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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Identified and evaluated potential land acquisition opportunities to support company growth objectives.• Conducted due diligence on potential land acquisitions, including environmental assessments, zoning regulations and market analysis. • Collaborated with Senior Leaders across SHAZ to assess market trends and get actionable insight from each respective discipline to include and underwrite all deals prior to offering a Letter of Intent. • Produced presentation to Corporate for SHAZ’s Land Strategy plan relating to land acquisition and development projects.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Managed land development budgets on a $300M+ book of business for our Arizona Division, across 14 active communities.• Oversaw community development and delivery of over 1,000 finished lots during the last year across 12 active projects around the valley.• Monitored development schedules and drove behavior amongst a wide array of consultants and trade partners to achieve an 83% success rate of starting models on time to meet our business plan.• Implemented two new divisional processes prior to starting homes and prior to municipality final acceptance to mitigate potential problems and enhance efficiency. • Successfully contracted and managed all civil improvements and custom lots for a North Scottsdale community under budget and on schedule.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Oversaw forecasting and annual operating plans on a $40M book of business for our Arizona Active Lifestyle Division. • Mentored and developed a team of four analysts in performing financial modeling, reporting, and data analysis.• Identified best practices for forecasting and modeling across entire finance divisions and was able to reduce monthly forecasting process by two full working days each month.• Facilitated and implemented company backlog and transactional reporting in Power BI to enhance data efficiencies across all areas of the business to aid in real-time decision-making.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

•Responsible for managing the annual operating plan and monthly forecasts for the Arizona Division to ensure accuracy and transparency amongst interdivisional team and corporate. •Led training for all corporate finance on OneStream financial forecasting application, ad-hoc retrieves, and best practices for monthly forecasting workflow.•Worked closely with Sales and Construction to establish bi-weekly starts plan in order to maximize our profit through additional inventory closings in the current year.•Managed acquisition strategy through collaborating with Division President and VP of Land Acquisition, in order to improve cash position of the company in future years as mandated from corporate.

Scottsdale, Arizona

•Worked closely with Division President and Sales and Marketing department to offer pricing recommendations and establish a strategy in order to maximize gross margin dollars across all communities. •Subject matter expert (SME) for OneStream integration project. Responsible for design, calculation methodology, and forecast workflow processes. •Provided quarterly post-acquisition analysis comparing current versus prior quarter forecast as well as current quarter versus proforma, to keep the CFO and Corporate Controller up to speed on total project performance.•Interpreted monthly budget to actual analysis on cash flow spend to VP of Operations and VP of Land Acquistion and Development to better manage to budget and improve accuracy of monthly forecast.

Scottsdale, Arizona

•Revised and reviewed project budgets with Construction, Land Development, and Architecture teams, in order to ensure transparency amongst the division as well as routinely updated cost of sale standards.•Created an analysis tool that measured proforma versus current forecast financial metrics such as gross margin percentage, IRR, direct construction costs, etc. to assist our divisional land acquisition team in assessing potential deals. The tool was so useful to the divisional team, that corporate adopted it to aid in approving new land deals.•Developed automated standard reporting for finance analysts to provide the tax department that saved 2 days a quarter per analyst from previous method.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Hosted monthly tele-conference review meetings with Sales and Senior Executives to monitor financial forecasts and budgets.• Constructed financial model for annual budget formation and allocated targets across all 18 markets within the Group Sales organization. • Developed senior level presentations around KPI analysis of monthly actuals to budget as well as updated forecasts and plans.• Operated as a liaison between Group Finance and Sales on monthly forecast and budget variance analysis to enhance tracking to annual targets and ensuring enterprise-wide success.•Trained team of consultants on new monthly reporting used to enhance communication and collaboration among internal partners.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Created KPI reports for membership and revenue projection analysis to support sales and financial teams across the organization to measure and monitor performance. • Enhanced new reporting model to more accurately capture forecast data in order to better position sales teams in achieving yearly targets. • Evolved into the “go to” team member for questions, follow up, and action based service requests on the Hyperion Essbase reporting function.• Consistently provided complex ad hoc analyses of budget data for sales and senior level management.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Analyzed and interpreted cost trend variances to senior level management to aide in development of monthly forecast and annual budget.• Documented Cost Accountant procedures and trained employees on monthly variance duties and annual budget formation processes.