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Mesa, Arizona, United States

I am responsible for driving data-driven decision-making, supporting strategic planning, and providing insights that contribute to my company's continued growth and success. I play a pivotal role in enhancing the financial forecasting, budgeting processes, and performance analysis as we seek to rapidly expand our footprint in this burgeoning industry.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Finance liaison for the largest project portfolio with 100+ projects. Reporting financials, executing IT business cases, monthly stewardship reporting with senior leadership, and asset impairment.✓ Re-engineered and increased automation of all monthly reports to reduce time to produce by 40%.✓ Standardized and automated the IT project business case to reduce time to complete by 30%, automate error checking, and provide better tutorials/aids for users.✓ Directed efforts to create and maintain a SharePoint site to share FAQs and training aids with PMs.✓ Improved project recoverable time up 10 points by designing a reporting model with better visibility into employee timesheet tracking components and drivers.✓ Automated and enhanced the monthly Hyperion reporting file to provide a more consistent, simplified format for forecasting and reporting purposes.✓ Designed and automated a monthly reporting package for a key business unit with key metrics, dashboards and financials and data analysis.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Spearheaded strategy, 5-year plan, P&L consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, pricing, costing, business case preparation, and month end close.Managed corporate cash flow, balance sheet and income statement. Conducted SOX compliance audits. Led monthly pro forma call, evaluating financial results of call center operations. Informed leaders regarding the pricing tool used for new deals. Conceptualized dynamic model, enabling simplified product pricing, containing built-in sensitivity and what-if analysis.✓ Provided expert supervision to call center finance activities in the busy budget season, during director’s unexpected leave of absence, timely and accurately meeting deadlines.✓ Oversaw management and monthly reporting of call center financials for 6 divisions and $150M+ in revenue, yielding 16% annualized growth, with no need for additional resources.✓ Trained call center agents with tailored finance classes, establishing knowledge in handling personal money, yielding improved management of company resources. ✓ Strategized headcount and revenue forecasting models, utilizing key metrics and change management techniques, determining monthly revenue by client, product, and associated headcount needed.✓ Drove efforts developing multi-purpose pricing model, 1) monitoring margin analysis of call center products factoring in multiple currencies, locations, and products for client deals, and 2) paying sales commissions.✓ Booste revenue forecasting accuracy by 12%, decreasing turnaround time by 35%, utilizing a combination of data analytics, trending analysis, contract reviews, and consultation with key client shareholders.✓ Conceptualized dynamic model, enabling simplified product pricing, containing built-in sensitivity and what-if analysis.✓ Utilized trend and cost analysis, with improved tracking of various cost drivers, increasing forecasting accuracy for telecommunication expenses within tolerance of 1% to 3%.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Managed forecast and budget cycles, month end close, journal entries, account reconciliation, contract reviews and negotiations, RFP creation and review, capital plan submission, business case analysis, capital requests and reviews, labor capitalization, invoice approval, and the proficiency for five individuals in their assigned tasks. Managed cash flow, income statement, division level budgeting and forecasting, company flight profitability report, travel voucher analysis, market intelligence analysis, and 5-year plan.✓ Optimized process tracking capitalized labor hours, yielding 15% more hours capitalized.✓ Led evaluation of telecom expense management tool, saving $1M annually, and decreasing overhead required to manage telecommunication payment process.✓ Earned 2004 Chairman’s Award for meritorious service, “epitomizing what a model employee should be,” caring for and managing company assets, reducing telecom and equipment expenses by $600K+.✓ Revamped company’s $100M benefits program, utilizing Access database reports, smoothing monthly variances, boosting forecasting accuracy, and providing more actionable variance explanations.✓ Slashed costs during contract negotiations with 80 vendors, generated $2M+ in annual savings.✓ Steered efforts decreasing telecommunication costs 20% through process improvements, contract negotiations, policy revisions, corporate calling card program modification, and active inventory management.✓ Orchestrated augmenting and automating monthly flight profitability report, removing redundancies, enhancing reporting tools, and updating Access database inquiries.

Oxnard, California, United States

Ensured safety in a strawberry processing plant, managed and motivated 20 personnel to follow proper procedures; suggested improvements to operations to increase efficiency and decrease waste.✓ Assessed production figures, recommending innovative operations, amplifying hourly output 2%.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, 3.87

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society | Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics, 3.84

Activities and Societies: Golden Key International Honor Society | Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

3.98