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Dallas, Texas, United States

• Led financial planning and analysis (FP&A) activities for FlixBus North America, a technology-driven travel service operation, partnering with cross-functional teams to align financial goals with company objectives.• Prepare the development and execution of the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial plans, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery.• Prepare comprehensive financial reports, analysis, and presentations for senior management, providing insights into financial performance, trends, and risks to drive data-driven decision-making.• Conduct detailed financial modeling, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis to evaluate business opportunities, initiatives, and risks, supporting strategic planning and resource allocation.• Collaborated with Operations, Marketing, Commercial finance, Accounting and Controlling to develop and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, optimizing operational efficiency and driving financial success.• Monitor and analyze variances between actual results and forecasts, identifying drivers and recommending corrective actions or optimizations.• Present the financial analysis and insights on 3 different P&L’s to the Head of Finance, actively contributing to strategic discussions and business planning meetings.• Continuously improved financial processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness in financial planning, reporting, and analysis.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Frisco, Texas, United States

• Heavy involvement in monthly close process including report preparation, variance analysis, presentation builds, and communication to internal customers• Collaborate with Procurement/T&W/Manufacturing/Commercial Supply Chain teams to prepare analysis, commentary and presentation material for Executive Leadership Team meetings, operational reviews, management meetings & financial reviews• Lead the development of annual operating plan and forecasts with business partners for COGS and SG&A• Develop a detailed understanding of the financial systems functionality of SAP, TM1, HFM, Planning Analytics and various business warehouse or BI cubes including the ability to extract data to support interpretation or the reconciliation of periodic/quarterly results• Lead monthly discussions to go over financial results reviewing actual versus forecast and budget variances with internal business partners

Plano, Texas, United States

• Assist in preparation reporting packages including Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews as well as analysis of important business trends, actual versus forecast and budget variances• Perform detailed analyses and provide insight and summaries to Senior Management based on data from a variety of internal sources• Provide ad-hoc analyses as required including requests from Corporate, Commercial, or other Finance teams regarding COGS, SG&A and other Supply Chain controlled costs• Maintained an SG&A data model system to help track the company's overhead spend

Austin, Texas

Manage forecasting, IT financial analysis, data reporting, invoicing, disputes, quality assurance, and document management. Oversee process improvement initiatives by enhancing process documents and updating publication of work instructions in addition to reconciling month end results for the State of Texas account.