Angela Harrison

• PepsiCo – $79B global food and beverage leader with a product portfolio including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales
• ConAgra Brands – $11.2B food and beverage services
• Wolters Kluwer – $6B Global technology leader in professional information, software solutions and services in the health, finance, and legal sectors
• Sara Lee (Hillshire Brands) – $4B Food Manufacturing
• Tropicana Beverages Group – $1.1B global beverage manufacturer
• Granite River Labs – $17M privately held company providing engineering services and test automation solutions firm for connectivity and charging
• Outform fka Rapid Displays – Privately held retail marketing company providing a creative design and technology capabilities
• Arthur Andersen – Accounting, Tax & Business Consulting Firm

• Prepared and presented net revenue annual operating plan, monthly and quarterly forecast, and flash in accordance with organization objectives for a variety of companies up to $500M in revenue. Reviewed results, analyzed, explained major variances, and made recommendations for corrective actions, as needed to support organizational goals.
• Managed P&L performance against plans and estimates, including sales, margins, manufacturing costs and variances, administrative expenses, depreciation expense and interest expense.
• Delivered value to organizations with expert financial analysis, business consulting services and management of highly effective business planning and internal control.

• Extensive experience building, improving and refining budgets, forecasts, planning, analytical, and other types of financial models in various companies.
• Significantly improved the efficiency and flexibility of a financial model by applying more suitable formulas, streamlining relationships, and cutting out redundant information.
• Created detailed 13-week rolling cash flow models in support of working capital and CAPEX planning, and monitoring debt covenants coverage.
• Developed a robust and detailed bottoms up variable cost of sales model for 5 lines of businesses, by region and pack size for the Foodservice division of a global food and beverage company.
• Developed and maintained a detailed brand profit evaluation model for region finance and sales Managers allowing the ability to evaluate incremental funding requests and manage and negotiate contract bids more effectively.
• Led a task-force team to develop regional P&L models for field finance team to provide them with visibility to their performance allowing better decision-making to influence the bottom line.

• Provided financial decision-making support to Sales leadership and cross-functional teams by proactively supplying ongoing, timely and meaningful financial analysis, including business results, trade investment choices, modeling incremental funding requests, and gap management programs.
• Managed customer level pricing and trade spending for various grocery retailers.
• Provided management oversight and control to ensure trade spending guidelines were met and that trade investments were efficient and effective.
• Analyzed incremental customer promotion requests for alignment with pricing strategies and account growth initiatives ensuring initiatives were profitable and aligned to corporate policies.
• Gained over 15 years of experience in staff and management positions at consumer-packaged goods companies, specifically food and beverage.
• Provided customer insights and analysis into drivers of change for key metrics: volume, price, margin, and profitability by product.

• Directed and participated in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes for a variety of companies, including developing complex trade accruals, and preparing inter-company journal entries. Assured the timeliness and accuracy of data and integrity of reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Reviewed and analyzed results, explained major variances, and made recommendations for corrective actions in various companies.
• Performed consolidations impacting manufacturing cash flow for a company with 4 entities to be included in the consolidation process. Eliminated intercompany activity as part of the consolidation.
• Performed quarterly trade liability review and analysis of trade reserves at the customer level to align on reserve balances with the Controller team.
• Reviewed and approved trade events for a beverage manufacturer ensuring that all promotions were accounted for correctly and were in alignment with plan/forecast as well as compliance with corporate policies.

• Managed calendar, task list and resources for monthly forecasting, annual budget, strategic planning, and quarterly external reporting processes. Coordinated within and across various functions.
• Led a comprehensive improvement effort on a number of payroll departmental projects including establishing employer tax withholding and unemployment accounts nationwide in a post-acquisition environment. This consisted of reviewing state requirements, driving task completion, and conducting status meetings with management.
• Revised Period Close Request calendar to make deadlines clearer and communicate schedule changes to preparers as needed.
• Improved flow of reporting by meeting with stakeholders to shift deadlines forward which removed one day from reporting process.
• Monitored costs and ensured that total costs remained within established budgets; coordinated the request of additional funds as necessary due to changes in scope/deliverables.
• Led a process improvement project with Hyperion Essbase support group and Financial Systems group to improve and streamline cash flow forecasting models and to reduce complexities in the process.
• Served as department change-agent for SAP implementation to ensure a successful role out and optimal utilization of the SAP tool by communicating updates and deadlines relating to the release, assigning SAP roles and appropriate training to end-users, and was the liaison between end-users and the SAP Process leads to resolve any concerns or provide answers to end user questions.
• Managed and performed data validation process of the income statement and balance sheet across 10 entities during an implementation from QuickBooks to OneStream.
• Facilitated meetings with process owners and managers to create new SOPs and update existing SOPs across multiple accounting departments.

MICROSOFT EXCEL

• Advanced level user including pivot tables, usage of analytical tools (i.e., Goal Seek), formula building (SUMIF, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, V-Lookup, H-Lookup, date, and time functions, statistical functions (MIN, MAX, MEDIAN), worksheet sharing and protection, and customization of toolbars.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

• Advanced Level PowerPoint User including, creating slide masters, working with templates and layouts, inserting objects (pictures, symbols, charts, sound), creating graphs and organization charts.

MICROSOFT WORD

• Advanced Level Word User including embedded objects, linked charts, tables, and form design, organizing files (Table of Contents, Heading, etc.)

SAP BPC & CRM

• Uploaded net revenue budgets and forecasts using the SAP BPC Excel Add-in. Also, used BPC to build input schedules for data entry and reports.
• Reviewed and approved all trade agreements entered into by the sales organization to ensure that period trade accruals were properly generated.

BUSINESS OBJECTS

• Used Business Objects to report and analyze sales and customer data.

HYPERION ESSBASE

• Used Hyperion Essbase Add-in for Excel in hundreds of Excel templates for forecast and budget cycles. Including exports to Excel and imports from Excel.

OTHER

• Working experience with the following packages: One Stream, QuickBooks, Oracle Financial and Lawson

University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign

• Bachelor of Science Accounting