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New York, Ny, Us

Studio City, California, Us

Studio City, California, Us

Orlando, Fl, Us

Hand-picked by the NBC Sports C-suite to lead all finance functions for this highly profitable, Florida-based business. Managed a 14-member team (direct and dotted-line). Reporting to the NBC Sports Group CFO and network President.▪ Quickly learned the business and leveraged a background in sports production to gain the trust of the management team.▪ Achieved network’s most profitable year. Pivotal role in the successful acquisition of PGA Tour content rights through 2030.▪ Defined and executed a finance strategy that mobilized funding for the PGA deal. Worked cross-functionally to simplify the production process and leverage technology. Relocated Golf Channel operations to NBC Sports Group’s Connecticut headquarters. This has allowed Golf Channel to leverage the business and production domain expertise of the Stamford team.▪ Working on the growth of a new college golf business. Collaborating with the PGA to define the future of live golf production. ▪ Overseaw finance for both digital and linear production. Instrumental in the spin-off of the digital business. Partners with digital businesses to optimize content monetization across platforms. Created a business model for shared content.▪ Shared transformation best practices with other divisions across NBCUniversal.▪ Finance lead in the migration to remote production and a work-from-home environment in the midst of COVID-19.

Stamford , Ct, Us

Recruited into a new CFO-level role within a post-merger (NBC, Comcast) environment. Led a 12-member finance team that oversaw all live-event sports production for NBC Sports Network, NBC, and their digital extensions. Managed forecasting, monthly close, and long-range planning. Additional accountability for the capital budget for engineering and facilities, including a 400K-sq.-ft. office, studio, and broadcasting facility and a remote warehouse. Reported to the NBC Sports Group CFO. ▪ Inherited team, automated processes, and redirected resources to planning and reporting functions.▪ Delivered and sustained 5% to 13%, of variable costs, savings annually by improving reporting and giving producers increased real-time visibility of production spend.▪ Advised the Executive Producer of Sports weekly on opportunities to optimize resources and ensure on-budget results.▪ Partnered with production and business development teams to model and outline the impact of potential deals. Examples include licensing Thursday Night Football and Premier Boxing Champions.▪ Transitioned team from a quarterly close to a monthly close process. Collaborated with the IT group to reduce the monthly close process to 1 or 2 days for the first time in division history.▪ Secured annual production tax credits by confidently navigating complex and changing state requirements.▪ Initiated and directed capital projects to build new studios, control rooms, and technical space while starting to consolidate various pieces of the business into the Stamford, CT, location.▪ Programming included NFL Sunday Night Football (#1-ranked show in primetime) and Football Night in America, Notre Dame football, NASCAR, IndyCar, NHL, TripleCrown, Premier League, Tour de France, and Premier Boxing Champions coverage.

New York, Ny, Us

Promoted to lead the strategy and execution for the transformation of the global finance organization (“Power of One”) to fuel profitable growth. Mobilized +100 existing multinational employees into a multiphased team responsible for project management, business case definition, process definition, system selection, and organizational redesign. Reported to the Global CFO.▪ Led team in providing data-driven insights and implementing new processes to support rapid growth.▪ Worked closely with technology vendors as they competed for a new ERP implementation. Member of the executive team that vetted, evaluated, and selected SAP as the vendor of choice and IBM as the implementation partner.▪ Engaged CFOs and teams worldwide in a rotational model to redesign processes and support the migration of key functions to shared services operations in Nashville and Hungary. This model averted millions in external consulting fees.▪ Saved +$15M in annual costs across the U.S., recouping project investment in <4 years. Kicked off the second project phase to consolidate another division, saving an additional $4.5M per year.▪ Networks included MTV, MTV2, mtvU, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, Nicktoons Network, VH1, VH1 Classic, TV Land, Spike TV, CMT, Logo, Comedy Central, and their digital extensions.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited into this rapidly growing multiplatform content business to support the implementation of a financial planning, reporting, consolidation, and analytics system across +30 North American networks and digital extensions. Quickly advanced to lead an 18-member team in the rollout of this system and processes worldwide (+100 international networks). Reported to the Controller.▪ Work was pivotal in synthesizing all networks and systems into a consolidated global financial view as the business split from CBS in 2006 and grew from $7B to +$8B in annual revenue. Recognized as a trusted mentor to teams worldwide.▪ Delivered efficiencies and improved accuracy by redesigning and deploying new processes for this division.▪ In partnership with the IT organization, owned the sourcing and delivery of IT solutions for all finance functions.

Markham, On, Ca

Worked across multiple industries and customers to solve accounting and finance process issues and design and implement systems to automate and simplify processes

Amherst, New York, Us