Dwayne Fox

Developed custom financial models to support strategic planning and resource allocation, driving alignment with long-term corporate objectives. Delivered monthly financial results, variance analysis, and actionable insights.

• Automated the financial reporting process via Power BI, winning the AT&T Connection Award in 2022 and 2023, providing leadership and project teams with new reports that filter data in real-time, leveraging data visualization best practices, and strategically produces purpose-built views that facilitate making key business decisions. Reduced cycle time of reporting by two weeks.
• Served as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on financial matters, providing timely and accurate information for decision-making purposes. Enabling leadership to align with corporate objectives.
• Led, short-term, a team of five in providing financial reporting, analysis, and business insights for a $275M project portfolio for the Consumer Technology team at AT&T, enabling project teams to make financial decision to meet corporate financial targets.

Executed Generally Accepted Accounting Principles through month-end close, journal entry recording, and account reconciliations.

• Led month-end book close of $30 million in revenue, accounts receivable, and accounts payable transactions, ensuring accurate revenue recognition.
• Reduced bad debt write-offs to less than 1% through account balance validation methods, reducing the allowance for bed debt expense.
• Secured cost savings by identifying opportunities for process improvements, reducing the need for two headcount which were reassigned to other areas of need.
• Supported internal audits by providing timely responses to information requests and facilitating collaboration between departments, improving accounting controls and reducing transaction processing times by 20%.
• Conducted monthly reconciliations of accounts to ensure accurate accounting and recording of transactions, maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the financial statements.

Developed annual operating expense budget and provided monthly variance analysis, monthly forecasts, and actionable insights to meet financial targets. Promoted to this position, receiving responsibility for larger financial targets and increased leadership exposure.
• Conducted monthly variance analysis reviews and forecasts, enabling senior leadership to understand the state of the business and future outcome of the current operations.

• Enabled informed data driven decision-making by presenting key findings and actionable recommendations from complex data sets in clear, concise formats that help senior leadership make decisive decisions.
• Led the annual budget planning of $1.4 billion, collaborating with department heads to allocate resources strategically, enabling operating efficiencies and cost savings to achieve financial targets within a 2% margin error.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements and increase operational efficiency, reducing overtime expense by 3%.

Developed annual operating expense budget and provided monthly variance analysis, monthly forecasts, and actionable insights to meet financial targets.

• Led financial planning and analysis (FP&A) by developing $450 million operating expense budget and leading monthly expense analysis and forecast meetings with the leadership team, enabling operating efficiencies and cost savings to achieve financial targets within a 2% margin error.
• Provided cost savings analysis, saving $2 million and finishing the year under budget.
• Received top performer bonus compensation award
• Enabled complete and accurate reporting for cost of service and operating expenses by accurately assigning costs to the appropriate operating organizations. This gave a true view of what and where were the costs in the business.
• Tracked key financial business performance metrics (KPIs) and expenses; analyzed and communicated variance to plan and provided actionable recommendations for improvement.