Senior Director Of Finance
Greater New York City Area
▪Created quarterly, annual and long-range financial forecasts for engineering, IT, operations and production, including cash planning, variance analysis, and risk and opportunity analysis for NBC's broadcast of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Forecasts included supporting management, financial and operational reports. ▪Spearheaded extensive multi-year capital planning, including NBC-wide technology distribution plan and inventory controls. ▪Finance leader for new initiatives, including NBC's Olympics rights bids, World Cup bid, NBC's sports consolidation in Stamford, CT, tape digitization, "At Home" production shift, technology transitions, and other critical development projects.▪Led development of cross-functional strategic analysis, impacting key business decisions by internal stakeholders. ▪Innovator in developing business solutions for international operations. Experience in Australia, Europe, China, Canada and Russia.▪Partnered with CTO on technology decisions for production solutions including contract structure and pricing. ▪Created complex financial models to aid in determining appropriate production levels. ▪Identified and implemented finance and operational process improvements and new systems development including purchase order & inventory tracking systems, manpower systems and financial system for international activities. ▪Consolidated foreign currency forecasts and worked to mitigate foreign exchange risks.▪Worked closely with NBC's tax team to develop tax minimization and VAT recovery strategies.