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KENYA WILLIAMSON

Atlanta,Georgia

Summary

Finance professional with 9 years success in financial planning and analysis, pricing, reporting, report development, P&L management bridge reporting, as well as supporting mid-level management to c-level executives. Highly skilled at robust modeling and reporting techniques. Proficient knowledge of financial statement metrics and comprehension. Highly motivated and professional level support to senior executives. Accustomed to communicating financial results to internal stakeholders. Possess exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Manager

Acuity Brands
07.2022 - 08.2023
  • Manage $52M sales rebate and co-op program spend across ABL’s largest customers to drive incremental sales opportunities.
  • Drive ABL consolidation activities including Accrual Expenses, Cash Flow, KPIs and Monthly close activities.
  • Implemented risk management strategies to protect company assets and minimize losses.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams for strategic business planning and growth initiatives.
  • Collaborated with C-level executives and stakeholders to develop long-term financial plans.
  • Developed strategic plans for day-to-day financial operations.

Manage $52M sales rebate and co-op program spend across ABL’s largest customers to drive incremental sales opportunities.

Drive ABL consolidation activities including Accrual Expenses, Cash Flow, KPIs and Monthly close activities.

Sr. Financial Analyst, FP&A

Signify
01.2014 - 03.2022
  • Led global corporate functions of $1.2b business unit of Signify by gathering, analyzing, and consolidating financial data.
  • Coordinated with business leaders to develop and coordinate profit plans, strategic plans, monthly forecasts, allocations, goals and objectives.
  • Served as business partner and managed variance analysis,scorecards and preparing executive report presentations.
  • Generated month-end journal entries, headcount analysis, GL reconciliations and evaluated P&L operative results.
  • Conducted insightful root cause analysis to assist business managers with critical financial decision making.

Senior Pricing Analyst

Signify
07.2011 - 01.2014
  • Developed competitive pricing tactics using historical data, pricing tools, playbooks, statistical analysis and competitive data.
  • Influence business decisions through persuasive presentations of key findings to senior management teams.
  • Create various pricing analytic tools and scorecards to drive improvements in gross margin performance and stimulate YOY revenue growth.
  • Implemented new strategies for use by Sales, Marketing and Pricing to maintain competitive pricing, evaluate price/product mix objectives, and identify market dynamics and trends.

Education

MBA - Business Administration

Troy University
Troy, AL
05.2008

Master of Science - Business Administration And Management

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA
08.2000

Skills

  • Financial Modeling
  • Financial Reporting
  • Data Mining and Analysis
  • SQL
  • SAP
  • NetSuite
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Tableau

Accomplishments

  • Developed performance scorecards for Sales Executives to identify risk and opportunity and measure period incentive objectives.
  • Project managed a team of software developers in the automation of several C-level reports.
  • Developed business segment bowlers used to measure period over period performance metrics.

Timeline

Finance Manager

Acuity Brands
07.2022 - 08.2023

Sr. Financial Analyst, FP&A

Signify
01.2014 - 03.2022

Senior Pricing Analyst

Signify
07.2011 - 01.2014

MBA - Business Administration

Troy University

Master of Science - Business Administration And Management

University of West Georgia
KENYA WILLIAMSON