SANDRA NELSON
Parrish,FL
Summary
Forward-thinking Financial professional skilled with taking on complex and challenging projects, building meaningful and productive business relationships, and identifying opportunities to refine and enhance processes and procedures. Positive and approachable with a dedication to building a positive, productive, accountable workplace.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director, FP&A
Lumos Diagnostics
Sarasota, FL
05.2021 - Current
- Responsible for planning, reporting, forecasting for all Lumos, including Revenue, COGS, OPEX, CAPEX, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, variance analysis, board presentations, and external reporting
- Utilize advanced NetSuite capabilities to improve overall financial reporting, including custom reports, saved searches, analytics, and dashboards
- Perform routine closings, maintain clean, accurate and accessible records, and keep close eye on transaction throughout each financial period
- Partnered with IT and operational teams to plan, test, and implement new instance of NetSuite
Director, Finance - Sales & Marketing
Comcast
Atlanta, GA
04.2018 - 05.2021
- Created Store level P/L and Payback model, providing leadership with deeper level of visibility to individual store performance, ability to set store specific targets, and means to evaluate future opportunities and their potential payback
- Fostered positive relationships with Sales and Marketing leadership, proactively identified financial needs and delivered solutions, and collaborated on strategic initiatives to provide financial point of view
- Identified and implemented multiple enhancements to existing processes and procedures to improve communications, reduce errors, and increase visibility of Sales and Marketing expense performance
- Responsible for leadership and develop of sales and marketing finance team, provided ongoing positive feedback and encouragement to learn new skills
- Oversaw preparation of budgets, forecasts, monthly reporting and variance analysis
Director, Revenue Planning
Charter Communications (formerly Bright House Networks)
Stamford, CT
07.2016 - 04.2018
- Identified, created, and implemented customer offer tracking and analytics tool which provided deeper level of visibility in to offers, both historically as well as ability to model future strategies and understand potential impact to future EBIDTA
- Collaborated with Sales Leaders on an ongoing basis to review and reevaluate sales channel targets necessary in order to achieve company goals while incorporating known offer strategies, commission changes, sales incentives, organizational changes and operational efficiencies
- Worked cross functionally with various teams throughout the organization during consolidation of three legacy companies (Time Warner, Charter, and Bright House Networks) to standardize, simplify, and enhance processes, procedures, and reporting
- Lead and developed the revenue planning team
- Responsible for oversight of financial reporting and analysis
Sr Manager, FP&A
Bright House Networks
Riverview, FL
04.2014 - 07.2016
- Led successful conversion from CSG to ICOMS billing systems for Business Services, managing project from planning to execution
- Collaborated cross-functionally on new product launches to ensure proper systems were setup to accurately capture financial and subscriber data
- Managed team responsible for supporting day-to-day operational reporting for Sales, Order Entry, Construction, Field Operations, Billing, and Care
- Oversaw monthly financial reporting, analytics, and variance analysis
All Other
Bright House Networks
Tampa, FL
03.2000 - 03.2014
- Director, Finance & Business Operations 2008 - 2014
- Director, Business Operations 2006 - 2008
- Manager, Business Operations 2003 - 2006
- Business Analyst/Administrative 2000 - 2003
Administrative Assistant
Lunz And Associates
Lakeland, FL
02.1998 - 03.2000
Electronic Warfare
US Navy
Mayport, FL
03.1996 - 02.1998
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business
Trident University International
03.2016
Skills
- Advanced Excel & Power Point (including VBA)
- Data Mining & Analysis
- Proficient in SQL
- Monthly Reporting & Variance Analysis/Commentary
- Budget/Forecast preparation and reporting
- Team Leadership and Development
- Positive Cross Functional Communication
- ERP & Billing systems including NetSuite, ICOMS, and CSG
Accomplishments
- 2001 Awarded Employee of the Year
- 2006 Awarded Manager of the Year
- 2006 Selected to participate in a Women's Leadership Circle
- 2012 Selected to participate in Women in Cable Television Rising Leaders program
- 2021 Selected to participate in Comcast Leadership program
Timeline
Senior Director, FP&A
Lumos Diagnostics
05.2021 - Current
Director, Finance - Sales & Marketing
Comcast
04.2018 - 05.2021
Director, Revenue Planning
Charter Communications (formerly Bright House Networks)
07.2016 - 04.2018
Sr Manager, FP&A
Bright House Networks
04.2014 - 07.2016
All Other
Bright House Networks
03.2000 - 03.2014
Administrative Assistant
Lunz And Associates
02.1998 - 03.2000
Electronic Warfare
US Navy
03.1996 - 02.1998
Bachelor of Science - Business
Trident University International
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