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New York, Ny, Us

Collaborated with production teams to evaluate project cash funding requirements and financial projections for unscripted programming and tent pole live events (~$30M).

New York, New York, United States

FP&A and Production Finance for all PPV and network Boxing events including Inside the NFL and ancillary programming. Collaboration across Sports Production, Marketing and Publicity client groups

New York, Ny

Oversaw the below-the-line budget for all HBO Sports programmingReconciled all BTL related Budget to Actual variances while preparing and posting adjusting entriesCollaborated with Real Sports Production Manager to develop monthly cost estimatesOngoing actualization of Documentary programming based on real time costsCollaborated with Directors to develop annual Boxing budgets based on historical trendsLead Coordinator to pay invoices based on established cost estimate Updated and reforecast of Production Enhancement annual spending poolExecuted all crew time cards and expense forms working with crew manager to ensure accuracy of crew budget

New York, New York

Assisted the Finance Manager in the budgeting and forecasting of all PPV events using extensive and in-depth excel modelsReconciled cash received from the distributors to amounts due based on contractual agreement Analyzed ancillary income received from Canadian and Puerto Rican sales from HBO Enterprises Reconciled PPV Marketing budgets while preparing monthly marketing summary report Reviewed revenue and expenses for domestic and internationally sold events to prepare monthly promoter royalty statementsReviewed multi-fight agreements, event contracts and applicable distribution agreements for participants and deal termsDaily responsibility of preparing and posting revenue, receivable, accrual and adjusting entries

Provided ad hoc reports illustrating individual channels advertising revenue and inventory analysisAssisted with providing merger related ad hoc reports pinpointing synergies among channels and personnel costs Delivered year over year Weekly Pacing report to upper managementPrepared budget and financial analysis of actual Revenue share with partners and clientsCompiled and analyzed data pertaining to the monthly close, annual Budget and quarterly reforecast of future revenue growth

Tracked financials for HBO Sports and report material changes to the Director of Sports Operations and FinanceUpdated weekly snapshot document updates for senior management.Developed above-the-line cost estimates for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Costas Now, Boxing After Dark, and Sports documentaries with producers.Worked independently to meet the budgeting and operating demands of producers and managementProduced, analyzed and maintained all cost, ratings and research information for all sports programsOngoing interaction with Sports production staff, East Coast Productions, Business Affairs and Legal

Representative of the Investment Committee to the Operations and Marketing TeamsCommunicated investment decisions and internal security related data to non-investment personnelLed Operations Team each week to reduce dispersion to 0.25% as we analyzed internal portfolios by productCreated and assembled weekly financial models of our firm’s portfolios by product

Boston, Ma

Analyzed weekly cash and asset activity in over 100 equity accountsConsulted with custodians and traders to resolve trade discrepancies and settlement problems Prepared performance presentations for client meetings

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Marketing, 3.82

Activities and Societies: President, Student Advisory Council Social Chair, Student Advisory Council Toured China for 2 weeks studying.

Bachelor’S Degree, Marketing Management

Semester abroad in London at Regents University