Controller / Director of Finance

• Aug 2023 - Present

Director of Finance

• Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

• Supervised financial processes, such as corporate finance, accounting, budgeting, payroll, investor relations, audit, internal controls, corporate tax, accounts receivable, accounts payable, revenue operations, and management reporting functions. • Directed project activities to address bottlenecks from manual data aggregation and develop financial models presented in quarterly board meetings, to prospective investors and C-level leadership. • Engaged with Founder, COO, CPO, and CTO… Show more • Supervised financial processes, such as corporate finance, accounting, budgeting, payroll, investor relations, audit, internal controls, corporate tax, accounts receivable, accounts payable, revenue operations, and management reporting functions. • Directed project activities to address bottlenecks from manual data aggregation and develop financial models presented in quarterly board meetings, to prospective investors and C-level leadership. • Engaged with Founder, COO, CPO, and CTO on strategic go-to-market and acquisition efforts as a key strategic thought partner to increase the company’s financial strength. • Developed tailored financial reporting packages, written memos, and key metrics detailing insights on core economics and go-to-market strategy to engage investors. Designed custom KPIs evaluating cost per data attribute, client-level profitability metrics, and sales forecasting to inform on performance and ROI analysis. • Optimized cost efficiency in 4 months on a $33M expense base to maximize operational profitability and reliability by negotiating $1.6M in sustainable, repeatable cost savings in collaborative effort to identify revenue driving costs and prioritize sustainability in business operations. • Verified the credibility of financial processes by assuming leadership of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 financial audits and using GAAP compliant ASC 606 methodology to eliminate accounting complexity, saving 8% in billable hours. • Organized special projects to address operational bottlenecks, develop dashboards enhancing business insights and build automated, programmatic business intelligence reporting utilizing Mixpanel, AWS, Google Suite and custom Python scripts to streamline automated business reporting.

Finance & Growth Manager

• Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

Received title change to Director of Finance in October 2022 without issue changes to core job duties and responsibilities.

Finance Manager

• Sep 2019 - Jul 2021

• Led financial management and analysis of $1.4B in revenue and $0.5B expense yearly by spearheading financial activities of 12 cost centers within NFL Digital Media. • Supervised the development of seven assets, such as CTV, NFL Mobile, NFL Fantasy, NFL.com, and 32 Club Sites from 2018-2020, managing a budget of $10M average project cost. • Assisted the President, NFL Media on quantitative analysis and action-based plan to control 1% growth on variable CDN, server, and AWS costs, while… Show more • Led financial management and analysis of $1.4B in revenue and $0.5B expense yearly by spearheading financial activities of 12 cost centers within NFL Digital Media. • Supervised the development of seven assets, such as CTV, NFL Mobile, NFL Fantasy, NFL.com, and 32 Club Sites from 2018-2020, managing a budget of $10M average project cost. • Assisted the President, NFL Media on quantitative analysis and action-based plan to control 1% growth on variable CDN, server, and AWS costs, while traffic and consumption grew 25% on Digital Properties. • Governed revenue-driving vs under-performing assets to systematize financial reporting, eradicate operational silos, allocate company-wide costs across O&O Digital Properties, and introduce KPI insights. • Established NFL Digital Media Product Roadmap to steer capital investments, executed due diligence to create research-based business proposals and cost-benefit analyses and presented insights to senior executives. • Delivered valuable support to the executive management team to drive intelligent decisions on the company’s direction by handling forecasting and budgeting processes. • Led Vena Solutions implementation with NFL Controller. Worked with Vena team, finance leaders and peers to scope requirements, tailor dynamic, flexible reporting addressing the unique needs across the NFL Media, designed library of dynamic templates optimized for Vena, and trained peers individually on new processes. • Received a 4 or 5 rating in each annual performance reviews – each rating is awarded to only one member of the department per year. Managed two direct reports and led the hiring, training and supervision of two interns who were each awarded a full-time job offer.

Senior Financial Analyst

• Jul 2018 - Sep 2019

Financial Analyst

• Jul 2016 - Jun 2018

Senior Associate

• Aug 2015 - Jul 2016

• Carried out fair and actionable assessments, receiving the highest performance rating after both fiscal years. • Defined client valuation models for Level III assets and private companies, such as discounted cash flow, comparable companies, precedent transactions, and market analysis. • Provided valuable contribution to Deloitte's Financial Services Group by leading clients’ mutual, private equity, and hedge fund portfolios with assets from $12M - $4B. • Conveyed valuable… Show more • Carried out fair and actionable assessments, receiving the highest performance rating after both fiscal years. • Defined client valuation models for Level III assets and private companies, such as discounted cash flow, comparable companies, precedent transactions, and market analysis. • Provided valuable contribution to Deloitte's Financial Services Group by leading clients’ mutual, private equity, and hedge fund portfolios with assets from $12M - $4B. • Conveyed valuable assistance to external executives by gathering, analyzing, and converting findings into concise memorandums.

Associate

• Aug 2014 - Jul 2015