Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Experienced leader in financial planning and analysis including revenue/cost analysis, forecasting, and modeling. Manages complex budgets/forecasts and develops optimized systems/processes to drive efficiencies. Illustrates history of change management success during large-scale merger integrations. Leverages collaborative and decisive leadership skills to construct and empower top performing teams.
Lead finance and controllership efforts across a region of fulfillment centers and responsible for helping to drive cost and process improvement. Provided key decision-making support to the regional operations leadership including corporate management team. · Managed and mentored finance team distributed across various fulfillment centers · Ensured exceptional controllership across the network by overseeing the monthly close process, ensuring proper controls, and auditing data to ensure its accuracy · Oversaw and analyzed performance against the annual operating plan for the regional network, and lead daily and weekly operational and financial metric reviews to drive continuous operational improvement · Championed technology and automation improvements for the finance function, including participating in the implementation of new operational tools
Direct finance team reporting to division Controller in support of various business segments. Supervised and mentored 2 managers and 7 senior financial analysts. Managed the annual budgeting and monthly forecast process, providing strategic financial leadership to the business. Oversaw monthly close process and analyzed financial, operational, and accounting data for the development of reports to be delivered to various business segments. Designed internal procedures and controls to ensure compliance with overall company policies. Recap and analyze business results versus plan and forecast on a monthly, quarterly, annual and ad-hoc basis. · Led integration efforts to combine budget, forecast, and monthly reporting processes · Planned and analyzed $1B annual revenue and $2.5B operating expense budgets · Eliminated $4M+ in accrual balances through redesign of monthly accounting close process · Perform ad-hoc analysis to support strategic decisions, business initiatives and special projects including development of Board of Director packages · Captured annual savings of $5M+ through insource analysis of reservation processes