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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Support SVP, RVP of Finance, and hotel DOFs with analytical insights to drive profitability and achieve key priorities. LAC Region is made up of 20 Full Service LAC properties and 11 Select Service properties across.
• Generate a monthly report out presentation targeted to Americas leadership recapping the region’s performance in profitability, forecast changes, and key priority metrics
• Developed budget bridge and contingency plan tools for DOFs to utilize to analyze financial performance and strategize for future with GMs and ownership
• Assisted in the curriculum development of the L.I.F.T program designed to develop the next generation of finance talent. Led the instruction of ‘hard skills’ courses in essbase, reporting analysis, and tool building
• Supported in the execution and design of the LAC Regional Finance Meeting in Mexico City in May 2022, designed to develop hotel finance leaders into strategic business partners
• Interim Regional Manager for Northwest region (Jun – Oct 2022) and both Lifestyle regions (Feb-May 2023) gaining insight to different management strategies and reporting demands

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Strategizes efficiencies in financial reporting, driving analytical insights, and tracking key initiatives for the Americas.
• Produce key reports for Americas leadership and operations team including the Americas Priorities Scorecard, Daily Report, Guest Experience report, Loyalty program performance, Diverse Supplier Spend, and F&B Venue.
• Created a Month-End Toolkit for regional managers to support their report out calls. The toolkit provides further insight in profitability, changes to forecast, and forecast accuracy from region to hotel level in one.
• Led the redesign of the Monthly Financial Review document all properties use to recap monthly performance. Key upgrades include hypothetical flow through analysis, emphasis on forecast, and addition of key.

Greater Chicago Area

• Supported Hyatt Development & Feasibility teams in forecasting profitability of potential Hyatt deal signings with various fee structures, key money, and proformas
• Ran Monte Carlo simulations of potential performance of future Hyatt openings based on proformas
• Designed a shared deal tracker for driving better team collaboration and organization

Greater Chicago Area

• Support the Americas Leadership team providing analysis on business gaps and risks affecting the bottom line. Work with Hotel DOFs on establishing forecasts/budgets. Prepare Monthly and Quarterly business reviews and.
• Created a Banquet Key Performance Indicator report that allows hotels to identify and drive actionable insights within banquet operations by comparing similar hotels
• Innovated more efficient franchise fee tracking and true up process. Trued up $64M in franchise fees in 2017 vs $29M in 2016
• Designed Hyperion Training Quick Reference Guide and co-hosted training sessions for educating DOFs

Glenview, IL

• Lead a 3 person finance team providing FP&A and support for 62 Sales Locations totaling $1.4B in SalesConduct daily calls with Sales Mgrs & Regional VPs analyzing business gaps, providing ad-hoc reports, working as a.
• Division achieved 104% of plan in operating profits in 2016 (6.8% growth)
• Provide guidance and reporting to Small-Medium business team that grew from $4M in Sales in 2014 to $12M in 2016
• Designed cross divisional report combining our financials with newly acquired subsidiary for executive review
• Book monthly bonus accrual for division's 735 sales employees coordinating with bonus team organizing vast amounts of data

Glenview, IL

Focused support in South, Central, & West regions (29 locations)-FP&A of P&L and Balance sheet for each location -Constructed annual budget coordinating with other departments- people costs, marketing, freight, facility, rebates, working capital-Managed Bill and Hold projects coordinating with warehouse and inventory-Booked monthly journal entries in GAAP.

Glenview, IL

-Analyzed AP invoices, Sales rep expense reports, and various cost analysis-Recorded monthly Balance Sheet & P&L journal entries-Constructed and delivered daily sales reports to field tracking company initiatives-Managed check requests to be processed by AP for the division

Assisted in inventory and quality control measures in warehouse HQ during college breaks for quickly growing company

Chicago, IL

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance

Activities and Societies: KRUI Radio HostMinor - Computer Science

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