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Burlington, North Carolina, US

San Jose, CA, US

• Finance business partner for Omni Payments and Merchants Engineering including key product lines and brands like PayPal Checkout, Braintree, Hyperwallet, Zettle. Partner with the senior engineering leaders across the.
• Facilitate financial decision-making through building business cases, developing operational management of initiatives, and diagnosing challenges and opportunities at the global scale.
• Manage executive stakeholders with all financial support: P&L analysis, find cost efficiencies, provide flexibility to grow the business within the constraints of budget, financial insights for key investment decisions
• Partner with the Controllership to capitalize software development work across PayPal engineering teams, engaged with various engineering teams to ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with Corp FP&A, Business Ops, HR & Global talent and Business partners to provide actionable insights and influencing leadership to drive alignment
• Lead workforce planning function: Developing HC strategy and Reporting, Resource Planning, & providing business visibility on HC by locations/roles/portfolio/initiatives.

Morrisville, NC, US

• Served as a highly valued business partner to executive and cross functional teams driving annual operation plan, quarterly execution cadence, new business models, and scalable growth solutions.
• Analyzed gross margin and the cost structure of different generation products.
• Drove expense reduction through in-depth expense analysis that aided senior finance leaders and business executives in investment and expense optimization decisions.
• Participated in M&A integrations and designed key processes to successfully integrate the new organizations into Extreme Networks' financial systems.
• Partnered with business leaders, technical teams and finance to develop a new reporting methodology reducing the time to deliver financial reports to Senior exec team (from 8 days to 5 days)

Lincolnshire, IL, US

• Finance business partner for Enterprise Networking & Communications (ENC). Collaborated with Senior Management to ensure alignment and accuracy of their domain’s financial portfolio, specifically Headcount, OpEx.
• Develop business models that provide insightful analysis to support partner’s decision making in business operations, cost savings, and budget planning. Presented monthly financial results, variances to budget, risks.
• Drove expense reduction through in-depth expense analysis that aided senior finance and business executives in investment and expense optimization decisions.
• Identify & implement opportunities for standardization and automation of Opex and HC processes to enhance productivity for business & finance community

Chicago, IL, US

• Finance partner to the VP of WLAN Engineering and his staff.
• Participated in new systems implementation projects that required quick assessment of business needs
• Drove key strategic activities with product and engineering leaders owning financial modeling, business case development, and investment decision guidance critical to the achievement of product strategy.
• Collaborated with the Product leadership to develop and implement KPI’s that focus on key business drivers (financial + non-financial) to drive the right business outcomes.
• Spearheaded the effort to analyze product margin by geography, segment to determine returns on product investments.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Finance partner for WLAN BU.
• Full P&L responsibilities for WLAN BU product. Worked closely with the Business and Product teams to understand and address business issues. Provided financial insights that facilitate management decisions.
• Achieved committed expense savings by enhancing expense management and forecasting process
• Partnered successfully with cross-functional stakeholders in legal, sales, contracts, and operations on deals for large accounts, business and financial integration of several companies and management of OEM agreements

Stanford, CA, US

• Performed complex analyses supporting day-to-day management of the University $1.4B publicly traded debt portfolio, prepared short and long-term debt amortization forecast for SU and audit schedules on debt balances.
• Generated in-depth debt service and capital projects reports for upper management to facilitate business decision-making.
• Tracked external and internal debt use to insure compliance with GAAP, debt covenants and governmental regulations
• Collaborated with other Controller’s Office, Business Affairs, Land Building and Real Estate departments.

Stanford, CA, US

• Prepared departmental operating and summer school budgets, short and long-range budget forecasts and projections of departmental, designated, endowments funds and gifts, investigation of budget variances in funding and.
• Generated departmental monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and provided them to the Chairman.
• Prepared monthly reports and projections on departmental administrative and faculty support funds.
• Worked on areas to cut operating costs and to enhance efficiency of department operations.

Kalamazoo, MI, US

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Master, Economics

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