Gino Santolamazza

Senior Financial Analyst @American Airlines

Built and presented a budget of over $2B to the Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Customer Officer - Embedded in business to understand booking fees cost structure, drivers for credit card fees, and utility of advertising and promotional spend - Prioritized strategic focuses of the business to build new forecasting models with scenario modeling capabilities, resulting in an efficient, flexible and collaborative budgeting process with the business unit - Delivered dynamic headcount model to determine volume-driven demand for over 140 employees in 17 distinct work areas - Cultivated professional relationships with 15 individual business units and their leaders, driving marked improvement in communication and information sharing between Finance and sales groups - Volunteered to join a team dedicated to expanding diversity and inclusion solutions for Division Finance which were presented to the VP of Finance and his 160+ direct reports