Provide executive financial leadership to the GM of Defense Electronic Systems division (DES), driving performance to revenue, profit, and working capital targets and ensuring solid investments to drive future growth. Responsible for all financial planning and analysis, program finance, Controllership, and US Government compliance • Champion Material Control Maturation Project to enhance On Time Delivery, working capital, and financial forecast accuracy • Successfully implemented Perimeter Cost framework with $2M of annualized savings • Drove organic growth through new business initiatives

Provided executive leadership to the D&A business across commercial and strategic programs and operated as finance business partner to executive vice president of D&A, driving performance to revenue, profit, and working capital targets. Responsible for all decision support, financial planning and analysis, and program finance.• Led divestiture of non-core business line to a publicly-traded UK company and created synergy models for M&A targets.• Developed a new go to market strategy, with business line leadership, for an underperforming line, increasing gross margin 500bps• Conferred with business teams on pricing strategies ensuring profitability in both commercial and defense contracts and compliance with FAR/DFAR and CAS as appropriate.• Led five-year strategic planning cycle, annual operating plan, and quarterly forecast processes for D&A SBU, including weekly revenue forecasts and rolling full year forecasts to manage financial expectations.• Directed global finance team and created continuous improvement culture; established cross-functional and cross-site best practice sharing among D&A business, finance, and controllership teams.• Instituted new reporting cadence and processes to ensure proper financial analysis and visibility of metrics resulting in more data driven decision making and reduced D&A finance costs by 20% while increasing business partnership, analysis, and decision support.• Initiated creation of employee resource group to advance diversity and inclusion across company.

Provided strategic financial decision support to global operations senior leadership team, driving toward best-in-class processes, resulting in operating expense declines of 5% year over year for last three years, while managing investment in Brazil to drive revenue growth.• Identified and drove cross-functional efficiencies resulting in $9M in savings annually.• Understood business drivers and identified key performance metrics to create appropriate goals for RELX Philippines Operations, partnering with leadership team to deliver results against those metrics, driving cost savings while maintaining quality• Continuously improved global reporting and global reporting tools to enable accurate, streamlined, and less labor-intensive reporting of operations financials and operational metrics.• Partnered with managing director of Brazil to create strategy for commercial operation while managing P&L, cash flow, capital, and expectations of financial results.

Led and developed a team of Financial Analysts responsible for financial planning and analysis of $1.3B in Revenue• Spearheaded creation of and operationalized global finance center of excellence for reporting, planning, and analysis through agreeing key business performance indicators, standardizing reporting, and streamlining financial processes, saving $3M in finance operational costs.• Successfully hired and led a team of financial analysts, and transitioned to a center of excellence finance model, moving standard reporting and analysis to appropriate experience levels, allowing higher cost resources to spend time on higher value business decision support activities

Headed financial planning and analysis group for Legal & Professional, a $2.4B division of RELX, responsible for forecast and strategic planning process from initial target creation to final financial submission, including analysis and consolidation of business unit submissions, creation of accurate and timely L&P forecast presentations to L&P and RELX senior management, creation of consolidated standard month end and forecast reports for use by business units, providing decision support to corporate functions, and ad hoc financial analysis for L&P and RELX.• Continually improved quality of deliverables by driving standardization in L&P presentation shortening creation process by four days, enabling more cohesive and insightful analysis and commentary while reducing resources required by 32%.• Reduced volume of requests and templates originating from L&P FP&A by 82%, resulting in elimination of work during forecast cycles for all of finance without compromising quality.• Motivated and performance-managed team of finance professionals through transition from US focused to global and organizational uncertainty.

Led a cross functional team to identify key financial performance indicators and derive consistent definitions across the organization for inputs to the new ERP, ensuring future data availability. Hired and managed financial analysts through the development, analysis, and distribution of earned revenue account performance reporting, improving communication and effectiveness of New Business, Retention, and Solution Consultant Specialized Law Sales teams, resulting in increased. Identified selling rules leading to cannibalization of Lexis.com revenue and provided recommendations on how to fix without losing revenue. Analyzed product profitability and recommended pricing guidelines for print and online package program to maintain profit margins on print and online products while still competing with WestLaw. Analyzed credits issued to customers and proposed new credit sign off limits for regional sales managers and sales representatives, resulting in $400K in additional revenue.

Managed full profit and loss, forecasting, and analysis of background screening and direct marketing verticals. Received Financial Analyst Superior Performance Award. Completed due diligence process for the Hollingsworth Court Reporting (HCR) acquisition and created acquisition model and managed the financial integration, completing public record coverage of southern United States