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Santa Monica, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Outsourced Finance, Accounting, and HR firm providing CFO, Finance Director, Controller, Accountant, and HR services to early stage, high growth start-ups. Trusted advisors guiding founders and their teams.
• Set up best in class systems and processes to deliver timely and accurate financial information, management reporting, business plans, financial models, cash forecasting, and other detailed analysis
• Ensure compliance and coordinate with vendors, lawyers, banks, and investors to execute stock issuance and fundraising rounds

San Jose, CA, US

• Advised start-up, venture-backed technology, and commercial clients on treasury and cash management best practices. Served as the bank’s deposit products expert for all San Francisco region (400+) clients.
• Developed relationships with the bank’s clients by understanding their unique needs and delivered tailored solutions to add value to their operations. Led initiatives across different departments of the bank to create.
• Top performer, increasing sales of the bank’s deposit and credit products.

San Rafael, CA, US

• Led the finance consulting business of the firm - recruited and successfully managed a team of Controllers, Advanced Accountants, and Associates.
• Provided outsourced finance and business consulting services, acting as a trusted advisor to 20+ business owners across various industries.
• Performed due diligence of a $45M acquisition target resulting in material findings in favor of the client.
• Evaluated, recommended, and implemented optimal accounting systems.

• Co-owned and operated Sausalito's premier yoga studio, spa, and retail store.

• Led a direct and virtual team of 10+ managers to collaboratively design and implement a brand new forecast process across 130+ countries. Improved cash forecast accuracy by over 300% and increased cash flow.
• Selected to lead the project based on a demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally. Engaged Regional CFOs/Treasurers, Controllers, Procurement, Sales, and Credit & Collections teams to drive accountability.
• Trusted by CFO and Treasurer to build and manage a bottoms-up budget for a 100-person organization. Found creative ways to reduce costs, saving 10+ jobs.

• Developed and persuaded management to adopt a completely new method to manage foreign exchange risk, drastically reducing trading costs and foreign exchange risk exposure of over $2 billion.
• Proactively ensured foreign exchange exposures across all units were properly identified and hedged.
• Created a foreign exchange reserve model to estimate the cost of foreign exchange risk on project profitability.
• Significantly increased corporate liquidity by centralizing cash; developed bank relationship reporting.
• Merged the former-Alcatel and former-Lucent legal entities after the corporate merger.

• Led a team of 2 top performing individuals from the Financial Leadership Development Program.
• Managed Lucent’s $2 billion outsourced cash portfolio; determined asset allocation and monitored the performance of asset managers and their compliance with investment guidelines.
• Managed Lucent’s interest rate swaps, debt repurchase activity, monetization of non-strategic equity shares, and M&A due diligence / integration planning for the Treasury organization.
• Executed a $500 million syndicated revolving credit facility to provide back up liquidity.
• Prepared documentation related to change of control provisions. Led a consent solicitation for the 2.875% senior convertible debentures to remove reporting requirements.
• Prepared quarterly Risk Management Committee presentations and Capital Market update memos for the CFO.

• Prepared several proposals reviewed by the Board of Directors on topics as diverse as securities lending, make whole provisions on convertible debt, and cash investment guidelines.
• Performed a review of Lucent’s corporate aviation program; negotiated the purchase of corporate jets.
• Saved more than $2 million by renegotiating the terms of Lucent’s credit facility.
• Provided guidance on structured finance transactions, including the leasing of real estate and automobiles.
• Established Lucent’s first Taft Hartley Trust. Selected the custodian, investment consultant, and auditor, and prepared all meeting materials for Trustees.
• Increased interest earned on idle cash by executing the repatriation of over $1 billion in excess cash.

• Created trade credit review process for the Caribbean and Latin America region. Performed 300+ customer credit reviews based on financial statement analysis and other due diligence.
• Designed financial models and assigned credit risk ratings, trade credit limits, and recourse reserves.
• Evaluated vendor finance proposals, monitored loan portfolio, and recommended actions for debt recoveries.

• Provided global deal management support, including detailed analysis of business cases and financial models for 100+ customer bids and proposals totaling approximately $50 billion in revenue.
• Prepared executive summaries to facilitate discussion among Lucent Senior Leadership.
• Developed and deployed bid & proposal tools, such as an approval website, to enhance communication among key stakeholders, simplify the approval process and shorten the time to deliver bids to customers.

• Managed the financial planning process for a software business generating over $1 billion in annual sales.
• Devised a budgeted set of financial statements for each strategic business unit within the Software Products Group, focusing on key operational drivers and metrics to drive towards improved productivity and.
• Performed detailed financial analysis to provide management with the impact of decisions on financial results.
• Worked directly with the President/CFO, preparing presentations to facilitate communication of strategic direction and performance.

• Collaborated with a cross-functional, international team to research and successfully document all Lucent “Quote to Cash” processes within the European region, spanning 26 countries and $2 billion in revenue.
• Conducted audit meetings across all areas of the business to identify process issues and related business problems.
• Presented findings to senior management and made recommendations for increasing operational efficiency.

• Led the deployment of a global executive training program in partnership with professors from Babson College.
• Developed, tested, and deployed a CD-ROM and classroom based training course and knowledge sharing website used to enhance the financial, presentation, and analytical skills of over 3,000 finance associates around the.

Ms, Accounting & Entrepreneurial Finance

Bs, Finance & International Business