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Finance Project Manager and FP&A• Proficiently developed and sustained precise Income Statement projections and Revenue Forecast models, ensuring accuracy and reliability in financial planning and forecasting• Spearheaded the implementation of Propeller's first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, catalyzing enhanced finance operations as a subject-matter expert• Partnered with PMO to train 170+ employees in the time and expenses, customer project management, revenue, and financial reporting modules in the new ERP system• Directed over three successful vendor selections and transitions for key financial tools and partnerships, ensuring smooth and impactful transitions each time• Led the project overseeing vendor selection and implementation for Propeller's first budgeting tool, and conducted training for a leadership team of over 35 individuals• Collaborated closely with the Senior Director of Finance and the implementation team to architect and refine the financial modeling within the new budgeting tool, ensuring its accuracy and alignment with organizational objectives• Facilitated and guided team members in enhancing, updating, and innovating existing processes, fostering a culture of continuous improvement organization-wide

Oversaw comprehensive bookkeeping functions at Propeller, encompassing Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Customer Billing, Corporate Credit Card Management, and the meticulous execution of Financial Reporting• Efficiently managed weekly and monthly billing cycles for over 85 customers, accurately recognizing and recording revenue following GAAP compliance• Conducted thorough financial statement reviews and led P&L meetings with the Senior Finance Director, Managing Directors from six regions, and departmental budget owners, fostering comprehensive financial oversight and strategic decision-making

Supported the Vice President of Worldwide Sales Training Organization to manage and oversee a multimillion base budget and investment dollars.• Successfully partnered with Cisco Finance to budget-plan, forecast and report on OPEX and ring-fenced investment dollars for the Early-In-Career programs including the Cisco Sales Associate Program (CSAP), the WW Sales Internship Program and the Sales Acceleration and Go-to-Market programs• Assisted stakeholder funding activities to support training in different architectures, including Service Provider, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, Collaboration and Security in North America and Europe• Proactively tracked and maintained the contract renewal of 50+ contingency workers, as well as provided guidance on onboarding efforts to Hiring Managers and Suppliers• Worked closely with Training Directors to manage 100+ headcount for salaried and hourly employees as well as program participants across the Americas, EMEAR and APJC regions• Effectively ran workplace resource efforts to properly allocate office space, training facilities and lab usage resulting in significant quarterly cost savings

Established and maintained a strong relationship with Cisco Sales, customers and partners to drive and grow business outcomes. • Efficiently managed end-to-end leasing process for Fortune 100 customers, totaling over 40 million dollars in products and services, annually• Partnered with Credit, Legal and Pricing to satisfy customer financing needs while following compliance and accuracy procedures• Engaged with Cisco partners to implement life-cycle management and product-refresh strategy for customers• Provided training to new employees to ensure rapid and smooth transition to Cisco Capital’s leasing and loan processes• Seamlessly transitioned install-based customers to leverage the DocuSign electronic signature process

Cisco Capital AccountingAssisted Chief Accountant with Cisco Capital Mexico and Canada Captives.• Collaborated with management to clean up 90-day aged balance sheet accounts• Identified and provided system enhancement requirements to improve Cisco Capital’s automated general ledger posting process• Integral contributor for the implementation of Cisco's improved and automated balance-sheet account reconciliation process• Successfully trained colleagues to record pre-owned equipment, monthly remarketing and transfer-pricing journal entries

Worldwide Services FP&ASupported Worldwide Services cross-functional teams to accurately manage a multimillion budget in OPEX and COGS.• Partnered with Worldwide Services teams to oversee the OPEX and COGS budget, target allocation and forecasting• Assisted financial analysts to correctly account for open PO accruals, reclassification and cross-charging of departmental expenses• Teamed up with the pilot team to successfully implement the automated process of PO accruals in a web-based tool for all organizations under Worldwide Services• Collaborated with Corporate Accounting to report on accrual accounts while holding compliance and accuracy

Acquisition Accounting Team (AAT) Assisted entity controllers and accounting teams for Cisco’s acquisitions to execute accounting transactions in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).• Established an efficient process to accurately complete over 200 balance-sheet account reconciliations• Successfully took over the revenue recognition and journal entry processes of newly-acquired companies to account for the monthly activities of non-Oracle entities• Fully executed a training playbook for future new LiFT participants to efficiently ramp up to this position• Partnered with Cisco’s Enterprise Document Management team to accurately transfer acquisitions’ sensitive information to this database system

• Established a reconciliation process for the fixed assets records for two of the major business units onsite allowing these to track all the physical assets that arrived to their labs in the fiscal year.• Helped in the final transition from ORACLE to SAP Enterprise Resource Planning systems in which the department’s main focus was to ensure every fixed asset listed in our location in ORACLE was accurately transferred to SAP.• Assisted the Finance department on a monthly basis to gather financial data such as headcount and lab usage for all of the business units currently onsite to properly allocate and forecast costs in the following month.• Responsible for preparing invoices on a monthly basis in order to bill the business units their lab usage in terms of square footage, power, and number of racks occupied in the labs.

• Implemented AT&T’s five key behaviors leading the store to increase net representative satisfaction to an overall 100% in the month of March, 2011.• Assisted sales representatives to ensure all promotions in regards to wireless and wired services were being offered to all eligible customers. Consequently, the store was able to reach 100% of sales goals for the month of January, 2011.• Improved the store's inventory and paperwork audit score from 70% in the month of December, 2010 to 100% in the month of February, 2011.• Successfully trained five new hires for the position in the Brier Creek and Cary Towne Center locations.