JUSTIN W. JOHNSTON

Henderson, NV 805-***-**** adgqgv@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/justin-johnston1

Professional Summary

Seasoned Finance Professional with an MBA and over 13 years of experience in corporate financial planning and analysis. Extensive experience in budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and strategic planning, including establishing and monitoring key performance metrics. Continually exceeds expectations by creating valuable partnerships and works well with people at all levels of the organization, including stakeholders, customers, vendors, and team members.

Skills

Budgeting, Forecasting, & Strategic Planning

Variance Analysis & KPI Monitoring

Presenting Technical Concepts to Nontechnical Audiences

Aligning Compensation Plans with Company Goals

Capital Allocation & ROI Analysis

Extensive Experience with Hyperion & Essbase

Managing ERP System Implementations

AR, AP, GL Revenue Recognition

Audit Support & Ensuring Financial Compliance

Cost & Inventory Accounting

Supporting Controller in Monthly Close

Internal Controls & Ensuring Accuracy

Critical Thinking & Analytical Expertise

Excellent Verbal & Written Communication

Work History

Vice President of Consolidated Financial Reporting 05/2019 to Current

PureStar Linen Group – North Las Vegas, LV

Coming aboard as Director, owning the annual budgeting process and financial reporting for all companies and joint ventures, while ensuring alignment with corporate initiatives that generate $400MM in gross revenues.

Successfully maximizing cash on hand including debt obligations, DDTL use, and revolver availability, as well as managing A/R reporting to support collections strategies, yielding an additional $15MM.

Receiving a promotion to VP in May 2019, interacting directly with Executive Leadership and managing corporate CapEx strategic effectiveness and supporting corporate finance, including monitoring compliance.

Directing budgeting and planning, as well as cost accounting, developing effective financial processes, systems, and recommendations to drive continued growth of the business, projected to reach $1BB+.

Chairing a committee to find a strategic hosting partner for financial systems and technical support, while also determining future upgrade priorities for Technical Support staff.

Effectively managing the future and current capital structure, including regulatory and participant reporting, valuation, and cash management, as well as managing monthly billing processes and the Billing team.

Strategically leading the quarterly financial business reviews, defining the agenda, and providing necessary reporting, analysis, and recommendations for key business issues, while also supporting M&A and due diligence as needed.

Business Intelligence Analyst 07/2016 to 05/2019

Ainsworth Gaming Technology – Las Vegas, NV

Provided leadership and analytical support to North America, Latin America, and Australia with ~$125MM in gross revenues, and led reporting requirement initiatives and developed organization-wide support request frameworks.

Successfully built the North and Latin America portions of the company investor presentation decks, as well as created monthly Board of Directors, Sales Operations, and Financial Performance reports for key executives.

Oversaw the budgeting and forecasting process for corporate earnings, cash flows, regulatory filings, and credit metrics, and conducted a forensic customer audit, saving the company over $2MM in losses.

Created a compliance reporting model preventing $15MM in fines.

Turned data into knowledge using reporting and automation, consistently leveraging Business Intelligence tools that led to meaningful insights through the use of Data Science practices.

Proactively built automated reports and dashboards in the company financial/ERP reporting systems, Cognos and Pronto, as well as co-developed department specific reporting metrics and presented reports to the COO.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst 08/2014 to 07/2016

Caesars Entertainment Corporation – Las Vegas, NV

Successfully managed a team of 20 external report Writers based in Uruguay and Washington, D.C., as well as led multiple cross-departmental project teams, developed work schedules, assigned staff, and supported business needs.

Provided innovative business solutions that fit system constraints, met user needs, and matched the corporations strategic outlook, while advising on feasibility and conceptual design, functional design, general design, and impact.

Built Visual Basic for Applications based Excel models and writing macros for Infinium, as well as managed a team to support strategy for Caesars to become a 60-day accelerated SEC filer.

Served as Hyperion Financial Management system administrator, report writer, and internal technical support, including creating system-generated monthly and quarterly financial reports for senior management and the CFO.

Supported migration initiatives of department models into system generated reports, in addition to teaching Hyperion Financial Management and Smart View user training classes to support user adoption strategies.

Finance Manager 01/2007 to 03/2014

MGM Resorts International – Las Vegas, NV

Joined MGM as Internal Auditor and received 4 promotions in 7 years for outstanding results, serving as Financial Analyst, Senior Financial Analyst, Business Analyst, and Finance Manager (under the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino subsidiary).

Oversaw Financial Operations and Sarbanes-Oxley auditing including compliance, inventory, and CapEx.

Led the budgeting process and supervised the team that created monthly profit & loss statements.

Performed monthly financial modeling for corporate operations, including cost/benefit and pro-forma, for 18 departments, as well as wrote monthly executive memos on performance for the COO.

Provided business insights and wrote COGNOS reports, SQL scrips, and SSIS packages to extrapolate resort campaign profitability, while performing account reconciliation audits within Corporate Advertising.

Created Board Presentation decks each quarter and led monthly performance calls with management teams to maintain strategic alignment with corporate priorities.

Communicated Daily Operating Revenue reports to Chief Officers.

Successfully managed all financial matters for a 12K seat arena, a 5K-person beach venue, and lounges.

Technical Skills

Excel based modeling, VBA, COGNOS (Finance, TM1, BI, & EP), SQL Server, Oracle (HFM, FDM, DRM, Essbase, Smartview), Microsoft Office, Power BI, Microsoft Azure, Tableau, Infogenesis, SAAS, Archtics, Infinium (AS/400), Showcase Strategy, Pronto, BI360, MS Dynamics GP, Linen Master, ADP

Community Involvement & Volunteer Service

Volunteer Firefighter & Certified Advanced Emergency Medical Technician – Clark County Fire Department (CCFD), Station 78 – 06/2015 to Present

Awarded Department of the Year from the Nevada State Firefighters Association – 2018

Education

Thunderbird School of Global Management – Master of Business Administration, specializing in Global Finance & Tutored Management Accounting, Glendale, AZ – 08/2006

Bond University – Bachelor of Business Administration, Gold Coast, Australia – 08/2004

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