Nicholas Beatty Email & Phone Number

Coralville, Iowa, United States

• Monitored and maintained $36M worth of expenses, including Purchase Orders and Invoices, keeping them aligned with budgets and forecasts. Created a robust PO tracking system to better align contracted work with expense.
• Created in-depth forecasting templates with adaptive-focused upload integration for annual expense and revenue forecasting for SB and PRE-AP programs.
• Created and iterated team-specific budget tracking templates that consumed and displayed Lawson/Workday financial data in ways easily interacted with by non-finance-focused executives and managers.
• Directed monthly budget meetings and quarterly forecasts with Executive Directors to manage and maintain margin goals.

Coralville, Iowa, United States

• Facilitated monthly budget meetings across sixteen individual teams.
• Assisted corporate finance with yearly audit requests as well as updating deferred revenue schedules for multi-year agreements.
• Assisted budgetary decision-making to maintain SB and PRE-AP margin goals, consistently meeting or exceeding the goal.
• Coordinated several thousand order invoices annually.
• Reviewed and approved expense and honorarium reimbursement for independent contractors.
• Created check requests for vendors, contractors, and permissions licensing.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Queried and processed several thousand yearly order invoices for the Springboard team.
• Worked with Accounts Receivable to create credits and assist in collections.
• Reviewed and approved expense and honorarium reimbursement for independent contractors.
• Created check requests for vendors, contractors, and permissions licensing.
• Assisted Collage Board finance with yearly audit requests and requirements.

Greater New York City Area

• Tracked and balanced all operating and unique project budgets for the International Primary team combining to over $5.5 million dollars.
• Coordinated publishing contracts, IP number requests, ISBN requests, text permission requests, and all legal documentation relating to publishing projects.
• Researched and secured all authentic text/image/art permissions for the Primary team.
• Created detailed and customized sales reports to aid in forecasting future sales or the viability of new project proposals.

Greater New York City Area

• Licensed high-volume daily content permission requests for: The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S.A. Today, Slate, CNN, Fortune, Newsweek, and multiple other sources.
• Worked with academic, and non-profit book publishers clearing and licensing content for print, eBook, course packets, audio books, and educational websites.
• Managed accounts receivable and collections for the permissions department including checks, credit cards, and wire transfers.
• Maintained a detailed archive of all hardcopy and digital permission agreements dating back 15+ years.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched academic contacts and course work of 1000+ US based architecture, graphic design, and photography professors.
• Created databases for large scale marketing email blasts.
• Managed the payments and shipping of text book review copies.
• Operated the social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram) for the business.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Tutored university students in writing research papers, persuasive speeches, and undergraduate theses.
• Copyediting, line editing, developmental/plot editing, dialogue editing, proofreading, fact checking; for fiction and nonfiction.
• Library Resource and research skills
• Database instruction