SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• FINANCIAL MODELING
• P&L MANAGEMENT
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUDGETING/FORECASTING
• COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
• IMPROVE EFFICIENCIES
• TREND/MIX ANALYSIS
• COST ACCOUNTING
• STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Confidential, Alsip, IL 2011-2012

Sales and Finance Analyst 08/11-10/12

• Finance partner to the VP of Sales to ensure operating plans for key customers and sale growth objectives were established, tracked, and achieved.
• Managed all financial planning, analysis, and quarterly and year end reporting to Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer for a $17 million sales operation.
• Realigned and implemented an effective pricing strategy that gained 13% growth in sales and market share from previous year by performing in depth competitive analysis.
• Proposed and executed special pricing, promotions, and private and government bid quote analysis.

Confidential, Chicago, IL 2009-2010

Senior Financial Analyst: 07/09-4/10

• Performed monthly forecast for Kroger-Gatorade and Propel business.
• Built an effective top-down and bottoms-up $275 million annual budget, while ensuring material issues/opportunities were clearly identified and highlighted across Kroger-Gatorade sales team and business unit.
• Accurately accrued and maintained current year trade accruals to track spending against annual plan during conversion to SAP.
• Provided management with merchandising suggestions by performing post event analysis on significant merchandising activities to determine profitability/unprofitability.
• Provided weekly and monthly commentary to upper management on sales and trade to sales performance.
• Recipient of the Compass Award Best Overall Performance.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL 2009

Senior Financial Analyst: 04/09-07/09

• Created the total company Equipment Service annual budget.
• Balanced company’s general ledger income statement accounts to ensure direct mapping between journal entries and ledger postings.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL 2002-2009

Senior Financial Analyst: 01/07-04/09

• Managed weekly sales reporting of volume, net sales, and gross profit for major product lines.
• Led the monthly close process for the Direct Sales Channel with responsibility of closing the monthly books, investigating and resolving variances, and ensuring overall accuracy of the P&L.
• Integral member in budgeting $300 million sales operating plan.
• Developed and presented monthly and quarterly business reviews summarizing the business’ financial position to senior management.
• Achieved finance award for supervising, training, and expediting a new bi-weekly commission payout with two new employees and engaged other departments to streamline process.
• Enhance monthly forecasting by developing financial models.
• Determine capital investment returns for a new product by instituting an optimal capital structure, cash flow estimation, and NPV.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports and provide in-depth analysis upon request on a daily basis for senior management.

Senior Cost Analyst 02/04-01/07

• Provided financial support and analysis for seventy-five warehouses within the Foodservice Supply Chain.
• Assisted in the development of the annual operating budgets for the warehouses and warehouse staff departments.
• Reviewed the warehouses’ monthly financial statements and provided quantitative and qualitative analysis to management.
• Bridged actual financial performance to forecast and reconciled variances.
• Monitored and reconciled inventory balance sheet accounts and expense accounts on a monthly basis.
• Conducted physical inventories for finished goods inventory and reported and reconciled inventory variances.
• Reviewed Sarbanes-Oxley documentation that relates to all aspects of the distribution centers and performed audits to verify their validity for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Assisted management in the successful completion of a bill of material project.
• Performed cost analysis and forecasted ingredient usage on various beverage product lines.
• Supplied management with financial reports and responsible for corporate reporting.

Accountant 01/02-02/04

• Analyzed and reconciled varies balance sheet accounts including intercompany accounts, accruals, and prepaid accounts.
• Prepared adjusting and closing journal entries for monthly financial statements.
• Monitored general ledger activity on a monthly basis.
• Prepared Human Resource’s semi annual and annual budgets.
• Assisted and developed company’s cost related to payroll percentage rate.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL 2000-2001

Accountant 10/00-12/01

• Reconciled accounts receivable subsidiary ledger to general ledger and reviewed variances.
• Assisted in preparation of journal entries and account analysis for month end close.
• Monitored daily cash flows, deposits, and prepared monthly bank reconciliation.
• Generated weekly payroll, payroll entries, and provided management with requested analyses.
• Created budget spreadsheets and financial reports for annual budget preparation.
• Provided and examined monthly variance analysis of actual performance to the budget on subsidiary accounts.
• Assisted in annual physical inventory.

EDUCATION

Masters in Business Administration; concentration in Finance. Graduated Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science; Major-Finance; Minor-Management

Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, JD Edwards/AS 400, Syspro/ERP and Data Mart