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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Own the FP&A process, driving bottoms-up budgeting, quarterly forecasts, monthly variance analysis and customizing executive management reports. ► Strategic partner to the executive team and supported the leadership teams of Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Cloud Operations, Technology and G&A (including HR, IT, Security, Legal, Compliance and Accounting/Finance) as their Business Partner.► Implemented Workday Adaptive Planning to streamline the planning process, provided visibility to the CEO/CFO, reduced preparation time by 40%-50% and scaled for growth.► Implemented Xactly Incent which automated the manual sales commission process, reducing calculation time by 5-7 days and gave the sales team daily access to their monthly achievements.► Integrated Workday HR data into the planning system which automated the calculation of compensation and related employee expenses, reducing manual effort by 3-4 days.►Enhanced headcount tracking, providing accurate data to the CEO/CPO for timely, insightful and actionable discussions, leading to accountability of budgeted vs. actual hiring and the impact on the strategic plan.► Built and mentored FP&A team, developing critical thinking for analyzing and interpreting financial data, resulting in insightful business perspective and transforming strategy into dynamic budgets/forecasts.► Created dashboards as an analytics tool, tracking key metrics and trends, communicating business critical information, allowing for true data driven decisions by the Executive team.► Partnered with our VC’s on all quarterly/annual reporting requirements to ensure investor compliance.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Hired for a new position created when the world's second largest staffing company acquired a competitor and expanded its workload. Hit the ground running during integration and ultimately became a valued strategic business partner to the President and leadership teams of Engineering, Life Science, and Healthcare Divisions.Highlights:► Strengthened reporting capabilities for the Engineering team by creating reports based on customer-specific metrics, enabling decision-makers to identify trends within the temp business, understand the impact on the financials and continually build new revenue streams to grow the business by 10% each year.► Created forecasts and reviewed financial results with the CEO/CFO/Division Presidents, tracking variances and KPIs, providing insights into current trends and the impact on future business, and highlighting areas of concern to ensure constant focus on reducing costs and optimizing revenue► Enhanced the rate calculator for the specialty recruiting team by adding relevant data points to calculate hourly base rate/housing/per diem payments by placement, resulting in increased revenue per assignment.

Munich, Germany, De

Joined global organization at the U.S. accounting level to add depth with international experience and IRFS knowledge in order to elevate the team to achieve strategic goals and set it up to handle future growth.Highlights:► Reduced the month-end closing process by 2 days for 5 legal entities, meeting monthly deadlines set by Corporate and ensuring timely reporting to the Parent for consolidation of worldwide results.► Introduced a Finance Business Partner model to support each division/company, providing much needed support and guidance, allowing for increased cross knowledge transfer, better planning/forecast cycles and built trust and confidence with HQ in Germany.► Elevated the team through training on IFRS, increasing their knowledge and understanding of the accounting standards, having a positive impact on their competency and accuracy in their work and reporting to HQ.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

I was recognized for consistently delivering excellence and bottom-line contributions throughout duration of tenure. I accepted multiple promotions into progressively challenging roles, including Controller, Accounting Competency Centre (2003 - 2004) / U.S. Country Controller (2000 - 2003) / Senior Manager, Accounting (1998 - 2000) / Assistant Controller (1993 - 1998). I was appointed by the Global CFO (2004 – 2006) to lead 4 direct reports in driving operations for Financial Control Department in Amsterdam with emphasis on ensuring the seamless execution of monthly management reporting in compliance with IFRS standards.Highlights:► Led integration of all 88 General Ledgers from Excel spreadsheets into Hyperion Financial Management solution.► Reduced statutory reporting timelines and improved performance of Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Treasury Departments.► Managed monthly statutory reporting and analysis of global accounts.