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Conagra Brands, 360Ibp & OtherFinance Advisory/ Consulting/ Project Contracts / Interim Director Finance
Mar. 2023Conagra (Inventory Waste Reduction - War on Waste Leader) Project Contract ~ 1.5 Years
• Led a cross-functional team to reduce the perishable food inventory waste by $35M (FY23 goal of $21M)
• Unlocked additional $60M of future savings by tweaking the make to stock to a make to demand inventory model, establishing financial controls for buying, introducing penalty costs, and enabling mix change from disposing and donating inventory to distressed inventory sales Ex. Employer, Confidential M&A Sell Side Valuation Consultant – 4 Months
• Conducted a comprehensive valuation (DCF, Transactions, Comps) of my prior Employer and led in engaging and liasoning with a PE Company, earning the trust of the Employer all under 4 months
360Ibp, Enterprise Planning & Performance Tool for Mid-Market Mfg. Companies – Jan 2025 to Current
• Building an Enterprise Planning & Performance Bolt on Tool to consolidate & augment legacy FP&A, MRP, S&OP, and IBP processes at Mid-Market Manufacturers (Rev $2B to $5B) with features like Scenario planning, Prescriptive Analytics, Customer Profitability, Mix etc. to estimate the Cash Flow impact of their actions
SpreetailDirector Finance - FP&A (Corp. Supply Chain)
Jul. 2021 - Mar. 2023Omaha Metropolitan Area
CargillFinance FP&A Leader - Management Accounting, Reporting Feed BU, Corp. FP&A
Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2021Greater Omaha Area- Corp. FP&A - Led a pilot to consolidate and standardize Financial Planning in a Cargill Segment using Anaplan and SAP leading a global team of 10 paving the path to save 4,000 Planning hours
- Led the Managerial Accounting & Reporting function, Month End Close, while being the Finance partner to the VP/ GM of the $600M Branded Animal Feed, enabling $60M of organic growth with 15% margin
- Established the True Material / standard cost for the business unit, restated financials with updated costs to reflect a much higher EBIT, leading to Capex Investments ($100M, 25% IRR) by the parent Cargill
- Stood up an overhead, SGA ZBB (Zero Based Budgeting) process resulting in $10 Mil of SGA savings
AmazonFinance Manager - Controller - Global Supply Chain & FBA
Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2018Greater Seattle Area- Managed the valuation of the $11B+ worth of inventory assets and the associated $80B+ annual Cost of Goods Sold for Amazon & retail org.
- Made the case for an Inbound Consolidation Center at Shenzhen, China partnering with the Amazon Global Logistics team resulting in lowered freight and operating inventory by ($0.6B)
- Collaborated with business segment leaders to establish controls for opportunistic and bulk buying inventory while leading in auditing & demystifying the automated inventory buying black box logic, to improve Inventory Turns from 7.8 to 8.0
OtherEarlier Experiences - Sr. Financial Analyst - Assistant Controller - Controller Roles
Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2016United StatesStarted my Finance Journey at smaller private and public companies. Highlights include: Briggs & Stratton - Milwaukee
• Streamlined the month end close from 5 to 4 days, ported Financial data (Great Plains to SAP ERPs), led an accounting team of 4 as the Controller/ Integration Manager of Allmand Brother’s Acquisition
• Lowered SG&A expenses ($2.5 M) via ZBB and Reduction in Force (RIFs), lowered Product costs by improving Job Costing process EnviroTech - Denver Area
• Collaborated with the CFO to streamline month-end close processes, validating and reconciling financial statements which reduced closing time by 25% while enhancing overall accuracy and explainability
• Led the process to allocate EnviroTech’s capital, for both organic and inorganic growth, which resulted in building 3 blending facilities and the acquisition of 3 companies in a span of 4 years leading to an increase of 36% top line growth and an increase of 30% bottom line growth.
Western Iowa Tech Community CollegeInformation Systems, Math Instructor, Corporate Trainer
Aug. 2002 - Jul. 2007- Taught College Algebra and Other Math, Computer Science, & Database Management Courses
- Grant Writer, Principal Investigator & the Project Manager for the National Science Foundation STEM grant ($460K)
- Consultant and Trainer (Business Intelligence, SQL & Database Management)
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