Grace Anderson

Finance Leader | Strategic Thinker | Trusted Business Partner

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

Highly motivated individual with 7+ years of diverse experience. Demonstrated skills include financial analysis, modeling, forecasting, project management, people leadership, and driving decisions on key issues - across multiple industries.

Experience

  • Associate Director, FP&A at Havas Media Network
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Director of Finance, FP&A at Vetnique®
    Oct 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

    · Partner directly with CFOs and private equity stakeholders on AOP, quarterly forecasts (3+9, 6+6, 9+3), and lender compliance reporting · Built new consolidated dashboards and reporting processes that improved financial visibility and decision-making at the board and ELT level · Drive multi-entity consolidation (US, UK; responsible for board, lender, and management reporting packages) · Spearhead NetSuite/NSPB integration, harmonizing item mapping, FX, and planning processes · Lead advanced pricing and margin analytics across product portfolio, trade, and retailer margins · Coordinate transformation initiatives across FP&A, trade, and reporting, including pro forma adjustments, purchase price accounting, and integration cost tracking

  • Sr. Finance Manager - Consumer Product Division at Culligan International
    Jul 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Financial Owner supporting and strategizing growth on CPG brands under the Culligan umbrella, specifically: ZeroWater, ProOne, and Culligan DIY Key Responsibilities: -Partnering with my various BU leadership teams to provide insights, models, and advice into significant growth -Owning and developing all forecasting, planning, budgeting, month-end reporting, MFR/MBR's, and other financial reports -Driving SG&A reporting and cost control -Designing and leading business cases to launch new products

  • Finance Manager at Kimberly-Clark
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos

    Leading Financial Decisions and guiding financial strategy for the Sam’s Club business in all categories that KC supplies, including: Family Care (Cottonelle, Scott, Kleenex), Baby & Child Care (Huggies, Pull-ups, Goodnites), and Adult Fem Care (Kotex, Poise, Depend). Key Responsibilities: -Influencing price and promotional activity, providing insights into models showing potential ROI's -Coordinating Customer Business Plans to ensure timelines and plans were delivered -Collaboration with Sales and Marketing to monitor forecasts of Volume, Sales, and long range planning

  • Walmart (Bentonville, Arkansas, United States)
    • Senior Manager I, Finance
      May 2022 - Oct 2022 · 6 mos

      -Owner of distribution of > $8B annually with Global Tech Allocations

    • Tech Finance Manager 2, Business Insights and Analysis
      Mar 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      -Support Tech teams and Tech Finance by developing financial forecasts; driving business solution support; leading ad-hoc projects; analyzing financial impact of technologies, systems, and processes -Full ownership of the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. -Presents solutions and process improvements for domain group by gaining an understanding of current processes; identifying process gaps; working with domain group to devise solutions to close identified gaps; proposing process changes; assisting with the establishment of key performance indicator (KPI) guidelines; documenting the final process and presenting to senior management for approval; and analyzing and preparing support information for new systems or system enhancements. -Owner of Capital Reporting process, Depreciation Forecast for Total Global Tech, creator of Tech Value Realization Process driving investments and insights into Global Tech to C-Level leadership