New York, New York, United States
Passionate about people leadership with track record of attracting talent, developing leaders, and shaping skill sets to achieve career goals. 15+ year career across Finance and partnerships across Consumer Goods and a deep expertise in Financial Services. 10 years within credit card space spanned FP&A, strategic decision support, lending, investments, and card product strategy.
- Own the Marriott portfolio strategy including card value propositions, benefit strategy, customer research processes and insights, and product roadmap. - Lead internal and external partner day-to-day relationships, driving collaboration while executing and managing contractual requirements. - Derive insights from customer data and metrics to guide product & program decisions - Oversee competitive intelligence and audit activities - Manage $15M joint marketing fund to support acquisition and engagement activities balancing ROIs with strategic goals.
- Owned the Customer Lifetime Value model to run analyses and present conclusions to senior leaders to influence funding decisions while optimizing within >$1.5B budget. - Led annual investment plan across multiple (15+) markets including leadership review meeting and model development. - Managed monthly R&O for acquisition forecasts as well as ad hoc analytics to determine marginal funding decisions.
- Provided financial business analysis and consultative decision support to business partners across 15+ international markets - Provided decision support for new product development, alternative lending constructs, product refreshes, and business transformation projects to enable growth in international markets - Built relationships with business partners by influencing decisions with sound logic and financial analysis. - Liaised with key stakeholders and created cost-benefit analyses for new lending capabilities and alternative lending constructs
Involved in monthly financial close process by creating and uploading journal entries, preparing account reconciliations, and assembling all proper supporting documentation Assist in developing annual budgets and monthly financial forecasts to accurately predict business performance and highlight key issues for senior management Track and analyze performance vs. budget in order to identify risks and opportunities within Juicy direct to consumer channel Work towards creating efficiencies in budgeting process by maximizing use of Hyperion Essbase Aid the preparation of presentations including monthly business reviews, annual budgets and long-term strategic planning initiatives as well as necessary adhoc financial analysis
Managed the reporting requirements for Random House, Inc. Prepared monthly top titles and POS analyses for distribution to business partners and senior management Utilized Hyperion Essbase to upload monthly actual in line with SAP posted data Responsible for updating and maintaining consolidated P&L statement Supported and maintained relationships with business partners during forecasting and budgeting process Created and updated templates in accordance with business partners’ needs for the reporting of essential KPI’s Conducted Hyperion Planning training sessions for new Finance end users within Random House divisions how to leverage the Hyperion tool for efficient, more accurate uploads
Assisted in the budget and trends for the L'Oreal Paris division by preparing various financial schedules and related reports Reviewed and consolidated monthly financial trends across all categories and utilized Hyperion Essbase to upload results and various financial systems to communicate to worldwide headquarters in Paris Produced the reporting and KPI's for monthly operating results and synthesized financial data for business partners Assessed the performance of all new product launches and identified trends and patterns for Senior Management to influence profitable innovation Developed a systematic budget process and conducted learning sessions to instruct Finance team how to leverage the Hyperion tool for efficient, more accurate uploads Developed and managed interactive monthly calendar listing divisional requirements Attended SAP training and assisted team during Go-Live Assisted in managing the operating expense budget for Matrix within Professional Products Division Assist in the monthly forecasting of operating expenses and in developing the 2010 operating expense budget Perform variance analysis of monthly actuals versus forecast for all cost centers to communicate risks and opportunities to senior management Prepare required journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations for month-end close process Manage travel & expense schedule for Matrix senior management on monthly basis to ensure spending is within budget Develop and maintain mapping matrix of general ledger accounts for SAP conversion