AIMEE STEVENS

• Manage all FP&A for Home Fragrance (Yankee Candle, WoodWick, Chesapeake Bay) business unit (with $800 million in revenue).
• Lead monthly close and forecasting process for the business unit – analyze and report for review meetings with operations management, segment CEO, CFO and VPs, and Corporate.
• Lead annual plan process – prepare overheads and cash flow plans and partner with Brand Finance and Supply Chain Finance for consolidated P&L reporting.
• Manage headcount and all personnel costs; determined restructure plan in order to meet business cost, strategic and performance goals.
• Act as the CFO of the business unit - participate in all business planning activities with any major impacts on the financial and strategic direction of the business.

• Managed Gross-to-Net Sales FP&A and month-end close reviews for the Resilient Flooring IVC business unit (with $1 billion in revenue).
• Analyzed daily sales and claims trends.
• Created and standardized a customer business case template.
• Modeled numerous business cases, taking customer terms, pricing, cost, rebate options, supply chain factors and other assumptions into consideration.
• Presented and recommended business case analyses and customer proposals to business unit President and VPs.
• Supported Resilient Finance and Resilient Product teams in ad hoc analysis and other special projects.

• Member of the Ogden Plant Leadership Team overseeing 500 Kimberly-Clark and 200+ contractor employees and 10 machine lines; 2 direct reports (Finance/Procurement) and 2 indirect reports (Corporate Finance).
• Led monthly reviews of actual results, forecasts, annual plans, operational metrics and ad hoc reporting, and strategic long-term plan.
• Led cost savings initiatives such as labor analyses, material waste, sustainability and waste recycling and various capital project cost improvements; systematically tracked and reported to Corporate.
• Managed temp labor contractor relationship, wages, fulfillment and other KPIs.
• Analyzed plant metrics and managed plant hourly employee incentive program.
• Owned complete financial controllership for plant (compliance, audits, SOX).
• Assisted in Procurement, Payroll, AP and AR issues resolutions.
• Supported plant in various projects to optimize operational, safety, quality, people and cost performance.
• Performed various management responsibilities (leader standard work, meetings, presentations, mentoring, team-building, training, interviews, disciplinary actions, plant visitors, etc.).

• Financial Analyst/Controller for Executive Office, Administrative, Information Systems, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Flight Test and Fabrication operations.
• Led monthly reviews of actual results, forecasts, annual plans, headcount planning and ad hoc reporting for 4 Directors/VPs and several Senior Managers/Managers.
• Led strategic long-term plan for SG&A and Customer Service operations.
• Prepared explanations, graphs and charts for financial presentations to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team; completed company’s monthly finance dashboard presentation.
• Collaborated with Supply Chain Project Management on cost reductions and make versus buy projects and models.
• Led capital request process improvement project (consolidated executive summary and request form; increased approval limits; delegations of authority).
• Led various other finance projects and made financial decisions as needed.
• Member of Corporate Safety Committee and MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team; CPR/First Aid certified).

Performed monthly accounting close and financial analysis for Customer Service operations.

▪ Led monthly reviews of actuals, forecasts, annual plans, headcount planning for Director and Senior Leadership.

▪ Standardized monthly reporting and presentations for meetings with senior management and CEO.

▪ Created new business development, strategic long-term models and operational analysis models; calculated cash flows, NPV, IRR, MIRR,payback period, etc.

▪ Developed calculations and reporting for all operational KPIs and metrics (including warranty forecasting, claims/issue reporting, service plan capture rates, inventory accuracy and inventory turnover).

▪ Processed standard cost changes and completed annual cost roll; reported explanations for monthly PPV.

▪ Processed inventory cycle counts variances and performed quarterly audit.

▪ Maintained fixed assets and capital expenditures; completed fixed assets inventory audit.

▪ Completed monthly account reconciliations.