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Manage financial operations and reporting of SoundExchange and its subsidiaries, while also being an active participant in the organization’s overall financial strategy.

I've held roles as Director of FP&A, Director of Enterprise Business Solutions, and Director of Management Reporting with Blackboard.Director of FP&ASuccessfully built the FP&A team to support Blackboard from pre-IPO through 8 years of operating as a publicly traded company [BBBB]. During this time Revenues grew from $100M to $500M while I managed end to end the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly variance analysis. To keep pace with the growth I set process standards for operations spanning Sales, HR, IT, and Finance. As a detail oriented analyst and an experienced project manager I have been hand selected by the executive team to lead the development of Blackboard's management reporting. As a trusted business partner I presented financial results in monthly operational reviews.Director of Enterprise Business SolutionsI have a passion for process efficiency and practical decision making. The vision I branded for this team was to establish and drive overall enterprise application strategy and standards. In each engagement, we focused on business process improvement. In the Business Solutions role I managed a team of 12 plus an offshore group to deliver applications support and enhancements. The team also supported over 15 acquisitions and integrationsOracle Hyperion SMEOver 7 years of administrator experience with Oracle Hyperion, Essbase, and Financial Reporting. I have led 6 implementations for Planning and Reporting to a user base of 100 users.

Reporting to the US Director of Finance, in this role I successfully built the forecasting tool used to manage $50M in operating expenses supporting 400 heads supporting US Sales Operations. Monthly forecasting and variance analysis was presented to the VP of Sales. When C&W moved under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, I participated in due diligence requests and maintaining strong working relationships with counterparts in UK and West Coast.

Produced the monthly forecasts for the Commercial Market which had annual revenues of $1.5B