Supported organizational transformation, driving process excellence and identifying opportunities for improvement. Coached efforts to document high-risk processes, offering areas for change to ensure compliance with corporate standards, finance business controls, and the dynamic requirements of consumer privacy regulations

Chief Of Staff to the CMO, working with the leadership team on staffing models, facilitating multiple reorganizations, and driving the adoption of a priority aligned agile approach to focus on outcomes versus tactics. Provided analytical support of business transformation and strategic initiatives that had high-visibility and critical to Marketing Leadership.

Created management system for the Cloud Platform team with a weekly cadence to prep business reviews, sales team reviews, and senior leadership reviews. Tracked pipeline metrics, such as progress against targets, and consolidated marketing actions to lead to validated leads and revenue. Delivered 100% attainment against the quarterly expense budgets in 2018 and provided leadership/training to budget operations person.

As the Marketing Operations Leader for Sales and Distribution HQ Marketing, I played a key role in the fall plan modeling, creating the management system, and ensuring prudent expense management.

As the Operations Lead for Marketing and Communications, Sales & Distribution, I was responsible for the budgetary execution for 5 organizations, leveraging my 7+ years of finance experience to ensure responsible expense management. In addition to supporting the line teams, I also worked as the team lead for the Rochester MCO team. In this role, I worked closely with our MCO startup team and the MCO leadership to help advance the mission.

As the staff assistant for the IBM Minnesota Senior State Executive, I had the opportunity to draft internal communications, coordinate visits with Rochester Chamber of Commerce, and work with the Corporate Citizenship team on updating the site brochures and communication strategy.

I played a key leadership role as the WW Development Coordinator for Information Management, SWG. In this role, I was responsible for leading a team of financial analysts to accurately forecast expense, maintain clean financial systems, and communicate the financial position with senior leaders.

As the resource coordinator for the Information Management division, I was responsible for accurately reconciling, understanding and reporting resource actuals & dynamics for both the IM Base & acquisition teams. Drove the creation and adoption of a resource tracking database, automating the reconciliation process and improving the forecast accuracy of this dynamic organization. The process efficiencies gained with this pilot were shared with the larger finance organization and I was awarded a Trusted Business Advisor Award from the IBM Finance organization.

As the Worldwide Consolidation FA for Tivoli Development Expense, I coordinated the forecast for the global team, working with a worldwide team of financial analysts to accurately reflect the state of the business. During this position, I was also a member of a Lean Six Sigma team focused on improving the efficiency of the finance approval process.

As the financial analyst for ibm.com, I gained an understanding of the dot com model to accurately forecast expense, facilitated communication with the line team/sponsors and made recommendations to ensure responsible expense management.

Played key leadership role on the successful execution of the PartnerWorld Conference with wide-ranging responsibilities in overall event planning, including monitoring contracted employee hours, negotiating spending estimates with event suppliers, setting registration targets for event attendees, and managing the overall event budget.