SUMMARY:

• 25+ Years of Business Management and Accounting 15+ Years of Project Management
• Expert in gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements, designing/re - engineering processes, workflows, technological solutions and, improvement of workplace productivity.
• Candidate possesses superior communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: SQL, Visual FoxPro

Database: Oracle DBMS

Methodologies: Lotus Notes

Desktop Publishing: Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Accountant/Principal Business Systems Analyst IV

Responsibilities:

• Served as liaison between client and technical groups
• Implementation of federal financial management systems within the modernization of Thrift Savings Plan’s federal employee benefits recordkeeping, defined benefit payments and check-writing information systems
• Analysis of accounting and business processes ensuring business functionality
• Gathering and developing detailed business user requirements, provide definition and direction to financial system application development
• Systems conversion and data mapping
• Documented workflows for implementations and upgrades
• Developed functional specifications for customer
• Implemented process re-engineering and operational review practices which led to higher efficiency, mainstream procedures and reduction in custom programming
• Maintenance of general ledger accounts
• Extensive testing of systems and applications and their modifications
• Demonstration of financial system applications, training, and compiled and authored user manuals
• Management and delegation of production and one-off adjustments
• Develop SQL scripts for management reports, research and analysis
• Utilization of Oracle-based financial management system, MS Office products, IBM Mainframe, Oracle Query Builder, OmniCash, OmniPlus & OmniPay

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee small, family-owned masonry construction business of about 75 employees.
• Details furnished upon request.

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Federal Financial Management System (FFMS), knowledge of standard federal accounting procedures, budget management and budgetary controls, federal disbursement process, etc., support Quality Assurance team as functional tester of all accounting packages.

Finance Strategic Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects and lead CPE Program through to completion. Established and implemented financial controls and concurrence within commercial agreement, statement of work and global distributor contracts. Defined project scope and requirements and developed detailed project plan and deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deploy and operate program in eighty (80) countries.
• Collaborated and partnered with external organizations (Unisys, Cisco, and Comdisco) to create business processes and B2B business-to-business interface.
• Knowledge and experience of global telecommunication provisioning process.
• Developed strong relationship across internal organizations and functions to deploy Concert products within CPE program (Internal Organizations: Product, Marketing, Ops Planning, Service Delivery, Fault Handling, IT, Legal, Procurement and Billing. Concert Products: Frame Relay Service, ATM, IP products, Voice Over IP, Bandwidth Services, VPN, etc.). Participated as an active member of each product team during the preparation, testing and launching of all Concert products.
• Conducted financial orchestration within internal Finance to ensure all transactions were captured appropriately in all the accounting divisions such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable & Billing, General Ledger for Asset Mgmt, etc.
• Performed financial analysis for the enhancement of portfolio releases, re-negotiation of volume discounts and service-agreement offerings.

Financial Analysis Reporting Systems

Responsibilities:

• Produced global-financial policies and procedures (in accordance to GAAP and UK Accounting Standards) for $10B corporation such as Delegation of Authority, Product Line Profitability, Purchase Order Requisitions, Project Accounting, Chart of Accounts, Fixed Assets, etc. Developed working relationship with key Finance
• Executives and Oracle Consultants to recommend and define requirements for the implementation of Oracle Financials and other Web-based financial software and applications.

Director of Income and Revenue & Controller

Responsibilities:

• Director of Income & Revenue. Duties included data collection and analysis, market analysis of competitors, preparation of regional sales and profitability reports, competitive reports and due diligence for acquisitions, supervision and authorization of sales contracts for 10 of the 20 divisions in the company, and responsible for the negotiation all ground leases and renewals.
• Controller. Duties included directed the preparation of monthly and yearly financial statements and management reports, supervision of all accounting functions including month-end closing, filing of federal and states’ income tax, multiple states’ property tax returns and payroll-tax returns (multi-state) for seven corporations, general assessment and maintenance of insurance policies

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Staff Accountant. Duties included filing various tax returns such as federal, state, property, payroll, etc., maintenance of client general ledgers and client payroll, reconciliation of bank statements and year-end adjustments/preparations, billing for the principals of the firm.

Accounting Department Manager

Responsibilities:

• Duties included managing accounting department (A/P, A/R, G/L and reconciliation), payroll and payroll-tax preparation and filing, material estimations for masonry-bid proposals.