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Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

- Finance Transformation: Lead a team focused on transformative projects that help the Finance organization better utilize data, reduce reliance on spreadsheets, streamline forecasting processes, and utilize self-service reporting.- Systems Administrator: Through my time with the organization, I have worked with 3 ERP systems and 3 EPM applications. This includes 5 years of experience in the administrative role for CPM and Planful software. Led the implementation of Planful as a budgeting and reporting tool for our organization.- Data Governance: Sit on a cross functional team focused on data integrity within the business.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

- Data Engineering/Visualization/Science: Data management is an important skill to have in a finance role through systems such as Excel, however this is an area where I go above and beyond the ordinary call of a financial analyst. While I am an expert in Excel, I also have skills in coding languages such as python, m query, and VBA that allow me to automate, structure data and run statistical analysis. I'm an expert in Power BI for data visualization having published many dashboards used by every area of the company including our Executive team and Board members. - Financial Planning / Business Partner: I have had the privilege of partnering with the several different departments of the organization. Currently I service all of our support departments which include; HR, IT, Customer Service, Legal, Finance & Accounting, and Product. Annual and quarterly budgets and monthly variance reporting and analysis for the above departments fall under my care. This includes OPEX, CAPEX, Prepaid, and entire company workforce planning.- Project Financial Review: I have a large role in the reporting and analysis around our company’s project financial health. This includes presenting a quarterly review of each project’s financials to company executives and directors, as well as product commercialization decisions. - Investor Relations: Experience owning the preparation of our quarterly call scripts for both our CFO and CEO, as well as publishing our Management Discussion and Analysis. - Balance Sheet: I own and manage our company’s balance sheet forecasting.- Systems: Through my time with the organization I have worked with 3 ERP systems and 2 financial forecasting software. This includes experience in the administrative role in CPM and Planful software.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

- Lead Financial Business Partner for IT, Airplane Operations, and HR Departments. - Forecasting Software (Alight): Administrative role in our forecast software. Responsibilities consist of, but are not limited to, working with financial business partners to consolidate and build a quarterly forecast, as well as pulling in actuals and reconciling financial statements in a timely manner in order to build variance reporting across the P&L and Balance Sheet. - Financial Reporting: Using my advanced ability in Microsoft Excel to summarize data, in a clear and professional format, giving the reader a quick and easy digest of the information presented. This includes daily sales, orders, and inventory analysis sent to the Executive team. - Headcount Forecast: I own the headcount forecast and analysis. As the headcount analyst I work with our HR business partners to assess our headcount forecast and analysis. - Models and Systems: Building models that help improve efficiencies and accuracy. Current models I have built that are in place include; incentive calculators used by the payroll team, financial dashboards used in monthly financial reviews, reporting tools that put out daily, weekly, and monthly reports across the company, and import tools used to move data quickly and accurately across our systems.

- Lead Financial Business Partner for IT, Airplane Operations.- A strong focus on reporting allowed me to gain advanced skills in Microsoft Excel as well as experience using Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, as well as 3 different ERP systems.- Forecasting Software: Administrative role in our forecast software. Responsibilities consist of, but are not limited to, working with financial business partners to consolidate and build a quarterly forecast, as well as pulling in actuals and reconciling financial statements in a timely manner in order to build variance reporting across the P&L and Balance Sheet.

Bachelors, Finance

Nanodegree, Data Science For Business Leaders

Nanodegree, Data Science