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United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Member of brand new finance team brought in to create financial reports and processes to help guide the company with the spike in sales from $35M to $200M in 1 year.• Managed the financials for multiple brands under the parent company: Art Naturals, Day to Day Imports, and Paws and Pals.• Worked directly with CFO and COO to create processes to manage inventory and reduce excess and obsolete inventory.• Introduced and analyzed KPI’s to the executive leadership team to help educate areas of improvement.• Updated Odoo software to create more efficient financial and warehouse reports while implementing NetSuite.• Created the month end close process in order to improve close from 2-3 months to 3 weeks.

Culver City, California, Us

• Consolidated worldwide financials and built reports for internal, private equity, and bank reporting.• Worked directly with CEO, CFO, and CMO to understand and perform financial planning and analysis.• Interpreted financial information to department heads and recommended further courses of action to optimize profit.• Managed and communicated business performance via in-depth analysis of the P&L through Net Income and EBITDA.• Analyzed KPI’s to develop recommendations to improve the business in areas such as marketing spend, pricing, and add/delete.• Worked with Accounting to process adjusting journal entries against irregular items for fiscal closes.• Responsible for the creation of ad-hoc reporting in Sage and Catalyst to help the business scale and assess current and new business development opportunities.

Paris, Fr

• Manage the US Advertising & Promotions Profit & Loss Statement across the local, ecommerce, and retail channels for NYX Professional Makeup.• Lead the month-end close to understand and explain in-depth financial results using GAAP accounting.• Collaborate with Business Partners to understand and report the financial impacts of marketing decisions through KPI’s.• Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports using various financial systems: Compass/Cognos, Magnitude, SAP• Analyze marketing programs through ROI calculations to assist in making financial decisions.• Regularly use Microsoft Excel to analyze data and ad hoc requests through the use of advanced financial modeling.• Assist in the yearly budget, plan, and estimated final cost to calculate net profit of the business.

Glendale, California, Us

• Engaged in 2 multi-billion dollar international portfolios: Shanghai Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland• Oversaw a combined budget of $2.3 Billion involving EFC forecast, cash flow, and variance explanations on a regular cadence. • Repatriated from Shanghai to close out the Shanghai Disney Resort Live Entertainment and Design Studios.• Hong Kong Expansion finance lead responsible for building and maintaining reports by collaborating with project executives, studio leads, and the finance team.• Heavily involved in the implementation of new software: PMCS NexGen and Tableau.• Improved communication and consistency across all WDI development projects by creating standardized executive reports.• Led a team of 3 in charge of the Staffing Plan Standardization Initiative.• Served as the primary WDI financial contact for 50+ international partners on the WDI Asia portfolios.

Pudong Xinqu, Shanghai Shi, Cn

• Based in Shanghai for 2 years to manage the Shanghai Disney Resort Design Studio budget of $500 Million through budget reports, EFC forecast, cash flow, and variance explanations.• Monitored and approved design contracts, change directive, and invoice payments.• Regularly met with executive team to strategize and implement processes for streamlining budget and cost reporting.• Proactively executed ad hoc projects to improve cash flow accuracy by 34% by solving project labor rate challenges.• Owner of project-wide resource plan used to determine optimal resource allocation for achieving development milestones.• Worked closely and maintained positive relationships with multiple international vendors including Shendi, Tongji, and Parsons.• Acted as a financial consultant to non-finance leaders and members across various division studios within the project.• Developed leadership skills by managing a team of 4 responsible for consolidating, maintaining, and producing financial reports.

• Worked with the Producers of Ancillary content to manage the financial actuals/forecast for over 16 projects simultaneously.• Assisted in the month-end close using GAAP accounting and also produced the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and 5 Year Strategic Plan for both production and SG&A budgets by working closely with the corporate team which fed into the P&L.• In charge of submitting forecasts involving all DTS films currently in development and production.• Met regularly with the DTS Executive Team (GM and VP’s of Finance, Production, and Development) to strategize action steps to elevate cast member growth, development, and relationship building. • Supported the reorganization process by overseeing the severance and separation payments, as well as forecasting studio time projects to maintain talent at DTS.• Worked with domestic and international vendors to handle payments for multi-million dollar projects such as Prana and ARC.• Responsible for amortization and development write-off forecasts on a quarterly basis in Cognos.• Proficient at performing ad hoc analysis through financial modeling.• Supervised FA in forecasting and planning the overhead departments.

• Oversaw all overhead department budgets across 10 departments including Finance, Production Management, Development, Marketing, and Technology.• Effectively covered Director’s maternity leave by managing day to day responsibilities, accounting submissions, and meeting with department heads to create the upcoming fiscal year’s Annual Operating Plan (AOP).• Responsible for submitting overhead forecast changes on a quarterly basis in Cognos.• Procurement Card Manager responsible for authorizing the rules and regulations of card transactions.• Consistently worked with other finance groups to implement process improvements and maintain strong relationships.• Collaborated with the VP and Director of Finance on special executive management projects.

Glendale, California, Us

• Managed outsourcing supplier services and billing by running queries into SAP including: professional services, travel & expense, repair & maintenance, and training.• Supported the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial statements using SAP, BW, and Microsoft Access.• Assisted in the preparation of the monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecast and budgeting.• Aided in the 5 year strategic planning concerning new software and consulting projects to formulate an accurate forecast.• Prepared journal entries with SAP backup related to chargeback, re-class, and accruals.• Performed operation expense reports to compare forecast versus actual variances.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Managerial Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration With An Emphasis In Finance