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Hickory, North Carolina, United States

Presents value-added reporting on MDI Warehouse metrics using various resources, Power BI, and legacy data to provide one-stop reporting to leadership. Provides ad-hoc reporting on various projects throughout the Supply Chain.• Compile the FY23 Warehouse operating plan after just two weeks in role• Create weekly reporting packages and dashboards in graphical formats to replace legacy reporting methods• Journalize the Supply Chain story from prior pandemic to post pandemic• Manages work of five Project Jaws 2023 teams (Fishbone analytical work) to lower Warehouse rate and cost per case

Mooresville, North Carolina, United States

Provides insight and guidance to drive objective and financially focused insights to business leaders by playing a leading role in driving strategic initiatives, forecasting, planning, and executing against financial goals. Cross-functionally partners with senior leadership to ensure efforts and execution of business objectives are met.• Executes the business case development, DCF valuation, project capital / expense investment modeling for Supply Chain strategic initiatives (drives business case development for multiple distribution center buildings)• Translates strategic business cases into enterprise impacts, quarterly forecasts, and annual operating plans• Analyzes and helps optimize the Supply Chain network capacity investments (Storage and throughput analysis)• Supports the $1.7B financial optimization of “new and different” omni-chain Supply Chain strategic initiatives• Story tells Lowe’s Supply Chain $1.7B investment journey to leadership for stewardship/accountability

Lawrenceville, Ga

Analyze global Freight Logistics and Tariffs to ensure proper allocations and accruals for monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts of expenses and revenue. Provide decision support for home office team as well as Logistics client.

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed the activities of four local resources and indirect leadership to Shared Services resources to provide financial and analytical support for advanced Balance Sheet analysis, valuation, and submission of legal documents for the newly refranchised territory deal transactions in the United States and Canada.• Managed the monthly deliverables of bottler territory Asset Purchase Agreements, Close, Post-Close, and quarterly proforma submissions with iterative tracking database and weekly meetings. The tracking database contained 20+ North American bottlers, 1000+ profit centers, and ~500 special handling instructions (i.e. carve-out instructions, excess land handling, special deal handling) and guided the work and priorities of our Balance Sheet Team as well as cross-functional key stakeholders in Shared Services, Fleet, and Fixed Assets. This was project manager work with Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) similarities.• Liaised as single source Balance Sheet contact to assist 50+ stakeholders from the SoF Conversion, Deal, Valuation, Legal, Consultant, and Audit Teams with deliverables and inquiries• Consolidated and fully resolved special handling/project areas that arose during the refranchising effort: Dunkin Donut equipment buyback ($1.7MM); inclusion and special handling of CCNA Fountain equipment in deal structure ($100MM+); reporting of Monster coolers to Monster corporate ($1.7MM)• Audited $1B+ in Machinery & Equipment assets for 8 production centers for quantifying deal values• Unraveled complex Balance Sheet-related Notice of Dispute / Due Diligence equity, and intercompany questions from bottlers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, E&Y, and other key stakeholders• Validated and authorized the master Balance Sheet files, the legal documents created by our Balance Sheet Team, and submitted correct legal documents to King & Spalding the first time

Greater Atlanta Area

Interacted with a large Senior Team tasked with aggressive savings targets to support DtV as well as CCR’s productivity initiative goals. Operated independently but interacted cross functionally as appropriate to attain savings targets on $10B+ in spend. Collaborated frequently with Supply Chain, Product Supply, and Brand Teams to dissect P&L impacts.• Bolstered newly created DtV Project Management Office (PMO) by pioneering streamlined, standardized models (Excel, SharePoint, and other Applications) for testing, validating, and stewarding Productivity Initiative (PI) savings business cases via an innovative DtV scorecard that reported more than $400MM in savings for 200+ projects across multiple workstreams while also demonstrating where this savings manifested itself in stakeholders’ P&Ls and Balance Sheets (initial year savings ~$125MM)• Prepared detailed business cases that include summarized and detailed financial analysis as well as NPV, IRR, and payback support and calculations. Validated financial returns associated with capital projects.• Assisted in value chain and supply chain analytics and breaking down cost structures and their impact to Product Supply and profit implications to the bottler• Managed the initiative processes of 3 wave leads and 5 project managers through stages/gates

Greater Atlanta Area

Provided strategic leadership, analytical support, and process guidance in a very ambiguous environment to CCR’s North American Procurement function (approximately $6B in Indirect annual spend).• Bolstered newly created CCR Procurement Project Management Office (PMO) within Supply Chain by pioneering streamlined, standardized models (Excel, SharePoint, and other Applications) for testing, validating, and stewarding Productivity Initiative (PI) savings business cases via an innovative Procurement scorecard that reported ~ $500MM in savings for 200+ projects across multiple workstreams while also demonstrating where this savings manifested itself in stakeholders’ P&Ls and Balance Sheets while managing $23MM annual OPEX• Understood, tracked, and forecasted the key cost drivers and market factors for assigned commodities

Greater Atlanta Area

Supported the Contact Center and Operations Support Groups.Managed two direct reports that provided Finance support to the Dunwoody Contact Center and Operations Support groups while directly providing Finance support to the Good Answer/I&CA, Field Networks, Field Operations, and Direct Service groups.• Managed a $35MM operating budget and $23MM P&L for 200+ person organization within Field Networks, Operations, Direct Service, and Good Answer / I&CA by utilizing complex models developed in Microsoft Excel and Access.• Constructed pricing models for ongoing work, projects, and short-term assignments.• Inventoried nearly $5MM in fountain parts on Direct Service vans as well as $250K+ in coupons.• Provided Finance support for major capital project ($10MM) in relocating the CSO to Alpharetta.

Greater Atlanta Area

Provided Finance support to the Dunwoody Contact Center and Operations Support groups as well as Good Answer and Industry & Consumer Affairs Operating Teams.

Greater Atlanta Area

Supported The Customer Communications Center.Prepared, analyzed, and presented financial results of $30MM+ OPEX and $500M non-project capital budgets, and forecasts to the CCC Directors for Operations, Reactive, Scheduled, and Special Services.

Greater Atlanta Area

Supported Point-Of-Sale Department.Prepared, analyzed, and presented financial results (P&L and Balance Sheet), budgets, and forecasts to Financial and Point-Of-Sale (POS) management.Compiled financial reporting schedules for inclusion in the month-end P&L management package. Queried large volume of data using various tools to properly analyze operating in many pc-based models.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Premium and Loss Variance Analyses* Monthly Reconciliations* Schedule F Preparation for Quarterly Reporting* Treaty and Reserve Analysis

Greater Atlanta Area

* Sales and Promotions Analysis * Forecasting and Budgeting* Expedited many multi-day processes using Access and Excel.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

* Audited Workers’ Compensation policies to determine proper premium charges.* Researched claims, policies, and manuals to insure the policyholder received an accurate audit.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi Treasurer

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting And Finance