PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strong analytical, forecasting, and financial management skills helping drive teams to reach and surpass goals.
• Experience working with cross - functional teams and leveraging operational costs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems Experience: Clarity, Remedy, AS 400, Oracle, Excel, Access, Windows 2000 and XP, Windows NT, Lotus Notes, Power Point, Adobe, Great Plains, Ceridian, Kronos, PeopleSoft, Peach Tree, MRP, ERP, Clarity, SAP etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bent9ville, AR

Business Solutions Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Run and maintain IT Maintenance budget for hardware and software for Division 5.
• Provide clear and concise data to area Directors of budget issues, expectations to find offsets. Enforce budget guidelines and compliance. Facilitate weekly Director Maintenance Review Meeting.
• Establish best practices division wide for new requests and facilitate weekly review meeting with Director’s to discuss new requests and PO initiation. Identifying requirements, expectations while aligning to initiatives, goals and actions to improve customer service. Implement business solutions to change behaviors and get “buy in” to follow procedures.
• Analyze and provide metrics to drive cost reductions, work with VP, Directors, and Pillar Financial Manager’s to monitor and maintain budget and data accuracy on a Divisional level. Review P & L for impact. Provide future forecast.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Business Solutions Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze labor demand for division and provide management with behavior patterns and recommendations that impacts goals.
• Maintain prioritization as directed by management and execute improvement action plans.
• Provide a clear single demand signal for the organization.
• Establish best practices division wide for filling unfilled role requests.
• Meet internal/ external customer needs by identifying requirements, expectations while aligning to initiatives, goals and actions to improve customer service. Implement business solutions to efficiently begin and complete projects.
• Analyze and provide metrics to drive project cost reductions, work with VP and Directors to monitor labor expenses and Clarity accuracy on a Divisional level.

Business Solutions Analyst

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Infrastructure labor expenses and provide management with behavior pattern and recommendation to reach department goals
• Analyze, process unfilled roles resource requests for Infrastructure. Meet internal/ external customer needs by identifying requirements, expectations while aligning to initiatives, goals and actions to improve customer service.
• Apply professional expert judgment and research fact-based criteria in setting priorities and making decisions.
• Continuous improvement
• Effectively use existing processes and tools to achieve performance objectives. Advocate, teach and influence others to follow processes and utilize “tools of choice” to achieve the mission and business priorities.
• Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and cross-functionally within the organization
• Work directly with Resource Managers to assist them with their Clarity allocations and improving their Effectiveness Report percentages. Offer Clarity assistance and insight to maintain associate allocations.
• Create documents, reports, forecasts and metrics. Infrastructure Rep on SME Initiative Project for ISD.

Confidential, Dubuque, Iowa

Business Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project planning to assist account teams to reach financial and costing goals
• Provide presentations to management on forecasted budgeting on projects
• Program Management System (PgMS/PMP) processes, plans and policies
• Comprehend complex customer contract terms and conditions in order to decipher contract deliverables and determine plans and activities needed to execute
• Assure audit compliance on accounts and alert teams to risks
• Productivity metrics for PCM service line, provide presentations and insight for upper management to make informed decisions, report and track SLA’s
• Analyze cost associated with service lines, drilling downs on accounts and departments
• Participate and provide financial input for contract re-negotiations

Confidential, Dubuque, Iowa

Contract Cost Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Financial support on IT Delivery organizations and outsourced commercial contracts
• Contract and financial planning to leverage opportunities to lower costs and mitigate risks
• Create cost case analysis, forecasts, track and identify risks/opportunities on budgets, direct HW returns

Confidential

Accounting Support

Responsibilities:

• Process payroll, accounts payable, customer billings, receivables for two different union contracts
• Analyzing pricing increases based on tiered pricing, DB maintenance

Confidential

Material Planner/Buyer

Responsibilities:

• DB management for MRP, lead MRP project improvements, inventory control, forecasting, production planning
• Standard costing and comparison, accounts payables, obtained and provided credit information
• Negotiating and gathering multiple quotes, statistical reporting, analyze variances

Confidential

Material Planner/Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross-functional teams, inventory control and production planning
• Initial contact to engage new suppliers and gather initial forecast data
• Negotiated material agreements and monitored completion of commercial agreements, part costing

Confidential

Production Inventory Control Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Month end close, job closings, variance research and reporting to leadership
• Documented training and work flow for ISO 9000, performed AIB audits, documented process controls
• Maintained production database, resolved inventory and database discrepancies
• Work with Controller to resolve and reconciliation discrepancies, variances and BOM errors