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Seasoned FP&A and Commercial finance leader with 15+ years of experience building high performing finance teams, driving financial results, strategic planning, cost optimization and financial transformations.My passions lie in leveraging data, analytics and technology to yield more favorable outcomes through partnership & collaboration with decision makers. Skilled in teaming with cross-functional and global stakeholders, simplifying & communicating complex financial information, and influencing senior leadership as a trusted and credible finance business partner. In addition, I have a record of scaling technology across Finance functions and standing up and leveraging financial hubs & CoE to increase scale & efficiency across finance organizations.Achievements:• Led 18-month transformation and standardization of North America Finance team moving from a decentralized office based operating model to a Regional Industry based model supporting 500+ MDPs and case teams• Led and developed strategy and roadmaps for setting up Shared Service operation in low-cost geography. Centralized transactional tasks across Client Finance, A/R, Billing & Collections saving over ~$3m annually• Defined and implemented revenue management policies, smoothing out revenue recognition, enhancing risk management, tightening working capital controls, improving P&L & Balance Sheet hygiene and Partner equity.• Defined and implemented new billing & collections policies in North America refocusing on DSO improvements. Improved DSO by 50 days, saving $7M. The best performing business unit in 2022.• Implemented CRM Pipeline and Pricing Tool and drove adoption across partnership leading to enhance transparency and competitive intelligence in lead flow, wins/loss reporting, MDP productivity and forward-looking backlog analysis.