SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• A solid Financial Management Professional with 17 years of documented success formulating and executing over $400M budgets, justifying costs, executing appropriations, and financial planning and reporting ensuring compliance.
• financial accounting resource & financial management budget analyst financial and accounting databases program management accounting technical guidance
• Proficient in Commanders Resource Integration System (CRIS), Automated Business Confidential System (ABSS), Government Accounting System (BQ/TQ), FM Suite, Defense Travel System (DTS), EFR/EDA, Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCaR).
• Extensive understanding of financial, budget, and accounting software; running and building financial reports.
• Principal analyst responsible for reconciling, streamlining, and validating data within and between multiple financial and accounting systems to improve efficiency and accuracy with financial reports.
• Led deployed accounting liaison team to reduce outstanding invoices by $400K, procuring $17M in resources, and identifying the mismanagement of funds and the appropriate corrective actions.
• Comprehensive background in general ledger accounting including account analysis, account reconciliation, refunds/reimbursements, budgetary and month - end/year-end closing.
• Strong working knowledge of appropriation acts, Federal Acquisitions Regulation (FAR), MIPRs, MORDS, 616s, PRs, Government Purchase Card Program (GPC) and Government Travel Program.
• Assisted in managing $430M staff budget providing guidance to over 40 resource advisors.
• Recognized for professionalism, positive mental attitude and commitment to excellence.
• Expert in performance management to meet operating and financial goals with extensive experience in workforce diversity and team building.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

BUSINESS ANALYST 

Arlington, VA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Act as lead business, financial, and technical analyst for the Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System; act as subject matter expert on developing adhoc/advance reports, business charts, spend plans and forecasting reports
• Acts as a financial and technical consultant on other budgetary drills.Assist users in creating custom reports, construction of spend plans and forecasting (unfunded and funded; creating and executing funding documents.
• Helps users create funding requests for submission for certification to the accounting system; validates funding requests and budgets do not exceed approved and authorized amounts.
• Perform and assist users in commitment, obligation, and expenditure reconciliation between CCaR and the official accounting system.Assist users with the structuring of financial data.
• Provide status updates on system capabilities and resource advisor execution to upper management as necessary.

Lead BUSINESS ANALYST 

Confidential

Shaw afb, Confidential

• Provided support and training for users in the construction of spend/financial plans, reports, document creation and execution for users through one-on-one and mass training sessions.
• Assisted customers in structuring financial data.
• Provided guidance and assistance on the creation of budget related tasks - funded and unfunded spend plans and forecasts.
• Helps users create funding requests for submission for certification to the accounting system; validates funding requests and budgets do not exceed approved and authorized amounts.
• Performed commitment, obligation, and expenditure reconciliation between CCaR and other financial systems.
• Provided status updates on system capabilities and resource advisor execution to upper management as necessary.

lead accounting analyst 

Confidential

• Led 8 personnel team supporting forward deployed AF operations.
• Selected to manage the $26M Government Card Purchase program and joint forces GPC budget.
• Spearheaded the certification and processing of over $170M in government documents with 100% accuracy.
• Collaborated with Army contracting to establish and manage a joint forces GPC account worth $200K annually.
• Identified unused appropriations, de-obligated $28M during the FY09 closeout reallocating funds for critical purchases.
• Worked with deployed forces on prior year upward obligation requests ensuring compliance with the Anti Deficiency Act.
• Conducted extensive analyses of all GPC spend data uncovering $934K in excess funding to be returned to the Air Force.
• Briefed comptroller on outstanding commitments, obligations, and status of funds for all deployed locations
• Successfully managed and reconciled 8 locally controlled and 3 joint forces GPC accounts ensuring 100% balancing and the return of $1.9M

Financial analyst

Confidential

• Consistently maintained 100% accuracy in program checkbooks.
• Formulated, defended, and justified budget to higher HQ
• Assisted with BER I and II calls, FIN PLAN, and OCO reimbursement Call.
• Managed the Defense Travel System database
• Created Microsoft Access database thereby centralizing document execution data normally housed in Microsoft Excel files and network folders.
• Assisted analysts with dorm operations and utility accounts.

ACCOUNTING/BUDGET SPECIALIST 

Confidential

• Worked daily on two geographically separated sites to increase reach back capability for customers.
• Provided travel and accounting technical guidance and support for all members of the Confidential and Washington Air National Guard.
• Ensured proper and expeditious payments of all accounts payable and assisted geographically separated unit personnel with accounting duties; military and travel pay functions.
• Monitored and reconciled various accounting and budget reports to provide to division chiefs and managed the travel database. Ensured proper and expeditious of all accounts payable.
• Agency program coordinator for the government travel Visa card.

Customer SUPPORT deputy chief

Confidential

WA

• Supervised and managed customer support ensuring interoffice compliance of 95% of accounts payable by providing technical guidance and training.
• Responsible for auditing and ensuring accurate payments of over $2 million monthly and providing monthly briefings to senior management. Instrumental in the top annual ratings received from auditors. Additional duties included system administrator for all accounting databases, backup system administrator and workgroup manager.
• Supervised and managed the customer support team, ensuring interoffice compliance of 95% of accounts payable by providing technical guidance and training.
• Ensured proper management, execution and timely management of all accounts payable, resulting in meeting or exceeding all metrics.
• Researched and implemented an electronic filing system, saving 200 man hours a month, system eventually utilized at other Air Force locations.
• Directly supervised three junior analysts providing training and constructive performance feedback resulting in all receiving top annual ratings, and monthly, quarterly and annual awards
• Managed the safe keeping and processing of all classified documents