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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for all key financial, operational, and management reporting and analytics for two hospitality businesses: Sprinkles Cupcakes and Picnik Restaurants.• Prepare detailed weekly comprehensive analysis of sales, relevant trends, and KPI’s, and present to executive leadership team.• Build bakery and restaurant concept-level budgets and forecasts; provide insights on key variance drivers.• Build and maintain financial models, compile reporting and analyses of financial results, trends, and outlooks for use by bakery-level operations management, field leadership team, executive leadership, investors, and Board of Directors.• Collaborate with leadership, marketing, and operations on pricing strategies and promotional offers; project financial impact; prepare and evaluate look-back analyses to determine overall impact to revenue and margins and strategize future marketing and promotional activities.• Generate quarterly financial reporting and assemble comprehensive presentation for Board of Directors through coordination with department heads.• Provide financial data for Franchise Disclosure Document; build underwriting models for new bakeries, including franchises.• Support bakeries and restaurants by providing key reporting and data analytics and addressing ad hoc concerns and inquiries.• Continually improve processes and accuracy by identifying best practices and developing improvements through innovation and automation.• Train, manage, and mentor direct report, fostering growth and development.• Oversee sales and labor data management system; responsible for custom reporting, data integrity, system enhancements and corrections, and end user access.

New York City, Ny, Us

Own Free Cash Flow consolidation and reporting requirements for large, complex media business.Selected Accomplishments:• Leverage advanced Excel models to navigate diverse business, including physical sell-thru, consignment, rental revenue sharing, and licensing• Build annual FCF budget for NBCUniversal's domestic physical transactional home entertainment business, annual OCF budget for distribution partners• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual FCF financial reforecasts for senior management, including detailed by-title variance explanations versus prior estimate

New York City, Ny, Us

Headed accounting processes, policies, controls, and systems for NBCUniversal's domestic home entertainment business.Selected accomplishments:• Coordinated and managed monthly and quarterly financial close process, ensured accuracy of General Ledger while maintaining rapid timelines and deliverables• Collaborated with internal and external auditors as point person for annual audit, SOC 1 report, and controls testing for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance• Managed compilation of comprehensive Balance Sheet review and presented to senior management quarterly, highlighting key business successes, challenges, and ongoing projects, emphasizing high impact items such as accounts receivable aging, bad debt, inventory obsolescence

Burbank, Ca, Us