Project Manager Supply Chain

NADIA KACHALENKO

** ******* *****, #** 201-***-****

***********@*****.***

Jersey City, NJ, 07305

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiakachalenko

Summary

Financial analyst/project manager with expertise in global strategic

projects, capital, financial operations, analysis and reporting.

Specialties

FP&A

Capital Project Financials

Management Reporting

Budgeting and Forecasting

Month-end Closing

Policies, Procedures, Internal Controls

Business Transformational, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures Financials

Global Financial Consolidations

Project Management

Process Improvement

Financial Systems Design

Colleagues Training

Experience

FORTIS CONSULTING GROUP, llc. 2010-

Present

Consultant in National Starch (Corn Products International, Inc.) Corporate

Reporting Group

Post-acquisition financial support of $2.2 Billion business. P&L, BS and

Statement of Cash Flow consolidation in Hyperion system. Management

reporting .

Pfizer, INC.

2002-2010

AMSS Manager Finance (2008 -2010)

Managed project financials for $400MM Manufacturing Resource System (MRP)

implementation: budget, actual, projections, 60 capital accounts, 40 Cost

Centers expense accounts, transaction processing, P&L and Balance Sheet

reconciliation. Managed contracts with IBM and Oracle vendors. Coordinated

authorized signature levels and integration funding. Created and

communicated monthly financial results and projections to Program

Management Office. Interfaced with PMO and Change Management personnel to

identify benefits realization risks, issues and challenges.

Responsibilities for FCPA, SOX, Audit requirements for the project.

. Modified and integrated the original projected labor benefits measures

from Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and QO Delivery

Teams.

. Saved time and efforts (a full day of work) required on manual

reconciliation of 60 Balance Sheet Accounts by streamlining the process

via data feed from General Ledger to TM1 Database.

. Led "Two Cents Worth" Initiative that engaged colleagues in the search

for ways to find cost savings at the Bridgewater campus to reduce

departmental expenses, save resources, and enhance value.

. Developed T&E and Meeting/Conference Guidelines for Team and combined in

a central repository of Pfizer-preferred cost effective T&E and

meeting/conferencing services.

. Assumed responsibility for FCPA, SOX, Audit requirements for the project.

Senior Financial Analyst -PGM Strategy & Supply Network Transformation

Team (2003-2008)

Provided financial analytical, procedural, reporting, and technical

(system) support of global manufacturing strategic initiatives: Adapt to

Scale (AtS)/Transformational, Mergers/Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Plant

Network Strategy (PNS). Measured, analyzed, and reported synergies and one

time restructuring costs generated by firm's Plant Network Strategy,

Procurement, IT, Process Improvement, Site and Center Staff Rationalization

initiatives to Corporate Operations Planning and Analysis (OP&A).

Consolidated global restructuring data. Reconciled strategic reserves

Balance Sheet accounts. Managed financial systems implementation projects

in Strategy & Supply Network Transformation Team.

. Assumed Divisional Approver's responsibilities for PGM

AtS/Transformational global restructuring and integration project

accounting. Maintained a robust control process to ensure proper

utilization of approved restructuring budgets.

. Designed PGM Integration Cost Tracking Tool and AtS Implementation Cost

Tracking Tool, efficient web-based modules built on TM1 platform and used

for authorization and tracking of 2,200+ PGM strategic project

financials. Managed vendors that performed programming and

implementation.

. Proposed, designed and administrated the PGM Finance AtS/Integration Home

Page, a center repository of Transformational/AtS policies and

procedures, system guides, useful links and newest restructuring

information.

. Improved accuracy and efficiency of restructuring financial reporting

processes. Designed and managed implementation of PGM Integrated

Restructuring Data Base in TM1, which accommodated all PGM Pharmacia

Merger and AtS/Transformational restructuring project financials:

budgets, forecasts and actual spending.

. Provided on-going support and education for the PGM Finance community in

Merger/Transformational/AtS and other strategic initiative financials.

Developed training materials, visual aids, and conducted audio and

NetMeeting sessions.

