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• Forecasting:Sole Finance Manager for P&E, Sales, G&A & COGS, responsible for monthly BvAs, forecasting and AOP. • Additional Sources of Value Added:Led the financial overview and coordination of departments of the contractor conversion of employees in Ukraine, resulting in creation of the new entity and savings in other contractor expenses.Built the Covid-19 RtO scenarios, including the first revenue HC growth projections, markets, and leases. Because this changed the BigCommerce’s global real estate plan and hiring practices, it was presented to the BoD and discussed on a public earnings call

Austin, Texas, United States

- Adaptive Insights Administrator - Drove successful go-live of Adaptive Insights instance in the midst of budget cycle to enable organization to plan and report at much more detailed levels than previously available - Focused on change management and user adoption to ensure that processes and functionality met FP&A team’s and budget owners’ needs as end users learned to use the system - Created documentation to enable self-service approach for end user training, and to address frequently asked questions that arose throughout the first budget cycle in Adaptive - Through the establishment of a go-live stabilization checklist and system roadmap, led priority-based approach to triaging go-live blockers vs. long-term enhancements - Managed relationship with Adaptive implementation partner, including escalation of systems issues through a managed service contract- Planning Reporting: - Served as finance business partner to G&A executives; this end user experience enabled more effective systems administration - Responsible for managing and automating all external reporting to owners and lenders - Designed and automated OfficeConnect reporting to drive monthly and quarterly BOD reporting

Austin, Texas Area

SENIOR FP&A ANALYST - Internal Budgets - Implemented the inception of internal budgeting by creating twelve budgets consisting of eight product lines and four corporate lines - Lead discussions and in-depth inquiries from PE while conveying their expectations throughout the organization - Assisted in company reorganization, leading to synergies of +$7MM in annual savings- Reporting - Reconstructed and automated the BOD presentation giving more impactful insights to company's performance and points of vulnerability - Automated weekly and monthly reporting, ultimately leading to faster and more accurate deliverables- Additional Sources of Value Added: - Lead reconciliations addressing the disconnected in HR systems and Accounting. Implemented monthly assimilation process of the two departments, ensuring integrity of Accounting’s entries - Identified discrepancies in the use of Salesforce between eight product lines. Synchronization of use ensured data integrity and accurate reporting of KPIs

Austin, Texas Area

FP&A ANALYST - External Budgets - Produced ten annual REIT budgets for external investors, which included updating and maintaining additional cohorts and restructures - Established the process and managed the monthly variance analysis between four internal departments - FP&A’s lead point on external budgeted methodologies & practices- Internal Budgets - Created ten budgets for the first time in the company’s history - Assisted in the creation of eight revenue generating budgets - Lead the annual budget and forecasting process for all assigned functional areas including relevant analysis and documentation of major variances- Additional Sources of Value Added - Developed multi company infrastructure of divisions and cost centers - Collaborated with Accounting and HR to report monthly expenses and headcount across the firm’s divisions and markets - Created various reports modeling out multidimensional impacts to liquidity - Partnered with Accounting and HR to report monthly expenses and headcount across the firm’s divisions and markets

Dallas, Texas, United States

PROMOTED TO FP&A ANALYST - Financial Reporting - Responsible for the monthly preparation of 24 practice level P&Ls, which included trended financial statements, dashboards, revenue per FTE and margin metrics and A/R aging breakouts - Manually adjusted six practice level P&Ls at the general ledger level monthly to provide financial accuracy due to newly implemented ERP issues - Supported the maintenance of the financial update for the Monthly Operating Review as well as the Executive Committee- Capital Markets - Supported $250MM Term Loan A debt refinancing by providing five years of historical audit support in excel for projection model as well as drafting, creating and reviewing slides for the Confidential Information Memorandum and the Lender PresentationACCOUNTS PAYABLE – SENIOR COORDINATOR- Invoice Processing - Responsible for global rent schedule for over 60 locations internationally - Oversaw work flows from requisitions to purchase orders to remittance - Responsible for all foreign transactions using Entity Based accounting - Regularly processed and issued payment in seven currencies - Responded to status updates, completed reconciliations, Ad Hoc request and updated vendor profiles - Supporting Executives and Leadership - Consistently provided leadership and company executives with payables reporting, expense data per engagement, and communicated with vendors on their behalf - Additional Responsibilities - Responsible for all employee expenses reimbursements globally - Management of team email and distribution of requests to effectively manage team members strengths

Murray, Kentucky, United States

PRIVATE ACADEMIC TUTOR- Tutored students in economics (macro and micro) in order to improve their proficiency and test scores. Students - Improved an average of 13.4% on their next test following four or more tutoring sessions - Analyzed student progress and adjusted lessons and schedules accordingly to support optimal growth - Maintained sensitivity and adjusted teaching styles to accommodate students of various learning levels - Hired two tutors to expand service offerings and managed their bookings and tutoring schedules