Education

B.A., Economics from Cornell University
Focus: Economics

Work Experience

Independent Consultant – Innovation at Anheuser-Busch 
Aug 2022  – Dec 2022

• Partnered with 6 marketing brand directors to design a key performance indicators (KPI) dashboard to analyze pilot sales metrics for new products. 
• Served as sole resource to train brand directors on new sales dashboard. 
• Documented precisely how to update the dashboard so that any new person joining the team can do it without additional training.

Independent Consultant – Bud Light at Anheuser-Busch 
Sep 2019  – Dec 2021

• Partnered with 6 marketing brand directors to design and implement a cross-brand expense tracking system to increase accountability across a $1B expense base and ensure account managers are empowered in their decision-making process.
• Redesigned yearly forecasting and resource allocation processes for $90M Marketing expense base, by using a zero-based budgeting approach.
• Identified and recommended the implementation of a shared services model to increase productivity and consistency across all portfolio brands.
• Increased visibility to Bud Light’s expense base with a focus on obligations due to multi-year contracts.
• Served as main resource to train account managers on improved expense tracking system.

Independent Consultant at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. 
Jan 2018  – May 2018

• Partnered with the internal client team to redesign recurring monthly, quarterly, and yearly FP&A processes. 
• Identified non-value added tasks and work duplication within the Finance organization across all brands. 
• Shared best practices and proposed a new and improved state for the Finance function to operate.

Global League Senior Finance Manager at National Basketball Association (NBA) 
Aug 2016  – Feb 2017,  New York, NY

In addition to all responsibilities mentioned in my prior job title, oversaw all forecasting processes for 8 different regions, and all quarterly business reviews. Created pitch deck templates to be used for all Board of Governors meetings with team owners, and all official communication. Trained new finance employees in the Hong Kong and Toronto offices, and shared best practices from the global finance team.

Global League Finance Manager at National Basketball Association (NBA) 
May 2014  – Aug 2016,  New York, NY

Responsible for the global 3-year forecasting of the NBA global league initiatives (TV revenue, marketing sponsorships and merchandising). Created a profitability model including all revenues sources to understand which initiatives to fund and which to scrap. Responsible for creating pitch decks for the Board of the NBA 4 times a year, presenting latest financial information, forecasts as well as investments opportunities. In addition, created an “NBA 101” curriculum (pitch decks and manual) for new team owners.

Financial Management Program Analyst – Life Sciences Commercial Finance at GE Healthcare 
Jul 2013  – Feb 2014,  Piscataway, NJ

Main responsibilities include assisting the global service finance team with global consolidation and reporting for a $200M business. In addition, created a dashboard demonstrating the year to date performance of key indicators influencing sales incentives programs in order to reach and exceed sales target.