Driven Financial Manager with experience on maximizing profitability on Key Accounts both Globally and Regionally. My background includes significant data analysis and pro-actively finding areas for process improvement.
Senior Financial Analyst @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Senior Financial Analyst @ Participated in Key RFP’s including full P&L analysis to maximize profitability by working cross functionality and presentations to Senior Leadership.
Drove Sector Margin improvement by reviewing mix, completing price increases and reviewing full customer P&Ls monthly to exceed 2013 margin improvement goal.
Attended Green Belt Training, and as part of current Green Belt project, moved sales reporting up about 5-7 days.
Prepared customer budgets and forecasting for Sectors
Ad-hoc reporting for many data request from GPR including key innovations, customers and sector data. From March 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Sales Analytics Manager @ Managing Sales Analytics Internal Reporting including develop process improvements. Financial Management for Retail and Healthcare Sector, including work on new deals and quarterly financial reviews, and pricing. From June 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 4 months) Financial Analyst @ Took on International rebates and completed extensive reconciliation to understand account detail, including analysis of past 5 years of data.
Worked with the Regional teams to update International Finance Sheets to determine what countries should accrue for each International Customer with rebates.
Analyzed and Prepared Top International Customer Scorecards. Worked with International Account Directors and Regional Finance Teams to understand and explain Net Sales Growth and Gross Margin.
Assisted in collecting 2010 Top International Customers Budget and performed Margin Reconciliation by account. Created 30+ page presentation to Commercial Council.
Prepared urgent requests as received from Senior Management including Sector and Customer information while managing daily priorities.
Used GPR reports daily including created new reports, tested changes, completed customer specific adjustments, trained new users, and helped to solve issues as they arise. From November 2007 to March 2012 (4 years 5 months)
Accounting and Finance @ UW Whitewater Sarah Deden is skilled in: Financial Analysis, Ad Hoc Reporting, Account Reconciliation, HFM, Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion HFM, Variance Analysis, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Pricing, Cost Accounting, JD Edwards, Cash Flow Forecasting, Accruals, Finance, Forecasting