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Bentonville, Ar, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

2023-24 Academic Year: Graduate Assistant - McCombs MBA admissions (assisted with core objectives relating to recruiting prospective students, including mobilizing the 90+ current MBA students to serve as externally-facing ambassadors in the admissions process).

Redmond, Washington, United States

Finance role supporting the Technology for Social Impact (TSI) organization within Microsoft.

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsibilities included performing SEC 10K & 10Q reporting for my business segment, including reconciliation and analysis of $1B in Equity investments with $65M of FY2021 earnings, $115M in product inventory, and $16B in financial contingencies and allowances.Key accomplishments included quarterly presentation of financial summaries to business segment's financial controller as well as leading the team's productivity initiative - aimed at automating and simplifying SEC reporting processes - resulting in a 85+ work hours reduced each quarter. Additionally, supported the migration of business processes for this team to a global affiliate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, included the automation of these processes and successful execution training & handover virtually supporting colleagues based in Argentina.

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsibilities included overseeing all drilling & capital activity within my business segment, including stewardship of ~$5B in non-cash OPEX and ~$50B in PP&E, financial modeling, and end-to-end coordination of accounting close as the team's subject matter expert.Key accomplishments included identification of a collective $175M of P&L savings, stemming from efforts to optimize the company's five-year CAPEX drilling plan as well as to identify & remediate master data inefficiencies and errors that were driving high non-cash OPEX. Additionally, produced key financial metrics that were factored into the company's portfolio analysis supporting the $20B asset impairment decision in 2020.

Fort Worth, Texas

Objective was to lead successful implementation of SAP finance ERP module by the target go-live date, with responsibilities including coordination of user experience and system design as well as analysis, design and planning of project implementation phases such as user testing, master data conversion, and business application cutover.Key accomplishments included the design of a SAP finance ERP module in tandem with cross-functional development team and translation of accounting processes into specifications to create a viable product for 80+ end users, featuring process automations and enhancements. Additionally, trained 1000+ users on the finance ERP system rollout, providing user support and troubleshooting during warranty period.

Fort Worth, Texas

Responsibilities included CAPEX accounting and stewardship for ExxonMobil's $10B+ Permian Basin asset base and key accomplishments included implementation of new financial metrics and process enhancements aimed at providing operations staff with better visibility on drilling performance during the growth phase. Additionally served on the ExxonMobil recruiting team for Oklahoma State University, coordinating business career fair logistics and identifying interview candidates.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance & Strategy, 3.81

Activities and Societies: Co-Chair - McCombs Ambassador Committee, VP Recruiting - McCombs Consortium, Peer Leadership Coach, Latin.

Bsba, Accounting

Graduated with honors, summa cum laude, Senior of Significance (top 1% of 4,343), Outstanding Business Graduate (top 15), Top 5 Accounting.