Kari owns and operates KSL Bookkeeping & Analytics, a small business accounting consultancy specializing in QuickBooks financial software.  Kari acquired her experience with both large and small companies, in general accounting, supply chain, commodities, and brand finance. She incorporates initiative and sound judgment in setting clear expectations, managing workflow, and balancing priorities. Kari clearly and confidently interacts with all levels of leadership. Her strengths include her communication skills, ability to transition work processes, problem-solving abilities, and the competence to handle sensitive and confidential information. 

KSL Bookkeeping provides bookkeeping and basic accounting knowledge for small business owners. Kari is adept at reconciling accounts and producing financial statements. She performs accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, payroll and general journal transactions. Kari also provides QuickBooks company set-up, as well as system and content training. She has a real passion for training business owners to better understand their finances and financial software; when training one client company on the most effective ways to enter their transactions, Kari decreased the time it took to do entry by more than 67%.

Prior to opening KSL, Kari honed her profession with multiple positions of increasing responsibility at Kraft Foods. Her most recent position at the company was Category Finance Manager, where she was responsible for planning and analyzing results for a cheese brand that generated over $1 billion in annual revenue. Working with the category team, Kari created the annual financial plan and mid-year forecast revisions. She implemented planning best practices for the mid-year reforecast, reducing the planning time by 66%. Kari also created a financial business proposition for a new product line extension. The product was successfully launched in less than six months, which was 50% quicker than standard launch timing. Prior to that, Kari held several positions related to commodity and inventory accounting. She gained extensive experience in the financial flow of raw materials being converted to finished product, including a leadership role on the largest inventory conversion to SAP in the company’s history.  In each of her roles at Kraft, Kari was recognized as a financial systems “go to” person and conducted a great deal of training on multiple systems.