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• FP&A business partner to manage operating expenses, financial planning, and reporting for the Sales Consumer Experience and Consumer Business Operations organizations• Develop annual budgets and monthly forecast updates for labor, staffing, travel, and back-office expenses • Provide reporting of monthly results, consolidate, and deliver explanations for monthly variances• Perform month-end closing, including prepare general ledger month-end accruals and reclass entries• Engage and communicate with business partners providing strategic oversight to solve for any budget challenges as well as identify risk/opportunities to budget• Support business partners to provide strategic budget solutions for unplanned expense impacts and ad hoc projects

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Finance Partner to the Digital Sales division providing finance support, guidelines, and oversight of a $75-$110M annual operating expense budget and annual subscriber budget• Develop monthly financial reports, subscriber results, trending analysis, and variance explanations • Manage budget and interim forecast updates• Develop and implement MicroStrategy Subscriber reporting for the Digital Sales channels • Perform month-end closing, including prepare general ledger month-end accruals and reclass entries• Provide ad-hoc data analysis, subscriber trends, operating expenses, and identify budget risks or opportunities

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Develop and support Sprint Network Deployment executive level reporting, scorecard updates, board of director updates, and investor relations information • MicroStrategy Business Intelligence developer• Develop strategy and solutions for complex reporting requirements• Create schema and application objects required to build and support MicroStrategy reporting and analysis• Engage business partners and gather requirements, lead meetings which include business partners from individual contributors to senior management, automate, and integrate new reporting as needs are identified • Develop Executive level reporting, scorecard updates, board of director updates• Manage forecast updates for all Network Deployment programs • Partner with IT to develop solutions in MicroStrategy, define all requirements, architecture and table structure • Liaison with Finance and Accounting for Network Deployment and SOX Controls Key Accomplishment• Led the MicroStrategy development for Network Deployment, developed a Single source reporting tool.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Dedicated Finance business parter to the Engineering and Supply Chain divisions totaling 1,100+ employees and annual operating expense budgets of $300M+ • Develop value-added monthly financial reports, trending analysis and variance explanations • Prepare quarterly forecasts and annual budgets for $300M+ Operating Expenses• Present Executive level monthly review of financial results and measures • Provide finance guidelines and oversight to Engineering and Supply Chain Divisions• Excel at preparing ad hoc financial analysis for organization changes and identify benefit/risk to business• Lead process review and changes to benefit the business• Perform various cost analysis for both divisions

• Support the Engineering department in daily project accounting, forecasting project spend and overhead costs• Ensure materials and services are properly coded to projects and capitalization rules are followed • Develop value-added monthly reports of project spend • Facilitate meetings with project managers to review project status and review budget and capacity concerns• Ensure the company is maximizing SAP project module in planning, managing and estimating capital spend• Provide leadership and oversight to Senior Staff Accountant

Framingham, Ma, Us

• Manage Accounting Department of six employees• Oversee all Accounting processes and policies• Provide direction, leadership, support and employee development to direct reports• Prepare monthly financial statements and balance sheet reconciliations for two divisions • Coordinate month-end close processes• Analyze monthly budget variances for review with executive lead team • Prepare annual budgets and interim forecasts• Implement process improvements protocols• Develop key reports and profit analysis tools• Prepare business justification for all capital requestsKey Accomplishments with Staples: • Created Machine Hour Rate and Manufacturing Flow through Models• Implemented plan to develop a new sales quoting system • Performed analysis to automate the billing process• Developed plan and cost analysis to implement a Wireless Warehouse

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Manage annual capital and expense budgets ranging from $100 - $200 million, track monthly budget variance analysis, identify key areas of risk and opportunity• Develop annual capital and expense budgets, interim forecasts, and 3 year forward plans• Perform cost benefit analysis and developed business cases for re-engineering and technology initiatives• Identify expense reduction opportunities, led initiatives that resulted in over $40M savings• Manage accounting processes and policy adherence within an organization of 1,200+ employees• Prepare financial reports and data analysis for key decision making and budget management• Project manage or serve as an active team member for key initiatives and process improvements• Develop financial reports and provide data for key decision making and budget management• Create a monthly metrics reporting tool for use by the executive lead team to manage key objectivesKey Accomplishments with Sprint Nextel:• Project led the Network organization of 1,200+ employees through two successful PeopleSoft financial system conversions. During these conversions, reviewed current processes, identified areas of change, re-wrote processes, developed training guides, and conducted the training.• Implement new or modified accounting methodologies across very large and diverse organizations• Extensive experience developing metrics and web based reporting tools • Subject matter expert for Activity Base Management development and reporting• Created organization staffing models / resource management tools for 1,200+ Network organization• Developed common structure, methodology, and tool to manage capital and expense budgets

• Accounts Receivable Manager, supporting a staff of three employees• Coordinated and executed month-end close• Prepared monthly financial statements for nine plant locations across the United States• Responsible for monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts• Analyzed monthly budget variances for review with executive lead team • Managed over $20M of annual capital expenditures and maintained asset tracking• Prepared monthly sales tax returns and annual property tax returns• Worked with executive lead team to prepare annual budgets• Supervised billing department and accounts receivable processes• Project managed various miscellaneous projects • Assembled work papers for year-end audit and served as a liaison to external auditorsKey Accomplishments with Graphic Technology Inc.• Developed and implemented a new general ledger system for nine plant locations. Personally created and customized the General Ledger system and custom built the financials • Promoted in 1996