Christopher Nemes
Corporate Finance Leader Ex-Chewy | Ex-Amazon achieving financial stability and business insights, experienced in budgeting & forecasting, financial modeling, process improvement, and building high-performing teams
- Role
- Commercial Finance Leader at Chewy
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christopher Nemes
At the core of my professional journey lies a passion for financial excellence and a…
Experience
Commercial Finance Leader
Apr 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Head of Finance for Dog Food business creating tools that created actionable insights to help drive improvement in Sales and Net Income. Owned the creation of an evaluation tool that was used across the organization to determine profitability of proposed promotions with key metrics. Supported Weekly Business Review (WBR) presenting Sales and Gross Margins with key drivers to help identify trends and brands that are pulling/dragging on the business. Owned the budgeting and forecasting of the Dog Food category.• Owned the Finance side of vendor contract negotiations and helped the business drive the best possible terms for Chewy including improvements in Raw Margin, increase spend on Sponsored Ads, and better payment terms resulting in better cash flow management• Strengthen MAP (minimum asking price) Policy enforcement with vendors that resulted in increased sales and higher gross margin by creating dashboards that highlighted products SKUs that were in violation allowing Chewy quickly address issue with vendors• Help lead the change in promotion strategy based off key insights and data that resulted in more efficient usage of investment dollars while at the same time driving key metrics including new to segment customer, Autoship customers, Active Customers, NSPAC (Net Sales Per Active Customer), and Net Sales• Established a quarterly team meeting platform, facilitating the exchange of best practices, including forecast modeling, variance commentary, communication strategies with leadership, and effective priority management.
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor's degree, Finance
2013 — 2015
Skills
- Management
- Team Building
- Time Management
- Financial Analysis
- Customer Service
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Real Estate
- Coaching
- Investments
- Marketing
- Leadership
- Event Planning
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Finance
- Training
- Accounting
- Analysis
- Social Media
- Microsoft Word
- Public Speaking
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