Julian Gonzalez

The José Andrés Group's diverse array of its 45 restaurants, hotels, consumer goods products, and media outlets spans cuisines, cultures, price points, and service styles, from two 2-Michelin-starred restaurants to game-changing small plates restaurants to fast-casual eateries and a food hall. In my role as Director of FP&A, I support the optimization of our business lines through:

• Evaluating current economic conditions to assess potential impacts on the organization's finances, developing long-term business plans with a focus on increased revenue growth and profitability.
• Tracked performance against operating and capital budgets to identify areas of improvement or cost savings initiatives, inclusive of new store openings and market expansions.
• Prepared monthly and quarterly financial reports for the executive management team, inclusive of monthly business reviews, board reporting, and capital raise requirements.
• Built financial models to allocate resources, forecast cash and investment needs and make capital budgeting decisions.
• Fostered collaboration and development of new practices by business leaders.
• Developed, implemented, and monitored annual budgets for the organization.
• Managed a 4-person data analytics team to ensure an accurate data environment.

Company Overview: &pizza is an American fast casual restaurant concept founded in 2012, named #12 on the Restaurant Business 2017 Future 50 list of fastest-growing small concept restaurants, and on the Fast Companies World's Most Innovative Companies 2018 list. It operates 36 locations across the East Coast. In my role as finance lead, I supported the health of the company across several sectors.

• Existing Business: own sales forecasting process across the organization (by shop and revenue channel); develop labor scheduling model in conjunction with operations leadership, provide daily dashboard analytics on shop performance against targets, and help manage P&L performance across existing fleet.
• Leading cross-functional work to drive business results.
• New Store Openings: Own pro forma model used to evaluate new site locations – working with development team to provide ROIC based on target sales, most similar shop characteristics, as well as capex assumptions.
• Budget: Lead annual budget process across organization – top line sales, new store openings, capital expenditures, pre-opening expenses, and departmental G&A planning, and any projects with P&L impacts to business.

Company Overview: Liquidity Services operates an e-commerce marketplace offering over 500 product categories. In my role, I am responsible for:

• Consolidation of budget and forecast data across all wholly owned subsidiaries (BUs) for an organization with ~$650m in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV).
• Management of forecasts across BUs (5) and analysis of consolidated results.
• All Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Investor Relations, and Strategy materials pertaining to financial performance - on a monthly and quarterly basis.

Company Overview: VW Credit, Inc., the captive finance company of Volkswagen Group of America, provides financial products and services to automobile dealers and customers in the United States and Canada. In my roles as a financial analyst, and then as a financial planning and reporting specialist, I was responsible for:

• Development, coordination, and presentation of all controlling materials – monthly forecasts, annual budgets, financial reviews, and 5-year planning round (LRP) materials for an organization with approximately $300m in annual revenue.