Heather Dudley

• Responsible for global financial planning process to include coordinating with teams across business segments to consolidate and report consolidated financial plan to executive leadership.
• Report quarterly consolidated financial results to Executive Leadership along with financial story detailing key variance drivers to prior year results and plan.
• Champion talent development programs, promoting employee engagement and retention while enhancing overall workforce capabilities.
• Drive operational efficiencies through identification and implementation of process improvements and automation.
• Partner with IT to enable the FP&A systems vision of enhancing the financial projection process and reporting to provide data-driven and timely reporting for decisions making.

• Worked with Corporate Planning team to build out processes, checklists and controls from scratch to create a repeatable process of developing the annual Strategic Plan systematically to report consolidated projections to Executive Leadership in time for reporting key metrics to investors.
• Led cross-functional teams for successful completion of major projects to include a new projection system used to capture and consolidate the 5-year financial projections.
• Cultivated strong relationship with key stakeholders across the organization to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing for enhanced financial projection accuracy and long-term success of achieving company financial goals.

• Managed annual expense budgeting processes to include regular expense forecast updates, and budget variance reporting processes to divisional leaders.
• Served as team lead for the BPC10.1 Project, in charge of developing expense budget and projection tools while partnering with Japan to guarantee cohesive global planning systems.
• Identified and implemented system enhancements and process improvements for faster and efficient reporting, expense management monitoring, and decision making.
• Developed financial reports and presentations for internal management reporting.
• Oversaw a team of 3 managers and 10 staff responsible for annual budgeting and on-going expense forecasting processes, and internal expense management reporting.
• Served as functional expert, responsible in executing BPC7.5 business planning and consolidation project (Project Ocean), working closely with the Japan team in building global budgeting and forecasting system.
• Formulated annual budgeting and on-going projection processes for US Segment and Corporate Segment while coordinating with business leaders in expanding expense projections from one year to five years.

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