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Austin, Texas, United States

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

Miami, Fl, Us

Managed all finance and accounting activities for $64M portfolio of technology & health clients including budgeting & forecasting, variance analysis, financial statement close process, assessing ROI on capital expenditures, managing financial improvement projects, financial KPI reporting, etc. Managed team of four accounting support staff and supported cross-functional team of operations, engineering, IT and HR. Provided financial analysis and ad-hoc reporting to enable effective and informed business decisions.Projects Include:• Implemented enhanced reporting for direct and overhead expenses to identify cost reduction opportunities resulting in margin increase and annual cost savings.• Developed tool to automate recurring journal entries reducing time to complete month end close process.• Refined purchasing/AP process to enable invoice automation for manual billing process reducing time to complete.• Restructured customer level income statements to improve transparency on spending and billing accuracy.• Led development of annual operating plan using zero based budgeting, Anaplan and financial modeling.

Miami, Fl, Us

Supported Group Director of Finance and President of $1.5B business segment with financial performance improvement projects, P&L segment consolidation, month end variance analysis and reporting monthly results and key drivers.Projects Include: • Led project with developers to build in-house KPI dashboard by defining database structure, SQL queries and validation testing to enable real time reporting to effectively manage financial and operational performance. • Streamlined monthly financial Hyperion reporting to enable faster delivery of results and variances to Divisional President and upper level management.• Led assessment of SAP Ariba and AS/400 AP procurement processes to resolve inefficiencies resulting in faster vendor payments and reduction in user errors.

Miami, Fl, Us

Supervised team of five staff auditors in performing SOX audit planning, risk assessment, walkthroughs, procedure development, control testing, final report issuance to control owners and remediation/action plan recommendations. Developed forensic/operational audits by building SQL queries and joining systems’ databases to perform data analysis to enable identification and mitigation of errors and fraud.Assisted with ITGC audits and Big 4 external auditors.

Managed Microsoft SQL databases, developed queries and performed quality control testing for development and maintenance of online homeowners insurance comparative rating engine.