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•Support annual budget process, coordinating with key budget owners to gather input as needed to develop overall corporate budget. Revenues of $100M and Expenses of $90M.•Directly manage 3 employees, including a procurement specialist, a financial analyst, and a part time Jr Finance Analyst.•Partner with Product and Project teams to develop financial models for new products and offerings coming to market.•Review and understand billing and expense trends to maintain accurate forecasts and distribute forecast updates as required to stakeholders.•Maintain headcount model for finance, tracked backfills, incremental positions, and approved job requisitions and offers from a finance perspective.•Analyze monthly results and research variances to budget during month end close process, providing Accounting feedback on adjustments as needed.•Distribute month-end budget vs actual reports to senior management and develop reporting packages for key stakeholders to include reporting on KPIs.•Maintain the finance ERP system to include creation of new cost centers, accounts, and reporting.•Drive continuous improvement in reporting and modeling to provide key stakeholders better insight into company performance.•Manage Procurement and related processes, developing process improvements and reporting for better visibility into company expenses. • Launched companywide quarterly procurement training program, communicating with non-finance staff the importance of procurement and how it relates to company financials •Perform ad hoc reporting analysis as required.•Proactively seek and streamline processes to add efficiencies without sacrificing quality.

•Managed the budgeting and forecasting processes by collaborating with executive management to ensure alignment with business and corporate objectives.•Assisted in preparation of monthly and quarterly financial packages for senior management.•Reported and analyzed financial performance, including recurring monthly revenue, installation, and operating margins, and actual vs. budget analyses.•Responsible for understanding complex sales commission plans and calculated monthly commission payments.•Detailed operating margin review on a project by project basis.•Provided financial support of the company’s pricing and quoting models.•Identified and evaluate process improvement opportunities including region wide scorecards.•Performed ad hoc analysis and modeling when needed, particularly in support of key corporate strategic priorities, including M&A.

• Financial Planning and Analysis role, including finance responsibilities with several of AOL’s domestic product groups (ADTECH, Convertro, Marketplace, and Microsoft SSP. Revenue responsibility of $500 million.)• Managed monthly product P&L performance reviews (OIBDA) to management teams.• Conducted monthly revenue and expense forecasting. Including personnel, G&A and COS expenses.• Experienced in revenue modeling for several products including ADTECH, Convertro, Marketplace, and Microsoft SSP, and Video Syndication.• Extensive budgeting experience for long-term planning.• Experience working with accounting, HR and operations for effective revenue and expense management.•Maintained headcount planning for AOL Platforms and AOL Advertising. This included budgeting, reporting, and financial planning/modeling of monthly, yearly, and long-term forecasts in Hyperion. Synching with human resources to ensure the job postings are accurate and within the specified budgets per business unit. A total responsibility of around 2000 employees and an expense of $300 million.•Control and maintain the sales incentive accrual on a monthly basis. This involves tracking all sales employees eligible for commission payments and comparing sales performance to goals. Total commission accrual of $40 million. •Responsible for financial planning and analysis for AOL Platforms and AOL Advertising revenue. This includes Hyperion system loads, executive reporting for monthly forecasts, variance analysis, and long-term forecasting activities. •Daily tracking of AOL Platforms and AOL Advertising performance metrics and revenue including messaging OIBDA updates to executives. Prepare weekly revenue and OIBDA updates for CEO and CFO of AOL Platforms.

•Responsible for all management accounting master data creation and maintenance in SAP (CCA and PCA) including report manipulation, data creation, and system structure creation (cost elements, activity types, cost centers, profit centers, account groups, and accrual calculation programs).•Answerable for all data creation and maintenance of SAP CO-PA system including production of Sales Incentive Program report production. Total sales revenue of $300 million.• Responsible for monthly product P&L performance reviews (OIBDA) to management teams.• Monthly revenue and expense forecasting. Including personnel, G&A and COS expenses. Total expense of $45 million. •Championed the Service Agreement mitigation program amongst the different legal REHAU entities, including external audit preparation and presentation, totaling over 11.5 million dollars. •Championed the REHAU North America Risk Management database and responsible for production of the report sent to the Group Executive Board in REHAU, AG. Total risk value of 20 million euros.•Responsible for all mass accounting system transactions in SAP (mass price changes, info record creation, forecast upload and creation, very proficient in the use of CATT transactions). •Oversee Slow and Obsolete Inventory including tracking and devaluation of inventory in SAP system.

•Coordinated and prepared reports and presentations given by the CFO for Regional and International Management Board meetings.•Managed special project groups and coordinated group efforts to complete the project initiatives.•Acted as a liaison between top management and line managers.•Gained valuable insight and experience into CFO’s role in daily management of REHAU.