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Edmonds, WA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Led team of 8-10 remote employees across three Corporate FP&A sub-teams: Corporate FP&A consolidation, FP&A Systems, and Long-range/Workforce Planning. Responsibilities and accomplishments:
• Created durable and flexible frameworks for consolidated financial planning, reporting, and analysis, while driving weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting deliverables for the Board of Directors and C-Suite leaders.
• Provided senior finance business partnership to G&A teams (Finance, Real Estate, HR, Legal, IT, and Corporate Comms), driving strategic decision-making for resource allocation, efficiency/savings goals, and growth areas.
• Designed and drove Annual Planning processes for FP&A - including creation of financial planning calendar, communication of financial principles, coordination with cross-functional stakeholders (HR, IT, Strategy.
• Directed long-range planning efforts, delivering quarterly update of 3-year financial model and initial annual budget targets by team. Led financial modeling for key strategic decisions such as reductions-in-force.
• Partnered across Finance functions: Investor Relations for quarterly earnings reports and guidance-setting, Global Tax team for transfer pricing and compliance, and Technical Accounting for unique and one-time P&L.

San Francisco, California, US

• First remote Finance employee at Dropbox, creating long-range planning models and providing decision-making analysis and support of key company-wide initiatives.Responsibilities and accomplishments:
• Enhanced and expanded long-term planning models, including consolidated corporate three-year plan, stock-based compensation, and ad hoc headcount and financial planning.
• Created financial model that supported company-wide shift to "Virtual First" operating model, including real estate financial impacts (impairment, sublease, and build-out projections) as well as workforce cost impacts.
• Partnered directly with CFO and cross-functional leaders to design, communicate, and execute Annual Planning process -- including creation of financial principles and goals, sequencing of planning stages and.
• Supported acquisition of DocSend by creating M&A integration and valuation support financial model.

San Francisco, California, US

• Hybrid role supporting Corporate FP&A while acting as primary Finance business partner for People, Finance, and Legal teams.Responsibilities and accomplishments:
• Built and owned long-term planning models, including consolidated corporate three-year plan, stock-based compensation, and ad hoc headcount and financial planning.
• Supported first acquisition as a public company (HelloSign) by creating M&A integration and valuation support financial model.
• Drove monthly and quarterly financial reporting for Board of Directors and Executive team, including variance commentary across full Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement.
• Partnered with IT and FP&A Systems teams to create workforce planning module in Oracle, directly leading to material increase of workforce budget accuracy.
• Managed and coached team of 3 analysts/senior analysts who provided day-to-day FP&A support for G&A teams.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Managed hybrid responsibilities between Corporate FP&A and Operations Finance, variably supporting corporate initiatives at direction of CFO and partnering with two C-level executives and their staff to achieve.
• Led a global Free Cash Flow visibility initiative, improving forecast accuracy over 2 years.
• Oversaw the corporate reporting package delivered to CEO and CFO for quarterly earnings calls.
• Directed budget cycles for Media and Marketing organizations, supporting expense, headcount, and capital planning in partnership with two C-level executives (~$280M spend, ~500 headcount)
• Coordinated cross-functional workflows between business units to optimize video P&L and accelerate investment cases.
• Managed summer intern on project that measured Media talent’s performance against KPIs, informing executives for high-value contract re-negotiations.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led annual budgeting and monthly review cycles for Real Estate organization and analyzed P&L and cash flow impacts for lease renewals and capital improvement projects.Became acting North America food program manager and founded a “Food Council” of key stakeholders to drive decision-making, optimize budget, and improve food quality.Won 2014 Yahoo “Super.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Completed two-year finance rotational program, supporting G&A Operations Finance and Mobile Search Revenue. Managed Mobile Search revenue projections and modeling, including A/B test impacts and new product launches during period of 100%+ annual growth.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bsc And Ba, Finance And Spanish Studies