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AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By stitching together advances in Cloud, Automation, Operations, Security and DevOps, we help clients deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

• Managed and defined pricing and packaging strategy for portfolio of enterprise SaaS and professional services offerings.• Established frameworks and methodologies for pricing decisions, proposals and activities across initiatives including revenue growth, margins, customer acquisitions, retention and expansions and market penetration.• Supported technical sales team to conduct financial analysis and modeling of ROI and TCO concepts to justify business cases during pre-sales process to win customer business.• Managed and supported AdvantEdge’s VAR model across Sales, Go-to Market, Product, Legal, Ops, Delivery and Customer Success.• Assisted in the management of the entire product lifecycle, from strategic planning to working product execution.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Provide support, analysis and insights to $150MM corporate project portfolio.• Ran a project effort that included designing a new enterprise-wide project financial model (PFM) that established more efficient and effective ways to evaluate, compare and administer project investment opportunities.• Built strategic cross-functional partnerships to advance the organization’s goal to bring greater transparency to project health and performance through a new BPM tool and developing new solutions to capture project KPIs.• Deliver on-going financial management support to a business area going through large scale operating model changes that included; benefit modeling, future-state operating projections and resource modeling.• Partner with multiple business units in building out annual and multi-year business and financial plans that align with corporate strategic goals and objectives.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Develop product operating cost models that assist in the pricing of insurance products to ensure financialmargin goals are met.• Prepare, analyze and present health insurance benchmarking results to executive staff so that managementcan make informed decisions to improve respective business unit and product line performance.• Assist prospective business ventures and projects by providing relevant top-line and bottom-line financialinformation for senior management review.• Develop rates (overhead, fixed and variable) used to build ‘operational cost of business’ assumption scenariosfor commercial and government contract divisions.• Work with multiple operational units in creating budget plan that aligns with corporate strategic goals andinitiatives.• Execute monthly cost allocations for large multi-line business, while ensuring costs are distributed accuratelybased on appropriate business line support consumption.• Supervise a team of junior accountants, analysts and interns.

Bba, Accounting, Management, International Business

Accounting