Kwame B. Williams, MBA

**** ******** ****, ********, ** 27263 * Phone 336-***-****

Email: ab8esu@r.postjobfree.com

Finance/Operations/ Supply Chain Management

Cost Savings, Leading Diverse Cross-Functional Management Teams and

Workforces/Systems Implementation / Internal

Audit/Transportation/Distribution

Results-oriented finance manager with 12 years of experience demonstrating

consistent achievement of objectives, strong team leadership, and improved

performance. Established reputation for delivering cost reduction

strategies, managing change, reengineering processes and establishing

internal controls and delivering value added reporting and finance insight.

Able to train and lead interdisciplinary teams to consistent performance

improvements. Strong background in finance and operations.

Core Knowledge & Skill Areas:

FP&A Internal Audit Change Management

Budgeting and Audit Recovery Team Building & Leadership

Forecasting Receivables Management Project Management

Variance Analysis Risk Management Process Redesign &

Financial Statement Improvement

Analysis

Delhaize America -Salisbury, NC

Professional 2011 to Present

Experience A globally recognized operator of retail grocery stores

Sr. Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Providing FP&A support to $16B subsidiary of Belgium based

Delhaize Group.

Serve as a strategic business partner that provides accurate and

timely financial reporting to support decision making, financial

control and general financial oversight to effectively safeguard

the company's assets.

Responsible for the successful execution of the corporate

financial planning and analysis function by ensuring the

development and distribution of effective tools for forecasting,

budgeting, and performance review. Responsible for managing the

development and delivery of the annual operating plan/budget,

forecasts and 3 year plans.

Responsible for daily execution of finance & planning activities

including variance analysis, adhoc reporting, performance

monitoring, development and delivery of dashboards, scorecards

and various KPI reporting.

Serve as cross-functional subject matter expert, providing

financial insight and decision support for divisional and

functional Vice Presidents and Presidents. Overseeing the

development and presentation of financial modeling and scenario

analysis regarding adhoc financial analysis or

profitability/viability studies for growth plans.

Responsible for assessing the financial implications of the

plans of the company and developing models and analysis that

illustrate our operating vision in terms of investment required,

operating results that will be achieved and the related time

horizons.

Polo Ralph Lauren -Greensboro, NC

2008 to 2011

A globally recognized brand retailer and wholesale distributor in

apparel, fragrance, home, and luxury accessories.

Finance Manager

Provided financial planning and analysis support to Polo Ralph

Lauren Retail Divisions and Supply Chain Finance Team.

Deliverables included but not limited to bi-monthly business

reviews, forecasts and variance analysis.

Annually lead the development and consolidation divisional &

brand operating plans into a singular plan and budget for the

retail operating segment consisting of 250 stores generating $1.5

billion in sales.

Provided decision support for new product introductions, insight

into supply chain network changes or enhancements. Provided

seamless communication between various decentralized finance and

accounting teams. Provide non-finance divisional and brand

presidents with ad-hoc reporting and dedicated finance support.

Acted as a strategic partner to the supply chain and

transportation team providing financial analysis of current and

historical performance, highlighting causes of change and

variance analysis for favorable and unfavorable performance.

Developed innovative reporting for non-finance groups to provide

insight into high expense cost centers and to highlight causes of

variance

Risk

management Partnered with Accounts Payable team to drive process

BCP/DRP improvements and prepare for the adoption of SAP. Identified

Planning duplicate vendor disbursements, developed systemic corrective

action to prevent future duplicate payments.

Project

management Developed and delivered A/P KPI's, metrics, reporting, process

flows, and adhoc analytics. Supported the management of SLA

commitments and key customer relationships. Provided accounting

and systems training in an effort to increase associate

Team productivity and efficiency.

Leadership

Assisted in strengthening the internal control environment,

identifying and implementing corrective action plans for

deficiencies and exceptions identified in internal and external

audits.

Selected Accomplishments

Adopted and implemented the Altman Z-Score Analysis for assessing

the financial health of incumbent and prospective carriers and

vendors in the Polo Ralph Lauren Supply Chain network.

