SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong Analytical Skills Budgeting & Forecasting Requirement Analysis
• Monthly Financial Close Accounting Principles Reporting & Presentation
• Audit, Internal Quality, Compliance Risk Management Merger & Acquisition
• Project Implementation & Upgrade Project Management IT & SDLC Methodologies
• Excellent Problem Solving Abilities Strategy Implementation Team Collaboration

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

• Proficient in Excel (Advanced), Word (advanced), PowerPoint (advanced), Access (advanced), MS Project (advanced), MS Office (advanced), SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BPC Planning, BEx Report, Crystal Reports, Prophix 10, Sharepoint, MS Dynamics Navision, Ariba Corporate Purchasing System (CPS), SAP Invoice Management System (IM), Cardinal Health SPS, Quickbooks, Hyperion, SQL Server, OM Viewer, Infopath, Visio, ACL Server, Bloomber, Siterra, Oracle CRM Sales Prospector, PeopleSoft CRM, Peachtree, CRT Software, Lawson EMS, Workforce, Cognos, ABAP Queries, Advanced Query Tool, and Oracle Financials.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deerfield, IL

Sr. Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly and quarterly cost and sales report for corporate Psychiatry Business Unit, prepares analysis and commentary for variances and coordinates with Project Managers local and global development projects. Responsible for the recharges of local spend on Confidential Product projects.
• Prepare comparative monthly and quarterly financial reports for budget managers, meets with line of business to review actual results and variances, performs variance analyses vs. current forecast, understand and manage the drivers of the monthly results
• Prepare and manage daily, weekly, and monthly revenue flash reports/scorecards; maintain Gross to Net (G2N) Assumptions to reflect accurate Net Sales Projections
• Work collaboratively with senior management team during yearly budgeting and mid - term planning cycles to develop detailed cost center and brand budgets and risk analysis for the Alliance Product
• Work with Alliance Partners and HQ to create the annual financial plan and budget planning process
• Lead team to full cycle implementation of SAP BPC Planning and BEx Reporting. Conducted troubleshooting and resolved technical and reporting user issues
• Lead team to upgrade Corporate Purchasing System, documenting the changes, creating training guides/slides and conducting training of the following to business partners
• responsible for monthly closing process for all Alliance Products: coordinating with business unit teams and accounting and finance team, review purchase order requests and invoices for correct coding, validates requests compared to budget, prepares monthly financial accruals, consolidation of results for analysis, commentary preparation, forecasting, preparing deck for corporate
• Prepare ad-hoc analyses, financial modeling, drilldown reports, P&L statements and tasks as requested

Itasca, IL

Financial Project Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained standard procedures and annual budget for network business processes
• Tracked and monitored site development pre-construction milestone activities
• Planned, organized and directed site development project management activities via agile
• Lead Siterra (Database) Support Administrator & Led upgrade integration lifecycle for Confidential
• Created and Maintained Capital and Operating expense reports for network Development, integration and financial activities
• Wrote and ran SQL query to extract and sort data and manipulated data. Conducted data conversions, while identifying unresolved data requirements and resolved them with the team
• Managed and consolidated newly acquired company for joint reporting
• Managed and Analyzed budget/forecast scorecard for financial review
• Managed ad-hoc reporting for network integration and financial activities
• Enforced quality control and compliance conformance to corporate policy - Performed user acceptance testing for Corporate Purchasing System, identified and logged defects in quality center software and discussed issues with stakeholders

Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created presentations of financial forecasts and budgets
• Completed full cycle of SAP implementation while maintaining knowledge transfer with cross functional teams including creating the business blueprint and process procedural documentations
• Configured the FI and CO module interfaces, supported ABAP specifications, BI extraction needs and coordinated with other departments on a LOE schedule, to successfully design and integrate sap
• Served as SME for product costing by creating cost component structure and valuation variants and extensively worked on product costing period end activities
• Identified market risks and recommended process improvement which optimized capital allocation
• assisted in overall company’s gross profit by developing and presenting strategic recommendations
• Extensively worked on the activity based costing module, which resulted in 15% increase in overhead cost allocation accuracy
• Analyzed Cash Flow Reporting tool to track accounts, triggering increase in time efficiency
• Actively analyzed and evaluated KPI’s for commodities and labor markets to conduct forecast analysis which decreased costs by 3%
• Created Ad-Hoc reports and business cases for various ongoing projects

Chicago, IL

Branch Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed derivative contracts which required both quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess the underlying claim amounts
• Managed, trained, and directed sales and operational team and instituted cost control systems which led to overall achievement of banking center goals
• Implemented and designed excel Templates to prepare daily/monthly account balancing and reconciliation
• Implemented human resource management and regulatory compliance to increase internal employee promotions and decrease the turnover rate by 60%
• Designed and implemented inventory and transaction management techniques that increased the branch audit scores by over 15%

Chicago, IL

Assistant Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created journal and month-end entries and accruals, updated the general ledger and prepared accounts receivable/payable and payroll and escalated inconsistencies and problems to management.
• Improved processes for creating customer invoices, which reduced the time for receiving payments and increased cash flow
• Assisted in creating financial reports and federal and state tax returns

Chicago, IL

financial team member

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Proposed different strategies as funding initiatives
• Audited prior budgets and recommended cost savings which helped increase the profits
• Applied for state grants to fund the organization and allocated these funds