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Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

• Cloud Finance owner for Microsoft Teams and 4 other products. Focused on in-year spend optimization and long-term planning for Engineering organizations. Partnered with Engineering teams to identify spend efficiency.
• Reviewed and approved 16 engineering efficiency projects that are optimizing $100M+ of cloud spend.
• Partnered with engineering to build new forecast models, providing more granularity into $1B+ annual spend.
• Discovered an area of reporting inaccuracy, and pushed engineering to properly allocate $30M annual spend.
• Identified $25M+ of opportunities related to cloud compute spend, and presented findings to senior leadership.
• Found and corrected $7M of cloud spend data system identification errors.Skills / Lessons Learned:Financial Analysis | Financial Modeling | Forecasting | Data Analysis | Variance Analysis | Finance Business Partner |.

Greater Seattle Area

• Forecast and do the annual planning of customer service expenses for 6 B2B partners. Perform expense variance analysis and present findings to key stakeholders. Build financial models for monthly trends and new Product.
• Lead the monthly close process for Finance team. Review and submit monthly accruals to Accounting.
• Built a new financial model to trend out monthly variable expense vs. latest forecast. Deliver variance analysis to stakeholders.
• Built automation features into the monthly accruals model that save the Finance team 200 hours/year.
• Collaborate with Workforce Management team to find cost savings opportunities through customer service staffing efficiencies.
• Drove 6% annualized savings for a B2B partner through presentation of detailed analysis to key decision makers.

Greater Seattle Area

• Led Financial planning, forecasting, and variance analysis for 4 B2B partners and assisted on 4 other partnerships. Performed expense variance analysis and presented findings to key stakeholders. Reviewed invoices and.
• Built a financial model to measure the cost savings impact from new product initiatives
• Lead the monthly close process for Finance team. Review and submit monthly accruals to Accounting.
• Partnered in the building of a new monthly accruals financial model.
• Consulted with Business Analytics to better understand the data source used to calculate monthly accruals. Improved the calculations in the model and completely eliminated calculation errors that were causing a 1-3%.
• Collaborated with Workforce Management to find $1M in cost savings through staffing efficiencies.Skills / Lessons Learned:Financial Analysis | Financial Modeling | Forecasting | Data Analysis | Variance Analysis |.

Greater Seattle Area

• Participated in the discussion and development of ideas and strategies with the startup’s founders. Concentrated on growing brand presence, customer acquisition, social media, and analysis of site.
• Created a marketing campaign on Rotowire.com that drove 71% of site traffic during NFL Week 2 and 15% of site traffic during NFL season
• Created Google Ads campaign that had 100K+ impressions and drove 35% of site traffic from Jun 2019-Mar 2020
• Managed Twitter Ads campaign that had 145K impressions during 2019 NFL season
• Conceptualized the features for the 3-tiered subscription model that was implemented by the company
• Analyzed site traffic using Google AnalyticsSkills / Lessons Learned:Digital Marketing | Customer Acquisition | Social Media | Google Analytics | Google Ads | Twitter Ads | Adobe Creative Suite

Pamplona Area, Spain

• Focused on development and expansion of academic programs. Built and maintained meaningful relationships with leaders, team members, partner organizations, and prospective customers.Responsibilities and Highlights:
• Led promotional sessions at partner organizations in 6 Spanish cities
• Presented informational sessions to audiences of 100+ at incoming prospective customer events
• Identified new target market (Switzerland), coordinated trip, and led promotional activities there while building relationships with 6 host organizations throughout Switzerland
• Created business cases and facilitated sessions for prospective customers
• Taught Accounting classesSkills / Lessons Learned:Business Development | Networking | Public Speaking | Teaching | Communication | Leadership | Spanish

Seattle, WA

• Organized and reviewed financial reporting packages, reconciled accounts, and ensured compliance with US GAAP.Responsibilities and Highlights:
• Reviewed quarterly reporting packages for 10+ international offices and monthly P&L packages for 3 US offices.
• Performed full Lease Accounting duties, including reviewing contracts and creating payment/amortization schedules.
• Managed complex relationships between HQ and international branches to maintain internal clearinghouse.
• Collaborated with staff in Puerto Rico to launch accounting operations for new office.Skills / Lessons Learned:Accounting | Financial Reporting | US GAAP | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Access | Hyperion

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Delivered various accounting services, including account reconciliations, monthly accruals, and booking journal entries.Responsibilities and Highlights:
• Reviewed quarterly reporting packages for 7 international offices and monthly P&L packages for 3 US offices.
• Managed complex relationships between HQ and international branches to maintain internal clearinghouse.
• Assisted with implementation of automation features for financial reporting reviews.Skills / Lessons Learned:Accounting | Financial Reporting | US GAAP | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Access | Hyperion

Seattle, WA

• Performed a variety of finance and accounting responsibilities for Seattle’s largest tourist attraction.Responsibilities and Highlights:
• Orchestrated the balancing and processing of $10K+ daily cash receipts
• Performed Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
• Reconciled Balance Sheet accounts and analyzed P&L variances
• Helped develop financial procedures for new Museum and trained staff on use of these procedures
• Participated in physical count of inventory at retail storeSkills / Lessons Learned:Financial Analysis | Accounting | Variance Analysis | Account Reconciliation

Bellevue, WA

• Contributed to the review and development of processes that focused on customer service and customer experience in a startup atmosphere.Responsibilities and Highlights:
• Ensured that customers successfully moved through the customer life cycle
• Collaborated with Tech to develop new business processes to support startup through early stages and improve customer experience
• Processed inquiries, claims, and paymentsSkills / Lessons Learned:Customer Service | Operations | Business Analysis | CRM | SalesForce

Master'S Degree, Economics & Finance

Activities and Societies: Instituto de Lengua y Cultura EspañolasStudent Delegate (Leader)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business: Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi