Devin Degraw Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

• Responsible for quarterly budgets and monthly forecasting, including the 5 year plan, for INTO North America's P&L (Adaptive Planning).• Manage, update, and review revenue forecast on a quarterly basis. Review forecast with US & UK executives to determine balance sheet risk and book necessary provisions.• Manage, monitor, and forecast cash flow for INTO North America, including cash collections from US centers and intercompany loan transactions. • Partner with central accounting to manage month-end timelines and book necessary journal entries and accruals to align with budget.• Prepare and distribute month-end variance analysis report to executives.• Liaise with function heads to produce departmental budgets and manage spending within approved budgets for head office functions.• Distribute cost center report monthly to budget owners and discuss potential target risks (take action as needed).• Responsible for calculation of shared services recharges to US centers.• Manage the scholarship funds and work with the US Recruitment team to build out scholarship forecasts and budgets, and financially appraise agent incentives that maximize return of investment.• Build and maintain cost of acquisition tracker to monitor COA spend vs budget.• Distribute the scholarship and shared services recharges to the FBPs at each center.• Prepare financial presentations for key stakeholders as required.• Provide information and support to the Senior Finance Business Partners (FBPs) in the UK to enable a global view of functional results and budgets/forecasts to be presented to the Executive Board lead for each function.• Support the executive finance team to ensure risk registers are updated and reviewed in line with audit committee timelines.• Actively participate in any ad-hoc analysis as needed.• Continue to build and maintain reports in Adaptive Planning and incorporate into analysis for finance executives, shared services recharges, and other reports as requested.

San Diego, California

• Create and maintain various financial models and templates utilizing large data sets, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.• Validate accuracy of financial reports and provide ad hoc analysis surrounding all aspects of branch and corporate P&L’s; prepare periodical reports for corporate financial reporting such as profit by investor reports.• Work cross-functionally, with all levels of internal management and staff, in order to continuously improve reporting processes.• Effectively communicate information to management by assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, making presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.• Provide timely, accurate and insightful reporting on monthly and quarterly results; prepare, review, and distribute reporting for sales and corporate management.• Manage branch pro-forma statement creation and analysis for assigned region.• Use knowledge to educate sales team on processes and requirements.• Compile ad hoc financial reports and analyses for management.• Use technology to gather necessary financial data and create seamless financial reporting.• Create and maintain financial dashboards and reporting packages.• Use expertise to answer questions from less experienced Financial Analysts.• Work to increase productivity by identifying inefficiencies and providing recommendations for system and process improvements.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Responsible for preparation and analysis of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports with variance analysis to prior year, budget, and forecast; including but not limited to P&L, Cash Flow, Working Capital, Headcount and Expense analysis • Support consolidation activities, including but not limited to running consolidations in reporting tool (HFM) prior to reporting, confirming with business groups that they have completed their submissions and inquire about any inconsistencies with submissions during the monthly close cycle • Serve as the key finance liaison for the Global Capital Budgeting process. Primary activities include ownership of the Investment project proposal model, maintaining approval hierarchy for all regions, and reporting/analysis of capital project spend for actuals, forecasts, and budget • Responsible for creating, analyzing and consolidating business reports and presentations for Senior Management Reviews; including but not limited to Monthly Report Package, Forecast Report Package and Quarterly Requirements • Support finance activities related to special projects and key initiatives, including operational analysis through Business Intelligence tool • Provide analytical support to business units and finance operational teams by structuring analytical problems, extracting and analyzing data, and presenting findings • Analyze and report on key operating metrics for all regions with a particular focus on working capital (DSO, ITO, DPO, etc…) • Develop and maintain models related to the monthly financials, including foreign exchange impacts on Sales and EBITDA, Segment margin analysis, and Selling price movements across the company • Provide quarterly analysis related to potential Risks and Opportunities and ensure their impacts are reflected accurately in the forecast and financial plan • Support system implementations and process improvements within the Finance functions

Greater Denver Area

•Assist in budgeting, forecasting and analysis activities, including annual budgeting and monthly forecasting for revenue, headcount and operating expenses for respective brand(s).•Assist in financial models supporting the company’s budget and long range strategic planning process.•Prepare reports on sales, billings, and revenue streams, documenting variances in assumptions, trends, and utilizing recent information to help frame future forecast. •Help analyze and interpret financial data/performance to help identify ways to increase effectiveness, find expense savings, and improve asset utilization.•Learn about key financial and operational drivers of performance to help track, analyze and report management information that is predictive and actionable.•Work with Financial Analysts to review month end close for operating results of the businesses, through EBITDA, analyzing results to current estimate, budget and historical results. Provide relevant documentation of variances through monthly business review process. •Prepare, seek appropriate input and distribute the weekly billing and revenue flash, and periodic current estimates businesses.•Provides financial management input on business needs to Finance workflow and system improvement projects as appropriate, including improvements to operational reporting, revenue recognition, cash management and purchasing.•Support alignment of global processes, policies and metrics.•Exhibit flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities and assignments as they are identified and to assist with various ad hoc projects as needed.

•Responsible for completing excel workbook documenting data from 1980 to the present in order for analysts to simply evaluate trends year-to-year •Collaborated with budget analysts on historical budget data to forecast the budget needs for 2014.•Evaluated growth trends in regards to expenses and FTE.•Compiled data, dating back to 1980, into an excel workbook to make data more accessible to analysts.•Prepared ad hoc reporting requests.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance

B.S, Business Administration

Finance Denver, CO; Relevant Coursework: Financial Decision Making, Understanding Financial Statements, Financial Institutions & Markets.

Education record

High School Diploma