SUMMARY:

• Experienced professional seeking opportunities to utilize and cultivate a diverse understanding of SOX compliance, GAAP reporting and improvement to operational process workflow.
• Experienced managing and reconciling financial data, auditing for ecommerce operational controls for SOX 404 compliance.
• Trained in SDLC, Mapping, and Six Sigma concepts to identify end user requirements for quality of process improvements.
• Demonstrated use of Visio, PowerPoint, and White Paper to communicate functional process overviews, and recommendations.
• Innovative problem - solver adept at scoping out the issues and proposing remedies.
• Detailed driven for accuracy and vision to a project concept with the objective to deliver on time and on budget.
• Software experience; SAP, Oracle, MS products and Great Plains.
• A “can do” attitude to taking care of business and achieving results.
• Draw from a diverse knowledge base; Project/Program Management and Business/Financial Analyst expertise.
• Document specification change and requirements as a blueprint during modification to process restructuring.
• Form working partnerships to ensure successful closure to goals and objectives.
• Utilize Business Process Management (BPM) functional application.
• Problem solving with an investigative and informational mapping methodology.
• Prioritize action items into deliverables.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed budget and Bus DEV ecommerce operational processes.
• Facilitator on behalf of BUS DEV to improve partner’s onboarding experience with Microsoft.
• Performed functional evaluation on processes and controls to ensure operational practices meet compliance regulatory guidelines.
• Perform audit and control assessment on current financial procedures.
• Instilled check and balances within processes control to streamline data optimization.
• Audited control mapping between functional control descriptions and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Solutions.
• Updated Dynamics CRM Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Revised existing SharePoint/2013 format for document tracking, repository, and created new internal and external audit SharePoint sites.
• Supported and reconciled BIF funds dispersed under the Engineering Process Group (EPG) BIF- funded Initiatives for O365.
• Managed EPG BIF inquiries as they related to BIF Compliance, Internal Order and Journal Entry transactions.
• Managed Marketing and Operational budgets. Streamlined monthly transaction transfer from a manual to internal mechanized system for Windows Embedded Marketing.
• Updated finance guidelines to support the team transition to Server Tool Business unit.
• Developed, and implemented financial models to facilitate planning and control of multimillion marketing budget.
• Analyzed financial performance of projects to ensure appropriate tracking aligned to marketing budget and internal scorecards. Monitored forecast to budget spend and investigated variances.
• Reviewed operational elements supporting the world wide ecommerce platform for Microsoft online businesses: MSN, Xbox Live, and Bing.
• Ensured SOX compliance was adhered by identifying internal controls within the ecommerce platform. Tested the controls utilizing SQL and exported transactions to excel format for validating data transparency.
• Formulated policy and process designs to assist in achieving adherence to SOX 404 guidelines.
• Provided quality control assistance through process testing and interfacing with the technical engineering team to ensure adherence to SDLC standards.
• Produced process documentation for functional roles within the Business Operations team.
• Created financial processes used to support a multimillion dollar budget for the largest IT Pro and Developer outreach in Microsoft's history, Windows Servers 2008 introduction.
• Implemented the capturing of accrual related elements that needed to be reflected within the budget to ensure that the data captured was in synch with Microsoft financial records.
• Validated the budget of the Small Midmarket Solutions & Partners (SMS&P) multi-user project funding. Supported business reporting needs for Vendors, Investors, and SMS&P Account Managers.
• Reconciled funding activities per project to ensure that accrual discrepancies were identified and resolved.
• Reconciled monthly accruals and payment approvals. Improved the payment process for vendors from a 60-90 day payment schedule to a 30 day turnaround.
• Resolved five months of back billing for over $700K, and ensured payment approval was met for June’s fiscal year end close.
• Managed Special Service portfolio involving Fortune 500 clients. Identified duplications and unapplied payment issues that stemmed from totaling over a million dollars.
• Established productive partnerships with operations to support and assist with resolving issues with A/R accounts and ensure that cash application process followed corporate and SOX guidelines.

Confidential

Document Solutions (Quality Assurance Analyst)

Responsibilities:

• Supported quality assurance best practices, methodologies and testing techniques, for a large-scale surety bond conversion project.
• Tested the functionality of over 3,700 Surety Bond forms to certify adherence to new business standards.
• Completed testing/QA process six weeks ahead of schedule.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed travel expense data to identify key metrics and trends in spending during 2010/2011. Objective; compile data support for a supplement to corporate travel guidelines, and reporting requirements for a new travel expense dashboard released in January 2012.
• Identified travel expenses sustained outside of corporate current policy scope that afforded an opportunity to refine policies, and reinforce procedure practices.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reconciled over six months of backlog tax project expenses to compile 2006 accrual for year end.
• Developedand implemented business recommendations to streamline and enhance the PO process. Objective: improve payment timeline for tax expenses.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed leasing revenue to ensure the accuracy of accrual financial reporting.
• Established cross-functional collaborative process between Cash Applications and A/R reconciliation to maximize validation and accuracy of financial reports.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed specifications to support a new credit card charging process that was generated outside of Oracle platform.
• Defined reconciliation requirements to ensure quality control of revenue charged and settled by the credit card vendor, and deposited at the financial institute, were accurately reflected within Oracle and SOX Compliance standards.