Serve as FP&A team lead for software-defined and networking products and services. Partner with Product Management and Lean Business Agility (LBA) stakeholders such as Pricing, Costing, and Sales, for business case development related to capital spend projects, ultimately resulting in product launch approvals. Work with Pricing to review and approve pricing changes to existing rates, ensuring the actions make sense from a profitability perspective. Engage Product Management in review of revenue results and coaching of financial metric improvements related to capital spend. Created and maintain various tracking reports and dashboard of actuals to outlook and budget for revenues, bookings, and sales funnel of related products for reporting to executive management. Created and maintain business case template with functionality that includes bill of materials at billing element level, cash flow tracking, and contribution margin analysis with accretive/dilutive determinations. Work closely with Product Management and Sourcing to vet and process approvals for spend authorization, vendor engagements, contract approvals, and purchase orders related to approved business case capital. Work with Capital Management to track budgeted, committed, and actual capital spend, on program projects and to augment request for incremental capital needs.

Responsible for providing accurate and supportable costs for advanced data products and services for retail and wholesale tariff filings, regulatory initiatives, and business case decisions. Prepared costing and pricing support for custom bid solutions of non-standard product offerings. Provided capital requirements and other supporting financial information used for calculating profitability analysis and financial metrics for business case reviews. Provided breakdown of cost components used as insight for pricing decisions and to evaluate capital spending decisions. Documented all cost studies and analysis to ensure consistency and to provide meaningful understanding to stakeholders. Created and maintained a comprehensive process for producing margin reporting and analysis for lines of business with drill downs to product, customer, and rate element levels.

Responsible for organizing, preparing, and filing network element and service cost studies with public utility commissions and the FCC. Maintained and updated integrated company cost model for assigned states. Developed and maintained supporting documentation for all cost study filings and provided pricing support for all Wireline retail and wholesale services. Performed detailed analysis of cost model outputs and provided witness support for Pricing Policy group. Prepared responses to regulatory requests regarding filed cost studies and costing methodologies. Provided training on internal processes related to cost development.

Responsible for the tracking, analysis, and reporting of revenues, operating expenses, headcount, capital budgets, contribution margins, and sales volumes for a five state region. Supported creation of annual operating budgets. Produced forecasts and developed business cases in the support of incremental business decisions. Administered accounts payable procedures at regional level and performed other ad-hoc analysis and special projects as assigned.

Responsible for budgetary and forecasting process for a major USAF procurement. Developed and maintained business process re-engineering tracking to ensure cost reductions and improve contractor production efficiency. Developed analysis and positions for forward-pricing rate proposals used in contract rate negotiations and progress payment process. Participated in and prepared documentation for finalized rate negotiations.