El Segundo, California, United States
Specialties: Strengths include: - strong project management skills - process design and re-engineering - identifying and mitigating risk while maintaining streamlined, efficient processes for sales, legal, finance, and product
In this role I partner with Senior Finance Leadership to define the future of Finance and drive the evolution of the organization with a focus on operational effectiveness, efficiency, and quality that takes our Finance team members, business partners, and fiduciary responsibilities into consideration. This includes partnering closely with the extended Finance leadership team, People Operations, Communications, and Staffing to drive thought leadership behind efforts such as multi-year plans, annual Key Results, org-wide communications, and talent strategies. Responsibilities include: - Serving as a strategic thought partner to Finance leadership and leaders across Finance, and a proxy/backup for decision making when needed. - Leading research to understand key trends in Finance and benchmarks to ensure Google Finance is cutting edge; drafting strategies to address gaps, and narratives to be used internally and externally - Providing insight and driving strategy on org-wide goals, team development, and culture; developing and managing org-wide and executive communications that inspire (incl all hands, org-wide comms) in partnership with our Comms partners. -Leading cross-team initiatives on critical projects to drive alignment and increase velocity. - Establishing and leading processes for effectively managing the organization (incl leadership staff meetings, committees, offsites); proactively identifying problems and issues across organizations and creating programs and processes to solve them. - Enabling execution of organization wide people initiatives, such as Talent management, Learning & Development, and Diversity and Inclusion programs for Finance. - Managing a team of S&O leads
Managed and oversaw the financial integration of 300+ multi-million and multi-billion dollar acquisitions, including 3 of Google’s 5 largest deals. Built and implemented the end-to-end cross-finance integration process used to ensure scalability, risk mitigation, and compliant financial reporting across all deals. Managed director- and VP-level forums on a weekly basis to provide strategic recommendations, drive decision making, and resolve escalations. Represented Finance on the cross-functional M&A leadership team defining and overseeing integration structuring for all deals. Led a Record-to-Report Business Continuity Planning project to ensure financial reporting readiness through Covid and the move to WFH. Presented findings, status, and recommendations 2x / week to a VP forum, resulting in successful close-to-report cycles in the 2 quarters following the initial move to WFH in 2020. Drove multiple special projects across the finance org, including the establishment of an international operations center; program management for changes to segment reporting; and a resourcing and automation assessment across the controllership org. Owned and managed headcount guidance across the M&A process. Developed and implemented global guidelines aligning to the corporate allocation policies. Led financial planning, separation, and transition implementation for the spin out of multiple businesses across the organization. Managed a team of up to 10 direct reports Simultaneously led the Women@Finance group, a 750+ person ERG leading career development, networking, allyship, and community events for women and allies (April 2021 - Present)
- Lead finance integrations for merger and acquisition activity - Understand Target's current structure and financial processes; project manage integration with Google's finance functions
•Project-managed the creation and roll out of the Big Spend Review (2010); continue to manage the ongoing forum. Work with a cross-functional finance team to review large categories of spend to educate spend owners on best practices, ensure good value on supplier purchases, and provide governance. Define forum goals and drive consensus at the VP level. Achieved an aggressive 2010 goal to review 70% of nearly $7B in spend, and am on target to exceed 2011 goals by 12%. •Ensure compliant integrations for all M&A targets with ongoing revenue. Implement compliant signature processes, merge sales efforts into our internal platforms, train acquired teams on Compliance concepts, and design necessary controls within 30-120 day deadlines. Oversee approximately 50 global acquisitions a year. •Currently leading an initiative to design and operationalize controls, monitor, and report on product compliance across Google. Tasks include defining a product compliance framework; driving consensus with senior legal and finance management; creating a high-level dashboard and heat map; and leading a “beta” to review product compliance and determine high inherent and residual risk areas for Enterprise deals with the Federal Government. •Define team strategy for calculating unit costs and determine goals for unit cost reduction. •Provide guidance and leadership, determine team structure, and define team goals and OKRs as part of the Compliance management group.
Promoted to Senior Compliance Specialist in July 2007 •Managed a team of 3-6 Specialists and oversaw compliance for all partnership, enterprise, and new business development deals in the Americas. Created and implemented operations to efficiently process a high volume of deals while mitigating risk. •Coordinated and managed the Functional Management Group (FMG) and Business Council (BC) executive deal review forums and the Distribution Council; reviewed strategic partnership and sales opportunities, and designed processes to implement executive guidance across deals globally. •Initiated projects to scale the team’s sales support. Maintained consistent quality measures and processed constantly increasing deal volumes while reducing headcount on the America’s Partnerships team by one-third. •Project managed the integration of YouTube’s partnership business with Google’s systems, sales processes, and policies post acquisition. Partnered with the YouTube team to understand their business needs and design a compliant sales process that would allow the business to continue to move quickly. Integrated the global Business Development and Marketing teams and trained my global counterparts to provide ongoing support. •Initiated a Compliance presence within the Enterprise team; partnered with cross-functional team members to design and utilize a scalable contracting process using SIMBA (an internal contracting tool). Trained all sales team members and Nooglers, defined approvers and contractual fallbacks, created PRDs for systems updates, and delegated signature authority.
•Supervised entry-level and experienced consultants. Managed multiple cases, teams, and deadlines simultaneously. •Modeled and executed sophisticated quantitative analyses to examine the financial impact of various legal allegations on companies’ financial standings. •Organized and analyzed complex sales and financial data to quantify damages resulting from lost profits and reasonable royalties. •Researched and analyzed financial viability, competitors, alternative products, and market size and conditions for companies in various industries. •Served as the daily contact for clients. Developed case direction with client personnel.