amber lemieux

Integral in ensuring due diligence involving the $680 million acquisition of HIT Entertainment by providing sales and royalty data to executives -Coordinated with Mattel Inc. and Fisher-Price Division licensing, legal and marketing departments to ensure due diligence involving millions of dollars of potentially over paid or under paid royalties to licensors. This reduced the number of potential unknown skus by 50%. -Assist with IT projects to improve our internal licensing system to reduce the need for manual calculations. This has led to a 25% reduction in the need for reports to be manually generated and manipulated through excel. -Prepared, organized and maintained audit work papers and reports, financial reports for licensors in accordance with contract terms

* Processed millions of dollars’ worth of invoices and payments weekly for Mattel Inc. and Fisher Price business units * Provided timely resolution of all invoice issues as they arose through research and effective communication with suppliers and business unit contacts * Supported the daily business workflow through special projects, analysis and other continuous process improvements

* Managed Intercompany accounts payable transactions for Mattel Inc and Mattel Overseas Operations business unit * Performed monthly reconciliation of all Intercompany Payable liability accounts * Resolved and reported discrepancies between affiliates and prepared monthly journal accrual entries to ensure balanced accounts * Confirmed and settled outstanding balances with over twenty Mattel Inc. affiliates

Provided Financial and Program Management support for over thirty engineers in the Quality Evaluation Division at Naval Surface Warfare Center-Indian Head Division -Assisted in the development of the management plans, strategic decisions, milestone planning and tracking, evaluation program schedules and deliverables tracking using Enterprise Program Management for all the engineers in the division -Prepared PowerPoint presentations that indicated the progress of all the engineers’ projects for upper management

* Responsible for P&L Analysis specific to the royalties for Fisher Price and HIT * Prepare monthly and quarterly journal entries, reconciliations and analysis for the Fisher Price and HIT division royalty accrued and prepaid accounts * Assist in developing financial forecasts for Mattel royalty expense including analysis of minimum guarantees and prepaid expenses * Analyze over 200 licensee reports to ensure contractual compliance which include ten of the top fifteen largest contracts in our department reporting over twenty million dollars quarterly * Act as the primary contact for a variety of questions, ad-hoc projects and problem resolution for management, including client and licensee sales analysis

* Responsible for managing the HIT Entertainment and Mega Brands Royalty teams * Supervise subordinate staff, set work priorities, provide training and conduct performance evaluations * Provide quarterly royalty liability forecast to executive finance teams and treasury * Manage the Disney, Marvel, Nickelodeon and Warner Brothers licenses totally over one hundred million royalty payable yearly * Work with external auditors performing royalty examinations of various licenses * Act as the primary contact for a variety of questions, ad-hoc projects and problem resolution for management, including client and licensee sales analysis