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Santa Barbara, CA, US

• Oversee all aspects of finance and strategy of private equity-backed company, including credit risk management, compensation, accounts payable and receivable, funding, board reporting, cash management, accounting.
• Instituted long-term cash planning to ensure funding covenants are consistently met, reducing loan costs by 300 basis points.
• Created annual corporate goals that could be cascaded down to the individual, ensuring quarterly sales bonuses were in-line with overall strategy. Year-to-date sales are up over 15%.
• Conducted thorough review of SG&A costs, achieving 10% year-over-year savings.
• Introduced a new credit checking process for new customers. By eliminating poor quality customers, bad debt expense has fallen by over 50% year over year.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

Accountability for finance, strategy, and analytics in support of $26B sales force. Member of lead team responsible for the development and execution of strategies and initiatives across the enterprise Finance lead for $4B acquisition, responsible for achieving top and bottom-line growth  Established cross-functional structure to hold teams accountable.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

- Responsible for the development and execution of marketing strategies and initiatives to achieve profit and growth objectives.- Drive efficiencies in the Enterprise Marketing budget (~$300M), by eliminating activities with poor returns and reallocating resources to maximize benefits- Performing complex ROI analysis all marketing activities (Media.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

- Successfully led the Finance Team of a $2.2B business unit, consisting of 12 professionals- Finance lead for M&A activities, including purchase and integration of $600M business- Led the complex forecasting and budgeting process, implementing a brand new 5-level planning process- Led expense reduction initiatives, reducing costs by >30% (>$10M annually).

Charlotte, NC, US

- Through exceptional performance, was promoted 3 times during my 5 year tenure.- Head of the Cost, Operations, and Risk Reporting and Analysis Groups for a Division generating over $1B in annual revenue, and process mortgage volumes of almost $200B per year. Team consisted of 3 direct report managers and 9 analysts.- Divisional Strategic Planner.

- Supervised and managed projects including financial statement audits, reviews and compilations, corporate and individual tax returns, litigation support, and business valuations.

New York, NY, US

Led teams in the audit of companies ranging from small owner-managed businesses to multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies. This included ensuring compliance with both stock market and governmental requirements.