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Redmond, Washington, Us

Core Focus: Financial leader driving alignment across finance and engineering organizations for commercial launches impacting cloud, AI and productivity. Defining strategy and execution steps for critical feature releases, generating buy in from critical resources to deliver on vision.Key Contributions: ▪ Drove the delivery of complex financial compliance and testing of Azure Savings Plan to deliver a critical launch.▪ Influenced feature design and product offerings, prioritization of road map items and key deliverable tasks across highly matrixed organizations to drive energy and focus on finance critical outputs for Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC) supporting revenue scaling and improved CX.▪ Developed onboarding and training plan to decrease the learning curve for new hires and vendor support by providing a simplified, tactical approach to launch assessment and templates for cross functional stakeholder engagement.▪ Unblocked critical launches through deft negotiations, performing critical needs analysis, and finding compliant alternative paths to meet the minimum viable needs and gaining alignment between finance, engineering, and business leadership to secure warranties or post launch testing and validations

Powder Springs, Ga, Us

- Construction project management and consulting- Skilled construction labor and resource procurement- Rental rehab and maintenance- Water and Smoke damage restoration

Levallois-Perret, France, Fr

- Advanced to increasingly responsible positions, culminating in a key leadership role to develop the strategic goals for the region. - Successfully managed operations and strategic management assignments beyond the scope of many finance executives. - Recognized for building finance infrastructure and commercial & operational processes throughout the region. - Recommended ways to increase productivity by developing automated reporting applications and consolidating sources of information. - Developed and implemented world-class financial infrastructure and reporting systems utilizing SQL, DAX, Power BI and Excel to enable, tracking and audit mechanisms that increased revenue capture, identified the causes of expense variances, and decreased monthly credit memos in region by 15%.- Provided internal controls, built policies and procedures to facilitate the strategic plan; provided key stakeholders with insights into business operations through real-time analytics and dashboards.- Initiated the creation of a financial fluency training for operational leaders, focused on helping operations make connections between business drivers and the P&L, that was adopted and deployed nationally.- Strategic finance partner for successful turnaround of underperforming business unit by creating better data visibility, driving automation and labor sharing of administrative tasks, and building a culture of high performance through active management of business inputs. - Expertly improved financial performance through a significant cost restructuring, renegotiation of contractual agreements, and a financial restructuring process.

Levallois-Perret, France, Fr

- Partnered with legal to develop letters of intent, service agreements and contracts pricing exhibits for supply chain and logistics solutions. Performed redlines, review and counter proposal in contract negations with large corporations in varying industries.- Developed comprehensive pricing models, presented financial risks and opportunities and sought executive C-level buyoff on deal pursuits.- Full P&L ownership of startups through steady state, developed invoicing and reporting frameworks to ensure contractual, GAAP and regulatory compliance, financial monitoring and performance, KPI and SLA adherence. - Facilitated collaboration among Geodis’ most senior leaders within and beyond Finance to understand problems and develop solutions to complex business problems. - Developed Executive Leadership KPI dashboard, to support commercial, operational and financial decision making.- Utilized process improvement methodologies to streamline and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance department.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Served as Finance leader for European startup businesses with a COGS impact >$1BN: EU alternative sourcing strategies, Private Brands and EU Copy Levy Tariffs. - Built, developed, and maintained data models, visualizations, and dashboards using multiple data sources to optimize decision-making process.- Defined financial reporting structure for startup initiative that allowed business to scale from $30MM COGS to >$1BN COGS in 18 months. Iterated reporting to allow for automation and standardization. - Defined roadmap and developed BI reporting capability with Finance organizations that seeded Data Science and Automation initiatives. Managed related infrastructure and processes that enable forecasts and analytics together with operations. - Managed an internationally located team of financial and business intelligence analysts to create the foundation for the weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews.- Provided explanations to EMEA and global management (USA), regarding the financial results, considering the major monthly, QTD and YTD variances. - Supported key strategic EU projects by pursuing projects with Tax, Legal, Trade Compliance, EMEA Accounting and Finance teams to ensure compliance with US GAAP/IFRS and governmental regulations and guidelines.

Arlington, Va, Us

- Provided analytical and decision support to the management while continuously improving forecast, budget, and reporting processes. - Collaborated with Engineering, Business Operations, Tooling, IT, and Supplier Management to resolve production issues and mitigate risks. Provided strategic advice and real-time analytics to key stakeholders. - Credited for identifying and resolving a legacy production issue saving $1.2MM/airplane. - Supported CFO and Controller in special projects and in the preparation of financial presentations to the management. - Actively managed a portfolio of $30MM in CAPEX and $50MM in OPEX mixed engineering skilled headcount developing NDA and secret clearance level future state airplane technology R&D projects. - Supported IP acquisitions on R&D projects by conducting deal valuations, classify transaction tax treatment, negotiate funding sources with executive level stakeholders, and report transaction detail to accounting teams. - Led difficult, detailed discussions on variance to plan with senior director level project owners. Implemented fiduciary process that drives compliance and budget control. - Managed cross functional teams throughout project cycles to improve schedule and cost using Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques. - Queried and analyzed data from multiple sources to improve business insights needed for strategic recommendations to senior management team. Developed modeling tools to improve analysis. Recommended financial process and monitoring efficiencies.- Participated in budgeting and forecasting procedures, quarterly reviews and annual external audit. - Developed checklists and work guides for program auditing; helped teams to reach 100% compliance within a year.

Arlington, Va, Us

- Project Management: Managed cross-functional teams throughout project cycles to improve schedule and cost usingEarned Value Management Techniques. Used analysis of large data sets to identify process improvement opportunities andpartner with Engineering, Business Operations, Tooling, IT and Supplier Management to resolve production issues andmitigate risks.- Business Modeling: Developed complex tools, using extracts from SQL databases, and data manipulation in MS Access andMS Excel, that assisted in the analysis of large data sets and utilized reports to provide evidence for business cases andoperational realities.- Operational Controls: Developed and deployed a streamline work-sampling methodology to validate impacts of cost savinginitiatives, which was adopted across the enterprise. 747 Program Focal for work sampling methodology, leading a team inimplementing processes to reduce rework and minimize disruption by enabling large scale data collation, automatedanalytics and simplified actionable views.- Budget Management: Participated in quarterly budget development, reconciliation and submittal by conductingmanufacturing status projections, operational risk analysis, and opportunity impact analysis.- Audit: Developed checklists and work guides for program auditing; helped teams to reach 100% compliance within a year.

Cleveland , Ohio, Us

• Management: Lead and mentor team of non direct reports to develop and meet individual performance plans that enabled significant success. Performed supplemental training and coaching to increase employee aptitude and developed referral incentives rewards system. Coordinated and supervised training and coaching procedures for new tellers, as well as performance management of tellers after training was completed.• Business Planning: Developed, managed and maintained strategic marketing initiatives by partnering with local businesses that resulted in a 14% portfolio growth in 11 months.• Financial Analysis: Performed financial analysis using tax returns, personal and corporate financial documents to determine ROI, future cash flows to support capital investment decision-making process, and determine risk.

Green Bay, Wi, Us

• SOX Compliance Knowledge: Implemented SOx controls at branch level and prepared account documentation for internal compliance and FDIC audits.• Market Development: Designed tiered marketing plans with corporate marketing team to increase brand recognition in community. Established the groundwork for market penetration of new cash management service offerings. Developed client base in the Americas, Europe and Asia.• Transactional Execution: Implemented a daily process for flagging and contacting delinquent demand deposit accounts and lines of credit; driving a 20% decrease in aging accounts over 3 months

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Management: Coordinated and supervised training and coaching procedures for new tellers, as well as performance management of tellers after training was completed.• Sales: Leveraged Line of Business partnerships by offering specialized financial services to existing clients. Worked with business partners to incentivize teller referrals with warm hand-offs. Resulted in higher customer retention rates and increased branch revenue per sale.

Master'S Degree, Finance, General

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Ba, Health Sciences