Amy Lo Email & Phone Number

California, United States

• Finance business partner to Marketing and R&D with focus to optimize spend and budget management including project spend tracking• Liaison between R&D, Order Management and Accounting in capturing and reporting milestone deliverables for non-recurring engineering (NRE) reimbursements and government grants • Perform variance analysis at the department and project levels to identify and understand variance drivers, assess associated risks and opportunities• Partner with functional leaders to translate corporate strategies into an Annual Operating Plan• Support Product Management in annual development of new pricing strategies • Developed revenue reporting models with analytics in product lines, market segmentation, pricing, and regional top accounts• Provide financial modeling for new business opportunities and what-if scenarios, ROI and NPV calculation• Support pre-commercial and launch activities, report on new product performance• Adaptive Planning advisor to Corporate FP&A

• Managed annual operating budget through collaboration with department leaders• Developed financial models in Adaptive Planning to enhance budgeting and forecasting accuracy• Executed long range planning with focuses on change management, revenue growth, and profit improvements• Structured P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecast reports and scenario planning• Analyzed financial results and delivered executive and board-level reports• Prepared and published monthly dashboard and budget vs actual (BvA) reports• Finance business partner to Operations, Product Development, Commercial, and Corporate groups

Belmont, Ca

Financial Planning & Analysis• Led the implementation of expense, capital, and headcount planning from Excel to Adaptive Planning• Prepared annual operating budget, quarterly and monthly forecasts, and accounting analysis• Financial planning and analysis for department expenses including capital expenditures for Sales and Marketing, Corporate, and Technology groups• Analyzed expenses for accounting close• Formulated corporate cost allocations and intercompany charge-backs• Prepared monthly expense and cash flow variance reports to executive management• Supported audits and SOX walkthroughsTreasury Operations• Developed and managed weekly, monthly, and quarterly cash forecast reports• Led the implementation of positive pay for fraud prevention• Improved efficiency by implementing remote deposits, zero balance account structure, and direct deposit for employee expense reimbursements• Advised and recommended foreign exchange strategies to lessen foreign currency exposures• Implemented a cash disbursement policy

Santa Clara, Ca

Americas Sales and Marketing | January 2004 – May 2004 • Finance business partner to Americas Sales and Marketing team and actively managed monthly budget vs. actual expenditures• Supported management in budgeting forecast• Reviewed and approved expenditures to ensure expenses were within allocated budget• Facilitated with regional sales managers in the development of individual goals for sales engineers• Calculated the sales incentive payout to sales engineers• Prepared monthly financial reports for Worldwide Sales and Marketing HeadquarterCorporate FP&A | September 2002 – January 2004• Prepared financial reports for senior management• Gathered and validated weekly budget forecasts• Prepared weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports• Analyzed competitors financial positions and prepared benchmarking reportsTreasury, Foreign Exchange |June 2000 – September 2002• Identified foreign exchange risk and exposures. Provided hedging recommendations to Assistant Treasurer• Executed trading activities which included spots, forwards, vanilla options, and exotic options.• Participated in the successful implementation of FAS133.• Evaluated online trading with successful execution• Prepared monthly foreign exchange P&L and maintained various foreign exchange ratesTreasury, Cash Management |January 1998 – June 2000• Assisted in the management of $600M internal investment portfolio and daily liquidity requirements including executing purchases of commercial papers, euro-dollar deposits and money market funds.• Analyzed and prepared investment benchmarking reports• Prepared weekly and monthly cash forecast report• Managed interest income and interest expense for treasury P&L• Prepared journal entries and reconciliation of treasury related GL accounts• Prepared corporate covenant for debt compliance