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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Prepare VCG Commerical Finance Product financial presentation materials for revenue reporting, analysis and leadership communication. - Support executive reviews for performance vs. Plan, Commitment Views and Outlooks.-Interpret and evaluate monthly results and trends.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Seen by Merchant as thought leader on channel category strategy. Collaborate and advise Merchant on pricing levers to drive category performance (sales, units, margin), execute tests and validate performance via post launch analysis.- Research and analyze channel sales and markdown performance.- Develop analytics and presentations to answer key questions surrounding business results, understanding geographical and category level variances.Key Accomplishments- Developed multiple models to track and report performance of various channel pricing optimization initiatives.- Expanded KOIs used to evaluate price change success/failure, enhancing intelligence of business decisions.- Drove 10 subclass level pricing changes, saving ~$20M in annualized markdowns.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Key Responsibilities:- Utilize technical skills to leverage business intelligence tools for data mining.- Deliver high quality business analytics to Regional President and Vice Presidents.- Transform analysis into understandable data insights and effectively communicate via various methods (verbal, email, presentation).

Dallas, Tx, Us

Key Responsibilities:- Calculate impacts of alternative pricing scenarios, plans and strategies, evaluating impacts, risks and benefits in addition to tracking post launch results. - Assemble, monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators. - Enable data driven and fact based decision making by manipulating data and developing actionable insights. Key Accomplishments:- Created over 20 new reports & analytics, introducing a new level of business intelligence to the organization and refocusing leaders on current business trends.- Built an automated model to calculate the impacts to revenues and expenses associated with changes to Security Package construct, merging Marketing’s focus on managing equipment costs with Operations focus of installation costs.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Key Responsibilities:- Member of DirecTV/AT&T merger team supporting the Go to Market launch. Performed forecasting, integrated offer ideation/impact analysis of many offers, in addition to advising the project team on wireless. - Build models to analyze price plan subscriber and financial performance and evaluate potential pricing actions supporting billions in annual wireless service revenues. - Calculate impacts (financial, operational, subscriber) of alternative pricing methods, plans and strategies, identifying impacts, risks and benefits. - Spearheaded post launch analysis to track performance versus estimates and identify variance drivers. - Discover actionable insights of customer behavior and use to guide business cases/pricing analysis.- Define key facts, drivers and impacts and package together in a clear story line. Communicate and present to Management and Executive Leadership in both Marketing and Finance.Key Accomplishments:- Created a Tablet profitability model (Revenue, OI, NPV, etc.) by price plan, device type (Apple vs. Non), promotional offer and channel.- Standardized employee and retiree wireless discount offer, impacting over 1M lines and boosting sales 4x.- SME for unlimited Smartphone data plan for 4+ years, encompassed reporting/analytics/financials/legal support.- Produced AT&T’s “Unlimited with TV” business case, which was AT&T’s first truly integrated service offer. Impacts and presentation shared through Sr. Leadership levels all the way to CEO.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Key Responsibilities:- Support Company Owned Retail and Agent Distribution channels Leadership teams with financial information to enable fact based decisions.- Complete in-depth research/analysis of operations and assemble the appropriate financial metrics for business case analysis.- Directed team of two management level employees. Team was responsible for analysis and forecasting of total Mobility equipment revenue and expense (subsidy) with billions in annual financial statement impacts, in addition to reporting of key retail financial operations metrics (inventory, cash, credits, discounts, equipment subsidy, etc.) for over 2,200 retail store locations.

Dallas, Tx, Us

-Provide revenue leadership, direction, reporting and analysis to region Vice President.-Monthly revenue forecasting based on Sales Center performance.-Quota assignment including monthly modifications, reporting, analysis and other ad-hoc analysis.

Dallas, Tx, Us

-Monthly analysis and reporting of revenue impacting credits. Identify areas of potential errors or misuse and provide the leadership to fix the issue. -Perform bad debt expense variance analysis, reporting and monthly forecast.-Lead team of two management level employees.

Dallas, Tx, Us

-Responsible for overall pricing structure of Cingular Wireless postpaid pricing plans.-Prepare financial analysis of all rate plans, products and services to ensure balanced growth between revenue/profitability and subscribers.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Master, Accounting

Bachelor, Accounting