John Gage Email and Phone Number

Year 1 – Internal Audit June 2018 – June 2019• Assisted in the execution of SOX/Financial/Compliance/IT audits while also completing quality workpapers that were complete, accurate and organized.• Provided in-depth research and analysis on an ad-hoc basis surrounding constantly changing business challenges and best practices to mitigate risk. • Enthusiastically supported the Internal Audit team in Rome with translations of vital SOX controls and test steps as well as presentations on Blackline rollout. Year 2 – Treasury June 2019 – June 2020• Scheduled and facilitated the completion of an RFP for Latin American bank accounts in order to further consolidate company-wide bank fees and optimize services provided to IGT.• Performed various Cash Flow exercises and analyses with the intent of hedging IGT’s global exposure in the money market.• Certified IGT’s quarterly compliance with existing Financial Covenants between global banks centered around contractual calculations for Leverage and Coverage ratios. Year 3 – Corporate FP&A June 2020 – June 2021• Assisted with IGT Lotus reorg implementation support tasks including: Allocation analysis, cost center creation for Corporate and Italy Support, verification of hierarchy changes and data recasts.• Reconfigured and built new reports in BPC to ensure streamlined analysis for Corporate after the reorg with major focus on allocations.• Lead Business Partnering initiatives with P&T’s Organizational Effectiveness, Diversity & Inclusion and Environmental Health & Safety organizations.

• Actively participated in the budget and forecast process and prepared variance analyses for Directly Managed Cost, Capital Expenditures and Headcount.• Performed close processes at the end of each month to ensure financial accuracy for upper management.• Ensured continued SOX compliance with respects to: revenue recognition, FA-01 package reporting, account reconciliations, etc.• Generated reports, analyses, and presentations as required.• Spoke to actuals variances for Region II/FL/NY during monthly CAO review.• Provided detailed monthly analysis related to venue profitability in NALO’s participation markets segment for Operations reviews.

Project Financing (Americas)Costing projects for lottery services and terminalsSit in on conference calls to explain way project was costedCompare projects to prior projects to check blended ratesReconciling data from two sources to ensure consistencyGlobal budgeting (International, Americas, Italy)Tracking month by month budgets for countries at a timeTaking these budget pivot tables and creating Powerpoints and presentations for Senior VP of FinanceDetermining methods to continue to exploit efficiency Creating excel templates to accommodate for differing reports desiredCreating structures on internal databases so that Project Managers may charge to correct cost centersExperience with BPC Financial planning systemExperience with SAP reporting system

Translated Italian to English for the Festival flyers, placards and signs.Gave tours of Taormina, Sicily for historical means.Set up Festivities.Used social media to spread awareness.Used paper products to spread awareness and talked to local shop owners for publication venues.