Brought on to establish the finance department at a top logistics startup; promoted to the executive team to oversee corporate strategy and serve as a partner across the organization during sizable growth. Successfully managed external relationships with accountants, legal counsel, corporate insurance, and tax.

- Guided the finance team to become an essential business partner by delivering insightful financial reports and actionable analyses. Fostered cross-team collaboration and provided leadership at all board-level meetings.- Transformed a negative margin into a 20% profit margin over two years through new tactical pricing strategies and cost control measures.- Improved financial health and ensured sustainability by employing strategies to actively manage cash flow.- Drove efficiency and profitability across the organization’s customer types and offerings by enacting robust performance-management strategies.- Led a successful debt raise between funding rounds, allowing for further growth during capital uncertainty.

- Established all financial operations that enabled the business to improve financial performance: achieved 8X growth while limiting the finance team's expansion to only two members through targeted efficiency improvements and resource reallocations.- Achieved a 30% reduction in costs and improved alignment between customers’ needs and partners’ expertise by renegotiating with all material vendors.

Led finance and human resources for a social club startup: managed strategic financial initiatives, financial accounting, and human resource initiatives such as payroll strategy, conflict resolution, policy creation, and benefits administration.- Reduced payroll costs by 40% after developing a repeatable payroll strategy that included creating a hiring template based on projected traffic and revenue data. - Created a strategic financial model to explore market, lease, and franchise options, identifying four potential expansion cities and pitching opportunities to potential investors.

Joined as the first finance team member at a tech-focused logistics startup. Following multiple promotions, assumed broader responsibilities across the company, including finance, human resources, and customer service, reporting directly to the CEO.- Spearheaded a transformative B2B strategy, shifting the company focus from a consumer-based model, resulting in a 300% rise in lifetime customer value while controlling costs to 65% YoY.- Secured an additional $2.5 million in capital from existing shareholders, ensuring a smooth transition to the new business strategy and maintaining strong stakeholder relations.

- Successfully drove collaboration, communication, and transparency by establishing a company-wide weekly business update meeting for 50 employees.- Restructured the cost framework to concentrate resources on one market, achieving a 15% reduction in operational expenses by negotiating with over 30 vendors and mitigating 75% of outstanding liabilities.

- Reduced payroll costs 47% by driving a strategy to hire 20 temporary team members from an outside agency during peak season instead of hiring full-time staff. - Introduced financial models that informed the decision to move from on-demand to scheduled services, resulting in a payroll cost reduction of 20% across all cities.

- Implemented budgeting and variance analysis reporting across six HQ departments and five cities, allowing transparency in cost structure for the executive team.

Managed a four-member finance team across three locations within the Quality Assurance division, collaborating with studio heads to manage an annual budget of $70M.- Revitalized internal legacy billing structure to align with changing business needs, enabling real-time strategic decision-making that reduced analysis time by 25%.

Created all finance processes as the first finance team member hired within Apple Retail Business, supporting corporate leadership and the 400+ store teams with sales exceeding $2B annually. - Transformed quarterly sales forecast and achieved 98% accuracy by utilizing historical data and product projections.

- Oversaw a four-member team to reorganize ledger structure by mapping and merging two systems after the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. - Analyzed new strategic investments to determine proper accounting treatment and ongoing needs from finance.

- Automated monthly reports for senior management by creating a total portfolio summary, reducing the time to completion by 40%.