Justin LaCourse
Seattle,WA
Summary
To gain a position in a finance, budget and billing capacity that utilizes skills in budget management, financial planning and reporting, account management, internal and external partnerships, innovating/automating, communications and people management.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Budget and Billing Analyst
Amazon.com
03.2016 - Current
- Budget Owner (23 countries)
- OP1/OP2 actual/forecast in COGNOS
- Monthly finance accruals and pre-paid entries for accounting
- Manage OP1 and OP2 reporting templates and deadline communications
- Creating reporting automation and efficiencies
- Identifying and standardizing operational improvements
- Approval and review of monthly invoicing
- Contractual agreements in partnership with supplier, finance, legal and tax
- Manage agency staffing plans and inflation models
- Owner of regular finance and bench-marking audits
- Manage volume-based return programs
- Internal collaboration across Amazon legal, operations, finance technology, marketing and production teams
- Support both CAPEX and OPEX financials for global media
- XCM lead for finance relationship with global media agency
- Org hiring and development
- Purchase Order Management and Approvals
- Onboard new Payees to Amazon and determine country, currency and payment terms per contract
- People Manager.
Vendor Manager
Amazon.com
10.2015 - 03.2016
- Managed youth boy’s retail fashion category
- Category manager
- Forecasting and deliverable managment
- Identify global trends to better optimize kid’s category
- Competitive reviews and price matching
- Buying/ordering and procuring sales units
- Vendor relationship management including
- Monitor vendor sales and lift through promotions and deals
- Negotiate funding for deals and identify promotional opportunities for continued growth
- Monitor site performance and identify gaps and opportunities for more efficient merchandising and a better customer experience
- Weekly business review category performance/sales reporting
- Maximize Amazon’s long-term business profitability
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, and communicate with internal and external parties, while meeting tight deadlines
- Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets.
Budget Analyst
Microsoft
10.2013 - 10.2015
- Manage and facilitate $11MM annual budget portfolio for Microsoft’s Sales Marketing and Services Group Readiness (SMSGR) Commercial Advertising and Marketing (CAM) and Commercial Sales (CS) teams
- Ensure Team Readiness Units (RTU’s) are meeting quarterly/yearly financial accountability – this includes landing forecasted spend +/- 3% to budget
- Readiness Team budget coaching/awareness through budget syncs, PowerPoint presentations, Lync Calls, and email
- Manage and track quarterly/yearly Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) in Excel Pivots and Scorecards tracking
- Work closely with SMSGR Finance to ensure teams are meeting or exceeding financial milestones commitments/expectations
- Process all finance related vendor/supplier purchase orders (PO’s), cross charges, PO extensions, and any funding related requests both internally and non-SMSGR funded
- Manage and track financial KPI’s in shared reporting and pivots including BI Cube and Budget Log
- Cross group collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders (i.e
- Vendor/suppliers, event team leads, creative service and PO signatory’s)
- Weekly budget syncs with budget category leads
- Monthly/quarterly budget updates with budget category RTUs.
Marketing Manager
Kelly Services
01.2005 - 10.2015
- Product Management for Advertising and Online (A&O) Category and Audience Boost Scale Media Ad Offerings
- New product launches & releases
- MoM scorecard reporting and analytics
- Product Planning (i.e
- Seasonal Promotions, Rate Increase/Decrease, Minimum Budget, Etc.)
- Cross group collaboration with Product Planners, Marketing, Analyst, and Engineering
- PowerPoint Slide Deck (Creation/Presentation) - Fiscal Year Product Plans, Operation Plans
- Content Management for Boost and Category products
- Product Branding and Channel Management
- Use Office Suite including Visio for Flowcharts
- Own Scale Media Measurement & Mobile Portfolio
- Product placement and lifecycle / product launch and press release support
- Scorecard reporting and logistics
- Field Infoweb Site – PM for all Content & Media
- Marketing SharePoint site – PM for all content and media /Surface newsletter
- Event management – CES 2011
- Managed product branding and channel management for Surface team
- Vendor management & Coordination (Internal Tool Framework)
- Legal Agreement Management and cross-group collaboration with Sales and field teams.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Communications & Business Administration
Central Washington University
Ellensburg, WA07.2002
Skills
- Finance Reporting P&L
- Posting Financial Accruals
- General Ledger
- People Management
- Contractual Agreements
- Reporting Automation
- Cross group Collaboration
- Client Relationship & Ownership
- Amazon Interviewing 50 Candidates
- Communication and Building Long-Term Relationships Built on Trust
- Office Suite/Excel
Organizational Strengths
- Bias for Action
- Prioritization
- Earning & Building Trust
- Ownership
- Inventing and Simplifying
- Leadership
- Management (1 direct report)
- Dive Deep
- Interviewing and Developing Team via New Hires
Accreditations
- 8-year safety ambassador @ Amazon.com, LLC
- Board of Directors, Alpental Ski Patrol 2015-2019
- OEC and Professional CPR certified 2012-2019
- Marketing Club, Central Washington University
References
Available Upon Request
Timeline
Sr. Budget and Billing Analyst
Amazon.com
03.2016 - Current
Vendor Manager
Amazon.com
10.2015 - 03.2016
Budget Analyst
Microsoft
10.2013 - 10.2015
Marketing Manager
Kelly Services
01.2005 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Communications & Business Administration
Central Washington University