Senior Consultant Resume
Washington, DC
SUMMARY:
- Over 18 years professional experience providing financial and budget support for public, private and non - profit organizations.
- Possess the ability to adapt to changing priorities within fast-paced environments.
- Utilize strong organization and communication abilities to accomplish goals.
- Worked On-Site in Kabul, Afghanistan at the Control and Audit Office, providing Audit capacity development support while on a USAID contract with Confidential and Touché.
- Experience conducting financial, performance, and IT audits.
- Experience performing Profit and Loss evaluations with IT related purchases against contract Award amounts.
- Extensive experience with IT Asset management.
- Strong understanding of the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process through my career as a Budget Analyst supporting the US Department of Defense and Federal Agencies.
- Knowledge of Earned Value Metrics costing techniques used in IT enhancement efforts to obtain fair value in services purchased.
- Generated and obligation de-obligation Requisitions packages as needed and requested.
- Provided Budget formulation support for yearly agency requests to OMB.
- Participated in monthly, quarterly, and annual budget maintenance and development.
- Knowledge of the Federal Government annual budget cycle process.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- FOCUS
- COMPRIZON Suite
- Cognos
- JAMIS (Financial Management Application)
- People Soft 8
- Federal Financial Management System (FFMS)
- Defenses Financial Management System (DFMS)
- MAX 11 (Federal Budget Application)
- CONTROL (Federal Budget Application)
- CDW (Cost Data Warehouse)
- Cost Point
- Impromptu
- STARS
- PRISM
- Microsoft Excel
- Word
- Power Point
- Access
- Office Project
- Project
- Worklenz (Federal Budget Application)
- Spire (Federal Financial Management Application)
- SharePoint
- Word Perfect
- VISIO
- MDAP
- CCAR.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Senior ConsultantResponsibilities:
- Reviewed whether process controls were designed and operated effectively.
- Provided recommendations to address identified deficiencies in parts Warehouse.
- Identified Inadequate documentation issues for recorded transactions.
Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Provided support in creating, populating, and maintaining spreadsheets, databases, or other forms of documentation necessary for efficient operation of the WCF.
- Ensured accurate Budget assessment of agencies participating in the WCF.
- Built financial models analyzing the WCF assessment of total Agency Budget.
- Documented each Agencies DOL Budget funding incorporated into the WCF service assessment.
- Audited and analyzed which agency accounts are incorporated into the WCF.
- Created Agency Templates identifying current Budget amounts allocated within the WCF.
- Audited and reviewed the cost accounting methodology for the allocation of costs among departments with shared costs within the Working Capital Fund. It was determined that the methodology used did not segregate costs based by program, but by taking total costs and dividing by the number of participating departments. This was performed because of the limited IT tracking resources available to efficiently segregate costs appropriately.
Confidential - Washington, DC
Budget Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Provided budget development and support.
- Created Requisitions for funding of FTC CFO Efforts, with the review and tracking of Status of Funds for various departments.
- Obligated and De-Obligated funding with different program areas at the request of FTC Senior Management.
- Performed Cost Analysis for best value of services from vendors with contracts to provide services.
- Reconciled Requisition Award vendor payment requests through the validation of commitments, obligations and proposed award funding.
- Validated obligations to ensure that program funding balances were accurate.
- Communicated daily with the FTC Acquisitions team to resolve issues centered around requests for funding and availability.
- Engaged with project managers to determine the cost and benefit analysis for requested IT purchases.
Confidential - Ft. Meade, MD
Budget Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Provided budget development and guidance with Budget Estimate submission to Department of Defense for year 2015 and out years supporting the DISA Systems Network and Teleport division efforts.
- Engaged with project managers to determine the cost and benefit analysis for requested IT purchases.
- Consulted with program areas regarding the availability of funding in their program areas on future IT purchase listed within the Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP).
- Created budget submission templates to enable quick and concise responses to the Presidents budget for year 2015 and out years. These templates are for use by the Defense Information Systems Network and Teleport division submissions.
Confidential - Washington DC
Senior Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Provided guidance on business development opportunities within the Federal Government and private sector.
- Directed all business development actions including the submission of solicitations for Federal health care proposals.
- Researched available opportunities for the outsourcing of medical professionals in the Federal and private business market place.
- Attended Networking engagements centered around health care developments and contracting opportunities in the US and abroad.
- Provided required past performance updates to the Small Business Administration (SBA), System Award Management data base (SAM) to register the Confidential .
- Submitted a proposal to the Confidential for a GSA schedule listing to offer Physician Trauma care and Medical support. The proposal was accepted and the Confidential is now listed on the VA GSA schedule.
Confidential - Arlington, VA
Senior Financial Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Audited sampled billing invoices for testing that were randomly selected to locate improper payments made to vendors at different State Highway Authorities to be in compliance with the OMB Circular A-123.
