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North Salt Lake, Utah, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Responsible for leading the manufacturing plant on planning department budgets, cost accounting, business risk analysis, adhering to SOX controls, and partnering with Executive Management on strategic and financial.
• Financial Management: Developed tighter cash controls on project approval and expense authorizations for R&D and capital budgets of $80M and $20M respectively, resulting in approving R&D projects with 15% higher profit.
• Budgeting, Strategic Planning: Spearheaded budgeting cycle, developing a clear financial picture to a 35% increase in operating profits within 8 quarters without disruption to core business activities.
• Communicating across all levels: Created processes and training to produce a weekly dashboard and key metrics providing the financial guidance, reporting, and interpretation to Executive Staff weekly and to all project.

• In charge of analyzing business results and providing insights on trends. Oversee the monitoring of internal controls, external SOX controls, and monthly close activities. Instilled a cost conscience.
• Financial Management: Lead team effort on a 4-month audit with PWC covering internal controls over the prior 3-year timeframe. This for a business unit with $100M in annual revenue.
• Enhancing Processes and Services: Implemented financial reporting systems for managers and maintenance staff to access real-time budget vs actual expense reports decreasing project overruns by 80% ($8.5M).
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Guided multi-national team on IFRS to US GAAP financials integration to close newly acquired $50M business within 5-days, including US, Dutch, and Philippines entities. This avoided $350K of.

Develop financial models, analyze trends, and report key financial metrics with impactful commentary to executive management and our private equity partners on strategic measures including sales attainment, cost reduction initiatives, and sale leaseback projects. Provide financial systems support, system driven reporting, and forecasting tools to Global.

Provo, UT, US

• Trained global finance staff on sales forecasting and cost control measures. Oversaw financial report preparation and analyzed monthly financial package including margin analysis and cost variance analysis. Gave.
• Analyzed and recommended business model improvements for two markets leading to $3.1M in annualized savings
• Coached marketing department on budget approval and expense tracking process that reduced marketing spend by 10.3%
• Reduced inventory $853K over 6-month period by creating and implementing an Excel based forecasting model that improved forecast accuracy of 130 different products for US market
• Provided targeted sales data analysis to and coached marketing team on core products that would provide greatest return on messaging and promotion expenses
• Solved complex revenue reporting problem improving visibility of market performance and saving approximately 500 labor hours per year

New York, NY, US

• Provided accounting, process improvement, financial analysis, contract management, budgeting, and decision support for a 3,800 acre mixed-use real estate development called Suncrest. Hired, mentored, and developed.
• Established strategy for full project build out within the capital constraints of the existing revolving bank loan and market demands
• Implemented financial controls and capital investment guidelines with an operating partner that reduced company’s annual subsidy to partnership by 62%
• Analyzed a $50M purchase contract advising the COO to reject an agreement that allowed the purchaser to extract value from the asset without compensating the sellers
• Negotiated a $141K reimbursement on property taxes; a 11% savings.
• Structured existing bulk cable and internet agreement into a revenue source that generated $590K in annual revenue

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Analyzed company financial statements, industry norms, management acumen, and economic conditions to assign appropriate levels of risk to existing and potential clients with revenues of $10M to $250M in the.
• Pioneered KeyBank healthcare underwriting in the Utah district, allowing for a $10M health services deal involving a public bonds issuance with swaps
• Introduced Excel based risk assessment model to accelerate pre-approval segment of credit process

Provided financial analysis and support to the director of the newly established venture capital arm of the company. Later was given responsibility for developing optimization models to analyze start-up business performance for cost saving and pricing strategies.Keystone Project: Investigate, model, and boot-strap seed capital for a gold mining and.

Atlanta, GA, US

Review incoming new account set-up requests and confirm that they comply with corporate policy. Follow up with financial advisors on prompt and accurate account set-up and funding. Part of implementation team for automating paper request processing using barcoding, high-speed scanners, and routing software.

Responsible for accounts receivable, accounts payable, and customer invoicing. In charge of sourcing parts for assembly in our Mexico manufacturing site and resolving warranty requests.

Mba, Accounting And Finance

Ba, English (Pre-Law And Pre-Engineering)