Category: FINANCE

         FINANCE SPECIALIST         Summary     Strategic Finance & Accounting Professional with experience in extensive contracts analytics, financial statement reporting, budget optimization and customer service. Financial skill set attributes of keen attention to line itemization, deadline committed, and a dedicated business partner to internal and external customers to ensure optimal organizational objectives are met.        Highlights          Credit & Accounts Payables/Receivables Management  Pricing and Cost Reduction Strategies  Finance & Procurement  Forecasting (Volume & Dead Net Gross Profit)        P&L Reporting  Trade Spend & Marketing Budgets  Contract Management & Risk Analysis  Financial & Business Planning Analysis            Career Accomplishments      Formally recognized by National Account Executives for excellence  in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and customer service.  Achieved 10% pricing submission reduction, by eliminating pricing resubmissions & creating departmental Pricing Authorization Training Guide.  Reduced system liability through identification of checkbook percentages of volume conversions.  Created a checkbook Reconciliation process & training guide.  Reduced invoice processing down to 10 days.  Pilot for customer mass data uploads.  Territory Divestiture Collaboration process & restated volume file creation.         Experience      Company Name     June 2013   to   February 2015     Finance Specialist    City  ,   State     Forecasting Business Partner providing key business insights and recommendations to influence key stake holders based upon sales performance and variance research on actual versus forecast volume (12M cases), funding, and dead net gross profit ($58M) to National Account Executives.  Assisted in annual business planning with the Planning Revenue Growth Management (PRGM) department for National Retail Sales Drug /Value channel customers.   Managed $87.6M Trade Spend & Cooperative Trade Marketing annual budget for Drug/Value supply chain customers  Reconciled invoices and post audits to 1010 Scan Data by package level reducing trade spend checkbook variances to scanned units by 10% in 18 month period.  Customer facing experience (Rite Aid, Dollar Tree, Freds, Variety Stores, Big Lots, Aldi).  Managed Checkbook Accruals and Spends entries for Trade Fund and Marketing Funding.  Monthly Bottler Pricing analysis to identify discrepancies of Accrual rates, Dead Net Sales Income (DNNSI), and Volumes of Package/Brand Categories.  Summarized and interpreted key business indicators and provided recommendations to Executive Leadership and Non-Financial managers that facilitated timely and impactful business decisions on forecasting and financial statement reporting gaps.  Prepared Regional and National month end checkbook to accounts payable reconciliation and Ad Hoc reporting (P&L, Rolling estimates, and overspend projections on planned promotional activities).  Assisted in departmental key productivity initiatives such as implementation of a standardize forecast model, developed a checkbook reconciliation process, and discovered volume conversion percentages driving checkbook reporting accuracy variances.  Submitted National retail account supply chain Pricing (PAT) and performed weekly Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) compliance reviews.           Company Name     September 2011   to   June 2013     CMA Analyst   City  ,   State     Provided customer reconciliation process ensuring financial statement representation for Key Accounts (Publix, Winn Dixie, Costco, Boyers, Weis, Louisiana Cold Drink Market Unit).   Process Monthly rebate and NRS post invoice accrual payment processing ($6 million)  Communicate with internal National Sales Executives, BU Finance, A/R and Funding (General Ledger) on customer accounting and currency accuracy for P&L   National Retail Sales Key accounts portfolio research and Fundamental analysis for P&L retroactivity impact   Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), SEC Regulations, and Ernst and Young monthly compliance  Weekly Micro Strategy (IWR), Accrual/Payment Analysis (AVP), and Contract Liability Analysis reporting  Manage Off Invoice Accrual Post deduction validation, auditing, and reconciliation   Approve Rebate payments for A/P funding   Trade-spend and trade promotions reconciliation          Company Name     September 2010   to   September 2011     Credit Representative II   City  ,   State     Managed credit approved proxy terms and accounts receivables, delivering due diligence and risk analysis on Philly Coke bottler merger acquisition accounts.   Communicated objectives with internal and external clients to resolve A/R inquiries on cash applications.  Supply Chain Financial Risk analysis of day sales outstanding (DSO) and compliance of credit limit proxy terms.  Financial portfolio revenue performance achieved (97 percentile) within one year.  Researched Market share optimization, profit maximization, and bad debt mitigation.  Performed A/R month end close reporting.  Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) policy execution.          Company Name     June 2009   to   September 2010     Credit Representative I - Contractor   City  ,   State     Provided accounts receivables analysis and requested credit status changes on Subway West business unit key accounts ($3M).   Key Account Liaison between internal and external customers.  Performed A/R account reconciliations, improving the month end receivables ratio 83% within 10 month period by increasing reoccurring ACH payments by 47%.  Negotiated payment arrangements with external customers to remain in compliance with net proxy terms extended, coordinating with credit investigations department.  Managed month end account closing process.  A/R risk analysis based upon customer payment trends and Dunn and Bragg Street credit report.  Utilized SAP to itemize customer outlet invoices by date range and worked with cash application department to resolve cash misapplications.  Vendor invoice coding.          Company Name     November 2007   to   December 2008     A/R Manager   City  ,   State     Managed accounts payable and account receivable reconciliations.   Administered Business to Business and commercial receivables.  Ran Client liquidation reports.  Supervised, trained, and mentored staff.          Company Name     July 2007   to   October 2007     Accounts Receivables   City  ,   State     Reconciled financial receivable transactions resolving accounts discrepancies by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing debtor account information and payment trends.   Negotiated and collected of third party A/R accounts.  Processed Payments and settlements.  Maintained financial historical records by filing/attaching accounting documents in financial software database.          Company Name     August 2004   to   July 2007     Department Manager - A/R Unit and Collections   City  ,   State     A/R Unit and Collections Managed daily operations and strategic objectives exceeding monthly corporate office expectations on departmental branch goals set.  Supported Director of operations, supervised collection floor activities, built dialer campaigns, provided timely client receivable budget information, and accurately reported client account standings.   Lead, managed, and mentored / coached collection department (15 direct reports) through appraising job performance contributions, formal setting and side by side on floor training.  Maintained bank card data, record management, accounting ledgers.  Verified approved all credit card and check payments received by A/R representatives.  Provided Market share analysis and stair step reporting to corporate office.  Processed Payroll (ADP), Yearly reviews, Scheduled, Hired, and Disciplined employees.          Education      University of Phoenix      Masters of Business Administration      City  ,   State              Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University      Bachelor of Science  :   Public Management - Human Resources    City  ,   State      Public Management - Human Resources        Technical Skills      SAP  Micro Strategy (IWR)  Microsoft Office Suite