SUMMARY:

• A nimble, goal - crushing financial operations professional and problem solver, with extensive experience in all facets of process improvement, value creation, consolidation, key performance indicators, analytical reporting, GAAP, systems conversions and implementations, Six Sigma, and cross-functional team leading.
• Leverages practical experience with strong communication skills, setting clear objectives and influencing team members to exceed established goals.
• Develops metrics, manages big data and streamlines processes within broad-based disciplines of an organization to create a more efficient, effective, and competitive enterprise.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vernon Hills, Illinois

Finance and Accounting Manager

• Created deal models to evaluate margin potential for products with short life cycles to optimize inventory investment. Collaborate with CEO and president to establish KSO and incentive goals.
• Established vendor relationships to leverage and negotiate buy opportunities to realize additional revenue streams.
• Created methods to collect information to support value creation and benchmark key performance indicators (KPI’s).
• Invented and directed customer level P&L scorecards for effective resource management, and driving revenue enhancements to monetize value-added activities for our logistics clients realizing 15% greater revenue per month.
• Supervised reverse logistic financial analyst to optimize product flow.

Confidential, North Chicago, Illinois

Finance and Accounting Supervisor

• Created new month-end close processes to accurately close and report income and headcount within three business days.
• Developed new methods of collecting and reporting worldwide key performance data on a monthly basis, using three different systems while reducing reporting cycle time by two days. Invented customer based ‘service intensity’ measure to reduce operating expense.
• Initiated audits of reporting errors and discovered and remedied two large oversights due to systems conversions uncovering large undetected assets.
• Served as group Subject Matter Expert (SME) for GAAP, internal control, Sarbanes Oxley, purchasing, accounts payable, fixed assets and capital project accounting.

Finance and Accounting Supervisor

Confidential

• Managed conversion to SAP with team by inventing new processes and adapting others to meet reporting requirements.
• Supervised team of senior financial analysts to streamline month-end close processes to meet deadlines.
• Enhanced variance reporting to meet business needs of service director by providing detailed analysis by expense category and subdivided by organization structure.
• Assisted in implementing new outsourced vendor payable system; performed as SME for systems issues and resolution.
• Crafted file conversions to map plan data to new systems format requirements.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

• Selected to lead the commercial international pharmaceutical and nutrition affiliates with global inventory reporting project team, to elevate and address systems and accuracy issues to optimize inventory investment.
• Provided Confidential and Touche with quarterly deferred margin support documentation and prepared direct inventory supporting documents for international shared-services group.
• Consolidated world-wide pharmaceutical commercial capital budgets, and coordinated and reviewed international pharmaceutical requests for capital to ensure budgetary compliance.
• Helped affiliates align local systems with data collected globally; developed global headquarters dashboard highlighting the areas in need of enhanced investigation.
• Developed focused inventory reporting to monitor and track world-wide investment in Humira from the work-in-progress stage to finished goods inventory at the commercial affiliate.

Senior Financial and Accounting Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed all new reporting processes and procedures for newly-created organization.
• Worked with vice president to establish KPIs and develop dashboard report to address dynamic changes in the business priorities and to redeploy human and financial capital.

Senior Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported Confidential sales of diagnostic products, serving as financial contact for instrument training, contract and pricing group, and company’s Confidential commercial organization.
• Built budgets and provided guidance for annual plan and forecasts, as well as monthly performance, providing analysis of operating results and balance sheet.
• Consolidated Confidential operations month-end financial results and coordinated monthly accounting close.
• Consolidated plans and forecasts for sales operations, using Essbase tools. Served as primary contact with division reporting for actual Profit and Loss (P&L) and plan.

Senior Cost Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as primary financial and cost analyst for company’s classic manufacturing and rare reagent groups in the Confidential .
• Provided budgetary control for plan, updates, and forecasts for a budget of $70,000,000 and for a staff of more than 200 people.
• Received award of excellence from vice president of operations for development of training materials to explain budgeting to non-financial employees. Developed weekly reporting metrics to enhance the evaluation of manufacturing performance.

Confidential, Carol Stream, Illinois

Business Financial Analyst

• Managed accounting processes, including monthly closes, capital, and operations budgets, for three pharmaceutical distribution centers. Prepared monthly forecasts and developed ad hoc reports and analysis as needed, using SAP and Hyperion Essbase systems.
• Worked with Six Sigma teams, as trained Green Belt and finance representative, to analyze and improve delivery performance and return on investment relating to inbound freight cost and timing.
• Initiated and established regional capital project management and post-implementation evaluation processes.
• Facilitated company-wide workshops regarding effects of day-to-day decisions on income and overall return on working capital.