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Responsible for financial support to the supplier management organization including budgeting, forecasting, and month end close activities for OCOGS, product cost savings, and operating expenses. Responsible for supply chain related footnotes and financial statement disclosures. Also responsible for review of supplier contracts. Business partner to Vice-President and Directors of supplier management. Supervised 2 Financial Analysts. • Improved process for supplier claim accruals.• Created accounting policies and documented processes.

Responsible for financial support to marketing organizations including expense control, forecasting, and month end close activities. Business partner to 5 Marketing vice-presidents. Supervise 2 Financial Analysts.• Led team that created Financial reporting package for Marketing.

Finance Manager, ES Marketing & Strategic Insight (2003-2005)Responsible for financial support to 2 marketing groups including expense control and approval, forecasting, reporting, and month end close activities. Evaluate proposals for funding of demand generation programs. Business partner to 2 Marketing Vice-Presidents. • Set up process to track and report worldwide spending for demand generation programs.

Responsible for projects to improve pricing processes, communication with Field Finance, and financial modeling for new products. • Led teams that documented the processes to set prices and identified areas for improvement.• Standardized the NPV analysis used for evaluating new products.• Implemented a website to improve communication of new product releases and price changes to field sales finance.

Finance Manager, Information Appliances Business Unit (2000-2001)Responsible for financial support to marketing and engineering departments including revenue and margin forecasting, expense control, forecasting, financial analysis of new products, and month end close activities. Business partner to business unit Vice-President and Directors of engineering and marketing.• Successfully completed financial aspects of the acquisition of a software company with offices in the US and Germany. This included due diligence of the proposed acquisition, documenting the accounting treatment (whitepaper), and integration of the accounting and finance activities into Sun.

Consolidations Manager (1997-2000)Responsible for the accurate and timely consolidation of the worldwide financial results and stock option footnote disclosures. Managed the Worldwide close process and inter-company accounting. Supervised staff of 5 professionals• Improved process to reconcile inter-company accounts saving 2 days.• Improved efficiency of the Consolidations group through reorganization of responsibilities.

Responsible for management of all general accounting functions including: month end close, general ledger, fixed assets, accounts payable, payroll, and stock option administration, and royalty expense accounting. Prepared annual operating expense budget using Hyperion Pillar software. Supervised staff of 5.• Reduced month-end close from 6.5 to 5 days.• Cleaned up balance sheets accounts that had not been reconciled and implemented process to ensure all accounts were reconciled and reviewed monthly.