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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidate Summary of Qualifications Strong Analytical Skills Budgeting & Forecasting Reporting & Presentation Accounting Principles, GAAP & SOX Monthly Financial Close Inventory & Logistics Management Audit, Internal Quality, Compliance Risk Management Merger & Acquisition Project Management/Implementation Strong ERP/ERM Experience IT & SDLC Methodologies
Excellent Problem Solving Abilities Strategy Implementation Team Collaboration
ExperienceWOLTERS KLUWER, Riverwoods, IL March 2018 PresentFinance Manager/Financial Project Manager, FP&A Global Business Services
Managed and forecasted $250M budget of all Global Infrastructure Operations (GIO), Architecture & Engineering (AES), and Network Operations (NETOPS) projects and monthly allocation process leading a team of three employees
Managed $160M Allocation Guidance for all TAA Technology towers thus overlooked all TAA global financial counterparts Owned and Managed GIO, AES, and NETOPS financial schedules per the project execution documentations (Business Cases and Project Change Requests); monitored project progress to ensure quality control and project savings
Co-chaired ongoing functional project meetings to ensure the portfolio of technology capital projects and spending/savings are aligned to overall business strategy, operating plans, and roadmaps Followed risk management protocol by collaborating with TAA senior leaders and business relationship management to breakdown consumption patterns, track project savings, and determine go or no-go project status Established strong partnership with TAA stakeholders through transparency and trust and educated new TAA cost centers on allocations and its calculations cutting closing and budgeting process by 5 days Served as the cost control manager for global WAN transformation, managed project approval work stream process and monitored project execution, schedule and deliverables Initiated the process of standardizing reporting for all cost towers and all FTE reporting leading to savings of $90K for TAA partner Lowered FTE costs by $500K annually by working with Intake & Demand to establish an accurate methodology to budget, accrue, allocate, and approve SOWs for FTE contractors; this also decreased closing process by a two days Collaborated with Disaster Recovery teams to create a process by adapting Power BI to efficiently map, manage and allocate data storage global costs, cutting accounting process by 15 days and improving accrual process accuracy Worked closely with Network vendors to centralize billing process saving the company 16% in Telecom and conferencing bills
LUNDBECK, Deerfield, IL June 2014 February 2018Sr. Financial Analyst, FP&A
Served as a controller for Alliance Products and a business partner to multiple levels of managers associated with brand planning, procurement, 3PL, and local/global Alliance Product projects Created and own Alliance Products P&L of $500M; standardized monthly and quarterly financial reporting package for senior management to create efficiency and alignment, focusing on variance analysis and commenting on the key drivers/metrics
Improved analysis process of annual budget and mid-term forecasting cycles by developing a more detailed brand promotional budget; partnered with VP of Psychiatry Business Unit and his team to help identify a saving of $120K per year.
Streamlined Alliance Partner invoice approving process, cutting wait time nearly by 75%, through implementing SharePoint Generated savings of $96K per year by proposing, creating, and implementing financial model for reallocating sales data recharges
Updated weekly and monthly revenue flash reports by incorporating KPI metrics; increased the accuracy of net sales projections by increasing transparency of Gross to Net (G2N) Assumptions
Drove the annual financial plan and budget/forecasting planning process for Alliance Products for revenue, cost, and headcount Led Process Improvement Team implementation of SAP BPC planning and reporting and upgrade of Corporate Purchasing System Decreased monthly closing process by a day through consolidating and automating all the cost and sales reports for the Alliance
Served as interim Finance Manager of Alliance Products and Revenue while current manager leave of absence Recognized by HQ for creating innovative auditing tool which become the standard process for coordinating audit with Deloitte
Prepare ad-hoc analyses, financial modeling, drilldown reports, P&L statements and tasks as requestedGOGO LLC, Itasca, IL July 2013 June 2014Financial Project Analyst (Contractor)
Analyzed and maintained the annual budget, managed the monthly scorecard, monitored working capital trends on inventory, and tracked site development pre-construction milestone activities and processes for Network Operations Department Created and supported strategies to manage and report CAPEX and OPEX for Network Development s tower portfolio and planned expansion; analyzed drivers of spending and business performance and presented the findings to senior management
Generated savings of $115K per year for NetOps by creating a Benefit-Cost Analysis for the Airborne Service Project Created detailed process flow maps to create efficiency for business processes and operations; developed Statements of Work to standardize operational practices and joint reporting for newly acquired companies Created detailed executive financial summary reports and business case financial models to make lease vs. buy recommendations Led implementation for lease database and served as an administrator. Wrote and ran SQL query to extract and sort data and manipulated data. Conducted data conversions, while identifying unresolved data requirements and resolved them with the team
Enforced quality control and compliance conformance to corporate policy (SOX) while implementing Ariba CPSZONAH DEVELOPERS, Hyderabad, India December 2010 June 2013
Financial Analyst, Supply Chain
Facilitated development of financial plans, including raw material demand forecast, profits, capital spending, standard cost, and cash flow; managed assets, revenue chain, and cash; identified opportunities for reducing working capital Served as SME for product costing by creating cost component structure and valuation variants Extensively worked on the activity based costing module, which resulted in 15% increase in overhead cost allocation accuracy Identified market risks and recommended process improvement with safety guidelines which optimized capital allocation Assisted in overall company s gross profit by developing and presenting strategic recommendations Analyzed Cash Flow Reporting tool to track accounts, triggering increase in time efficiency by 10% Completed full cycle of SAP implementation while maintaining knowledge transfer with cross functional teams including creating the business blueprint and process procedural documentations Actively analyzed and evaluated KPI s for commodities and labor market to conduct forecast analysis which decreased costs by 3%TCF NATIONAL BANK, Glenview, IL November 2008 November 2010
Branch Manager, Retail Banking
Managed, trained, and directed sales and operational team of 16 employees and instituted cost control systems
Reviewed derivative contracts which required quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess the underlying claim amounts Designed and implemented Excel templates to prepare daily/monthly account balancing and reconciliationAMERICAN A1 CHAUFFEURS, Chicago, IL June 2007 July 2009Office Manager
Created journal and month-end entries and accruals, updated the general ledger and prepared accounts receivable/payable and payroll and escalated inconsistencies and problems to management Streamlined processes for creating customer invoices Assisted in creating financial closing reports and federal and state tax returnsEducationKellstadt Graduate School of Business - DePaul UniversityMBA Major: Business Strategy & Decision Making Managerial Information Systems (MIT) June 2020
DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science Major: Finance June 2008PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification Continued Education 2022Technical Proficiencies
Proficient in Excel (Advanced), Word (advanced), PowerPoint (advanced), Access (advanced), MS Project (advanced), MS Office (advanced), SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BPC Planning, BEx Report, Power BI, Crystal Reports, Prophix 10, SharePoint, MS Dynamics Navision, Ariba Corporate Purchasing System (CPS), SAP Invoice Management System (IM), Veeva, Cardinal Health SPS, Quickbooks, Hyperion (HFM), Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS), SQL Server, OM Viewer, Infopath, Visio, ACL Server, Bloomberg, Siterra, Oracle CRM Sales Prospector, PeopleSoft CRM, Peachtree, CRT Software, Lawson EMS, Workforce, Cognos TM1, ABAP Queries, Advanced Query Tool, and Oracle Financials.
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