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COST OPTIMIZATION
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
CORPORATE FINANCE
Set the baseline & identify savings
As part of the consulting team, I worked on the visibility and value setting phases with a large B2B client.
My role was to
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analyze various expense categories (Marketing & Sales, Financial Services, etc),
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agree on the areas of potential savings with the client and
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identify several specific savings initiatives to hit the ambitious savings target.
As a result, the client identified 20 initiatives to pursue to reach the savings target.
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Implementing a Solution
After a large consulting firm had completed the first 2 phases of cost optimization, the client, a global cosmetics company, wanted to implement the project in-house and with the help of several independent consultants.
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I was brought to support their North America implementation (largest market). My role was to track savings, implement controls and identify additional savings opportunities.
As a result, the business was able to meet its ambitious savings target.
Finance Transformation
This Finance Transformation project was difficult because it meant radical changes for the client and each employee.
I was working closely with the client and esp. their leadership and the Finance teams to identify efficiency improvements.
As a result, the client was able to free up 25% of work time through centralization into Shared Services and by removing inefficiencies and duplications.
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Process Improvement
The client asked me to look into invoice issues they had with a specific US vendor. Invoices ended up not being approved for months and when they were approved, payment took again extremely long.
I interviewed Marketing and Finance teams in Europe and the US about the process with the vendor and analyzed the unpaid invoices.
After mapping the current process, I identified the issues: VAT and Shared Services inefficiencies. Once the issues were clear it took only a couple of weeks to fix them.
Product Innovation
At Coca-Cola, I was working together with the Marketing team, R&D, Supply Chain and others on new product innovations.
One of the projects was to bring Glaceau Vitamin Water to Europe.
I prepared all value chains for the various variants to identify the revenue margin and to set the consumer selling price.
The product was introduced as accelerated strategic initiative after a very short turnaround time.
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Budget Management
In one of my Corporate Finance roles I was in charge of $500M and had a team of 8 direct reports.
Strategic business planning, rolling estimates and variance analyses were an essential factor for meeting the budget targets every year.
Key factors for success: effective P2P system, insightful variance analysis and risk assessment.