Matt Jensen Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Go-to-Market Finance for Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), helping to build the future of connection within virtual and augmented reality. Current AR/VR products include Oculus VR system, Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses, and Portal smart display.

•Directed company-wide annual planning and long-term capital strategy, with annual investments exceeding $600M, by taking an analytical approach to influencing CEO and board decision-making•Chaired monthly meetings with CEO and C-level executives to approve new projects and review investment postmortem analyses, allowing the company to improve decision making and share best practices•Led a team of analysts to source, recommend, and monitor performance for over 100 capital projects annually, while creating DCF models with NPV/IRR sensitivity calculations in partnership with cross-functional subject-matter experts•Identified the need for and created the company’s first project-level long-range capital planning model, enabling better-informed and quicker decisions by senior leadership, which shortened the annual planning process by 60 days

•Drove accountability against the company’s $800M corporate SG&A cost center during a complex migration from a decentralized to centralized operating model, with keen focus on headcount rationalization, resource allocation, and expense justification• Instituted monthly performance reviews for C-level executives to improve resource allocation and increase accountability • Managed budgeting process for all 12 corporate areas, including target setting, data uploads, and calculating allocations

• Instituted a performance management culture by identifying gaps in execution and offering solutions through data-driven analysis• Acted as finance lead in a cross-functional task force for company-wide nightlife strategy, leading to a successful $100M investment• Created scenario analyses and other materials used in creditor negotiations during an $18B bankruptcy/restructuring• Prepared qualitative and quantitative business reviews for Board of Directors, Investor Relations, and SEC filings

• Completed market size analysis and built a bottom-up 3-statement financial and operating model for a new $750M casino resort• Provided analytical support for a successful $330M senior secured note issuance• Created a KPI dashboard for the CFO & senior management to compare relative performance across 36 casino resorts

• Presented to senior leadership monthly, offering insights on campaign effectiveness and metric trends, along with providing actionable recommendations to optimize marketing efficiency across all channels• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to provide input on testing strategies and to build financial forecasts

• Honorably discharged after 8 years, including a combat tour in Iraq, as a motor vehicle operator• Identified as a strong performer and received an enhanced job role: to maintain radio communication between air, fixed, and mobile units during combat in Iraq. Awarded Certificate of Commendation• Awarded Honor Graduate of Motor Vehicle Operator’s Course, ranked 1st in class