CHAITANYA SHEODE

**** ********* **, *** ***, Atlanta, GA 30342

770-***-**** : acfglu@r.postjobfree.com

O BJECTIVE

Versatile, high-energy professional with 10 years of business experience. Strategic problem-solver who envisions

smart solutions and executes with urgency across all levels of the organization. Hands -on leader with an

extensive background in finance complimented by diverse talents in technology, project management and

leadership. Outstanding strategist who is able to deliver record breaking enhancements in highly competitive

business markets. Skilled in negotiating partnerships and alliances with a keen ability to forecast industry trends

and capture opportunities.

F inancial Models – F orecasting & B udgeting – C ost Accounting

F i xed Assets – I nventory Management – L ean Principles – K aizen

S trategic Alliances – S trategic Planning – L ogistics & Distribution

P ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Financial Reporting Analyst, Imerys - NA Ceramics, Roswell, GA Oct 2010-Present

Responsibilities include:

Analyzing the operations of 3 ceramics plants worth $25MM annually and creating their monthly

financial statements and KPIs

Calculating the standard cost of products at each plant and building financial models for their

budget/forecast

Managing transactions worth $5MM for the company’s buy in sites for product purchase and resale

Managing a $4MM provision for the Feldspar plant’s shut down process

Managing the valuation of overburden and reclamation for 31 clay mines

Managing transactions related to Fixed Assets and capital projects for 6 sites

Analyzing and reporting the company’s monthly revenue, logistics costs and margins

Transitioning reports from the old ERP system to the new MS Dynamix AX system to improve the

efficiency of financial reporting

Achievements:

Identified and resolved variance between sales reports in the ERP and the SSRS reports

Analyzed the billing process to identify the cause of variance between the quantity of clay being

invoiced and shipped each month

Successfully improved the sales analysis process by replacing Crystal Reports with SSRS reports

Supply Chain/ Logistics Consultant, Gemalto, Montgomeryville, PA Jul 2010-Oct 2010

Recommended lean manufacturing principles in the production planning process for SIM cards which led to:

42% reduction in the time for each transaction

38% reduction in paper consumed

75% reduction in the planner's movement from the workstation

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Supply Chain Consultant, Just Born, Bethlehem, PA May 2008–May 2010

Responsibilities included:

*Engineering Department: Implemented Kaizen to improve production process of molded candy which led to:

84% reduction in time to search for candy in the staging area

47% reduction in distance traveled by each truck of candy from staging to polishing

Kanban board to help identify the location of each flavor of candy on the production floor

Design of a mesh screen to capture rejects early in the process to reduce rework costs

*Purchasing Department: Redesigned purchasing processes which resulted in:

99% reduction in time to analyze and report monthly performance to packaging suppliers with

zero error

30% reduction in the buyer’s workload by redesigning the centralized procurement process

Creation of a weighted scorecard in MS Access for supplier performance analysis and rating

Creation of a supplier selection process for $1.5 million worth of annual electricity supply

Designing and authoring a Supplier Quality Handbook

Teaching Assistant, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Jan 2008–Jan 2010

Responsibilities included:

Tutoring 120 students per semester, in the Business Information Systems course. Teaching included:

Managing, analyzing and interpreting data using MS Excel and MS Access

Creating a website using MS Share Point Designer

Manager, Inmatch Modelling, Mumbai, India Dec 2004–Jun 2007

Responsibilities included:

Heading 3 departments and managing 35 associates and over 3,000 clients which led to:

$25,000 monthly net sales targets being exceeded by the sales team every month

70% savings in developing/ implementing 2 SQL databases - Customer Relationship Management

(CRM) and Customer Service Support (CSS), for enhanced data management and analysis

Redesigning the organization’s marketing, sales and supply chain management strategies

Project Engineer, Weld-Tech Engineers, Mumbai, India Jun 2004–Dec 2004

Responsibilities included:

Supervising procurement of material, inventory management and dispatch to sites

Designing the pure water system via Piping & Instrumentation diagrams on AUTOCAD

Preparing a technocommercial offer for the same

Drafting As Built diagrams on AUTOCAD after installation of the piping system

Copy writing and designing the Company Profile and website

E DUCATION

Lehigh University, PA - Master of Business Administration – Supply Chain May 2010

University of Nottingham - UK, Fellowship - Corporate Social Responsibility Dec 2009

NMIMS University - India, Diploma in Marketing Management Jun 2007

University of Mumbai - India, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Nov 2004

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