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Napa, California, Us

• Own the annual and long-range business planning and review process.• Improve financial reporting to company’s operating units and executive team.• Manage the implementation to new Paycom payroll system.• Responsible for preparation, processing, and producing accurate and timely company payroll.• Ensure compliance with all applicable state and federal wage laws.• Lead analysis and development to upgrade from server to cloud-based ERP.• Provide input and feedback to COO in strategic planning and all areas of finance and operations.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Develop $8.2B FY21 global budget for the PlayStation Store and Services.• Work with global teams across GBO, Finance for all budget, forecast and GSS guidance needs.• Forecast monthly/quarterly P&L across digital store and subscription for the Americas.• Analyze key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, and expense.• Partner with accounting to review the monthly close results to ensure completeness and accuracy.• Create, and maintain summary reports for SVP and Global Marketing executives.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Created annual sales, pricing, and volume plan for retail accounts totaling over $100M annually.• Identified risk and opportunities against specific team goals.• Presented key finance metrics at monthly strategic reviews and leadership meetings.• Initiated monthly calls with Account Executives resulting in greater forecast accuracy.• Developed process improvements to ensure accurate prices, accruals and trade spend are maintained.• Leveraged strategic partnerships across departments to complete ad-hoc requests.• Advised and led implementation of a new trade performance management system.• Member of the Coca-Cola North America Finance Vision, Mission and Strategic Initiative that developed sustainable and impactful initiatives that were embraced and implemented across CCNA Finance.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Forecasted bookings, revenue, and margins for the Converged Optical Routing Business Unit.• Responsible for evaluating Optical deals in partnership with marketing. • Prepared financial analysis (ROI, NPV) of new projects/programs with product line managers.• Managed Learning Solutions annual budget and analyzed monthly forecast variances.• Worked with department managers to forecast and track actuals to forecast.• Develop and submit forecasting and capacity metrics on a quarterly basis.• Leveraged data dashboards, metrics dashboards, financial tools and spreadsheets to analyze, document and correct budget issues.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Reviewed licensing and co-publishing contracts for the FIFA franchise.• Ensured compliance on all related financial commitments and obligations.• Analyzed effective and contractual royalty rates to accurately amortize prepaid advances.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Responsible for managing the North America, Asia, and Latin America customer revenue.• Ensured timely posting and tracking of statements, revenues and sales data.• Partnered with accounting to review the monthly close results to ensure completeness and accuracy.• Prepared monthly invoice preparation, cash application and account reconciliation.• Updated and maintained customer master information in Oracle. • Computed quarterly licensor royalty statements.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

Master Of Business Administration, Finance

Certificate, Data Analytics