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Hoffman Estates, IL

SUMMARY:

  • Senior finance executive with experience in advising and growing businesses through accounting, operations management, engineering, and entrepreneurship.
  • Strong understanding of GAAP, IFRS, and numerous other regulations spanning multiple disciplines from HR to tort law.
  • History of improving business processes which positively affect company profitability.
  • Focus on people, process, and product to ensure optimum efficiency and profitable growth.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Essbase; Oracle; SAP; Cognos; QuickBooks; Business Objects; Tableau; MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, and Access); Macros and algorithms; SQL; VBA; AS/400 systems; Crystal Reports; SharePoint; Ariba; OB10; Xign; Movex; M3; Max; WorkForce Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Controller

Responsibilities:

  • Identified and captured 50% reduction in overhead expense through multiple projects and initiatives.
  • Coached and developed internal teams while focusing on centers of excellence, ensuring initiatives were attained.
  • Developed employees to maintain and manage dynamic Hyperion and Excel - based models, providing analytical insights for executive management discussions.
  • Coordinated with counsel and CFO on strategic growth initiatives and regulatory frameworks, analyzing, coaching, and identifying risks and gaps.
  • Managed day-to-day accounting activities for corporate overhead on global scale, ensuring transactions were recorded in compliance with regulations and company policies.

Confidential, Addison, IL

FP&A Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Established internal control processes and leveraged best practices, successfully achieving positive Confidential for 1st time in 3 years.
  • Executed SOX Remediation process, including gathering and testing of existing SOX controls and governance; Weakness remediation through enhanced governance, controls, applications, policies, documentation, and training; Testing via internal teams and external auditors
  • Established retesting schedule and obtained opinion of auditors that internal controls were successfully remediated and currently effective.
  • Coached 5 vice presidents on financial business management and grew accounting and reporting teams, facilitating proactive and lean operations.
  • Grew business working capital and funded multiple strategic growth initiatives by working with CFO to evaluate and execute multiple tactical plans to reduce accounts receivable balances and improve inventory reserve and turnover.
  • Reviewed existing commercial contracts and identified language, leveraging and improving days sales outstanding and made recommendations on contract renewal terms and language.

Confidential, IL

Sr. Financial Analyst / Accountant

Responsibilities:

  • Reconciled balance sheets, safeguarded assets, resolved discrepancies, ensuring accounting records were maintained and always in orderly, current, and accurate condition.
  • Automated monthly reporting and created standardized reports, capturing efficiencies of scale.

Confidential, Glenview, IL

FP&A Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Managed monthly financial close processes and subsequent reporting to financial management.
  • Directed and grew team of 3 financial analysts. Conducted costing analyses and validations on regular basis
  • Worked with VP of Marketing to set / update standard pricing on manufactured and purchased products.
  • Enabled 64 ERP and Confidential systems talk to each other through e-Commerce initiatives; Worked with different customers, cultures, and areas of expertise to understand existing requirements and processes; Translated existing processes and metadata to allow for smooth transitions of automated invoicing and payments.
  • Designed and managed databases and dashboards, automating metric and financial data capture processes and supporting complex statistical models and analytical tools.

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