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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Strategic Planning: Guide the company’s financial strategy, analyze performance, and identify risks.Financial Leadership: Manage and train the finance team, develop annual financial plans, and ensure compliance with financial laws.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with various departments to allocate funds effectively and drive financial initiatives.Corporate KPIs: Oversee financial data reporting, track acquisition performance, and forecast bank covenants.

Katy, Texas, United States

- Direct various simultaneous projects/programs/initiatives spanningdifferent topics related to Strategic Planning / Business Operations.- Establish cross-company and partner products and solutions.- Directs the development of overall program strategy, governance, budgets,resource allocation plans, and general program requirements.

Katy, Texas, United States

Established data-driven models to define and track aggressive, yet achievable financial targets for key strategy partners.

Houston, Texas Area

Deliver end to end dashboard, reporting, and analytics for billion dollar business unit. • Present to general manager and team innovative dashboard consolidating business intelligence with insights focused on key performance indicators. • Produce and present from PowerPoint as well as interactive Power BI Dashboards (app.powerbi.com). • Expand cross team collaboration across business units and product lines with common sources, metrics, and objectives.• Lead several projects establishing end to end measurement and objective accountability for sales, supply chain, marketing, product lifecycle management, human resources, and other objectives.

Houston, Texas Area

Financial management for vice president to define capital structure and strategy. Leadership to innovate monthly reporting to achieve operating budget and financial growth targets. Direct planning and analytics via advanced reporting tools and best practices. Defined and tracked decision making key performance indicators (KPIs) as well as measure savings plan achievement.• Influence geographically diverse forecasting team to achieve strict accuracy metrics, resulting in cost savings as well as forward visibility. Measured, investigated, and addressed largest errors.• Reduced spend by nearly 25% by workforce optimization with low cost resources where possible while assigning highly skilled local resources required for customer satisfaction. • Achieved 60% efficiency increase while reducing errors by 40% by building, testing, and implementing reliable advanced reporting Power BI monthly dashboard and ad hoc analysis. Tracked performance to budget, forecasts versus budget, as well as other key performance indicators (KPI). Yielded timely quantitative insights to business performance and comparison across the geographies.• Automated variance analytics with a low cost and reduced error rate dynamic reporting environment, allowing each manager to focus on their scope of responsibility, greatly increasing efficiency.• Achieved annual budget process targeting $10,000,0000 savings and approved before tight deadlines by defining cadence and tools to collaborate closely with local corporate finance teams. • Developed, communicated, and tracked business case to support strategic initiatives and investments. This provided approval for the budgeting necessary to target 100% revenue growth ($10,000,000).

Houston, Texas Area

Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager | 04/2016 – 12/2017Established and monitored key metrics, initiatives, and data quality. Continuously engineer improvements maximizing information system and cutting-edge tool adoption.• Partnered with acquisition targets for reporting structure on-boarding within 2 month required time frame.• Increased forecast accuracy by 4% via design and implementation of flexible and accurate forecasting.• Increased sales by 5% by expanding visibility to pipeline gaps to quota and budget. • Increased 25-person team efficiency by 13% via common tools, metrics, data sources, and cross-training.• Increased sales productivity by designing and testing innovative financial model measuring sales productivity of organization from lead sales management down each tier to individual salesperson.• Enhanced timeliness of metrics provided 50% by establishing easy comparisons of gaps to quota.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed analytics team supporting 12 vice presidents delivering $4B of annual revenue. • Designed and delivered sales and productivity analytics tools that replaced an outsourced program, saving $500,000 annually. Insourced solution provided immediate delivery versus five weeks.• Realized $2,000,000 cost reduction from gathering vice president objectives, extract data, analytics, and presentation to negotiate principal supplier terms.• Developed and presented third party market research with market benchmark objectives.• Developed and delivered automated templates to present the analytics supporting Quarterly Business Reviews. This allowed each organization to be compared using objective standardized metrics.

• Delivered 50% efficiency improvement by review, documentation, and standardization of several partner programs. Presented results to executives to guide execution.• Dramatically increased efficiency by organizing and collaborating across three regions and development team to migrate functionality to Salesforce.com.

Houston, Texas Area

Enabled new product introduction via financial models validating profitability.• Enabled $250M partner contract by coordinating financial modeling, budgets, and revenue projections.• Established top to bottom analytics and dynamic question and answer by design and implementation of budget definition and tracking model, reducing report preparation time by 40%.• Highlighted business issues and risks to drive 3% profitability improvement across business units.

Houston, Texas Area

• Change management expert pushing teams to change business processes and results to reflect changing business environment.• Recruited and trained consultants to leverage the forecast, inventory, and cost analytics tools and best practices developed at corporate competency center.• Defined, documented and communicated best practice tools, business processes, and supply structures.• Interviewed procurement directors in order to define their analytics needs, assigned training, tools, and employee resources to deliver those needs.• Reduced price, supply, and demand risk by leading analytics projects across planning, business unit, and procurement. These projects involved leading 3 – 10 team members. • Led risk reduction projects on $4.5B of spend enabling savings of $20M (FY 2008).• Modeled supplier financial health in order to assess their ability to continue as supplier.• Executed and enhanced cost models defining market pricing volatility and implemented contract structures to address risks.• Collaborated with workers from multiple cultures (Asia, Europe) and business units.

• Directed project that discovered and realized $1 million of operations cost reductions and $2-5 million of projected revenue growth from streamlining operations.• Managed project to reengineer contract approval system to increase capacity by 20% during contract renewal season.• Boosted efficiency by 30%, improved measurement and accountability, and improved controls by designing and implementing operational risk activities on CRM application.

• Executed sales process by managing a team of sales and consulting professionals.• Sold Customer Relationship Management applications - Siebel Call Center, Marketing and Field Service.• Investigated and then sold based on the challenges of C-level executives.

• Successfully completed each component of the software design, implementation, and go live process with several clients.• Supervised and executed testing the business processes configured to ensure transaction accuracy and completeness.• Taught 3-week IS-Utilities course to clients, consulting partners and fellow employees on three continents.

• Reengineered system used to report weekly financial information to brand managers and executives.• Enhanced flexibility and speed of forecasting model.

Reviewed company operations and finances for efficiency and effectiveness.Made recommendations on the systems and procedures being reviewed, reported on the findings and recommendations and monitored management's response and implementationWorked with management to ensure a system is in place which ensures that all major risks are identified and analysed.Planned, organized and carried out the internal audit function including the preparation of an audit plan which fulfils the responsibility of the department, scheduling and assigning work and estimating resource needs.Reported to both the audit committee and management on the policies, programs and activities of the areas audited.

Supervised and reviewed work performed by other staff and interacted with the Manager on client and team matters.Analyzed financial statements to establish financial statement accuracy.Reviewed and evaluated financial risk, financial reporting and accounting transactions processes including controls.Identified and communicated technical matters to both clients and upper management.

Mba, Financial Information Management, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Graduate Finance Association, Rugby

Bs, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi