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Denver, Colorado, United States

Synergy of data architecture, data governance, data science, and business intelligence for internal finance information.

•Managed business analytics for an electronic payments company's teams: finance, accounting, sales and operations processing 3.4B in revenue annually.•Forged new datacentric team from scratch after pitching the need to senior leadership with 1, 3 and 5 year strategy.•Architected and implemented strategy for democratizing financial data from nine acquired companies, leveraging commonalities to create consistent data grains.•Defined core business metrics and created a common mapping for all existing and future acquisitions into a common set.•Developed a suite of KPIs designed to be both broad enough to work for all legacy businesses individually and insightful enough to roll-up for impactful executive reporting•Maintained the flow of data from transactional instances for over 1M merchants daily through to aggregated executive reporting•Presented financial results to CEO, CFO and executive team including past trends, future forecasting, project proposals and ROI status.•Leveraged new technology to streamline and automate financial reporting, saving finance team over 2,000 hours in reporting and analysis efforts monthly.•Produced highly efficient in-month and long-term forecasting models that increased the projection accuracy to withing 2% of actuals.•Produced the financial materials, analysis and forecast modeling needed to facilitate the re-signing of our segment's largest business partner•Successfully managed three concurrent integration work-streams for finance and accounting systems

Greater Denver Area

•Architect and implement strategy for capturing and filtering data to be used in thousands of internal and external reports on financials, partner relationships, pricing, company statistics and KPI’s•Serve as SME for integrations from finance and accounting perspective (currently advising on 3 concurrent integrations at various stages)•Mapped data across 6 acquired entities for similarities, created a single data grain from key common denominators and built our first consolidated data store to comingle and socialize all entities’ data across the company•Manage translations from acquired businesses to core business, creating core business definitions and mapping the relationships of acquired businesses to those definitions•Present financial results to CEO, CFO and executive team including past trends, future forecasting, project proposals and ROI status•Integral in the due diligence (and subsequent integration) for the sale of TransFirst to T|SYS| April 2016•Leverage new technology to streamline and automate financial reporting, saving finance team over 2,000 hours in reporting and analysis efforts•Develop new standard practices for financial analysis and forecasting that improved team efficiency, accuracy, and concise reporting•Built new forecasting models that increased forecast accuracy to be within 1% of actuals•Produced the financial materials, analysis and forecast modeling needed to facilitate the re-signing of our segment’s largest business partner•Supported the successful transition of $2.7M loan into an acquisition of one of our business partners by negotiating end-user price changes, modeling ROI and P&L due diligence

Bloomfield, Co

Project management, technology integration, and process improvement for finance and accounting. Assist various market segments with financial analysis, reporting, strategic planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, and other business related analyses and research in financial and expense performance, metric and scorecard development and pricing analysis.

•Serve as a liaison between Operations Management (CEO, CTO, Director of Operations), Finance (CFO, Controller, and Accounting Staff), and ERP Consulting team•Serve as a system expert to create/write reports that deliver real-time data, that has been quality checked for integrity, and represents the business concepts per operations’ expectations•Supervise staff, schedule and QA deliverables, assign projects based on strengths and availability, balance workloads, and train new and existing staff•Propose, manage, and train on new system enhancements based on changing business procedures•Develop management metrics for financial evaluations that allow stakeholders to view profitability and potential risks•Perform system audits to ensure performance as expected according to business policies•Provide company-wide communications and trainings on all enhancements and updates•Develop and advise management on business financial policies

•Work with internal Comcast employees to archive, retrieve, and destroy records•Maintain database and security clearances by user and group•Clean and prepare data to maximize consistency and searchability•Cross-reference Comcast cable database with other Comcast branch databases and vendor databases

•Managed web services transition from Spectrographics to IPS by request of the client, Western Union •Developed web-based collateral management site to match previous client site•Coordinated client, vendor, and subcontractors to ensure seamless transition

•Promoted from Business Analyst to Finance Manager in six months after successfully doubling client base •Headed Software Solution Division representing 20% of company revenue (approximately $1.92M annually)•Responsible for all business analysis in software solutions including trend-tracking, financial, cost and data analysis, investment spending & break-even analysis•Created business analysis reporting directly for the investment board•Directed multiple, complex, simultaneous project resource planning and budgeting•Managed milestones, risk analysis, project success rates, and division profitability by project and as a whole •Increased division profitability 10% through financial analysis, price restructuring, and sales support•Responsible for managing P&L, resource scheduling, forecasting, cost & financial analysis, and purchasing•Negotiated and managed vendor contracts and monitored SLA's for all division vendors

•Responsible for event planning and coordination for family-owned special events catering business.•Manage all aspects of catering operations from the point of identifying new opportunities through to event planning and delivery of contracted services.•Accountable for identifying, selling, and contracting with new client accounts.

•Promoted from Business Analyst to Project Manager in four months; increased operating profits by 15% through cost savings, business analysis, and accepted proposals (outside service contract)•Level 3 Communications Project Manager for $1.1M monthly managed services contract with full operational and financial responsibility•Accountable for implementing client-specific end-to-end document management projects•Researched account history to provide analysis on price, cost structure, finances, volume, & business trends•Served as primary client liaison and single point of contact for on-going service and contract matters

•Rose from the hourly associate ranks to Assistant Store Manager (2nd to General Manager) in three years•Managed Financial Performance for stores with annual sales of approximately $41M•Oversaw all aspects of daily operations including: customer service, product promotions, inventory, ordering, stocking, safety, facilities maintenance, compliance, payroll and accounting•Responsible for managing and developing a staff of 70 employees