POOJA VORA
Los Gatos,CA
Summary
With over a decade of progressive experience in finance and analytics, I have a proven track record of understanding complex problems and creating simple solutions. I am hard-working, detail oriented, adept at streamlining communication in diverse and complex, fast-moving environments, while navigating ambiguity and learning fast.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis
PayPal
01.2023 - Current
- Played an instrumental role in creating product level forecasting and analysis working closely with department heads to establish realistic projections.
- Optimized financial processes by identifying inefficiencies and implementing corrective measures.
- Developed strategic plans for day-to-day financial operations.
- Streamlined product level objectives and key results reporting, leading to increased forecast accuracy and reduced turnaround time.
- Enhanced stakeholder understanding of financial performance through clear and concise presentations.
- Provide trend and risk analysis on key initiatives.
- Improved financial forecasting accuracy by developing advanced models.
Manager Business Planning
Visa
07.2021 - 01.2023
- Outline remediation plans to ensure full-year targets delivered.
- Understand business context to tell a meaningful story with the data and provide actionable recommendations to guide leaders and their extended teams.
- Collaborate with team leaders to build roadmaps of dashboards critical to measure performance.
- Extract meaningful insights to better understand, improve performance, resolve problems and implement change.
- Improved overall business efficiency through streamlining processes, identifying growth opportunities, and monitoring performance metrics.
- Developed financial models to forecast revenue projections, which informed budget allocation decisions and resource optimization strategies.
Strategic Analytics Manager
The Walt Disney Company
01.2020 - 07.2021
- Empower the business with data-driven knowledge & insights to support strategic decisions.
- Partner with e-commerce team and provide analysis on product and customer trends.
- Create and present comprehensive media campaign analytics to optimize marketing investment.
- Responsible for email marketing performance analysis.
- Generate insightful presentations that summarize analyses and lead to better decision making.
- Assist with optimizing real estate strategy by conducting location study.
- Help team members on various projects by sharing and teaching retail business insights and trends.
- Partner with Consumer Research team to combine survey data with data learnings.
- Assist team with building queries using several data sources.
- Led a key best guest research project that helped the business successfully target top customers.
Manager, Finance
The Walt Disney Company
06.2017 - 01.2020
- Responsible for creating and presenting a multifaceted sales and margin forecast to executive leadership.
- Analyze and provide insights on how money is being made and how to improve profit margin.
- Help the business understand E-commerce customer patterns that result in a higher revenue driving strategy while reducing risks.
- Achieved financial goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
- Developed and streamlined an E-commerce promotional planning process which helps the business identify and fill gaps.
- Lead the E-commerce promotional planning process by working with key business partners and providing updates directly to the SVP of Global E-Commerce.
- Offer in depth customer understandings to the Marketing team that assist in guest conversion.
- Help the real estate team develop a strong portfolio by reporting on store performance.
- Directly manage an SFA responsible for Brick & Mortar store forecasting and reporting enhancement processes.
- Cross functionally represent the team in the absence of the Director of Central Planning.
- Own the monthly, quarterly and yearly P&L close process.
Senior Financial Analyst-Central Planning
The Walt Disney Company
03.2015 - 06.2017
- Provide insightful and directional reporting to the business.
- Translate total company sales and margin forecast to plans by channel.
- Analyze key performance indicators to help cross functionally teams plan targets.
- Assess risk and opportunity based on the trend of the business and provide a recommended course of action.
- Analyze and present key learning to senior leadership and cross functional business partners.
- Spearheaded key cost saving initiatives.
- Identified and created learning from an item productivity analysis.
- Selected and completed retail leadership development program a prestigious top talent development program.
- Recap events by highlighting key drivers and consumer patterns.
- Responsible for variance explanations on the P&L.
- Provide insight and support to the store operations team.
- Generate and present monthly financial sales and margin forecast.
- Created and enhanced key business models.
- Build store by store plans and forecasts for key events.
- Work with Planning and Accounting to manage inventory reserves.
- Work closely with IT on the implementation new systems and dashboard capabilities.
Financial /Central Planning Analyst
The Walt Disney Company
10.2013 - 03.2015
- Providing insight into key performance indicators to the store operations team.
- Work with external partners to provide reporting and analytics.
- Provide analysis on performance of new and remodel stores.
- Work with planning team to provide item sales and inventory productivity analysis.
- Provide insightful and directional reporting to the business.
- Work closely with IT on the implementation of new systems and dashboard capabilities.
- Provide ad hoc analysis for the CFO as needed.
Planning and Supply Chain Analyst
Lamps Plus Corporate
12.2012 - 10.2013
- Execution of internal vendor catalog.
- Maintaining the internal item master to support e-commerce sites.
- Implementation of Manhattan Associates' order management systems like EEM and DOM while working with WMS system.
- Training end users on developed systems.
- Generating reports to improve existing processes.
- Working closely with Business needs and IT to improve existing processes.
- Understanding business needs to create order management solutions.
- Effectively troubleshooting issues to help deliver seamless guest experience.
- Maintaining business relationships with internal and external teams to improve developments.
Education
BS in Business Management -
California State University, Northridge
05.2010
Skills
- Key Performance Indicators
- Variance Analysis
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Critical Thinking
- Data Visualization
- Project Management
- Business Partnering
- Team Leadership
- Performance Metrics
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Scenario Analysis
- Budgeting and Forecasting
Timeline
Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis
PayPal
01.2023 - Current
Manager Business Planning
Visa
07.2021 - 01.2023
Strategic Analytics Manager
The Walt Disney Company
01.2020 - 07.2021
Manager, Finance
The Walt Disney Company
06.2017 - 01.2020
Senior Financial Analyst-Central Planning
The Walt Disney Company
03.2015 - 06.2017
Financial /Central Planning Analyst
The Walt Disney Company
10.2013 - 03.2015
Planning and Supply Chain Analyst
Lamps Plus Corporate
12.2012 - 10.2013
BS in Business Management -
California State University, Northridge
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