Business partner in assisting Senior Management on financial and strategic initiatives• Responsible for developing and managing a $40M income statement which experienced a 4% YoY improvement in gross margin through enhancement in financial reporting and KPI Metrics• Lead an implementation reporting cadence policy and successfully managed the income statement for an $8M subsequent business unit of Zebra Technology. Utilized KPI analysis and project reviews• Implemented a new automation reporting cadence which increased sales efficiency by 9% and allowed sales team to focus solely on revenue generating activities

Provided financial support for three separate companies interacting with both external vendors and internal senior management.• Created month-end financial packages that were sent out to senior management of the three companies I supported. These packages included P&L statements, client and product breakdown analysis through trending and variance analysis.• Created the financial modeling, forecasting and budgeting analysis for a startup company called GroceryPress which is expected to generate $2M in 2016

Developed and presented key financial reports and dashboards to execute business objectives.• Prepared and distributed month-end financial reporting package highlighting key performance variances between actual, forecast and budget benchmarks for senior management. The reporting package included P&L statements, financial budgets and detailed departmental reports. • Developed and implemented $140 million annual operating budget including year-over-year variance analysis, financial bridges and recommendations for bi-monthly senior leadership meetings.• Created month-end financial reports through in-depth data mining to identify and explain key sales, volume mix and cost variances between the actual, forecast and budget results to continually update the company’s forecasted financial position and outlook.• Calculated and reconciled vendor rebates for top 25 domestic and international clients totaling $2.5 million.

Gathered, analyzed and presented market and financial research for strategic product and services initiatives.• Created and implemented business development plan for a $10 million startup recruiting firm specializing in the IT and Healthcare industries. • Conducted in-depth financial review of Tribune’s million HR recruiting unit including variance analysis, gap-to-goal initiatives and new business opportunities which helped generate $2 million of incremental business.• Developed competitive database based on internal markers, market indicators, benchmark analyses, and metrics to provide actionable recommendations.• Coordinated and communicated results to eight different newspaper markets, joint ventures, and outside venders through organizing rollout strategies, tracking results and providing monthly reporting.

Identified, tracked, and monitored sales, price changes and inventory for both new and existing residential construction in the Chicagoland area.• Developed and maintained statistical data on 4,000+ residential developments utilized by builders, developers, and financial institutions to create and evaluate business and financial models.• Created individual profiles of residential communities in the greater Chicagoland area that was used to create Newhomelisting.com, a website that received 20 million unique hits every month.• Prepared market analysis and market studies that provided new and existing clients with a concise guide to economic and housing market activity in a particular metro area. Studies included a summary of market strengths and weaknesses, projections of key economic and housing market statistics.