SUMMARY:

• Resourceful, trusted, and solutions - oriented Senior Financial Analyst with verifiable track record analyzing financial results for key products, markets, and initiatives while deepening client insights and recommending corrective actions which guide operations.
• Uphold productive relationships and superior liaison capabilities amongst business partners, leadership, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop compelling story lines, isolate key drivers, and drive conversations with leadership to understand business implications of financial data and metrics.
• Provide accurate, timely reports with detailed financial insight on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Apply comprehensive, finance management and accounting knowledge to solve unusually complex and unprecedented problems requiring creative solutions.
• Inspire trust and confidence in clients through strategic and diplomatic handling of relationships.
• Gracefully manage multiple, competing priorities within fast-paced, deadline-driven environments while exercising agility, strong judgment, and discretion.
• Maintain extraordinary communication, written, and interpersonal skills, with ample experience leading and motivating personnel in the achievement of unified goals.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and drive for continuous improvement, both personally and professionally.
• Fully fluent in English and Spanish.
• Restructured and automated a manual reporting system by implementing customized formulas and reformatting the report to more efficiently analyze data.
• Successfully managed Confidential cash available, totaling approximately $200M, in addition to long and short term investments valued over $9B.
• Condensed the process for producing monthly obligations and 10-year plan reporting through automating the reports.
• Managed a budget of $352M for Federal, Communications, Policy, Government Affairs, and Science & Regulation departments.
• Developed a reporting tool to sum general ledger data into a usable tracking system in the analysis of department spending.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Program Data Analysis
• Reporting & Presentations
• Activity Monitoring
• Investment Recommendations
• Relationship Management
• Policy Compliance
• Projections
• Long/Short-Range Plans & Decisions
• Customer Service
• Business Analysis
• Analytical Models & Techniques
• AP/AR
• Journal Entries/Ledgers
• Accuracy Assurance
• Budgeting
• Data & Trend Analysis
• Cash Flow Management
• FAR / DFAR
• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance
• FCC

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Professional Office Suite
• Access
• Business Objects
• SAP Front End
• Financial Edge
• Deltek
• Seagate Crystal Reporting
• PeopleSoft
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• MS Windows
• WordPerfect
• Oracle Database Management
• Solomon
• Management Reporter
• FrX
• Great Plains
• Cognos
• Blackbaud

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly analyze Confidential program and relative financial data and present findings to leadership, enabling informed and calculated decision making.
• Monitor cash activity, forecast short and long term cash requirements, and deliver daily cash monitoring reports and investment recommendations.
• Author issue papers for quarterly Board of Directors and semi-annual Investment Committee meetings.
• Project interest income, calculate prior period adjustments, and prepare cash and accrual fund balance reports.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the FCC relative to Confidential obligations, receipts, and outlays.
• Develop Annual 10-year plan and Mid-Year Review of projected receipts and disbursements for submission to the FCC.
• Create and maintain reports in Management Reporter/FrX/Great Plains software systems.
• Prepare ad hoc reports for Finance leadership, USAC management, and external stakeholders.
• Report on obligations, re-obligations, de-obligations, disbursements, and actuals, and provide yearly forecasting based an FCC model; plan for actuals outside the FCC model range.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed a $36M budget, consistently met financial targets, and enabled the achievement of benchmarked rates for operations and overhead.
• Reported results to executive leadership team summarizing the variances to Outlook and Plan with emphasis on identifying risks and opportunities.
• Actively collaborated with management, focusing on high-dollar contracts and marketing while utilizing various analytical models.
• Created solutions to all Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) discrepancies and confirmed timely payments on each.
• Input journal entries to correct any errors to the ledger and reclassified costs to ensure accuracy.

Senior Budget Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Supported the budget process through the creation of templates, loading calculated budgets into Solomon software, and by carefully reviewing all reporting, metrics, and data for accuracy.
• Created purchase order (PO) reports to analyze spending on behalf of five departments; reported results to department leadership.
• Conducted monthly expense reviews in partnership with executive leadership teams, reviewing Actual vs. Budget, to include the explanation of explain Variances. Forecasted spending on an ad-hoc and monthly bases ensuring year-end spending was at plan level.