Norma Torgerson

Cumming, GA *****

678-***-****

ad4lg7@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Highly motivated individual with strong technical understanding and analytical abilities. Strong teamwork and multitasking skills, successfully completes projects within time and budget constraints.

Experience

Hansgrohe Alpharetta, GA August 2022 to July 2023

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Strategic partner with sales leadership team in analyzing, preparing and tracking annual contract negotiations and drive operational understanding of impacts to the bottom line, creating understanding of discounts, savings to be $75k for 2023.

Create financial analysis with actionable information, company wide investment for improvement, $850k for 2023.

Streamline current processes and ensure components fit together, reduced time saving ~ 3 days.

Develop annual sales budget supported by tactical actions to deliver results aligned with strategic objectives, implemented price increase for 2023, $300k increased revenue.

Develop and track Marketing budget with monthly review meetings, savings of $150k for 2023.

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Omnimax International, Peachtree Corners, GA August 2021 to August 2022

Manager of Customer Rebates

Consolidated divisional/siloed rebate process to a corporate wide program using cloud-based software, saving ~ 9 days of calculations.

Created a single source of data for rebate inquiries with multi-user access, reducing lag time response by ~ 2 days per request.

Improved accrual forecasting with ability to apply monthly trends, annual savings of $250k.

Eliminated rebate overpayments/underpayments and improved timeliness of payments, savings of $150k.

AGC Glass North America, Alpharetta, GA April 2016 to August 2021

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Primary driver for all sales reporting, margin analysis, product, customer and market impacts and profitability.

Lead monthly variance analysis of actual financial results and drivers utilizing price, volume and mix reporting.

Support the sales leadership team in analyzing, preparing and tracking annual contract negotiations and drive operational understanding of impacts to the bottom line.

Develop annual sales budget supported by tactical actions to deliver results aligned with strategic objectives.

Partner with production team to optimize plant inventory levels and drive higher turnover of customer stocking and made to order programs.

Lead the use of information technology to develop a more robust business intelligence environment through the development of automated reporting and analysis tools.

Support ad hoc analysis and projects for the strategy of the business

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Geiger International division of Herman Miller, Atlanta, GA June 2008 – April 2016

Financial Manager

Ensured appropriate application of accounting knowledge to the recording and reporting of transactions and in the preparation of financial analyses.

Identified and implemented changes in accounting procedures.

Provided support to other business partners with their financial accounting issues and requirements.

Developed annual plan and monthly forecast with parent company International divisions for Intercompany Sales.

Maintained an effective and documented internal control environment as required under 404 (SOX).

Maintained a thorough understanding of the complex IT systems and their inter-relationships.

Created and disseminated annual budget and rolling next quarter forecast.

Completed monthly accrual journal entries and account reconciliations.

Ad-Hoc reporting relating to what if scenarios for manufacturing objectives .

Developed cost analysis for new products using direct materials, labor & overhead with projected sales.

Financial Analyst 3

Created and disseminated weekly production, scrap and labor reports.

Month end journal entries and account reconciliations relating to commissions, A/R, off site facility financial information, cash and COS and general expenses.

Adhoc reports for VP of operations and Sales

Contractor November 2007- April 2008

Assisted in account mapping from old general ledger to new general ledger system.

Created FRx Financial Reports (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, etc.) so the company no longer used Microsoft Excel for the monthly financial statements which created efficiency.

Assisted tax department in creating FRx reports for quarterly and annual tax deadlines as it related to a REIT.

RBS Worldpay, Atlanta, GA September 2001- September 2007

RBS Lynk is a national provider of electronic payment, cash dispensing and e-commerce solutions.

Financial Reporting Manager

Managed and mentored two financial analysts in the analysis and review of revenue and expense reporting.

Forecasted monthly revenue for payment, cash advance and prepaid divisions.

Reviewed and presented the annual budget to CEO and CFO after working directly with CIO, CMO and other department heads to promote accountability.

Worked directly with Chief department heads for quarterly forecasting of revenue and expenses.

Financial Analyst IV

Supervised financial analyst in the analysis and review of sales, general and administrative expenses.

Supervised one financial analyst in the analysis and forecasting of executive budget vs. actual sales, general and administrative expenses.

Forecasted revenue for payment, cash advance and prepaid divisions giving senior management the ability to view total year revenue figures based on current year trends, so they can make informed decisions on the direction of the company.

Completed parent company reporting for ROI analysis.

Financial Analyst III

Reduced time on consolidation and human error, created ability to view business at several different levels by implementing FRx Forecaster for budget.

Completed executive budget vs. actual sales, general and administrative expense analysis enabling CFO to have in-depth knowledge of large variances for explanation to parent company.

Completed strategic action plan for senior parent company, Royal Bank of Scotland including IFRS reporting standards.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Accounting, Rutgers University Business School, 1999, 3.50 GPA

Associate of Science, Business Administration, Gloucester County College, 1996

Technical Abilities

Expert in Excel (Pivot tables, VLookup, nested formulas), Proficient in MS Access, PowerPoint, Word, Hyperion Essbase & Smartview, FRx Reporter & Forecaster, Cognos, & Enable Rebate Software

ERP Systems: JD Edwards, MAS90, Great Plains, Baan, Hyperion Financial Management, SAP

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