Digital Transformation,, Finance, Operations, Cross Org Collaborator

Spencer Anderson

Arnold, MD ***** Email: **********@*****.***

Mobile: 240-***-**** Linked-In: spencer-anderson-35707aa PROFILE

Senior business leader with 20+ years of experience in the technology industry leveraging financial competency to drive exponential growth in multinational companies. Specialized in financial vision and leadership and communication. I am a strategic thinker and planner skilled in design and execution of financial and business cases. I am highly passionate about my team’s development and wellbeing. Created an exceptional People Plan and hired and created a team of highly skilled individuals for our initial team expansion in finance and commercial management. I went on to re-imagine our business operations team to align the focus and goals to 3 critical pillars of the business, Engineering, Sales, and Services. I can be composed when reporting/presenting to executive management and am able to influence business partners and stakeholders with data backed recommendations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ciena Corp

Director of Business Operations Blue Planet Division September’19 –Current

• Developing strategies to maximize effectiveness for Sales, Engineering and Delivery teams through digitization of standard processes such as quoting, KPI measurements and product commercialization.

• Increased productivity by 30% by taking the lead to re-engineer the quote and sale processes by digitizing the Salesforce processes, and 50% quote time turnaround for sales and finance groups.

• Reduced KPI calculations from hours to minutes by implementing initiative to expand key data analysis and enabling stakeholders across the organization to have access to current and accurate data.

• Oversaw improvements in commercial readiness for new products and services that substantially reduced deploying new products and services into the market from several weeks to a few days. Ciena Corp

Director of Finance Blue Planet Division January’16 – September’19

• Created the processes for forecast and P%L modeling for this new start-up division within the enterprise Built a P&L model for forecasting.

• Streamlined the initial quote process and created an expedited quote operation.

• Wrote the business cases resulting in 3 successful acquisitions which grew the business +60%. Ciena, Japan

Director Business Operations Japan and Korea Blue Planet Division 2011 –2016

• Managed the pricing, and Terms & Conditions negotiations with customers and distributors that help to achieve 40% revenue growth and maximized cash flow. IBM Japan

Financial Services Sector Coordinator Finance & Planning 2008-2011

• Lead a virtual analyst team and drove GPM +5pts

• Drove a cross-functional team to complete Financial Plans Strategy and executive reviews.

• Analyzed and proposed investment initiatives with cross brand teams

• Managed financial risk in contract signings and renewals by partnering with Sales and Legal Intel Japan K.K

Quote Center Manager ICG Business Operations 2005-2008

• Developed and implemented a quote desk for Japanese distributors, managing a staff of three.

• Improved time to market on quoting by 60%

• Analyzed market trends for competitive pricing and created the first-time market models

• Created indicator package to measure team effectiveness Intel Japan K.K

Financial Analyst Intel Japan Finance 2002-2005

• Managed weekly reporting to Intel senior management for Japan cellular business revenue

• Business manager for Flash memory and cellular processor products ($350M/year)

• Managed the $50M merchandising budget

• Influenced business partners on retail investment strategies using statistical and ROI analyses Intel Corp

Financial Analyst 2000-2002

Managed budget for 800 HC, Capital ($50M) and Expense ($110M) (Close/Plan ) for IT Engineering

• Performed ROI and TCO analyses for engineering projects

• Managed business acumen development for IT Finance by generating training programs & material EDUCATION

• B.S. Finance, Japanese minor California State University, Sacramento 2000

- Dean’s Honor Roll.

LANGUAGES

• English

• Japanese, Fluent; Language Proficiency Exam Level 2 TECHNOLOGY

• MS Office Suite (Advanced) • Salesforce.com (Intermediate) • MS Power BI (Beginner)

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