SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of extensive finance and accounting management experience working with C - level executives and above.
• Versatile, internationally competent professional who leads Confidential 500 corporations through change and challenge.
• Proven self-starter with passion, energy, and enthusiasm to drive results and affect meaningful change.
• Strategic problem-solver with extensive finance management experience who executes with urgency across all levels of the organization.
• Hands-on leader with established ability to lead special projects, manage conflict priorities, identify issues affecting operations, and develop strategic plans to drive performance.
• Skilled in negotiating partnerships, alliances, and other business transactions.
• Exhibits exceptional leadership identifying and synthesizing trends to provide value added analysis to senior leadership.
• Audited financials and unaudited financials preparation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Virginia Beach, VA

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for management of portfolio that accounts for 20.31% of the total $5.2B revenue for year ending 2009.
• Key contributor in developing processes designed to facilitate increase in efficiency throughout the organization.
• Singlehandedly improved automation of complex manual financial reporting processes that include rate cell automation of evaluation, statutory reporting interface, and medical liability improvements.
• Consistently monitored subsidiaries financial status and complied with regulations, providing early detection and communication of potential issues.
• Administered monthly profit and loss budget and adjusted quarterly forecasts.
• Direct and maintain timely and efficient preparation of financial statements, including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flows. Participate in forecasting business risks and in realigning plans through in-depth review and analysis of operating results monthly.
• Manage and ensure accuracy in journal entries for proper support and documentation associated with revenue, membership, and medical adjustments, including administrative accruals, reclassification, and allocations. Conduct analysis and reconciliation of monthly membership and revenues.
• Streamline daily finance administration by maintaining a collaborative work environment with health plans executives; conduct monthly financial meetings, and audit schedule preparation and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Ensure timely resolution on issues through close monitoring of health plan financial status, regulatory compliance, and early detection and communication of potential problems. Maintain clear and accurate communicate with health plans regarding financial statement and other accounting matters.
• Verify the integrity of system-generated financial statements as well as determine and implement opportunities for automation and efficiency improvement. Propose process improvements and new account structures as necessary.
• Maintain compliance with GAAP, SOX and SSAP including the seamless reconciliation of general ledger accounts. Oversee special projects and provide audit work papers and documentation to auditors.
• Worked with People Soft system for the past 5 years to include, chart of accounts, general ledger, processing posting and importing files, validating and posting entries, reporting tools (Query’s, PSnvision).
• Hyperion add-in in excel to generate reports to include P and L, balance sheets, cash flows and variance analysis used for auditing and reporting internally and externally.
• People Soft system- create, modify queries for efficiency, work with financial controls to decrease reporting errors.
• Assist in the mapping, charting and roll up of accounts. Identify critical areas of unusable data and formatting. Eliminate redundant reports. Customize recurring reports and queries.
• Ability to navigate and train staff to navigate between the tables ( AP, GL and reporting tools).
• Ability to navigate and train staff to navigate and work with multiple organizations within People soft system which consolidate to the Parent Company.
• Work in both the Financial and the HRMS section of people soft.
• Audited financials and unaudited financials preparation

Confidential, Delray, FL

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Provided detailed General Ledger entries and analysis and reconciled General Ledger accounts. Compiled monthly profit and loss budget and presented revised quarterly forecast.
• Effectively prepared month-end closing and bank reconciliations in a timely and efficient manner.
• Played significant role in safeguarding company assets and resources through inventory audit of retail stores and warehouses.
• Consistently reviewed and maintained department accounts and budgets.

Confidential

Assistant Controller

Responsibilities:

• Effectively trained and supervised proficient administration of payroll and accounts payable/receivable, including commissions.
• Supervised a team of 3 while tracking capital investments and reconciling Fixed Asset.
• Monitored booking and sales revenue preparing tax packages managing inventory.