Professional Profile: A skilled Financial Executive  who is a cohesive influence in leading plan stakeholders to create and implement winning business strategies inside of Fortune 50 environments. Experienced in optimizing business performance concerning financial planning in domestic and international environments involving planning operations in marketing, manufacturing, and R&D functional areas.

• Consistently met or exceeded plan performance of operational budgets ranging from $39M to $254M in both domestic and international environments inside Fortune 50 companies.
• Implemented target driven planning methodology resulting in 50 % reduction in manhours needed to complete the annual plan process and resulted in an ongoing savings of > $2M annually.
• Designed new procurement practices for $58M of purchasing for multiple internal company clients resulting in leveraging the company's purchasing power, prevented failed audits and generated ongoing savings of > $2M annually.
• Developed new concept which enabled the integration of data between financial and procurement information IT data warehouses thereby allowing clients to realize 100 % accuracy in their expense forecasting.
• Enhanced organizational communications on procedural policy targeted to inform, educate, and increase employee mission critical skills with the introduction of innovative audio messaging media that delivered one source clear interpretation of correct company policy, planning guidance, assumptions, methodology, next step scenarios, and business process available on demand 24/7 to both domestic and international clients.
• Developed & standardized monthly measurements of cost variances across company's diverse product line thereby enabling successful analysis to be performed.
• Developed and implemented on demand end user training for new ERP functionalities which resulted in increased productivity, decreased errors, eliminated time wasting reconciliations, and improved end user self reliance 100 %

Present: 2007 -

Semler Consulting, Recently engaged in multiple assignments with Pernoid Ricard, Dun & Bradstreet, Crane Co. American International Group, Mercer Consulting involving process documentation, development of monthly corporate performance metrics, capital expenditure policy update, end user training, business analysis user acceptance testing, ERP system upgrades, and data base development.

Previous: 1976 - 2007

Business Analyst, Cushman & Wakefield Inc., Corporate Finance World Headquarters, NY, NY 2004 - 2007 3 years
Finance QA/system integration. Authored white paper for Common Financial ERP system platform for domestic and international operations which detailed its justification and implementation strategy. Facilitated Peoplesoft ERP system upgrades successfully without incident. Executed ERP user testing, functionality verification, and training of end user personnel.

Manager of Financial Plans, Controls, & Analysis, IBM Corporation, Global Services Marketing Communications, Somer, NY 1980 - 2003 23 years
Provided respondsible financial plans, controls, forecasting, and analysis support for internal worldwide operations concerning R&D, manufacturing, and marketing environments involving expense controls and tracking, capital planning, foreign currency evaluation, monthly performance report creation, production/analysis, annual plan process development and execution, year end expense management and accrual determination, and resource planning. Insured organizations in my charge were audit ready and compliant with internal controls. Oversight of organizations internal purchasing function and process documentation.

Department Manager, International Financial Analyst, PepsiCo Inc., Corporate Headquarters, Concentrate Division, Purchase NY 1978 - 1980 2 years
Provided asset management leadership and strategic direction that included; operational planning, analysis, forecasting, capital evaluation, and evaluation of foreign currency exchange functions for overseas concentrate plants.

Financial Advisor, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, Plainfield, NJ 1976 - 1978 2 years
Analyzed and consolidated standard cost variances for marketing and manufacturing operations. Coordinated and managed the preparation of the annual profit plan and monthly operations reviews