AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Capital budgeting
• Financial reporting
• Financial Modeling
• ROIC, ROI, ROE
• IRR,NPV, FCF
• SQL (Sequel)
• Workforce
• Project Management
• GAAP
• Accounts payable (A/P)
• Accounts receivable (A/R)
• Journal entries
• Strategic Planning
• SAP (Business Objects)
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Account reconciliations
• Sarbanes - Oxley Compliance (SOX)
• Due Diligence
• Leadership
• Restructuring
• Ariba Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
• Licensed Real Estate Broker
• The ability and desire to work in a team-oriented environment in a supportive, transparent and solution-driven fashion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively both orally and written.
• Strong skills in leadership, communication and formal presentations and problem-solving; analytical, resourceful, detail oriented; build productive interpersonal relationships.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCIES:

Crystal Reports, SAP-Business Objects, Workforce, PeopleSoft, Lawson, Hyperion, QuickBooks, Made2Manage, and MIP; Microsoft Access, SQL (Sequel), PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, MS Project, and Advanced Excel, (including macros, V- lookups, H-lookups, and pivot tables).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Financial Analyst 

Downers Grove, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide financial analysis and modeling expertise for operational results, forecasts, budgets
• Analyze expense variances to budget and forecast and provide reports and recommendations to Sales Leadership
• Develop metric reports for measuring cost control and daily/weekly/monthly reporting, operations review, and various management presentations.
• Review forecasts, analyze key performance indicators to identify underlying business issues and provide input to operational decisions
• Support operation’s finance and non-finance leaders in fielding requests
• Provide accounting and analytical support for assigned areas
• Lead special projects to improve reporting, analytical tools and internal processes to enhance management decision process

FINANCIAL SPECIALIST 

Romeoville, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consolidated and analyzed monthly and quarterly income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow data
• Prepared and analyzed financial variances against budget, forecast, and prior actual performance
• Assisted in the preparation of various presentations or supporting material including Senior Leadership Board, Board of Directors, and quarterly earnings release
• Identified and implemented improvements within role and/or support finance/business process improvement initiatives
• Coordinated the preparation of various corporate forecast and budget schedules and summaries
• Supported the data load and consolidation activities for forecast and budget in HFM/Essbase
• Prepared and distributed various financial reports using HFM and Scan 2.0.
• Performed Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties.

ACCOUNTING CONTRACTOR 

Aurora, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with team-members to resolve issues and create process improvements to enhance work efficiency.
• Reported Business Processing Metrics for Business Unit to include documenting mail received and scanned, invoices entered and processed, and issues resolved on the 3-way match issues resolution log.
• Reconciled Vendor Statements for 8 Business Units using advanced excel (V-lookups, Macros, and Pivot Tables
• Resolved Vendor balances for 8 Business Units, process journal entries, and reversals using SAP.
• Resolved GRIR (Goods Receipts/Invoice Receipts issues).
• Communicated with internal and external customers on issue resolutions and problem-solving.
• Generated Business Unit Reports using SAP to track metrics for implementing process improvements.

ACCOUNTING CONTRACTOR 

Warrenville, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed daily procurement transaction activities, created purchase orders from requisitions received, validated supplier contracts (5,000,000) Delegation of Authority (DOA).
• Ensured strategic spend adherence on all spend activity for supply requisitions when materials and services were sourced from non-contracted vendors (5,000,000) (DOA).
• Critical decision making of Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt issues, including process resolution direction to include (Root cause determination for invoices posting issues, deliver analysis of all GRIR account imbalances) 99.99% accuracy.
• Provided direction to purchase requisitioners for best practice approach for creation of large, complex requisitions 99.99% accuracy.

FINANCIAL CONTROLS MANAGER 

Oak Brook, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Presented financial results using Business Object Tools for Sales Finance Team to Executive Management to include growth strategy and profitability analysis, strategic analysis and analyzing business trends; and managed business unit Budget using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and SAP.
• Managed a staff of analysts to include (hiring, developing, motivating, and directing, and administering performance reviews to achieve business goals and objectives.
• Generated financial reports and statements for forecasting purposes, to reveal trends, and to analyze results using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and SAP for Sales Finance Team.
• Presented account analysis to include providing detail examination of selected data and measuring the cost behavior by selecting a volume relating cost driver and classifying each account from the accounting records as a variable or fixed cost.
• Managed $10 million general ledger, including monthly close, A/P and A/R processing, and P.O. tracking.
• Maintained accuracy and integrity of accounting databases; perform analyses and produce both standard and special request reports for Finance Team.
• Performed Balance Sheet Reconciliations/Account Analysis to include reconciling Balance Sheet on a periodic and timely basis to verify that all items are correctly posted to the accounts using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and SAP.
• Trained an average of 50 new department employees per year in accounting systems and processes, including Lawson, SAP Modules FI, General Ledger (FI-GL),Accounts Payable (FI-AP)Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Bank Accounting (FI-BL), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Funds Management (FI-FM),Travel Management (FI-TV), SAP CO, SAP FSCM, PeopleSoft, three-way-match, and Course Track.
• Provided leadership for general ledger team of 25 in its generation of periodic external financial reporting requirements; led team in drafting financial reporting packages for senior management and board members.

FINANCIAL ANALYST

Chicago, Illinois

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed accounting processes for internal control purposes and performed audits of expense reports on a weekly basis.
• Processed full-cycle accounts payable activities, including payments and check clearances, with a monthly volume of 5,000/$125,000.
• Generated standard monthly financial reports, such as normal trial balances, A/P register, A/R register, and cash receipt register), as well as financial statements (income statement, P&L statement, balance sheet), using Crystal Reports.
• Reconciled 1,500 A/P accounts and three bank accounts monthly; produced annual 1099s and 1,000 W-2s.
• Processed semi-monthly payroll in-house for 1,000 employees.