Lead captive financing team (17+) for Americas commercial business enabling revenue and Worldwide payments support of Consumer and Advertising businesses. Partner with sales leadership, finance, product strategy, and operations to provide financing.

Work side by side with VP to build a new organization and establish vision, strategy, and operations with execution excellence. Lead strategic planning and Rhythm of Business (ROB), reporting/scorecard development, budget, and compliance. Direct exec comms and customer/partner events and social media.• Architect of US GTM for Global Skills Initiative (Accelerate) creating programmatic approach to ecosystem partnerships leading customer conversations with social impact.

Lead a team of full-time employees and vendors to support VP and leadership team including Rhythm of Business (ROB), Data Analytics & Reporting, Hiring/headcount, Strategic Planning, Budget Management and Compliance. Manage business intelligence reporting team including development of new and managing existing reporting enabling leadership decision making. Direct executive communications and external speaking events. Followed VP to new role.

Coach, develop, and promote high performing audit leads and staff in a highly matrixed organization, including 5-7 direct reports and indirect teams of 30+. Project manage a portfolio of global audits across all segments of the business (Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Retail, Supply Chain, Tax, and IT) including planning logistics, resource budgeting and allocation, overseeing key milestones, creating clarity for teams, reviewing workpapers and audit reports, providing and reviewing feedback/performance evaluations, and maintaining quality in-line with audit standards. Successfully partner with stakeholders to review risks and obtain buy in for key process improvements. Summarize and present results to senior/executive leadership.

Lead project teams to execute audits across multiple areas of the business through onboarding/training, supervision, and review of work product. Develop staff through on-going coaching and performance evaluations. Prepare and present detailed results, obtain stakeholder buy-in on issues and risks, and summarize via executive level reporting.

Finance partner facilitating budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and oversight for sales and marketing departments including Retail, Licensing, Royalties, and Marketing. Managed close and analysis of revenue, margins, and inventory trends partnering with business and finance leadership. Led royalty revenue recognition treatment for new line of business.

Risk based operational auditor focused on marketing, sales/distribution, and IT audits covering all stages of audit process. Supervised contract staff over Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley (J-SOX) assessments. Created and presented Enterprise Risk Management workshops to educate senior leadership, managed assessment and presented ERM results to executive management.

Internal control consulting and process development including process review, analysis, documentation and testing focused on process improvement initiatives. Compliance reviews including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404, BASELII, and SEC Reporting within the retail bank segment.