Lisa

Sr. Finance Business Partner
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Sr. Finance Business Partner

Lakeshore Learning Materials
2023.11-Current(a year)
5 years 2 months (1 year 4 months)

Sr. Financial Analyst

Lakeshore Learning Materials
2022.01-2023.11(2 years)
(1 year 11 months)

Saatchi & Saatchi (We Are Saatchi)
2020.01-2021.12(2 years)

Financial Analyst

Saatchi & Saatchi (We Are Saatchi)
2016.12-2020.01(3 years)
(3 years 2 months) • Perform monthly close activities, review financial statements, and investigate and reconcile general ledger accounts. • Assist with preparation of annual budget and forecast. Manage Hyperion data upload and generate SAP reports of actual, budget, and forecast. • Analyze revenues, costs, and expenses for all business units. Conduct variance analysis between actual and forecasted expenditures. • Develop financial performance benchmarks and create financial models to assist in management decision marking.

Global Financial Analyst

Vanguard Logistics Services
2016.08-2016.12(5 months)
• Prepare monthly reporting package for Investors and provide month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting and analytics. • Develop annual budgets and forecasts for Latin America, South Pacific, East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North America regions. • Create financial modeling to analyze variances to budgets, forecasts, and prior years. • Provide ad-hoc reports on key business metrics such as revenue trends, EBITDA, operating profits, and other variables affecting profitability.

Financial Analyst

Team One (a division of Saatchi & Saatchi)
2014.09-2016.08(2 years)
• Executed year-end and monthly financial close including journal entries, balance sheet and P&L statement reviews, monthly financial & analysis reports, and general ledger account investigation. • Managed and track global client scope of work, revenues, and develop and oversee client/project budgets ranging from $10k-$1m • Provided monthly and quarterly variance summary analysis to senior management. Reported and analyzed department expenses, monthly forecasting, financial planning, and time related management reporting. • Assisted with preparation internal audit documentation and ensured compliance with company policies. • Managed new employee financial onboarding for SAP access. Develop, maintain, and distribute ad-hoc reports and financial models as needed. 2013 - September 2014 (1 year) Financial Administrative & Analysis • Generate purchase orders and process payments of up to $100k, work closely with A/R and A/P, overall support to manage day-to-day budget, assist with preparing/updating sales analysis and monthly forecast of Market budgets, handle ad-hoc analysis, and create financial reporting from SAP. • Managed and oversaw a $1m budget for off-air and on-air costs shares of assets between Sony Pictures Television and networks (ABC, NBC, etc.). Informed key team members of the budget parameters in order to manage needs and expectations to clients. • Trained coworkers with SAP and became the key liaison between Finance and Marketing department. • Worked with procurement to streamline and improve inventory management and reduction/consolidation efforts with fulfillment vendor with annual savings of $45k. Project Management • Managed 5 domestic and international vendors for creation of consumer promotion items to be use by clients worldwide for 22 shows and feature films annually with a total budget of $500k • Worked in liaison with IT on implementing a new project management tool by being the key point person, relaying any problems, taking feedback, training new employees, and managing ongoing user acceptance testing.

Coordinator

Sony Pictures Entertainment
2010.01-2013.01(3 years)

Educational experience

Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business

Finance

University of Michigan

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