Directed all facets of financial governance, interfacing with senior management and department heads to communicate key insights for strategic planning. Prepared financial presentations, KPI dashboards, and forecasts for entities in NA and LATAM. Held accountable for allocation of $30M Marketing budget, ensuring alignment with financial, operational, and market forecasts. - Orchestrated preparation of $120M annual budget, forecasts, and strategic plans. - Collaborated with marketing team for analysis of various campaigns, resulting in 25% improvement in overall effectiveness across all available metrics. - Introduced new reporting performance metrics to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of submitted forecasts, which greatly enhanced organizational coordination.

Partnered with the Director of Finance for the Americas region, providing guidance and oversight in the development and maintenance of organizational financial reporting tools, ensuring overall integrity of data while also creating standard and non-standard management reports, operational analysis, statistical studies and recommended courses of action for all levels of management. • Promoted to Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, exceeded all expectations as a mentor to the analyst team during a major realignment of the business as well as a transition to a new global finance structure.• Built and implemented a unique, comprehensive reporting suite for the President of the Americas, the Senior Leadership Team and other internal customers for use in monthly meetings, allowing for presentation of time-sensitive data facilitating key decision making.• Originated and supported a complex Essbase reporting model that allowed for streamlined analysis and reporting at both a detailed and summary level for use by the financial analysts and Directors of Finance worldwide.• Designed specialized cost analysis models allowing finance and their business partners to quickly identify areas of overspend, as well as realizing nearly $5M in cost savings.

Supervised and directed daily activities of the finance department, ensuring close partnership with all areas of the business; helped to define the approach and provided timely and robust completion of annual budgets and forecast planning cycles. Lead business-specific financial modeling and analysis, facilitating swift financial decision-making in the context of a highly competitive commercial environment. Partnered with accounting to support month-end close process and accurate reporting of financial results to senior management. Provided detailed financial analysis and reporting for each auction with sales totaling $3.5B+ annually, while also giving financial support to all of the general services departments.- Orchestrated formation of a newly created finance department supporting the Americas, including the staffing, training, and development of a team of 4 financial analysts while managing a $500M+ budget. - Forged essential partnerships with all areas of Christie’s, guiding the integration of the newly formed finance team while demonstrating expertise and value to ensure finance’s trusted position within the organization.- Developed, lead and managed well-received annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes for the region.- Partnered with the regional controller to drive the monthly close process while implementing software solutions and industry best practices to reduce the time required by 30% (to 7 business days).- Selected as the Hyperion Project Manager for the Americas, working with internal and external partners to lead the successful development, build and launch of Christie’s first-ever financial reporting tool. - Established a standardized reporting format, KPIs and various Excel models used by all financial analysts globally for reporting auction department results to senior management; secured 50% reduction in average reporting time.

Communicated financial progress of the organization with senior management. Provided daily, weekly, monthly and annual historical trend analysis on sales activity. Key member of team tasked with compiling the monthly reporting package for the board of directors. Consolidated monthly sales forecasts from the divisions and reported any potential variances to senior management.• Championed a streamlined reporting process and monthly sales package used by both the CEO and board of directors, leading to an 25% boost in related efficiencies.• Collaborated with various departments and facilities to develop annual sales budgeting as well as methods for monthly forecasting.

Oversaw preparation of the three-year plan, budgets, and revisions for senior management and corporate finance. Performed monthly closing, variance analysis and reporting of monthly financial results to senior management. Partnered with manufacturing, logistics, and distribution to understand/reduce overall cost of goods. Worked with marketing department to review/determine profitability of new product launches, rationalization of existing SKU’s and overall strategy of each product family. Provided financial support for the development and execution of global strategies, objectives, tactics, and policies. Coordinated with HR on staffing levels and compensation guidelines.- Recipient of multiple promotions, and reduced excess and obsolete inventory by 80%.- Developed and oversaw Brad Pitt global charitable campaign financials while maintaining complete compliance. - Directed a superlative sales plan for global business that increased in size by 100% within in 2 years.- Sought as worldwide finance liaison to international affiliates, providing direction on sales forecasts/transfer pricing

Used best practices in the planning, production, and allocation of all promotional gifts while working alongside marketing, brand operations and customer service. Tracked and reported Gift with Purchase sales results for each major promotion to all levels of Lancôme management. Provided continual support to the field sales team and retail partners. Elected to assist with the implementation and conversion of the sales promotion legacy systems to SAP. - Spearheaded reduction of excess promotional gifts by 90% through in-depth sales analysis.- Created and diligently maintained the annual budget and inventory management of nearly 10M promotional gifts, representing more than 40% of Lancôme sales.

Assisted in preparation of $10M annual Promotional Fuel Budget. Interacted with sales planning, field sales, and marketing to ensure divisional goals were implemented and performed variance analysis of promotional spending vs. budget for each program. Published monthly results to senior management and provided financial support to the field sales team and marketing departments. Supervised and trained finance interns.- Built a bespoke process for creating customer-level P&L statements through insightful leadership, accountability, and redesign, leading to significant enhancements in overall workflow. - Prepared detailed customer P&L’s for senior management which were used in determining the effectiveness of promotional fuel programs, reducing trade fuel spending by 20%.