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Madrid, ES

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Role: - Develop, monitor, and effectively communicate KPIs, enhancing the company's ability to track financial performance and provide financial insights and actionable recommendations to the executive team and Board of Directors.- Direct financial analyses and strategic initiatives that provided timely, accurate, and relevant insights into the company’s.

Los Angeles, California, US

Lead financial operations and decisions at a fast-growing startup company with a focus on profitability, efficiency, customer service, and continuous improvement. Handle team training, system implementations and integrations, data analysis, change management plans, and accounting functions.

• Managed complex financial projects, systems implementations, and process improvement initiatives for startups through Fortune 100/500 companies. Oversaw G/L, payroll, A/R, A/P, reporting, financial statements, due.
• Collected $140K in outstanding receivables after creating invoicing system that synced with QuickBooks data.
• Reduced the time to update forecast models by 40% for 5 networks after automating data retrieval and formatting
• Led end-to-end implementation of online BI software and reporting/forecasting/budgeting tools, including SAP BI tools and Cognos, for clients.

New York, NY, US

• Led financial operations for public company with $30B in revenues. Remained adaptable while earning promotions to roles with increasing responsibility. Oversaw budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance, financial.
• Enabled rapid, scalable business growth by onboarding newly acquired companies on News Corporation’s rigorous financial processes, procedures, and systems.
• Supported complex, organization-wide financial and business analysis by performing ad hoc analyses and aggregated information across all divisions to support company-wide initiatives and executive/investor.
• Trusted to manage up to $25M/month in expenses through effective oversight of budgeting and forecasting for Master Service Agreement expenses shared across 9 divisions.
• Partnered directly with SVP to perform highly nuanced, long-range analysis and forecasting of anticipated losses for 400K square feet of leased real estate following Myspace divestiture.
• Provided C-suite and non-finance senior executives with access to financial data and financial reporting by successfully restructuring reserve analysis, real estate analysis, and treasury analysis.

New York, New York, US

• Managed Senior Financial Analyst on daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting deliverables (below).
• Analyzed cash flow forecasts of international businesses in order to determine excess cash available to News Corp.
• Assisted Investor Relations and NY Management Reporting teams with ad hoc requests related to Fox businesses.
• Administrator for internal management reporting website which provides real time metrics and financial data on all of the News Corp businesses for Senior Management.

New York, New York, US

• Consolidated management reporting for entertainment companies within News Corp.
• Prepared consolidated monthly and quarterly flash analysis across all Fox divisions.
• Prepared consolidated quarterly operating profit analysis for News Corp. management in preparation for earning calls.
• Prepared weekly advertising and film metrics analysis to monitor revenue performance of divisions.
• Prepared quarterly forecast to actual variance analysis for operating profit, revenue, and cost for all divisions.
• Prepared summary presentations for management to outline capital spending.

Performed all major accounting functions for 4 Regional Sports Networks (RSNs):- Performed month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close.- Performed monthly balance sheet and P&L analysis and reconciliations, including A/R and A/P reconciliations.- Prepared financial statements monthly and conducted variance analysis.- Maintained general ledger.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Art History, Spanish Literature

Certificate In Accounting

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting