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STACEY BAKER, MBA

Vice President Finance
Houston,TX

Summary

Versatile and accomplished finance professional with over 10 years of experience working in complex and ambiguous environments. Trusted and collaborative business partner regarded for technical expertise, analytical prowess, and for spearheading efficiency and process improvement initiatives. Detail-oriented and results-driven, with a track record of delivering the highest quality strategic solutions to resolve challenges and propel business growth. Repeatedly delivered exceptional departmental advancements within months of hire, leading to multiple internal promotions. Highly skilled in identifying areas of opportunity, linking analyses of detailed data and key performance indicators to big-picture results. Excited to bring broad experience in restaurant/hospitality, services, and manufacturing (food/CPG) industries to a growing organization to deliver first-class outcomes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Vice President Finance

The Fresh Food Group
The Woodlands, TX
03.2021 - 07.2021
  • Collaborated with executive team on Chapter 11 363 sale, drawing on extensive industry and financial knowledge to provide forecasting, due diligence, and scenario analysis to optimize successful sale outcome.
  • Regularly audited business unit financial statements and plant-level income statements and forecasts, redesigning and consolidating financial models in order to increase overall reporting accuracy and efficiency.
  • Led teams in FP&A, plant cost control, sales accounting, treasury, AR, AP & general accounting.
  • Effectively completed post-sale transition to new ownership teams, ensuring accurate tracking of cash, purchased/capped AR and AP and payroll cut-over.
  • Post-sale transition to new owners completed July 2021.

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Fresh Food Group
The Woodlands, TX
11.2019 - 03.2021
  • Built and managed company’s 13-week cash flow model, utilizing AR and AP data and historical trends and performance to provide board and lenders with short and long-term cash projections and track performance to account receivable and accounts payable aging targets.
  • Led company’s re-forecasting efforts amid COVID pandemic, modeling and presenting savings initiatives in collaboration with operations and HR teams to facilitate future profitability and cash flow recovery.
  • Collaborated with key business partners in sales, product development, procurement, accounting, operations and marketing to develop comprehensive sales pipeline and product development model that quantified opportunities and win probabilities to enable enhanced focus on strategic customers, channels, and product lines.
  • Hired and directed teams to achieve daily and long-term operations and business goals.
  • Assisted company executives during decision-making process by compiling daily reports to suggest corrective action.
  • Delegated assignments based on plans, project needs and knowledge of individual team members.
  • Worked closely with organizational leadership, including board of directors, to strategically affect direction of operations.
  • Analyzed financial statements against forecasts to prepare high-level variance analysis.
  • Analyzed financial data regarding product performance and customer performance and developed reports for key stakeholders.
  • Promoted to VP of Finance in March 2021.

FP&A/Decision Support Manager

The Fresh Food Group
The Woodlands, TX
06.2019 - 11.2019
  • Developed flexible and intuitive pricing models for company’s wide range of customers and products, providing actionable insights on key profit drivers, improving pricing request turnaround, and optimizing customer value proposition and internal margin growth.
  • Streamlined sales analysis and reporting packages; consolidated and unified data from multiple ERP systems and business units, and delivered additional insights into customer, category and SKU performance, providing sales team with more meaningful analysis for future discussions with customers.
  • Instituted weekly business unit income statement forecasts based on sales, key performance indicators and fixed costs forecasts, providing company leadership with enhanced foresight into future results.
  • Presented explanations of business drivers and provided recommendations to adapt to changing conditions.
  • Promoted to Director of FP&A in November 2019.

Advisor, Financial Planning & Analysis

Cardinal Health
Houston, TX
11.2017 - 06.2019
  • Consolidated financial reporting and performed variance analysis for 12 product lines in $32M EBITDA business unit.
  • Presented financial results and drivers to product managers, operations executives and enterprise financial leaders.
  • Composed business cases and conducted ROI analysis for business unit capital expenditure requests.
  • Provided guidance and direction to team of 4 analysts.
  • Identified and rectified reporting gaps and implemented process improvement initiatives.

Sr. Financial Analyst

Cardinal Health
Houston, TX
01.2017 - 11.2017
  • Led financial forecasting and long-range planning processes with business leaders, providing financial and analytical counsel to facilitate decision-making around strategic business initiatives.
  • Prepared monthly financial reporting packages for multiple product lines; led review calls and communicated cohesive and concise stories around business drivers.
  • Crafted financial models to run complex what if analysis and detailed forecasting scenarios.
  • Developed multiple of time-saving and accuracy-improving enhancements to existing processes by incorporating VBA macros or improved spreadsheet design.
  • Promoted to Advisor, FP&A in November 2017.

Head of Finance

Geotrace Technologies, Inc
Houston, TX
01.2014 - 10.2016
  • Led annual 3-statement budget process with global business leaders; consolidated multiple business units and currencies for presentation to Executive leadership and board.
  • Performed scenario analysis to adapt plan to changing business and industry conditions.
  • Developed succinct dashboards depicting operational KPIs and financial data; identified and implemented time- saving improvements, and eliminated duplicative reporting processes.
  • Prepared cash flow forecasts by analyzing work in process, backlog, and outstanding AR and AP; provided recommendations to management on effective use of capital.
  • Reviewed customer contracts to ensure compliance with business policies and protection of company interests.
  • Prepared financial and operational reporting packages for BOD and lenders; ensured compliance with lender covenants.
  • Presented financial results and forecasts to potential investors; facilitated due diligence for intended acquisition.
  • Company was liquidated in October 2016 due to unsuccessful acquisition subsequent to 2014-2016 oil crash.

Financial/Operations Analyst

Landry’s Inc
Houston, TX
10.2010 - 01.2014
  • Reconciled historical financial statements of acquisition targets to internal reporting structures.
  • Established financial models and reporting for newly acquired concepts; assisted in development of training programs and implementation procedures for acquired management teams.
  • Prepared proforma P&Ls for new locations and restaurant concepts.
  • Led annual budgeting process for multiple banners, encompassing 100+ individual units.
  • Worked closely with unit-level and senior management to determine and rectify drivers of under-performance.
  • Identified potential product loss through analysis of inventory and comp misappropriation.

Database Administrator

Landry’s Inc
Houston, TX
07.2010 - 10.2010
  • Created and maintained Access databases for multiple restaurant concepts, for use in production and menu costing.
  • Analyzed inventory variance reports in conjunction with recipes to identify possible shrinkage and recipe discrepancies.
  • Promoted to Financial/Operations Analyst in October 2010.

Education

MBA - Business Administration

University Of Houston - Victoria, Katy, TX
2009 - 2010

Bachelor of Science - Restaurant Management

University Of Houston, Houston, TX
2002 - 2006

Skills

Budgeting

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Software

Excel (VBA/macros, pivot tables, Power Query)

Access

PowerPoint

Anaplan

SAP

Hyperion

Microsoft Dynamics

Timeline

Vice President Finance - The Fresh Food Group
03.2021 - 07.2021
Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - The Fresh Food Group
11.2019 - 03.2021
FP&A/Decision Support Manager - The Fresh Food Group
06.2019 - 11.2019
Advisor, Financial Planning & Analysis - Cardinal Health
11.2017 - 06.2019
Sr. Financial Analyst - Cardinal Health
01.2017 - 11.2017
Head of Finance - Geotrace Technologies, Inc
01.2014 - 10.2016
Financial/Operations Analyst - Landry’s Inc
10.2010 - 01.2014
Database Administrator - Landry’s Inc
07.2010 - 10.2010
University Of Houston - Victoria - MBA, Business Administration
2009 - 2010
University Of Houston - Bachelor of Science, Restaurant Management
2002 - 2006

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