JOSEPH HOM

Port Chester, NY 10573 SUMMARY A highly skilled and globally minded professional with wide ranging experience in SAP, change management, logistics, productivity, marketing/business analysis, strategic planning, and operations. Demonstrates expertise in metrics, key performance indicators, financial analysis, benchmarking, auditing, and continuous improvement. Technical and business background provides a theoretical and practical understanding of systems with a focus on corporate issues and objectives. EXPERIENCE PEPSICO INTERNATIONAL, Valhalla, NY 2004 - 2011 Finance Manager Owner of budgeting process (annual, quarterly) and financial period close including cost driver issues. Responsible for the integrity of freight billing process, account reconciliations, inter-departmental cross-charges, accruals, reversals, and operational activity charges totaling over $11 million in expenses. Active participant in SarbanesOxley controls and documentation. Completed budgets on annual and quarterly basis utilizing data extraction and merging, reconciliations, year on year comparisons, macroeconomic factors, productivity initiatives, forecasts, and stakeholder input totaling over $12 million. Completed financial period close including account reconciliations and variance analyses to budget ranging from $700,000 to over $1.1 million. Assisted in financial monitoring of savings projects totaling $1.7 million annually and exceeding targets to over $2.3 million. Provided financial control of five capital projects totaling over $7 million including approvals and payment. Managed ad hoc requests for cross-charges, activity based costing, reconciliations, analyses, financial projections/forecasting, and data gathering. Validated, verified, audited, and reconciled weekly departmental charges and postings to affected accounts. Managed vendor relationship including charge allocation and vendor costing/charge resolution totaling over $4.7 million annually. Named subject matter expert (SME) as Power User (reporting and data needs) and Super User (SAP expert). Worked with corporate partners as Power User to enhance and develop data sources and reports to meet end user needs. Designed and developed training and reporting tools as Super User to enable department and fellow corporate colleagues. Completed departmental deployment and readiness for successful SAP implementation as Change Agent (role mapping, training coordination, cascading information, general awareness). Completed freight budgeting and cost variance analyses for non-carbonated soft drink lines to identify opportunities to improve upon $100 million expense. BAYER CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA 1998 - 2004 Supply Chain Consultant/Analyst, 2003 - 2004 Effectively worked in Global Supply Chain Management group involving metrics / key performance indicators (KPIs) to implement and coordinate project plans with stakeholders on a global basis, enabling them to evaluate their effectiveness and performance. Efficiently collaborated with European colleagues to achieve project milestones, reporting, and master data requirements. Successfully completed ahead of schedule Order Change Ratio metric (KPI) with Regional Business Support group by coordinating legacy system data projects enabling Customer Service groups to advance their continuous improvement projects. Designed data retrieval and calculation processes to conduct Phillips Townsend Associates US portion of global benchmarking study of product supply chain comparing companys operations with its competition. Manager, Business and Economic Information, 2000 - 2002 Developed divisional consulting support by planning and directing projects which included competitor intelligence, company / market analyses, value chain analyses, financial analyses, and projections for business units. Designed financial analyses for business plan of new application of isocyanate and polyol composite for Polyurethane Division forecasting five-year sales increase of $22 million. Led and completed team assessment of thermoplastic elastomers industry by performing market research for Plastics Division in order to allow company to assess its market share. (412) 498-6861 joehom@flash.net

JOSEPH HOM, PAGE 2 Logistics Engineer III, 1998 - 2000 Coordinated initiatives of site projects to meet long-range strategic and site development plans of engineering and production groups. Acted as internal consultant for site projects by performing material, traffic, and personnel flow studies and analyses to provide basis for logistics concepts for upper management decision-making. Created layout and material flows for $5 million (150,000 square feet) warehouse turnkey project. Acted as Project Manager for material handling system expansion at manufacturing site. SOLVAY POLYMERS, INC., Houston, TX 1997 - 1998 Logistics Analyst II Generated ad hoc reports and conducted bulk terminal audits. Created content for departmental homepage on company intranet. Conducted and facilitated departmental staff meetings. Analyzed and reported performance of railroad industry to Society of Plastics Industries, which enabled objective assessment of weekly service recovery after railroad merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Managed order reporting to bulk truck terminals that facilitated proper delivery in excess of 1 million pounds (approximately $350,000) of product daily. EDUCATION RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Troy, NY Master of Business Administration, 1994 Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, 1990 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, 1989 International University of Japan (Foreign Exchange Studies), Urasa, Japan, 1993 TECHNICAL SKILLS SAP (ECC, BW, BEx), Business Objects, MS Project, MS Visio, Documentum, Brio, Oracle, MAPICS, Lotus Notes, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) EXTRA-CURRICULAR PepsiCo Employee Resource Group - Chair Gotham Volleyball Assistant Secretary, League Manager, Treasurer, Division Representative Big Apple Softball League Division Representative Employee Resource Group Chair Responsible for headquarter location employee resource group including programming for employees, working with other groups, engaging senior executive sponsors, and enabling/coaching of volunteer committee chairs. Worked with local (Senior Vice President) and national (Chief Financial Officer) executive sponsors to complete programming at various levels in the organization. Managed $10,000 annual budget to deliver activities and programming to employees and group members. Collaborated with several groups to complete joint programming for employees to create diversity and inclusion awareness of partnered groups and program topic. Worked with corporate chapters of other headquarter locations to enable and complete national corporate programs and goals to impact corporate social responsibility. Organized annual speaker series which included a state senator and former professional sports athlete. Created national awareness pamphlet for employees to learn about supporting employee resource groups. Headed committees that organized and collaborated with headquarter and field employees to secure sponsorship and volunteers for local fundraising events in New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA, and San Francisco, CA.