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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Deck Commerce

Deck Commerce is the culmination of 15+ years of experience helping companies maximize their eCommerce potential. Engineered with powerful order management functionality and integration capabilities, we are uniquely positioned to provide value to leading retailers.

Account Executive

Pavilion

Pavilion is a private center for high-growth operators to achieve their professional potential. It has function-based communities for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Revenue Operations, General Operations, Finance, and soon many more.

Member

Blue Ridge

The Blue Ridge planning and pricing platform gives business leaders app simplicity that uniquely integrates data science-rich inventory forecasting capabilities with price optimization insights. From modeling, right-sizing inventory and transparency, Blue Ridge bases success off increases in customer profitability and service levels. Through automation, expert consulting, analytics and synchronization, Blue Ridge offers an easy ramp-up and continuous value to guarantee resiliency.

Highlights:
•Analyzing closed won opportunities to help our AEs increase their forecast accuracy within Salesforce.   
•Building relationships across departments to develop the company’s 2022 P&L business plan.
•Assisted the CFO in preparing and presenting the FY 22 Plan to our investment partners.

Senior Financial Analyst

Comcast

My Analyst 3 journey at Comcast began by entering the role to help forecast and budget the capital spend for our construction accounts. I continued to develop by taking on forecasting and budgeting of our extensive new construction projects and by providing ad-hoc reporting and financial return analysis to our internal partners. The forecasting and budgeting of our rural broadband projects opened a unique opportunity to act as a financial project manager. In that role, I ensured that the projects had the correct funding to be completed on time. 

I helped leaders within the organization solve problems by providing the following:
• Financial project management to ensure projects had the correct funding to be completed on time. 
• Provided monthly and annual budgets/forecasts for our construction accounts and sizeable construction projects. 
• Developed financial models return models to evaluate the feasibility of a new development. 
• Provided ad-hoc financial, construction metrics, and project analysis
• Create daily, weekly and monthly reporting on KPIs.

Volunteered/nominated for the following:
•Your Voice Engagement committee.    
•Mentor Program.

Analyst 3

Slim Chickens

The title of Financial Analyst does not describe in enough detail the variety of projects I worked on at Slim Chickens because my job involves all areas of the organization. I collaborated with the Marketing team on competitive research and provided analysis of sales and promotions. Outside of supporting the Marketing team, I helped develop our menu pricing strategy for our corporate restaurants. I provided product mix analysis and taste testing for the Product Development team. In addition to taste testing, I project managed the implementation of a milkshake test in three locations. One of my more exciting roles was analyzing demographic data and trade area analysis for the Real Estate Development team. On top of this, I still get to do some FP&A work by helping develop quarterly and yearly sales forecasts and restaurant budgets. I enjoyed working at Slim Chickens because my knowledge continued to grow beyond what my title would indicate. 

I help leaders within the organization solve problems by providing the following: 
•	Create weekly and monthly financial reporting
•	Perform site selection analysis and recommendations
•	Develop financial models for business cases
•	Perform menu pricing research and recommendation
•	Provide ad-hoc sales, marketing, product mix and operations analysis 
•	Help create sales forecasts and restaurant budgets
•       Perform product mix analysis and product recommendations

Volunteered for following projects: 
•	Manage development and launch of a food truck.  
•	Sauce Sportscaster for our March Madness Instagram promotion. 
•	Project managing the test of milkshakes in three restaurants.  
•	Amateur taste tester of anything that was being cooked in the test kitchen. 
•	Provide ad-hoc sales, marketing, product mix and operations analysis 
•	Help create sales forecasts and restaurant budgets
•       Perform product mix analysis and product recommendations

Financial Analyst

Worked with the accounting and finance departments while finishing my senior year at the University of Arkansas: 
Projects worked on: 
•	Helped the accounting department by reviewing restaurant invoices for accuracy
•	Created a "menu master" file that allowed us to analyze plate costs and margins.

Student Intern

Arkansas Fellowship

Intertwined with my role as an analyst at Slim Chickens was my participation as a member of the Arkansas Fellowship. The Arkansas Fellowship is a two-year post-graduate career development organization that builds a professional network around entrepreneurship and business development in Arkansas. My love for learning and interest in entrepreneurship drove me to join the Arkansas Fellowship. Within the program, I was the leader of the events committee and was responsible for organizing our fellowship events and career development opportunities. My goal was to find events where we get exposure to business leaders in Arkansas, different business models, and new ways of thinking. 
	
Type of events we attended and created:
•We organized company tours where we got to meet and learn from business leaders.
       •Company tours were Aromatique, Collective Bias and Slim Chickens. 
•We attended different conferences and public speaker events. 
       •We attended Made by Few in Little Rock, CogX London, London Tech Week, Startup-grind Europe and the TedX speaker series in Fayetteville.

Arkansas Fellow

ForeverRed

Led the Operations team to accomplish semester projects: 
  •We maintained supplier relationships as we began the process of transitioning to a new supplier. 
  •Developed and executed a plan to recruit new members that led to increased applications year over year. 
  •Helped create a new product development team that would commercialize new products created in the innovation lab.

Operations Manager

As a collaborative and driven enterprise sales and finance professional, I have learned that winning takes a team. I am grateful to have been a part of some fun ones that generated over $5.0m pipeline and overachieved quota by 128% at Deck Commerce, expanded high-speed internet to Earl and Parkin at Comcast, and launched new menu items and food trucks at Slim Chickens. 

Being a part of winning teams opens unique opportunities, like volunteering to be a sauce sportscaster for an Instagram campaign or driving to El Dorado to scout a new location at Slim Chickens. 

Outside of work, you will find me running around Denver or in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, skiing or hiking. After completing the St. Jude marathon in December 2021 and 10 half-marathons since then, I have moved from running for exercise to owning a five-paneled hat and Strava Premium. If I am not outdoors, my indoor activities include starting more books than finishing, cooking a new recipe, or exploring Denver's food, arts, live music, and sports scenes.

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