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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead and manage the financial planning processes, including the annual operating plan, monthly/quarterly forecasts, and long-range strategic plan• Develop and maintain the revenue model in partnership with sales, marketing, product and sales ops• Review and maintain the cost model partnering with executives and their leadership teams to deliver on profitability goals across the P&L including gross margin, adjusted EBITDA, capital expenditures and free cash flow• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for the business and provide financial and operational analysis on business trends and impact on quarterly, annual, and long-range forecasts.• Weekly and monthly management reporting to identify key variances to forecasts and plans to drive action-oriented decisions• Partner with IR on quarterly and annual guidance and advise on investor messaging• Design and maintain financial technology stack to support the FP&A process, including Anaplan• M&A deal evaluation, modeling and due diligence• Capital raise of three Credit Facilities $775M (2018-2022), IPO $775M (March 2021), Convertible Debt $1.5B (November 2021)

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Finance leader and strategic business partner for the Microsoft Azure cloud business. Partnered with product management, R&D, sales, infrastructure, and marketing to ensure accomplishment of Azure profitability and business goals.• Lead annual, quarterly and long-range planning across Azure products• Develop product line profitability model to help drive resource allocations and investments• Partner with GTM and Product teams on strategic initiatives including pricing and M&A

Seattle, Wa, Us

Finance leader and strategic business partner for the AWS Storage, Database, Mobile, and Edge Services businesses. Responsible for the overall P&L management, short and long range financial and business planning, pricing, business case analysis, controllership, financial and operational reporting, demand and capacity planning. Partner with product management, engineering, sales, infrastructure, and supply chain to drive AWS profitable growth. http://aws.amazon.com/

Redmond, Washington, Us

CFO for MSFT Latam New Markets Subsidiary, +$200M Sub, spanning 10 countries across the Caribbean, Central and South America. Led the Business and Financial controllership of the subsidiary, supporting 2 GMs and 10 Country Managers. Partnered with leadership to drive execution of revenue and contribution margin goals, and identified areas for investment to fuel growth.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Finance leader for the Latam Region Sales VP and his organization. Led the short and long term profitable growth planning and analysis for Latam region, ~$2B Revenue. Partnered with the Regional and Subsidiary leadership teams to grow revenue, market share and profitability throughout the region.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Financial and strategic leadership and business insight to the Global MSN, Xbox, Windows, and Office Technical Support and Customer Service teams. Led 6 person analyst team that provided controllership, financial analysis, business planning and forecasting, variance analysis of the monthly and quarterly business results, and development and reporting of KPIs/Scorecards.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Provided end-to-end controllership and financial support to the Global MSN customer support management team including monthly close, financial forecasting, operational reviews, and ad-hoc analysis

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Various roles including:*Senior Financial Analyst, (April 2003 – November 2003) - Financial controller and business partner for 5 Sr. VP’s - CEO, CFO, CTO, HR, Legal –budget of $50m. *Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A (February 2002- April 2003) - Financial planning - developed full-year company-wide business model by division.*Financial Analyst, Design Solutions Group Divisional Finance (July 2001- February 2002) - Finance partner responsible for end to end financial analysis including close, budgeting, forecasting.

London, Gb

Performed financial statement audits and analysis of investment banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions

Bba, Accountancy

Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship