Kendra Irving, Cpa, Mba Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Lead financial strategy and operations for scale, impact and sustainability by providing strategic, tactical and visionary thought partnership to CEO, leadership team and Board of Directors.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Inspire 11-person team in financial reporting, operations management, forecasting, budgeting, and finance integration processes for business segments.

New York, Ny, Us

Career Overview with HBO:Was rapidly promoted to higher-level roles and awarded opportunities to manage multiple projects with changing priorities in fast-paced environment. History of spearheading confidential projects (involving complex analytics and unknown variables) to determine cost opportunities and identifying program eliminations. FINANCE DIRECTOR (2014 - 2019)Scope: Directed 8-person team in delivering financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and planning for 10 business areas and other G&A areas totaling $2.5B annually. * Formulated high-caliber financial analyses (5-year financial plans) that served as performance indicators and reliable tools in evaluating company's financial progress and management decisions.* Reduced monthly close process by three days, achieved close to 100% of closing deliverable deadlines, and increased operational efficiency by developing standard closing policies and procedures.* Represented finance department in contract negotiations with studios, strategic partners, and vendors; identified potential cost savings by closely monitoring complex licensing and vendor deals. * Actively participated in financial and accounting aspects of merger and drove efforts to combine balance sheets and valuation accounting for $3B in programming assets.* Established systematic documentation and smoother audit process by quantifying financial impact and qualifying business impact of policy changes through high-level templates.

New York, Ny, Us

Scope: Handled budget preparation and financial reporting and forecasting for Legal, Finance, Data Analytics areas and utilized high-quality analysis and research to validate key business decisions.* Devised effective reporting, budgeting, operating and accounting policies and procedures that highlighted critical budget issues to company leaders including SVP, EVP, and CFO.* Instituted highly reliable, quality deliverables and timely reporting by using new strategies for forecasting process, information reliability, added assumptions, and estimates.* Sought out by senior management to address and resolve staffing issues in Finance department.* Enhanced reporting accuracy and cut preparation time by 75%, and saved 15 hours of work time by automating 50+ management reports.* Recommended options for system functionality and workflow efficiency/effectiveness options by working closely with business analysts and IT on programming amortization application.

New York, Ny, Us

Scope: Promoted to manage four employees and oversee budget coordination, monthly financial reporting, forecasting and audit processes for $900M programming area.* Evaluated programming and licensing costs and determining best amortization methods to ensure alignment with new accounting policies on programming acquisition costs and music licensing.* Effectively managed a limited budget and increased department collaboration and team learning through annual finance networking event and staff development workshops.

New York, Ny, Us

Scope: Emerged among top three employees (out of ~200) who were promoted to newly created role based on exceptional work performance. * Was instrumental in streamlining financial reporting processes, establishing standard procedures, and creating monthly checklist for journal entries.

New York, Ny, Us

Joined company following its merger with AOL and played key role in ensuring timely external reporting and deliverables.

London, Gb

Mba, Accounting, Finance, Taxation And Business Law

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting And Finance