OBJECTIVE Seeking a leading Finance position to make a valuable impact using my Financial Management skills and IT expertise.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Leading total financial management of $50M annual cost center.
• Annual Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Modeling, Data Mining, Planning & Reporting.
• Oracle, SQL Server, SQL scripts, Oracle Financials, Essbase, Hyperion, Cognos and Advanced Excel skills.
• Extensive SOX support experience.
• 15 years experience including Manufacturing (Intel) and Retail & Distribution (Amazon.com).
• Managerial Experience from Direct reports as well as leading project teams.
• MBA (Arizona State University)

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona Aug 2007 to Present Finance Manager, Phoenix Fulfillment Center (FC)

CHIEF ACCOMPLISHMENTS :

• Total Financial Management of an Amazon.com FC , a $50M cost centre annually including budgeting, forecasting, cost controls, financial modeling, complex analysis, daily reporting and month end close.
• Helped startup 2 new FCs for Amazon.com in Phoenix and speedily establish financial stability.
• Helped double FC capacity for Q4 with meticulous financial planning in anticipation of volume growth.
• Mined Oracle & MySQL databases and used data trends & analysis for business strategy.
• Identified significant savings opportunities for Amazon lowering capital & labor costs.
• Performed several key analysis to help steer the business for higher profits and long term growth.
• Cultivated strong partnerships with Operations, expanded Financial awareness and mentored them to factor-in financial impacts in their decisions.
• Influenced Financial Managers across the company to adopt newer perspective for examining the business performance though creation of revolutionary models.
• Coached raw & inexperienced team to become successful Financial Analysts for Amazon.

DETAIL :

• Produced detailed Fixed & Variable Cost Budgets and helped with CAPEX budgets amounting to over $100M annually using business acumen, performance expectations and projections of future growth.
• Developed several new Financial Models to help determine precise drivers for cost variances to Budget, to compute labor requirements based on complex business characteristics, to plan for Order Backlog Management, and an Accrual model to help recognize liabilities during Monthly Close.
• Drove Automation of financial reporting to increase staff efficiency and provide detailed daily reporting.
• Using SQL to extract data, deep dived into key business trends like customer demographics, product mix demand, productivities of FC workers in various departments, packaging and logistical data, etc to help device better business strategy for Fulfillment.
• Led Monthly Close and presented Actuals to Amazon HQ & Ops explaining detailed variances vs forecasts.
• Fulfill SOX requirements like reviewing and reporting all changes to Fixed Assets on monthly basis, document all known facts and data for monthly accruals, ensure correct classification of new assets, and sign off generally on all such activites that affect company Balance Sheet or Income Statement.
• Deep dived into Business trends, Customer demographics and help device better business strategy for Fulfillment.
• Led the production and publication of performance reports including one-stop Dashboard providing complete all-round status of the FCs.
• Held several training sessions to educated Operations Managers to read complex Financial reports and empowered them to quickly identify nature and extent of issues as well as actions needed to resolve from user of those reports.
• Drove several key analysis to enable higher quality decision making like costing out various scenarios to find optimal strategy, analyzing impact of different product mixes on performances, etc.

Confidential, Chandler, Arizona July 2000 to Aug 2007 Sr. Finance Analyst

Fulfilled diverse roles in Central Finance Department of TMG (Technology Manufacturing Group) Intel's largest department by spending as well as headcount.

• As Close Lead, consolidated and analyzed $16B of annual spending for TMG on a monthly basis for Finance Controller.
• Investigated and presented detailed drivers for variances from forecast for each spending category. Performed trend analysis of spending & headcount and provided updated forecast for the quarter each month.
• Developed model to estimate mid-quarter forecast using high level data and helped eliminate lower-level forecast efforts resulting in savings of hundreds of man hours.
• As Product Volumes Lead, analyzed data on 400M+ units of annual product volumes and related spending.
• Analyzed business conditions driving changes in product-wise demand and provided updated quarterly volume forecasts & related spending every month.
• Performed alignment of forecasted demand to manufacturing build plans.
• Contributed to Annual & Quarterly Planning cycles to project future product volumes and analyze change in mix of products, update demand and variable spending based on volumes.
• As OCOS (Other Cost Of Sales) Lead, analyzed TMG's OCOS in detail
• Analyzed spending in each category of OCOS like Startup, Ongoing Spending, Depreciation, Writeoffs, Demolition costs, EoL charges and Excess Capacity charges helping Controller comprehend variance to forecast for each type of spending.
• Controlled allocations to Intel divisions billed for paying Manufacturing expense.
• Participated in Annual & Quarterly Planning cycles to utilizing information from company direction for new factories, changes to existing factories, capacity utilizations, capital depreciation and resale of unwanted equipment.
• As Cash Savings Lead
• Consolidated & analyzed Cash Savings efforts performed through out Manufacturing every quarter including type of effort, potential $$ savings, description of effort, business partners involved in the effort and testimonials for the effort performed.
• Participated in SOX compliance audits for financial reporting.

Sr. Database Engineer

• Analyzed business requirements and engineered new databases enriching automation of Intel's manufacturing helping increase output, enable dynamic decision making through use of real-time Monitor boards and other automation solutions.
• Led database architecture roadmap detailing version-wise features recommended for OLTP vs DSS (reporting) databases after benchmarking reliability and performance of Oracle features.
• Led numerous path-finding efforts for database use like benchmarking reliability and performance of Oracle 10g features, benchmarking SQL Server for Mission Critical Usage.
• Credited with being the only database engineer in the organization who could work with both Oracle and SQL Server which are amongst the two most widely used database severs.

Confidential, Chandler, Arizona Feb 1999 to July 2000 Automation/Database Consultant to Intel Corp

• Consulted to Intel Corporation for variety of automation projects through Oracle database skillsets.
• Engineered databases to support Microprocessor testing and sampling, maintain manufacturing tool status and utility information dynamically and provide reports, keep track of silicon wafers for the products ingrained onto the wafer.

Confidential June 1995 to Feb 1999 Business Analyst and Database Expert

EDUCATION Master of Business Administration B.S. Computer