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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Owned the FP&A relationship with Guild’s onsite childcare center, led quarterly strategy meetings with the CEO and CHRO, and ultimately reduced its annual operating loss by 15%Drove the integration of Netsuite and Workday Adaptive Planning at a vendor level to create an automated report that provided YTD visibility into the company’s $15M marketing spend that previously did not existRebuilt Guild’s revenue forecast model, yielding greater speed, version control, and accuracy (<5% variance to monthly and <1% variance to quarterly actuals) by adding deeper granularity to the inputs Earned the Cross Functional Collaborator Award from our Learning Marketplace team for conducting a scenario analysis leading to the renegotiation of revenue share agreements with three key academic partners

Denver, Colorado, Us

Hired, onboarded, and managed an intern through a summer of value-add projects including educating the broader company on financial concepts and building an Adaptive dashboard of KPIs for external investorsEnsured 100% on-time, accurate crediting and compensation of 100+ sales reps for 2 months by taking over the crediting process following the sudden departure of our sales compensation teamImproved the accuracy of in-month revenue projections to consistently land within 5% of actuals of Ibotta’s highly variable business model, allowing the business to quickly adapt to meet monthly and quarterly revenue targets

Denver, Colorado, Us

Spearheaded the implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning. Cut our monthly reporting timeline in half which enabled our finance team to provide consultative support to business leadersBuilt a robust labor model which shifted labor forecasting at Ibotta from merely applying an assumed growth rate to a granular, bottoms-up level of precision for a $100M line itemLed a vendor based OPEX budgeting process which increased transparency and ownership among leaders so that the company was quickly able to cut more than $10M in vendor expenses at the onset of the pandemicGuided a cross functional task force as the most junior member of the team to reduce costs for our customer care function which resulted in a change in leadership and the increased usage of outsourced ticket moderation

Longmont, Colorado, Us

Refined a financial projections model which we used to pitch the company in meetings with prospective investorsHelped the company to set up QuickBooks for accounting and payroll managementHeld a photo shoot and video interviews to place on the Robauto website to introduce our team to investors and customers

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Researched state and local unclaimed property statutes to create a user friendly survey that calculated the risk of an unclaimed property audit for prospective clients Studied traits of a network orchestrator business model and presented findings to upper management to help move Crowe’s business model into the digital ageCreated reports detailing all the unclaimed property publicly available for potential clients

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

Negotiated over 30 short-term leases with property managers across the country in a one-month period to find housing for families displaced by fire, water damage, and natural disastersImplemented a new inventory management system that analyzed the use and ROI of assets across 5 different warehouses to replace a legacy system from the 1990sAnalyzed the performance of various sales reps through Salesforce data to indicate which reps were bringing in net new business versus profiting off existing clients. Led to the replacement of 25% of the sales team

Tacoma , Washington, Us

Delivered automotive parts in a timely fashion to customers across the Denver metro areaAssisted with organizing inventory to ensure efficiency

Answered the phones, processed transactions

Data Science With Sql And Tableau Certificate, Analytics

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Music Minor, Music