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Managed a cross-functional team of IT and financial professionals, supporting forecast modeling, consolidated reporting, and application total cost of ownership reporting. Enabled operational team to execute over 1,100 monthly deliverables by transitioning workloads and coaching on BI tools. Monitored daily activities of 37 international business analysts, report developers, and operational support staff utilizing multiple technical tools and operating across three domains, including finance, workforce, and project. Implemented and automated forecast model scalable to accommodate 600+ Departments, 36,000+ resources and $6B+ of revenues and expense. Reduced forecast time by over 60%. Developed long range planning model with accuracy within $1m for three years. Drove offshore labor utilization improvement by 9% through modeling and advising. Built highly efficient, skilled, multi-cultural, cross functional, long tenured teams that effectively drove financial results, process improvement and automation. Planned, managed, and implemented tools driving financial planning, labor staffing, revenue and expense planning, cost transparency, total cost of ownership, and rate cards. Reviewed, revised, and managed teams through department policy & procedures updates, delivering automated solutions to reduce forecast cycle times by 60% and reduce report delivery time by 70%.Procured over 90 individual mapping and data sources through relationship management.Delivered fact-based data in consumable formats by leading a cross-functional team, involving creating dashboards and automating reporting processes for informed decision-making on a $650M initiative.

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Efficiently executed monthly financial analysis for the Application Service Group, a $1.4B business unit. Directed staff of up to eight professionals – including a Manager and Analysts (multiple levels). Oversaw internal operating income, account variance, productivity, FTE mix, and rate, as well as trend analysis for 300 departments. Surpassed Internal Operating Income Target for 60 Consecutive MonthsStreamlined Forecasting Process Resulting in 60% Time Savings Designed and developed a long-range planning model to successfully deliver a five-year outlook. Accurately forecasted internal operating income in the long-range plan for three years within $1M each year.

Devised secondary market policies and procedures for start-up, a full-service mortgage company with originations of $15B annually - $12.5B in non-prime and $2.5B in prime. Developed professional investor relations with Wall Street firms, Banks, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae. Created and implemented a highly effective corporate hedge strategy for prime trading using hedging and pooling software.Boosted MLN's profitability and mitigated market risk through hedging, product development and price negotiation. Reduced corporate risk associated with contract representation and warrants with over 80 investors.