Worked with VP of Supply Chain development to establish a

disaster recovery and business continuity planning framework.

Lead cross functional taskforce aimed at standardizing small

parcel shipping process. Delivered reduction in exception volume

of 53% in 1 year's time.

Pepsi Bottling Group - Winston-Salem, NC

2007 to 2008

Fortune 200 corporation; world's largest distributor of Pepsi

beverages with $13 billion in revenue.

Manager - Finance & Accounting

Managed cash application process of accounts receivable function

through a workgroup of 28 employees. Accounts Receivable

portfolio averaged $800 million - $1billion per month.

Served as key liaison between A/R and IT responsible for

identifying process improvements and supporting project

development as team achieved project milestones.

Selected Accomplishments

Served as project lead/sponsor for implementation of new accounts

receivable software platform - AnyDoc. Successfully lead manual

and automated process re-engineering to reduce cash application

lead-time from 96 hours to 24 hours.

Efficiency &

Productivity Worked cross functionally to drive DCSO to a record 32 days via

robust pareato analysis of portfolio.

DRP Worked cross functionally to map essential departmental processes

and key deliverables to internal customers. Developed robust

framework detailing key departmental requirements for transition

to contingency site.

United Parcel Service- Charlotte, NC

2000 to 2007

Fortune 50 Global Leader in transportation, supplychain and

logistics services

Corporate Finance Manager

Managed district finance team with 105 employees and 8 full-time

management people responsible for carrying out Payroll,

Procurement, FP&A, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and

Internal Audit responsibilities across 16 facilities in North

Carolina which generated annual revenues of $700M and employed

4,000+ employees. Reported directly to District CFO delivering

monthly profitability analysis and revenue trend analysis.

Provided support for development and consolidation of district

annual operating plan/budget. Forecasted key financial metrics of

district performance; district revenue, high impact cost drivers,

impact to P/L. Provided financial leadership to cross functional

team members. Performed Adhoc variance analysis as required.

Selected Accomplishments

Internal

Audit Worked cross-functionally to improve district internal audit

score from 67.6% to 91.32% over two-year period.

Increasing Developed policies and procedures to ensure that finance auditors

Revenue efficiently captured customer inaccuracies in shipment

information. Increased revenue recovered from non-compliant

customers from $9,152,000 in 2004 to $34,234,500 in 2006 by

leveraging automated systems to replace manual auditing process.

Strategy Liaised with director of sales to create and implement volume

and growth strategies in key service segments. Leveraged sales

leaderswhip statistics regarding customer churn and non-compliance to develop

financial incentives to increase volume by 4% or 2,000 packages

per day.

automation Managed installation of Accu-sort barcode tunnels in Greensboro

solutions distribution hub. Liaised with Plant Engineering to develop a

process flow which, improved egress, reduced OSHA recordable

incidents by 60% and automated manual package auditing.

Team Served as regional revenue recovery coordinator, essentially

Development operating indirectly as a corporate knowledge manager.

Centralized finance testing and certifications, established

benchmarking framework and coordinated regional training and

development sessions.

Change Restructured department and reduced FTE by 32 employees to 73

Management team members. Achieved reduction by diverting volumes, leveraging

Accu-sort automation & improving productivity of remaining staff.

Simultaneously improved employee relations index score 87 to 98%.

efficiency & Increased productivity by 18.8% by reducing lot change downtime

productivity and development of subject matter experts for each process.

Masters of Business Administration - Finance & Supply Chain -

Education University of North Carolina @ Greensboro (Cum Laude)

MBA - Germany & Europe in Global Environment Exchange Student -

Universitat Mannheim - Mannheim, Germany

Bachelor of Science - Finance North Carolina A&T State University

(Cum Laude)

Bryan School Business & Economics Alumni Association Board of

Directors 2009 - 2011 - Vice President

BOARD

EXPERIENCE University of North Carolina @ Greensboro Alumni Association

Board of Directors 2010 - 2011 - Finance Committee Member

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