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- Accomplished Finance and Accounting professional with expertise in financial planning and analysis with responsibility for operations finance, HR analytics, strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling and financial reporting functions. - Results driven leader with proven ability to work with senior executives in implementing long term financial strategy through cost reduction, process improvement and revenue enhancement.- Adept at HR data analytics. Provided support to business units on compensation issues including annual compensation plans, new hire and termination packages, performance recognition, incentive plans, retention arrangements, and compensation structure. Automated and built HR dashboards to provide insights on workforce data. - Performed all aspects of financial reporting and analysis. Developed and managed comprehensive strategic plans, annual budgets and forecasts; performed ad hoc analysis and conducted special projects to provide financial guidance and insights in forming critical business decisions. Implemented analytical reporting to identified advertising revenue drivers, subscription marketing response rate to enhance revenue growth and improve margins. Performed analysis on key business ratio, benchmarking, contribution margins, sales trends and cash flow projections. - System implementations. Designed IT project evaluations and measurements tool to save $3 million in capital expenditures. Led a new SAP accounting system conversion to garner $1 million in annual savings. - Experienced with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Successfully managed the launch, sale, closure and relocation of multiple media magazine brands within the same year, effectively reducing expense by over $4 million annually. Optimized cost efficiency and revenue improvement for a new magazine launch to advance breakeven expectation by one year, exceed budgeted goals 2 years in a row.

Listed skills include Financial Analysis, Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Leadership, and 23 others.