James Carmichael
Summary: High achiever with 10 years of Finance experience at the 2nd largest Wine & Spirits distributor in the United States. Skilled at leading enterprise wide, multi-site, and multi-million-dollar initiatives through emphasis on teamwork and partnership. Proven track record of delivering results via actionable and comprehensive analysis using advanced Excel modeling techniques.
Work Experience:
(Jul 2022 – Jun 2024) Republic National Distributing Co; Supplier Finance Manager - TX Fine Wines; Grand Prairie, Tx.
Responsible for Pricing and Revenue Management (incl. GP, AR, funds, supplier investments, and budgeting) with 1 employee for portfolio of 23 top fine wine suppliers totaling ~$100M in 2023 sales.
(Oct 2018 – Jun 2022) Republic National Distributing Co; Supplier Investments Manager – Corporate; Grand Prairie, Tx.
Responsible for multi-state investment and fund performance management group with 3 employees, involving gathering, tracking, and analyzing investment and fund balance data corporately for over 20 states and almost 200 suppliers in the ~$250M RNDC investment portfolio.
(Jan 2016 – Sep 2018) Republic National Distributing Co; Sr Business Sales Finance Analyst - Corporate; Grand Prairie, Tx.
Responsible for multi-state financial and operational performance assessment involving gathering, tracking, and analyzing sales/distribution data, incentives, process development, and forecasting for one of largest suppliers in the RNDC portfolio.
(May 2014 – Jan 2016) Republic National Distributing Co; Sr Business Sales Finance Analyst – Texas; Grand Prairie, Tx.
Responsible for gathering, tracking, and analyzing sales/distribution data, incentives, process development, and forecasting for the second largest wine and spirits distributor in the US.
(Mar 2013 – May 2014) Pernod Ricard; Sr Financial Analyst - Corporate; Dallas, Tx.
Responsible for pricing products, gathering, tracking, and analyzing sales, process development, and special projects for the Continental US Division of the second largest international premium spirits company worldwide.
Education:
(2006 – 2008) Masters of Business Administration; University of North Texas; Denton, Tx.
(2001 – 2005) Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA); University of San Diego; San Diego, Ca.
Computer Skills:
Advanced in: Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic (VBA), MiscroStrategy (MSTR), Vistaar, Greatvines, PeopleSoft, Essbase, Essbase Administration Services (EAS), Hyperion, VISTAAR, iDIG, SharePoint, MS Power BI, SAP