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Travel the globe, Skill development, Health and well-being, and Enjoying what life leads me to

Trusted finance business partner and leadership team member for a 500+ strong global Product & Engineering organization, driving the success of a $2.5B+ revenue-generating portfolio• Advised EVP and VP level executives on key strategic and financial planning initiatives to drive growth, technology transformation, and operational efficiency. Focus included investment optimization, resource allocation, risks and opportunities assessment, trade-off analysis, business results assessment, decision-making framework and processes, location strategy, organizational structure design, talent development, and aligning product strategy to broad business objectives• Led annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and quarterly financial close processes. Oversaw headcount, OPEX, COGS, and cloud infrastructure spend (AWS and Snowflake)• Led financial analysis, operating plan modeling, and finance due diligence for M&A activities (incl. a $1B+ acquisition, one of the largest M&As in Autodesk history) and supported integration effortsThought finance leadership• Managed and developed a team of senior financial analysts through mentorship and leadership• Spearhead FP&A organizational-wide Learning & Development initiatives that elevated employee engagement and talent growth

• Finance business partner to Engineering and Product VPs and their leadership teams• Evaluated and implemented investment and operational strategies, drove strategic business objectives, enhanced R&D Portfolio Management process, and optimized investment resource allocation• Developed and scaled spend forecasting, planning and analysis processes, and led change management on system and tooling implementation and automation

I’ve had the privilege of leading a talented team of financial analysts providing strategic financial, planning, forecasting, and reporting support to AMER Territory Sales and Finance leadership. • Developed and established robust forecast methodology, analysis, and process in AMER Territory Sales team, which was recognized as a best practice and was later adopted by the Global Territory Sales team• Developed annual sales budget and strategic plans for AMER Territory Sales in collaboration with business heads and cross-functional finance teams; accelerated budget setting process while implementing new systems and technology (e.g. Anaplan)• Led the finance quarterly business review and business planning process; prepared presentation and analysis that synthesize critical business insights to leadership team (VP level)• Acted as Finance Business Partner for Inside Sales; improved the finance process to support onboarding of new sales director

Strategic Finance lead supporting Autodesk’s worldwide sales organization• Planning and Budgeting: established annual sales target setting and corporate LRP models• Strategic Analysis: conducted price, volume and mix impact modeling and other analysis that enabled executives to formulate business priorities to achieve sales target• Forecasting: developed forecasts on subscriptions, ACV, Billings, Revenue, and ARR• Business Review: drove quarterly business reviews process and developed presentations to Worldwide sales executives, Controller and CFO• System and tooling: partnered with Finance BI teams to enhance and automate reporting solutions and planning platforms

• Developed market intelligence and insights on key industry trend, competition landscape and consumer dynamics relating to the IoT space and analyzed their strategic implications to Samsung• Developed “thesis” on corporate-level strategy to M&A, investments and strategic alliances

• Uncovered early signals of traction that facilitated venture deal sourcing through conducting intensive market research on the Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence space• Provided investment recommendations and performed due diligence on potential deals

• Developed a monthly sales analysis model and metrics that allows senior sales management to better understand the implications of the Company's business model transition• Conducted external bench-marking analysis around sales forecast processes, methodologies and metrics to help define the Company's long-term vision on sales forecasting

• Conducted buy side and sell side due diligence for more than 15 deals across the sectors of technology, retail, education, energy and transportation;• Developed data-driven insights and made strategic recommendations to senior executives on primary business drivers, valuation, market competitiveness, purchase price negotiation, and process optimization• Managed project scoping and execution from end to end; ensured communication and information streams between cross-functional teams to successfully deliver high quality results

• Conducted financial statement audit; major clients across real estate, shipping & transportation, retail, manufacturing and professional services sector;• Analyzed financial statements by use of ratio, trend, comparative and reasonableness analysis; performed assessment on fair value of long-term and short-term assets;• Evaluated and tested the design and effectiveness of internal control and risk management of organizations; made recommendations on improving operational and process efficiency;• Oversaw 1-3 junior staff and reported key audit issues to senior-in-charge, managers and partners