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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Des Moines, Ia, Us

• Finance lead for the Luxury & Fashion Group. Responsible for full P&L management to ensure business profitability goals are met• Actively engage with 20+ key stakeholders across 7 departments to develop budgets, forecasts, long-range plans, KPIs, and brand strategies• Manage and coach a 6-person team in financial planning and analysis, including annual budgeting, forecasting, financial accounting, and reporting

New York, Ny, Us

• Revenue finance lead for Luxury and Fashion brands with responsibilities that include setting revenue targets, creating ad pricing plans, and evaluating potential opportunities or risks• Partnered with M&A team on due diligence for an asset divestiture that resulted in a $50 million sale• Created digital investment roadmap for a cross brand strategy to monetize the Hispanic/Latino audience across the company’s various technology platforms

New York, Ny, Us

• Created financial business plans for investment initiatives including a new fashion website launched in 2015, a proposed E-commerce business venture, and the acquisition of a women’s lifestyle website in 2016• Developed budgets and forecasts for Marketing, Ad Sales, Divisional Administration and PR departments for 12 lines of business totaling $155 million• Led integration of new financial system, TM1, for the Brand Finance group by partnering closely with the IT Finance Department• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to determine performance gaps and devise and implement process improvement initiatives across multiple brands

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed budgets and reforecasts for Marketing, Ad Sales, Divisional Administration and PR departments for 12 Time Inc. properties (6 magazines, 6 websites)• Generated procedural efficiencies, including streamlined accounting processes for month-end financial reporting which resulted in a 25% workload reduction • Created tools to benchmark results, including scorecards and reports that analyze metrics for executive management group• Initiated cross functional corporate cost-cutting initiative that resulted savings totaling approximately $20m

New York, Ny, Us

• Assembled financial business review packets, including year-to-date reconciliations and quarterly forecasts for senior management• Trained and supervised a financial analyst, including extensive guidance on financial close procedures

New York, Ny, Us

• Oversight of monthly close process for People Group, including vetting through journal entries to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley• Created production budgets for People Magazine based on paging, print order and special units reforecast

New York, New York, Us

• Managed development and distribution of annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and revenue models by collaborating with the Publisher and Marketing Director, as well as the Circulation, Production, and Corporate Finance departments• Facilitated the month and year-end closes which included running queries, reviewing prepaid expenses and accruals, preparing journal entries, and analyzing operating statement variances • Tracked and verified sales commissions including revenue, pages, and territory splits• Created ad-hoc reports for the Group President to identify new business opportunities

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Compiled JWT’s corporate worldwide gains and losses for new business accounts and prepared quarterly reports for top management• Coordinated annual Ad Age submissions for client data, as well as agency billings and revenue figures for JWT’s worldwide offices

New York, Ny, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Finance