Laura Norris
Saint Louis,MO
Summary
Astute, focused and solutions-driven financial professional, with skills in financial analysis, accounting, and supply chain, within a competitive environment. Advanced skills in: JDE ERP System, SAP ERP System, Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint, Communication and coordination, Oracle – Hyperion Data Relationship Manager, Oracle – Essbase Administration Services, Business Objects, Power BI, Project Management, SQL, SharePoint. Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker and consensus builder.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Credit Team Lead- Finance Americas
ICL Americas
01.2020 - Current
- Responsible for overseeing credit analysis and financial risk mitigation for ICL’s North American businesses
- Responsible for overseeing daily team’s efforts at establishing credit and working with trade credit insurer to meet business’ credit needs for North America customers
- Perform risk assessments and make determinations regarding the creditworthiness of new and existing customers, in accordance with the credit management policies
- First direct resource to resolve credit issues for internal and external customers
- Participate and oversee collections of accounts receivable for an average of $98M in monthly sales to maximize cash flow
- Evaluate customers purchasing patterns against their credit limits to ensure to not overextend customer’s credit limit.
- Evaluate financial statements to determine credit eligibility
- Review financial reports from external agencies and run compliance checks for new customers.
- Evaluate securitization activities for month end for all of our North American Companies.
Order and Revenue Management Specialist
Aclara Technology (Hubbell)
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Work weekly with sales and project managers to ensure timely billing for all ongoing projects and ensure that project dollar’s fall into the correct forecasting months
- Answer customer questions about billing issues and work to resolve for timely payments
- Supported day to day inventory for all Aclara customer upgrades (US and Puerto Rico) from our 3rd party supplier
- Accountable for issuing PO’s for all current upgrade orders, and working with sales, finance, and credit departments to ensure quick turnaround
- Responsible for all monthly billing for our Aclara Wireless service for grid monitoring and Metrum divisions
- This involves working with sales, credit, legal, and finance, to make sure that all legal documents are in place for SOX compliance.
Financial Analyst/FP&A
Treehouse Foods/ConAgra Foods/Ralcorp Holdings
01.1996 - 01.2018
- Primarily responsible for Budget and Forecast administration functions for Hyperion Planning, month end actual processing, and variance analysis
- Ensure data integrity and smooth interface of $96.8m in budget data and monthly forecasting from our planning tool to our reporting tools; CPPL and BPC
- This involves working closely with supply chain, demand planning, IT, Master data, transportation, and business owners to ensure accuracy
- Supported movement of $104.5m in actuals from the ERP system into our reporting tool CPPL for the monthly close process
- Master data updates or additions to ensure smooth flow of data
- Reconciliation of all dollar movements between systems
- BI Ad Hoc reporting as needed for business needs
- Responsible for the creation of Pro-Forma P&L’s to analyze the profitability of new business opportunities, current business, and give recommendations on pricing for the snack nut division aiding a $5.1m in annual sales
- Collaboratively work with marketing, plants, sales, packaging engineers, and procurement to gather all pertinent data to complete pricing for customer bids and requests for price
- Gave recommendations on product discontinuations due to low volume/profitability
- Worked to streamline formulations for all items being bid on to ensure efficiency and lower costs in our plants.
Education
MBA - Business With Concentration in Accounting
Maryville University
Saint Louis, MO01.2015
Bachelor of Science in Business - Business Administration
Maryville University
Saint Louis, MO01.2013
Skills
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Client Service
- Invoice Verification
- Leading Team Meetings
- Team Supervision
- Coaching
- Analytical Thinking
- Issue Resolution
- Data Analysis
Timeline
Credit Team Lead- Finance Americas
ICL Americas
01.2020 - Current
Order and Revenue Management Specialist
Aclara Technology (Hubbell)
01.2019 - 01.2020
Financial Analyst/FP&A
Treehouse Foods/ConAgra Foods/Ralcorp Holdings
01.1996 - 01.2018
MBA - Business With Concentration in Accounting
Maryville University
Bachelor of Science in Business - Business Administration
Maryville University