- Tested to determine if there was an understatement or overstatement on financial records against vendor billing documentation
- Reviewed and validated the result findings from the Data Collection Forms (DCF's) and inputted results into the Testing Results Workbook (TRW's) for the DOT audit.
- Managed, two help desk support team consultants who communicated with DOT Agencies that had questions and concerns relating to the process of completing DCF’s and TRW’s.
- Tested specific reporting gaps identified in the internal controls with making payments to DOT vendors, recommended corrective actions to insure compliance of payments would be recognized, and developed corrective action plans to mitigate future errors with the recording of payments to vendors.
Confidential
- Audited the processes used with home foreclosures at Confidential .
- Reviewed home loans through the sampling and testing of correspondence, payments, loan foreclosure and supporting documents, to determine if the methods used for foreclosures were compliant with federal regulations.
Confidential -United States Navy
- Provided budget support including research and formulation to the Navy and identified how incorrectly housing entitlements for Officers and Enlisted soldiers were projected.
- Interacted with Navy personnel in discussion of financial data and what was needed from various entitlement financial reports.
- Through the Audit of the Navy's policy and procedures it was identified that documentation was lacking or not available to justify future cost recommendations. It was recommended and initiated a review and correction of their internal controls.
- Documented the business processes and the association with requested funding. With this the development of Key Controls with documentation were implemented.
Confidential - Washington, DC
Budget Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Prepared and updated IT Investment document OMB Exhibit 300 Circular A 11 for current and future IT capital investment plans.
- Engaged with project managers to determine the cost and benefit analysis for requested IT purchases.
- Provided budget development and execution support. Through this process Cost Point and Impromptu were used to retrieve past and current financial data for IT development cost projections.
- Performed an internal audit of Hardware and Software versions on hand with the FAA. This audit provided a reassessment of what was actually needed in the requested current and out year's budget request.
- Tracked Estimate To Completion (ETC) milestones for current and future IT capital investments.
- Researched and utilized historical financial information with submitted President budget revisions.
- Provided Earned Value Management (EVM) cost and performance analysis with current and ongoing IT enhancement efforts.
Confidential - Washington, DC
Controller
Responsibilities:
- Researched and communicated with management project areas at risk of not receiving scheduled NAVY award fees.
- Managed Accrual analysis for budget forecasting efforts.
- Monitored financial information to verify Navy Services Fees per contract was received.
- Performed monthly NAVY Award Fee Accrual submission.
- Created contract modifications when needed for subcontractors.
- Updated and monitored spend plans for various program areas.
Confidential - Falls Church, VA
Sr. Budget Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Prepared weekly and monthly financial reports for various departments to measure expenditures against budget.
- Created and submitted monthly budget variance analysis reports with explanation.
- Transferred and Re-spread various budgets in departments to meet monthly targets.
- Audited and validated weekly and monthly financial data for clients including direct and indirect costs.
- Developed and submitted Journal Vouchers to reflect accurate account posting.
- Used Earned Value Management principles and techniques to determine if the supported print shop was accounting properly for revenue and cost.
- Performed Accrual tracking and corrections for various departments.
- Retrieved financial data as requested to create Ad- Hoc reports for management.
- Generated reports reflecting Indirect and Direct departmental Headcount.
- Reviewed financial reports and commented to management regarding variances with Direct and Indirect costs.
Confidential ; Vienna, VA
Budget Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Monitored and updated the firm fixed- price Air National Guard GUARDIAN contract budget of $17,075,0 00 against current and future projections with labor, indirect, and other direct costs (ODC’s).
- Interfaced with Controller to validate budgeted IT Labor and ODC changes on firm fixed price GUARDIAN contract.
- Prepared request for funding documents to purchase IT and Telecommunications equipment, materials, services and labor.
- Audited expense voucher reports verifying the correct use of allowable and unallowable billing charge numbers with IT and Telecommunications equipment.
- Reviewed program financials in People Soft for accuracy.
- Provided managers with monthly People Soft IT expense tracking reports consisting of current and cumulative spending with comparison to budget allowance.
- Communicated with Human Resources and managers to determine the initial start and end dates of employees to accurately track budget.
- Managed and coordinated the training of GUARDIAN staff with various IT training vendors.
Confidential, Washington, DC
Financial Analyst/Project Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Provided budget development support with the Exhibit 300.
- Performed expense tracking of payments to vendors against available funding in the Working Capital fund.
- Reviewed the accuracy of monthly actual and accrued cost revolving fund balances that totaled over $4,500,000.
- Provided Independent Government cost estimates for proposed IT training services that are selected using Federal Acquisition Regulation Act (FAR) guidelines.
- Prepared written reports from performed financial and budget analysis.
- Oversaw the deployment of IT and Telecommunications equipment from TTS for immigration purposes.
- Developed process and procedure guidelines for financial services performed in TTS.
- Assisted in the preparation of correspondence and budget justifications.
- Tracked IT and Telecommunications equipment deployment and inventory.
- Coordinated with government vendors the delivery of IT equipment to different DHS locations.