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CFO @ International Greetings USA International Greetings USA is one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers, importers and distributors of gift packaging and greetings, stationery and creative play products.Responsible for all aspects of financial management and business strategy, including FP&A, treasury (managing bank relationships, ABL loans, FX hedging), tax, IT, pricing, supply chain, operation improvement, etc. Hired to double the business profit and grow both organically and through acquisition.☑ Corporate strategies (strategic sourcing, M&A, supply term and structure negotiation)☑ IT strategies Greater Atlanta AreaVice President Finance / Strategic Projects @ Mondi Bags USA (formerly Graphic Flexible Packaging) - Mondi is a 9 billion public company Led financial integration following a successful divestiture to Mondi Group in July 2014. Drove financial transformation and day-to-day finance operation, creating new business plans, negotiating external tax and audit contract, facilitating new bank account establishment.☑ Strategic planning and initiatives☑ Financial planning & analysis☑ P&L management☑ Business process improvement☑ Financial integration including building tax and treasury team☑ Treasury / cash management (AR/AP)☑ Tax outsourcing management From 2014 to 2015 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaCFO and Board Member of $800 million revenue Joint Venture @ Graphic Flexible Packaging (a JV of Graphic Packaging International) Appointed to turn around the company's most challenged division with $800M annual revenues to drive top and bottom line growth, build high performance finance team, improve financial results to prepare for the strategic sale of the business. Successfully divested the business to Mondi at industry leading 7.5X multiple within 2 years. Managed a team of ~50 people.☑ Restructured and built high performance finance team from scratch☑ Reengineered financial control & process, driving cost discipline and accountability across sales, supply chain and manufacturing operation☑ Developed strategies for optimizing plant footprint, divesting Plastic business ($200M), evaluating potential supplier acquisition in India, supporting customer pricing/contract term negotiation☑ Co-orchestrated capital investment projects for new product development, geography entry, capacity enhancement and lean production From 2012 to 2014 (2 years) Greater Atlanta AreaSenior Manager - Corporate FP&A @ Graphic Flexible Packaging (a JV of Graphic Packaging International) Conducted corporate FP&A activities for a $4.5 billion company with global business in US, Europe, China, Japan, etc. Graphic Packaging is heavily invested by private equity firm TPG Capital.☑ Long-range strategic planning and analysis☑ Budgeting and forecasting☑ M&A analysis and project management☑ Analysis of strategic initiatives (e.g.secondary offering, investment strategy)☑ Financial results analysis supporting earnings release and earnings call☑ Financial analysis supporting Board presentation From 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Manager, M&A Advisory @ PricewaterhouseCoopers Successfully partnered with corporate and private equity firms to assess financial robustness of the potential acquisition targets. Clients include private equity firms such as Sun Capital Partners, Quad-C, Arcapita, Apollo, Great Hill Partners and large corporations like GE Energy, UPS, ING Capital, NTT, SPX, Sumitomo, Omnicare. ☑ M&A financial due diligence for coporate strategic buyers and private equity clients☑ Industries experience include manufacturing, healthcare, retail, chemical☑ Buy-side and sell-side☑ Industry/market/customer analysis☑ Financial statement analysis☑ Contrat review (customer, supply, etc) From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Senior Associate, M&A Deal Advisory @ KPMG ☑ Divesititure / IPO projects☑ Financial due diligence for both buy-side and sell-side From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Financial Analyst @ GE Transportation ☑ P&L financial management of $200 million business☑ Financial reporting & analysis☑ Cost reduction projects From 2002 to 2005 (3 years)