Kelly Sommers

About Kelly Sommers

Strategic thought leader and finance director with global experience providing business insights based on deep and thorough analysis of financial results to drive profitable growth. Collaborate with key stakeholders, senior leadership and cross-functional teams to promote and advocate the role of analytics in decision making processes of changing market conditions, identifying opportunities and shaping strategic initiatives. Mastery in Hyperion Reporting. Key areas of expertise:Finance and Accounting | Strategic Planning | Risk Management | Financial Models | Budgeting and Forecasting | Process Improvement | Project Management | Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)| Talent Management*Business Planning and Analysis: Support senior leadership teams for forecasting, reporting and analysis of global financial results across manufacturing, supply chain and inventory. Collaborated with Global Office Products team to improve inter-company reporting. Implemented monthly close call and mandatory review of inter-company reports into the close process. Resulted in significant drop in elimination entry taken at Group, on a monthly basis.*Standardized Reporting: Created, developed, and implemented standardized monthly and quarterly global reporting deck for Executive Leadership. Information supports business performance assessment and identifies key opportunities and challenges. Streamlined monthly and quarterly reporting decks with significant report reduction.*Process Improvement: Converted labor-intensive manual process to online software usage for monthly state and local sales and use tax returns resulting in reduction of late fees and penalties by 85%. Created and developed a “Best in Class” globally scaled Selling, General, and Administrative (SG & A) workbook in support of a bottoms up SG & A build for budget preparation. Streamlined the collection process and provided uniform requirements across the company.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Fp & a

   Papa Johns

   Aug 2021 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

Education

• University of Illinois Springfield

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting

Skills

• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Leadership
• Management
• Financial Forecasting
• Auditing
• Budgets
• Finance
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Analysis
• Hyperion Enterprise
• Variance Analysis
• Sap
• Analysis
• Financial Reporting
• Us Gaap
• Account Reconciliation
• General Ledger
• Cost Accounting
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Internal Controls
• Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Process Improvement