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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

• Spearheaded the maintenance of precise financial transaction records, journal entries, and customer account statuses.
• Managed critical vendor and contractor legal agreements (MSA, SDA, and SOWs), lowering costs by $20K annually.
• Expedited seamless onboarding of new vendors.
• Ensured GAAP compliance while submitting revenue recognition, adjustments, corrections, and accruals to FP&A for month-end closing.
• Requested and tracked Purchase Orders and corresponding balances.
• Employed 3-way match for submission of invoices and credit memos to AP for payment.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Accelerated Sales and Project Management efficiency through order updating and error correction for consulting and training engagements.
• Purchased and administered department owned devices and licenses for client engagements.
• Created departmental training manuals, which set SOP and a basis for quality control elevating productivity levels by 55%.
• Assessed clarity and quality of training videos generating a 35% increase in positive user reviews.

Oakland, California, United States

• Directed a research and procurement team of 5 members for internet, broadcast television and radio materials for product fulfillment with a 92% success rate.
• Conducted analysis of spending and sales metrics to present ROI, PL, productivity, and budget reports that increased sales by 12%.
• Reduced spending by $360K annually, consistently coming in under budget, by modifying purchasing procedures without compromising performance.
• Increased production productivity 28% by streamlining procedures used to access international broadcasts.
• Allocated department research to create international sales leads and developed a resource of international monitoring services, leading to a 16% increase in revenue.
• Added 5% to sales by curating the Cision Special Archive, a library of repeatedly sold material that fell outside of the company’s standard archive.

Oakland, California, United States

• Guided a team for order distribution in 16 North American offices and tracking operations through NetSuite.
• Refined performance incentives and restructured order distribution process to establish an efficient and balanced workload between production offices, which reduced routing time by 38%.