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Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Strategic financial partner for operational and executive leadership teams on budgets, forecasts, actuals, contracts, spend management, business updates, and all other related items
• Led monthly forecast review meetings across fifteen business units; ensured future business decisions were strategically aligned with financial and operational goals
• Guided accounting and finance team members on month-end closing responsibilities including journal entry submissions, accrual calculations, variance analysis, and reconciliations
• Provided oversight, recommendations, and execution for contracts, purchase orders, change orders, and overall spend to promote fiscal responsibility and SOP compliance
• Treasurer: monitored investment capital, tracked cash burn and runway. Designed a dashboard providing live detail on every dollar’s movement across ten accounts, including investment performance
• Leveraged Power BI to create detailed financial reporting dashboards used by business owners and functional leaders, as well as to distribute various monthly executive packages

Austin, Texas, US

New York, US

• Head of finance for HYFN, a Nexstar Digital subsidiary: managed top to bottom P&L, monthly packages, revenue planning, headcount, T&E, variance analysis, KPIs, and scenario modeling
• Implemented new CRM for sales team and leveraged system to establish new pipeline and sales reporting; led pipeline review meetings with leadership and maintained revenue forecast
• Designed revenue recognition processes and modeled new commission plan for sales team
• Supported ad hoc projects such as break-even analysis, product launch projections, transfer pricing
• Worked directly with CEO during annual budget process to build a cohesive operational plan, while managing Revenue and OpEx expectations to strict EBITDA and Cash Flow goals

Austin, Texas, US

• Designed and maintained monthly P&L forecasts for six marketing departments and corresponding teams, covering $300m annually; provided variance analysis and guidance to financial leadership
• Founded strong cross-functional relationships with marketing teams to ensure financial alignment based on initial projections and addressed incremental spend or significant cost avoidance
• Performed month/quarter end analysis and presented findings to the CFO and senior management
• Forecasted headcount for 300+ employees; aligned systems and data, implemented new dashboards
• Created and distributed expense planning tools to improve user experience and increase efficiencies

Irving, TX, US

• Prophix system administrator; developed, automated and updated forecasting/budgeting/headcount reports, managed 350+ person user base, created salary schedules and calculations by department, monitored system data.
• Generated and compiled month-end financial reports with GP for summarization and distribution
• Provided corporate variance packages, surveys, and ad-hoc analysis for Finance Team
• Updated and circulated weekly pacing reports utilizing Citrix and Wide Orbit Analytics
• Prepared monthly financial packages including forecast, capex, corporate, headcount, category and expense summaries for distribution to Executive Team
• Assembled quarterly reviews capturing year over year growth and market share comparisons

Irving, TX, US

Redwood City, CA, US

• Conducted monthly, quarterly, fiscal, and ad-hoc actual and estimate cost allocation tracking and analysis
• Developed cost allocation and IT cost chargeback models; prepared monthly chargeback reports
• Proactively identified, communicated and planned financial status for plans, forecasts, and actuals by department, portfolio, projects, and other categories
• Performed variance analysis and assisted with financial planning and forecasting

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, IN

• Researched, analyzed and synthesized financial data utilizing Bloomberg functions and Excel
• Successfully critiqued a proposed Mergers and Acquisitions and IPO reporting process, resulting in a faster turnaround time with more accurate results
• Acted as a Team Leader substitute and trained coworkers, compiled work into a coherent whole for executive distribution, and assisted with queries when necessary
• Frequently exercised the Security and Exchange Commission and Bloomberg database records to validate data and construct reports for global recipients

Houston, Texas, US

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance

High School Diploma