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South Carolina, United States

• Prepared and managed financial month-end close activities including variances analyses to provide insight into the financial performance of the business unit.
• Leveraged CRM tools to partner with sales operations and product leadership to drive impactful business strategies and initiatives including a refinement of the sales commission structure to reduce costs.
• Presented periodic financial results to the executive team including the CFO, VP and key stakeholders.
• Led a team of developers and IT specialists to automate daily processes through Power BI to increase accuracy and reduce the reporting process time by 80%.
• Implemented and improved standard processes to improve financial support and drive efficiencies.
• Partnered with Accounting to create accruals and credits and ensure accurate revenue recognition.

San Diego, CA/Charleston, SC

• Developed and maintained forecast models to capture actuals, sales bookings and churn impacts to ARR, MRR and transactional revenue.
• Collaborated with auditing director and external auditing team to drive operational effectiveness.
• Developed customer level metrics to measure impacts to product performance.
• Leveraged various HFM functions in support of 5-year Long-Range Planning model.
• Performed ad-hoc analysis to provide the CFO and business leaders with insights and driver-based explanations.
• Developed $60M annual budgets and forecast resulting in accuracy within 2%.

San Diego, California, United States

• Generated ad-hoc reports using data extracts from SAP- Navy ERP in response to data requests from Congressional and Naval leadership.
• Collaborated with cross-functional business units to resolve issues resulting in process improvements.
• Led presentations on technical and business process requirements to the finance community.
• Designed database logic and implemented solutions to ensure data integrity in support of the SPAWAR Business Resource Management (BRM) office initiative.
• Utilized advanced Excel knowledge to streamline variance analysis and enhance analysis tools.
• Implemented process improvements for updating, monitoring, and reporting program data to provide high quality deliverables in an efficient and prompt manner.

San Diego, CA

• Prepared and developed periodic budgets, estimates forecasts and reports to measure and increase the success of the Interstate-15 Express Lanes facility.
• Performed analysis and collaborated with local agencies and consultants to enhance efficiency.
• Monitored and audited finances to ensure data integrity and capture revenue growth.

• Developed a comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the southern region of San Diego County