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Toronto, On, Ca

Lead finance decision support for Thomson Reuters Corporates segment ($0.3M Sales, $1.4B revenue), supporting the segment president, CFO, and leadership team on strategic analysis, monthly reporting, and annual planning. Partnered with product, technology, and marketing on strategic analysis and prioritization go-to-market and product investments.• Finance lead for key workstreams on Thomson Reuters transformation program, including Go-To-Market (digital and non-digital) and Professional Services with targeted savings of +150M

Toronto, On, Ca

Finance director leading Thomson Reuters FP&A reporting and planning systems. Directed team of 120 FTEs in India FP&A center of excellence. Lead key finance, FP&A, and sales operations transformation programs with Finance leadership team, defining new roles, responsibilities, and operating model across the finance organization. • Program lead for transformation program that centralized core FP&A activities for sales, revenue, expense, and investments• Supported the sale and separation of Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters, including initial financial data analysis and transaction support as well as post-announcement organization separation of FP&A teams, processes, and systems• Accelerated automation efforts across Finance and FP&A, expanding the utilization of data automation tools and robotic process automation

Toronto, On, Ca

Finance director for Thomson Reuters enable functions, including Finance, HR, Strategy, Legal, and Communications. Supported Thomson Reuters ExCom leaders on strategic and financial matters, overseeing ExBITDA of $0.7M million and Workforce of 4,600 FTEs. • Consolidated enable function budgets from across Thomson Reuters business units and developed reporting cadence and partnerships with leaders• Provided finance support and tracking for savings initiatives across all functions, primarily in Finance focused on FP&A simplification and order to cash automation• Supported benchmarking and other best practice analysis across functions

Toronto, On, Ca

Directed the Thomson Reuters internal capital allocation of $1B annually, including setting business unit and function annual targets, monitoring and reporting capital spending, and governing standard capital process. Directed the global royalties processing team of 25 FTEs, supporting timely, accurate, and compliant royalty payments for $0.2B annually. Also, supported enterprise wide finance initiatives, including top customer reporting and finance organization cost benchmarking, analysis and reporting.• Developed and implemented standard capital process for Thomson Reuters organization including standard templates, definitions, and plan processes. • Supported executive level and board requests on enterprise capital allocation, providing analysis and insights on driving higher and more effective allocation towards product development• Directed global royalties application and cost savings initiative, replacing 8 systems and driving FTE savings through automation and process improvement • Lead the top customer revenue reporting across organization in complex OTC environment, requiring close partnership with business units and sales organization

Toronto, On, Ca

Supported the monthly forecast and month-end reporting of Thomson Reuters, Legal business unit. The Legal business unit generates revenue of $3.5 billion from approximately 20 different businesses across the information services industry. Supported the Legal management team by leading the major planning cycle processes, developing financial plan targets, consolidating and presenting financial plan submissions. Partnered with Legal business units to obtain achievable and accurate forecasts during difficult economic conditions.

Provided finance and accounting management within the North America Service Center supporting all North America strategic business on capitalized software and capital reporting. Managed a variety of responsibilities including monthly close processes, annual audit process and leading a team of eight accounting/finance professionals. A key area of focus was on building strong partnerships with the technology finance and project management organizations within each SBU to improve project accounting and reporting processes. Played a key role in the implementation of SAP across Thomson Reuters partnering with the business units, information systems teams, and other service centers.

Ba, Math, Economics

Mba, Finance