Director Of Business Analysis
Served in various business analysis and management roles during 13+ year career in the retail food industry, all focused on providing financial analysis/reporting and process improvement expertise for operations. Started and led the business analysis and reporting support teams for the distribution, buying and retail operations groups, where key performance indicators (“KPIs”) were developed with and reported for management.Managed a group of 50+ business analysts, with 8 managers directly reporting to the Director position. This group had business analysis responsibility for supporting the following functional areas: retail, manufacturing, distribution, category management/buying, real estate, risk management, IT and facilities. This group consistently utilized best practices in spreadsheet/database application design to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the operations groups supported. Other areas of responsibility maintained for several years: long-term financial planning (primary forecaster for KPIs that drove the financial results), annual/quarterly retail sales/profit goal setting for financial and non-financial KPIs, category management annual sales goal setting, weekly store sales and labor KPI forecasts by division, and financial statement cut-off responsibility for inventory and cost of sales.