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Team lead for the revenue GL team responsible for the monthly posting of worldwide revenue to the general ledger. Key responsibilities are managing the monthly close process and implementing process improvements to either improve efficiency of the close or increase accuracy of data audits and reconciliations.

Engagement Lead managing two managed resource teams responsible for financial operations and Xbox programming. Responsibilities include:• Day to day management of managed service teams to ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed upon quality levels. • Onboarding new areas of work including process design, developing work instructions, capacity planning and training. • Developing key performance indicators to accurately measure completion rate, growth, quality… Show more Engagement Lead managing two managed resource teams responsible for financial operations and Xbox programming. Responsibilities include:• Day to day management of managed service teams to ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed upon quality levels. • Onboarding new areas of work including process design, developing work instructions, capacity planning and training. • Developing key performance indicators to accurately measure completion rate, growth, quality, costing, capacity and utilization and cost • Performance reporting delivered via a Power BI dashboard and recurring business reviews with key stakeholders. • Team management including resourcing, work load balancing and career development. Show less

Responsible for management of P&L for the Xbox Music and Video services. Managed financial processes including monthly close, annual budget, quarterly forecast and long range planning. Provided ongoing reporting, analysis and presentation of business results. Businesses included a combination of free, subscription and transactional online offerings. - Improved the process for accruing music royalties to the P&L. Accuracy was improved from an error rate of over 10% to less than 1%.… Show more Responsible for management of P&L for the Xbox Music and Video services. Managed financial processes including monthly close, annual budget, quarterly forecast and long range planning. Provided ongoing reporting, analysis and presentation of business results. Businesses included a combination of free, subscription and transactional online offerings. - Improved the process for accruing music royalties to the P&L. Accuracy was improved from an error rate of over 10% to less than 1%. The improvements reduced the amount of time the CFO had to devote to reviewing and approving music royalties.- Continually improved the model used to support minimum guarantee commitments with the music labels incorporating new product offerings, geographies and rights holders as necessary. Built in sensitivities so that the business could see risks in the guarantees at different forecasted volumes.- Proposed, defined and developed a reporting rhythm for a set of KPI’s for the music, video and advertising business giving the entire organization visibility to the key metrics of the business and a view on the health of the business.- Informed cross-functional music business team through multiple strategy resets by building financial models of multiple business options and presentation of scenarios to the executive team. Provided a financial view and perspective on the various business option to influence the final strategy decision. - Guided the transactional video on demand (TVOD) business to ensure that revenue was recorded in accordance with revenue recognition policies. This included both collaboration with corporate finance but also with the development team to ensure the systems and processes recorded revenue correctly. Show less

Primary finance business partner for the Live Meeting and Lync components of Microsoft’s Unified Communications suite of products. Managed key financial processes of monthly close, reporting, budget, forecast and long range plan. Provided ongoing revenue reporting, analysis and strategic business support. - Partnered with Live Meeting sales team to review QTD sales results as well as open opportunities for the current quarter. Built sales pipeline reporting which included views into… Show more Primary finance business partner for the Live Meeting and Lync components of Microsoft’s Unified Communications suite of products. Managed key financial processes of monthly close, reporting, budget, forecast and long range plan. Provided ongoing revenue reporting, analysis and strategic business support. - Partnered with Live Meeting sales team to review QTD sales results as well as open opportunities for the current quarter. Built sales pipeline reporting which included views into future quarters to help identify potential risks and opportunities.- Built financial model and rolled out targets for a scorecard metric included on the subsidiary scorecard. Subsidiary scorecards were the primary mechanism for reporting performance of a subsidiary and were basis for compensation for subsidiary manager. Reaching consensus on the targets required strong modeling and the ability to communicate to multiple stakeholders across finance, the business division and the field.- Built financial models to support multiple licensing changes in the business and communicated the impact to the financial plan to business leaders. Licensing changes included grandfathering and bundling scenarios. The models and communications enabled business leaders to fully understand the financial impact of proposed licensing changes prior to becoming plan of record.- Member of cross group team evaluating potential business acquisitions. Built supporting business models, ROI analysis and build/buy scenario comparisons. Summarized models for business leadership and assisted with post close integration activities for completed acquisition including actual vs projection comparison and analysis. Show less

Finance Lead for MSN Portal COGS, managing monthly close, reporting, forecasting and analysis on an FY04 budget of $372M. Additionally, partnered with the business management team to define the COGS allocation rules to allocate the various cost pools to the applicable MSN properties.- Built detailed COGS models for multiple MSN properties to assist in evaluating the profit margins of the various offerings.- Successfully participated in a COGS reduction effort in FY03 to reduce costs by… Show more Finance Lead for MSN Portal COGS, managing monthly close, reporting, forecasting and analysis on an FY04 budget of $372M. Additionally, partnered with the business management team to define the COGS allocation rules to allocate the various cost pools to the applicable MSN properties.- Built detailed COGS models for multiple MSN properties to assist in evaluating the profit margins of the various offerings.- Successfully participated in a COGS reduction effort in FY03 to reduce costs by $100M; received CFI Award due to as a result of project.- Influenced central finance team to adopt a headcount tracking system across the MSN finance organization to help improve the accuracy and timeliness of headcount reporting. Show less

Revenue Analyst for the Windows Client consumer business responsible for revenue reporting, forecasting, long term modeling. R&D Controller for a $291M budget; functions included budgeting, financial reporting, monthly close and financial analysis and headcount management.- Built and rolled out a monthly one page business summary to provide a single source of the financial health of the Windows Division. This provided executive management a single view and source of the division financial… Show more Revenue Analyst for the Windows Client consumer business responsible for revenue reporting, forecasting, long term modeling. R&D Controller for a $291M budget; functions included budgeting, financial reporting, monthly close and financial analysis and headcount management.- Built and rolled out a monthly one page business summary to provide a single source of the financial health of the Windows Division. This provided executive management a single view and source of the division financial position in relation to the full year budget and forecast.- Became a trusted advisor of the Division VP through consistent and high quality work. That enabled me to become a member of his extended leadership team giving finance additional visibility into what was happening in the business. Show less

Corporate Planning Analyst with primary objective to support Microsoft subsidiaries during the annual budget process.- Successfully managed a wide variety of planning projects including the transition of the Pillar planning application to BWB. - Designed the FY98 budget planning tool which was used to support 50 planning locations during the planning cycle, including training, issue support and data management. - Guided the development of Excel models for Revenue/COGS planning and… Show more Corporate Planning Analyst with primary objective to support Microsoft subsidiaries during the annual budget process.- Successfully managed a wide variety of planning projects including the transition of the Pillar planning application to BWB. - Designed the FY98 budget planning tool which was used to support 50 planning locations during the planning cycle, including training, issue support and data management. - Guided the development of Excel models for Revenue/COGS planning and financial reporting. - Gained experience working with both the channel and product finance groups. Show less

Planned, supervised and performed audit services for clients primarily in the technology industry. Team leader on royalty based OEM audits.

Tax and accounting services for individuals and small businesses.