

Palatine, IL, US

Greater Chicago Area, IL, US

• Lead the zero-based budgeting activities for the global technology organization, which represents an annual spend of over $200MM. This includes headcount planning and third-party service and support costs which are.
• Partner with the global technology teams to maintain detailed spend forecasts with a focus on identifying of cost reduction opportunities and solves for risks against the annual operating plans.
• Designed and implemented an internal application, and ways of working, which enable the tracking of spend actuals at a granular level. I am the owner and administrator of this application that provides spend insights.
• Lead the global monthly close activities for the team to ensure costs are appropriately categorized and recognized, including reviewing goods receipts, and booking accrual and intercompany transactions where required.
• Lead the financial business case development for key global IS initiatives including RFI/RFP preparation, vendor proposal comparison and contract negotiation as delivering productivity from these activities is a.
• Partner with regional/country finance counterparts to align on implications and financial routines around global contracts including local project and operating budgets, procure to pay activities and intercompany.

Serve as the finance client facing manager for the global procurement organization.Support 2013 global procurement initiatives to drive enhanced cash flow for Mondelēz. Coordinate supply chain financing initiative with procurement, treasury, IS, and 3rd party financial institution to drive cash improvements with a goal of $400MM in 2013. Supply chain.

Served as the finance client facing manager for the North American and global hosting organizations.Facilitated over $7MM in savings through the North American hosting rationalization program which reduced volumes through eliminating excess capacity. Led the financial verification of savings achieved and results reporting to senior management.Developed and.

Accurately prepared key monthly AR reports while maintaining adherence to all deadlines.Performed monthly analysis to explain key drivers of accounts receivable variance.Through SAP implementation, reworked reporting templates to take advantage of SAP reporting capabilities which resulted in significant time savings.Worked with Catalyst team to ensure.

Managed inter-company/statistical transfer process between Kraft HQ and international affiliates.Managed direct report responsible for invoice processing/settlement and confirmation process with affiliates.Interacted directly with affiliates to resolve reporting issues and ensure accuracy of payable/receivable balances.Managed financial reporting process.

Supported five manufacturing plants in terms of month-end accounting close.Worked with plant controllers to address various accounting requests throughout the month.Performed preliminary balance sheet and income statement reviews for plants after the monthly close to ensure reasonableness.Prepared balance sheet reconciliations for plants after the monthly.

Performed Sarbanes-Oxley services for clients including: risk analysis, control documentation, risk/control gap analysis, developed testing plans, and performed testing.Reviewed all transaction cycles for clients including financial reporting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, human resources, and treasury.Participated in development and.

Performed on-site internal audits of Kemper’s entities.Assessed and analyzed risks for Kemper’s business units.Analyzed and tested mitigating controls associated with identified risks.Communicated key findings to management.Contributed to over $2.5 million in profit enhancing recommendations.Assisted Kemper’s external auditors with testing.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management & Strategy/Management & Organizations/Marketing

Bachelors, Finance & Economics