. Completed requests and responded to questions from Corporate Controllers,

Accounting Services, and Investor Relations related to PGM restructuring

costs. Verified and reconciled PGM restructuring data included in

Corporate Schedule 10-Q (External Reporting).

. Point person for the Strategy & Supply Network Transformation Team for

Internal Audit and KPMG review and inquiries.

. Volunteered for Pfizer Strategic source (PCS), Kalamazoo Financial

project to support global PCS Manufacturing Supply Agreement (MSA) with

J&J. Designed and managed implementation of TM1-based tracking tool for

PCS A/R aging analysis, A/R results reconciliation to HFM. Created Global

PCH MSA Sales and A/R aging data base. Nominated for Upjohn Award, 2007.

. Supported the Intercompany reconciliation process for Established

Products BU, Global External Supplies Americas and developed a Six Sigma

approach in the area of MQE (Three-Way-Match Supply Chain Report). Earned

Individual Performance Award, 2008.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst (2002-2003)

Provided analytical and administrative support of Pharmacia Global Supply

financial reporting systems (EIS and SAP). Assumed responsibilities for

financial data analysis, reconciled budget and actual, consolidated global

financial data from SAP for GS Support Functions, Capital, and Compliance

Departments. Prepared monthly GS Financial results reports for the Finance

Leadership Team.

. Provided superior customer support to the EIS System users worldwide

through group presentations and one-on-one coaching in financial data

reporting in EIS and creating customized reports in TM1 database.

. Collaborated with technical developers and systems owners to deliver new

system solutions for the GS Finance reporting: new financial schedules,

purchase price variance reports, operational review packages, data

mapping to HFM.

Johnson & Johnson

1995-

2002

Ethicon, Inc.

Financial Analyst - Strategic Projects (2000-2002)

Prepared financial analysis including cost savings, required capital and

expenditure, P&L impact, Cash Flow, IRR, Capital Appropriation requests,

and NPV for global strategic projects. Partnered with manufacturing and

engineering teams in Germany, France, Scotland, Brazil, and the US working

on new technologies and new product implementation.

. Selected for the financial support of Ethicon Global Needle Strategy

initiative to prepare cost analysis for manufacturing rationalization

and product harmonization of Ethicon's main product - surgical needles.

. Improved efficiency and saved hours on the monthly Financial Closing and

consolidation processes by proposing and implementing innovative approach

that used a new shared web-based facility (eRoom) to enable financial

analysts from all Ethicon's remote locations to concurrently submit

reports Center Finance.

Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical (J&J)

Financial Analyst - Raritan Supply Chain - Solids (1995-2000)

Provided full financial support of Raritan Supply Chain Solids Business

Unit including standard cost setting, new product cost estimates,

headcount, conversion budgets, capital, inventory, and cost improvement

projects.

. Evaluated Raritan Solids Business Unit performance and presented the

results to the Process Execution Team.

. Prepared and presented Raritan Plant Metrics and participated in Weldon

Scorecard Measures for J&J Corporate.

. Performed US/Puerto Rico Labor Test for a split flow production of Solids

and assisted Operations Management in production planning of Solids for

clinics and customer samples.

. Supported 6( (Six-Sigma) initiatives, Black Belt projects, and cost

reduction projects.

Additional experience as Financial Analyst - Affiliate Sales Consolidator,

Assistant Analyst - Operations Accounting, Assistant Analyst - Inter-

Company Finance, Co-op in Rx Marketing Accounting Department.

SKILLS

Microsoft Office; eRoom/SharePoint, HFM/Hyperion/ESSBase, SAP, MAPS,

Computron, Cognos applications, Excel add-in TM1, web-based financial

applications, Ariba.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY, Teaneck-Hackensack, NJ. MBA in

International Business, 2002.

NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY, Jersey City, NJ. BS in Business Administration

and Accounting, 1996.

New York University. New York, NY. Certification in Non-for-Profit

Accounting and Governmental Reporting, in-progress.

6( - (Six Sigma) Certification, 2008.

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