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Costa Mesa, California, United States

• Primary manager of the organization’s financial planning system Planful, including mapping to multiple ERP systems, maintenance of P&L and balance sheet hierarchies, report design/creation and automation, and user.
• Partner with wholesale, retail, e-commerce, marketing, design, and development teams to refine reporting and develop actionable analyses with an emphasis on automation.
• Serve as the primary liaison with 3rd party software teams to extract the most value from our financial systems and ensure enhancements are prioritized.
• Work with domestic and international accounting and finance teams to organize and map general ledger accounts to align across divisions and brands.

Culver City, California, United States

• Lead a team responsible for the consolidation and forecasting efforts of the Worldwide Distribution Division’s overhead, cash flow, direct product costs, and preparation, review, and submission of divisional financial.
• Lead forecasting for COGS, content services, marketing, releasing, amortization, and royalties for licensing and home entertainment distribution costs.
• Drove cross-divisional/studio-wide efficiencies by collaborating with Corporate Reporting, IT, Marketing, Facilities, and Divisional leaders on designing/implementing best practices for finance operations.
• Produced and refined executive review & presentation decks to provide concise, holistic analyses of forecast variances, model refinements, proposed processes, and overall financial positions.
• Designed and implemented modeling for forecasting of International Distribution cash flows of over $2b annually while partnering with AR/AP to ensure short-term forecasting is in line with commercial reality and.
• Responsible for planning confidential Executive leadership overheads as a key partner in organizational change management.

Panorama City

• Elected volunteer position leading a board of 21 members empowered by the City of Los Angeles to engage community stakeholders in local government in the San Fernando Valley.
• Provided support to the Mayor of Los Angeles, LA City Council, City Controller, Office of Finance, LAPD, and LAFD on local issues impacting the community.
• Lead volunteer efforts of over 200 people in the community through clean-ups, health service events, movie nights, homeless outreach, and more.
• Awarded a Certificate of Acknowledgement by former City Council President Nury Martinez for service to my community.

Panorama City, CA

• Responsible for management of $50k in annually distributed public funding and periodic reporting of expenditures to the city, Board, and stakeholders.
• Conducted routine inventory of Board assets to ensure publicly funded assets were cared for and tracked.

Hollywood, California

• Managed cash forecasting for over $40m in capital investments annually, provides support to executive and senior management, conducts detailed analysis on changes in forecasted cash flows.
• Partnered with Executives in Planning & Development, Environmental Health, Safety and Security, Production and Consumer services to develop the Studio’s annual capital plan.
• Oversaw capital budgeting, capital cash flow forecasting, construction cost tracking, analysis, reporting, and review for an annual spend of over $40 million dollars.
• Developed modeling for Facilities which analyzed corrective and preventive maintenance spend to keep executives and engineers informed of current services levels on the lot.

Hollywood, CA

• Designed, built, and implemented cash forecasting model for Distribution, capturing $2b+ in cash receipts annually.
• Provided support to executive and senior management on variances, issues with customer remittance, and suggestions on how to mitigate risk within the forecast.
• Streamlined inter-department communications to reduce redundancies and increase visibility and eliminate duplication of effort.
• Partnered with AR/AP and Technical Operations teams for precise data for quarterly receipts and disbursements which enhanced our system-based models.

Hollywood, CA

• Designed and implemented the Capital Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the Company’s transition to SAP, creating a detailed hierarchy for accurate cost tracking and financial analysis.
• Streamlined workflow between departments, including digitizing documents, to increase resource availability in critical business areas.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate reporting of capital project costs, balance sheet reconciliations, capital budgeting, cash flow, audits and implementation of policies and procedures.
• Provided support to Inventory Control team responsible for conducting routine inventory of Set Lighting and Grip stock and transportation assets.

Simi Valley, California, United States

• Designed and implemented the Company’s Property Control System for Capital Asset Management
• Developed a control process for the acquisition, identification, and disposition of fixed assets and government property.
• Conducted ongoing audits of company policy and procedure to ensure compliance with industry leading practices.
• Managed and audited inventory and controls including routine reviews of manufacturing processes.
• Responsible for the routine inventory of all government assets including supervising the decommissioning and destruction of obsolete assets.

Managed the internal offices of the Albany State University's student government.Monitored expenditure of the Student Association's $2.2 million budget Created payment schedules, issued staff checks and verified accurate payment of all employees Managed the Student Association's various departments and over 30 employeesServed as a liaison to over 200.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration, Finance And Information Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance And Information Technology Management