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Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for supporting three SVP cross-functional teams. Provide insights and effective communication to Marketing Leadership for optimization of annual spend. Build strong partnerships with our clients to understand storylines and create executive presentations incorporating financial performance, efficiency opportunities, and strategic imperatives to enable sound business decisioning. Developed standardized process to provide support for forecasting, R&O management, and investment opportunities.Helped implement Business Operations Coaching Culture across finance organization (200+ finance leaders). Developed coaching circles to help transform how leaders provide consistent and effective coaching to empower our people

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed team that delivered 100+ business cases annually. Provided effective leadership and development for team of 7 analysts (4 directs) through coaching, real-time feedback, and partnership with clients. Implemented business case standardization processes to improve financial outputs, presentation consistency, and cross-functional communication with boundary partners and clients. Led and implemented Operational Review Council (ORC) with Chief Operating Officer and Senior Leadership Team to ensure funding/alignment of key strategic initiatives while translating operational plans into financial impacts.

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed and drove the budget process to align with macroeconomics/industry trends, historical analysis, and operational field insights. Created strategic roadmaps for budget process improvements that allowed our team to gain alignment with senior leadership while hitting aggressive planning deadlines. Led a team of two Sr. Financial Analysts within our broadcast divisions (TV/Radio) representing $1B+ Revenue. Managed Cox Media Group (CMG) consolidations and created executive level PowerPoint presentations for senior leadership that were used across all CMG divisions. Developed Incentive Compensation Model to forecast bonus payouts and present results to CFO quarterlySelected Committee Lead for 2018 Finance Summit held annually to discuss forward looking initiatives and efficiency opportunities facing CMG and Industry.

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for communicating month-end results, developing forecast, budget planning, and providing client support for the radio division which consisted of 50+ stations across 10 different markets. Automated the budget and forecasting process by creating driver based forms which resulted in increased efficiency. I built strong relationships and collaborated extensively with Finance VP's, Market GM's and Market Directors to offer daily financial support including P&L activity, variance analysis, KPI reporting, and operational recommendations.

Greater Atlanta Area

Performed financial statement audits of both public and private companies through substantive/analytic procedures and control testing across various sections of the income statement and balance sheet. Gained experience in several different industries including energy, financial services, and manufacturing.

Responsible for developing financial models to evaluate flight profitability for commercial routes to determine pricing strategy. break-even analysis, and long term expansion opportunities. Developed PowerPoint decks to make recommendations to management.

Master Of Professional Accountancy, Accounting, (Magna Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi

Business Administration, Finance, (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi Executive Board, Student Finance and Investment Club Executive Board, Habitat for Humanity.