Nia Imanii Steele

Trade Budget Accountability:

• Owned a $300MM Trade budget, and delivered estimates and analysis of change to DFO, P&A Manager, Trade Director/Trade Ops Manager, and Finance Guidance Managers.
• Conducted In-market spending analytics to inform the financial risk profile
• Assessed the financial impact of trade strategy changes.

Supported the Dairy brand teams in developing their Strategic Revenue Management strategies.

• Provided strategic guidance on pricing execution frameworks
• Conducted List Price modeling and financialization
• Aided in frequency and depth of discount optimization
• PPA strategy and channel harmonization

Partnered across the Dairy Sales, Brand, and Finance teams to

• Influence trade strategy and improvement of Cereal trade effectiveness through ongoing analysis and partnership with OU Sales and Region Sales Teams
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and reporting.
• Own financial processes related to Spring Plan, Sales Release, and field True-Ups.

Owned Tax Department Budget Processes, including:

• Managing the Tax billing process via Legal Tracker
• Monthly accruals and budget reconciliation in SAP
• Year-end billing and accrual process
• Tax sourcing, billing, and payment process expertise
• Partnership with 26 3rd party firms (Big 4 + legal firms) on efficient and effective billing practices

Tax Operations point for Security / Access:

• Department LSA (SAP Access)
• Assist Tax team with systems access needs (HFM, AFO, GFP, etc)

Transfer Pricing Organization support:

• Manage data gathering and track transfer pricing compliance
• Utilize Alteryx to build Workflows to support Country by Country Reporting
• Local file reports
• Country by country reporting compliance support + notifications, including Tableau visualizations.
• Corptax entity set up
• Quarterly royalty calculations
• Public Country by Country Reporting support

Prioritized ad hoc project support that included but was not limited to:

• GM Ops project to ensure the betterment/accuracy of our international reporting
• Lead a new project to offload Business License and Compliance completion to an outside firm

• Waste Deep Dive – Looked across GMIs North America Supply Chain to assess the drivers of Raw Material and Finished Goods waste over three fiscal years to make recommendations on where and how to improve to get to best in class performance.
• Planning & Forecasting Benchmarking – Leveraged an external Gartner Maturity Model to assess where the company fell on various aspects of forecasting and make recommendations on where to focus efforts for our future improvement roadmap.