Christopher Vellon Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• Build and maintain ongoing robust & accurate forecasting models with complex inputs to predict & measure business performance vs expectations (key outputs include Revenue, Active Users and New Players)
• Owns the Analytics relationship with the Sales and Finance teams. Key rituals include the cyclical forecasting process and flash forecast events.
• Management of the Demand Planning team, including people development, prioritization, and roadmap planning.
• Builds scenario models to inform business cases and strategic opportunities - from the initial modeling to quantify an opportunity to estimating expected costs of execution.
• Build and maintain executive-friendly reporting scorecards to track KPI performance.
• Owns Presentation to Executive Leadership during Budget and Forecasting periods.

Rockville, Maryland

• Strong contributor to the Financial Planning & Analysis team managing the monthly and quarterly forecasting, annual planning, and management reporting.
• Work with the development and publishing teams to prepare monthly/quarterly/annual operating and capital forecasts throughout lifecycle of game projects and annual studio expenses.
• Maintain strong relationships with clients both domestically and internationally through collaboration and monthly cadences.
• Manage the Greenlight process by gathering key information from Sales, Development, Marketing and Publishing and compiling into digestible reporting for Senior Management.
• Update and maintain internal forecasting applications via Oracle ERP financial suite and Adaptive Planning.
• Provide analytical review of development studio costs during monthly closing process including preparation and submission of expense accruals to Accounting and explaining variances to budget upon month close.

Columbia, Maryland

Columbia, Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

-Accountable for month end financial closing activities including journal entry preparation, account reconciliation and financial reporting schedules– Areas of responsibility include prepaids, accruals, AR, AR reserve, AP, bank recs, rebates and fixed assets among other GL responsibilities– Responsible for Vendor Rebate management and tracking accruals on.

– Work in excel on a daily basis to analyze sales figures and keep track of product pricing. Special porjects are assigned daily – and require functions such as VLOOKUPS & PIVOT TABLES– Work with Marketing and Sales team to ensure customers are receiving correct price and models ordered – Work in SAP daily to update model pricing when needed and to run.

– Assist with day to day accounting functions including month and year end close processes, payroll processing, account reconciliations, and creating and posting entries to the general ledger.– Prepare ad hoc reports in SalesForce and in Excel.– Compile and analyze financial information to prepare month and year end journal entries.– Review, investigate.

Hanover, Maryland

– Was responsible for billing and collecting from clients nation-wide on accounts totaling more than $3,000,000 in revenue.– Conducted research and data mining to find resolutions to billing errors that were occurring before my employment. Worked with field offices to correct errors and push through debits and credits that would reconcile previous.

-Worked with customer on job site to ensure the completion of the job was timely and met all the customers needs.-Worked with upper management to estimate cost of projects and communicate the needs of the customer.-Helped in moving materials from suppliers to job sight and ensuring that projects stayed on budget.-Translated between the workers and customer.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration, Finance

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon

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