Sales Management
Resume:
TARA L. ASHE
Chicago, IL 60614
OBJECTIVE
To secure a position in the field of finance where I can utilize my
experience by channeling my ideas into positive corporate and personal
growth.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
FINANCIAL MODELING P&L MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
BUDGETING/FORECASTING COST ACCOUNTING IMPROVE EFFICIENCIES
TREND/MIX ANALYSIS INVENTORY CONTROL BUSINESS INSIGHT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PepsiCo, Chicago, IL 2009-
2010
Senior Financial Analyst:
07/09-04/10
. Perform monthly forecast for Total Kroger Gatorade and Propel business.
. Build an effective top-down and bottoms-up $275 million annual budget,
while ensuring material issues/opportunities were clearly identified and
highlighted across Kroger-Gatorade sales team and business unit.
. Accurately accrue and maintain current year trade accruals to track
spending against annual plan during conversion to SAP.
. Provide management with merchandising suggestions by performing post
event analysis on significant merchandising activities to determine
profitability/unprofitability.
. Provided weekly and monthly commentary to upper management on sales and
T:S performance.
Farmer Bros Co. purchased Sara Lee DSD Foodservice, Downers Grove, IL
2009
Senior Financial Analyst:
04/09-07/09
. Created the total company Equipment Service annual budget.
Sara Lee Foodservice, Downers Grove, IL
2002-2009
Senior Financial Analyst:
01/07-04/09
. Managed weekly sales reporting of volume, net sales, and gross profit for
major product lines.
. Led the monthly close process for the Direct Sales Channel with
responsibility of closing the monthly books, investigating and resolving
variances, and ensuring overall accuracy of the P&L.
. Integral member in budgeting $300 million sales operating plan.
. Developed and presented monthly and quarterly business reviews
summarizing the business' financial position to senior management.
. Achieved finance award for supervising, training, and expediting a new bi-
weekly commission payout with two new employees and engaged other
departments to streamline process.
. Enhance monthly forecasting by developing financial models.
. Determine capital investment returns for a new product by instituting an
optimal capital structure, cash flow estimation, and NPV.
. Prepare ad-hoc reports and provide in-depth analysis upon request on a
daily basis for senior management.
Senior Cost Analyst 02/04-
01/07
. Provided financial support and analysis for seventy-five warehouses
within the Foodservice Supply Chain.
. Assisted in the development of the annual operating budgets for the
warehouses and warehouse staff departments.
. Reviewed the warehouses' monthly financial statements and provided
quantitative and qualitative analysis to management.
. Bridged actual financial performance to forecast and reconciled
variances.
. Monitored and reconciled inventory balance sheet accounts and expense
accounts on a monthly basis.
. Conducted physical inventories for finished goods inventory and reported
and reconciled inventory variances.
. Reviewed Sarbanes-Oxley documentation that relates to all aspects of the
distribution centers and performed audits to verify their validity for
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
. Assisted management in the successful completion of a bill of material
project.
. Performed cost analysis and forecasted ingredient usage on various
beverage product lines.
. Supplied management with financial reports and responsible for corporate
reporting.
Accountant 01/02-02/04
. Analyzed and reconciled varies balance sheet accounts including
intercompany accounts, accruals, and prepaid accounts.
. Prepared adjusting and closing journal entries for monthly financial
statements.
. Monitored general ledger activity on a monthly basis.
. Prepared Human Resource's semi annual and annual budgets.
. Assisted and developed company's cost related to payroll percentage rate.
Perkin-Elmer, Downers Grove, IL
2000-2001
Accountant 10/00-12/01
. Reconciled accounts receivable subsidiary ledger to general ledger and
reviewed variances.
. Assisted in preparation of journal entries and account analysis for
month end close.
. Monitored daily cash flows, deposits, and prepared monthly bank
reconciliation.
. Generated weekly payroll, payroll entries, and provided management with
requested analyses.
. Created budget spreadsheets and financial reports for annual budget
preparation.
. Provided and examined monthly variance analysis of actual performance to
the budget on subsidiary accounts.
. Assisted in annual physical inventory.
EDUCATION
North Central College, Naperville, IL November
2007
Masters in Business Administration; concentration in Finance.
Graduated Cum Laude
Illinois State University, Normal, IL August
2000
Bachelor of Science; Major-Finance; Minor-Management
RELEVANT SKILLS
Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access,
Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, JD Edwards/AS 400, and DataMart
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