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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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