Andrew A. Austin Email & Phone Number

Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States

Sandy Springs, Georgia

Operating expense oversight for the Network Engineering Organization

Greater Atlanta Area

• Execute monthly financial reports, interpret results, identify meaningful variances and trends, summarize and provide context to senior management.• Develop complex business cases and analytical models in support of capital investment projects, improvement initiatives, and various other opportunities.• Liaison with other departments to collect data and align business case assumptions for input into business cases.• Perform business case scenario sensitivity analysis to provide informed recommendations to Product leadership.• Support research, analysis, model development and financial system input required to create annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for operating and capital expenses.• Assist in the development and maintenance of financial reporting to measure financial performance against budget and forecasts to identify trends and improvement opportunities.• Develop, maintain, and provide historical and prospective financial information and analysis.• Perform ad-hoc financial analyses at multiple levels of complexity which include calculations of NPV, rate of return, investments, cost analysis, and financial and expense performance comparisons.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Direct strategic financial forecasting, analysis, and reporting including the identification of risks and opportunities • Manage key collaborative relationships, including with the Operational VP and Technical Accounting team• Provide summarized metrics and data points on financial performance• Develop and maintain multi-year forecast model• Identify & provide analysis on critical assumptions

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Administer financial terms for contractual agreements with regional sports nets, ABC/Disney, foreign and premium content providers.• Develop $8 billion annual programming expense budget based on annual rate increases and subscriber commitments • Create financial scenario analysis for network negotiation support and impact of key deal terms. • Consult in-house legal counsel on establishing and amending the interpretation and implementation of negotiated financial terms.• Manage performance of Financial Analyst

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Managed payment and accrual guidance of Hispanic & Ethnic networks for both Comcast and contracted affiliate distributors.• Generated and audited subscriber distribution, trending, ethnic and top distributed networks reports.• Adapted NBC and Hispanic network groups contract language to payment and accrual guidance for corporate accounting department. • Monitored network programming to ensure adherence to stipulated content definitions and reported on compliance measurements.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Provided analysis of period-end rental property financial and operations information to provide explanations for property level variances. o Achieved Essbase ‘power user’ status to assist fellow Region Financial Officers in developing customized reporting.• Developed action plans with field management to reach net income targets and develop budget objectives.• Managed capital budgeting process and audited expense categories to ensure capitalization policy was consistently applied.• Analyzed key industry metrics, such as occupancy/rate, to drive improvement of operational profitability and performance standards.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed monthly reporting process through coordination of data accumulation and consolidation efforts across business units. o Worked cross functionally to aggregate managerial flash and dashboard reporting of key business drivers• Provided quantitative and qualitative analysis to update assumptions and guidance of items to be included in the rolling forecast. • Processed and approved managerial accounting adjustments to ensure GAAP rules are followed and financials are reported accurately.• Built consolidated reporting for revenue, SG&A and operations expenses, providing insight into all segments of business activity

Greater Atlanta Area

• Consolidated and mapped affiliate and wholly-owned international GL volume, revenue and expense data for in-house activity based costing model. o Decreased model’s variances by over 50% through proactive implementation of monthly reconciliation procedures.• Audited control totals to verify all data was captured and accurately classified to staff level management and Investor Relations dept. o Reduced processing time, by one day, for publishing managerial P&L reports through process improvement execution. • Developed initial Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) documentation and records retention procedures with external auditing team.• Created reporting to demonstrate impact of currency exchange rate and fuel price fluctuation on P&L.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Coordinated the international business planning process through revision and enhancement of the organization and account hierarchies. • Designed budget and forecasting models of expense by function based on key metric growth rates including: inflation, fuel and payroll.• Directed the international region transition to Khalix for Windows (Longview Solutions) planning and reporting software. • Worked cross-functionally to coordinate delivery, import and audit of marketing feeds for volume and revenue data.

Greater Atlanta Area

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), General And Strategic Management

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma•Foundations of Strategic Management •Industry Competitive Analysis •Management of Growth.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Banking & Finance

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi, Cheerleading

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Economics

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