Senior Associate Resume McLean, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Motivated professional with over 9 years in Engineering, Financial Management, Process Improvement, Anti - Money Laundering, and Organizational Realignment
Experienced in coordinating and supporting advisory engagements with clients ranging from Confidential to Banks and Pharmaceuticals
Capable Team Lead with responsibility for planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery of financial reporting, process improvements, control assessments, and written communication products
Able to learn new technologies quickly, creating tools to improve analysis and reporting of financial data and to streamline process execution
Available to travel up to 100%

SKILLS:

Technical and professional writing and editing
Experienced Spotfire developer
Experienced public speaker able to create and present Powerpoint presentations
Proficient with Microsoft Excel 2007, including functions, pivot tables, filters, solver and what-if analysis, data management, and data presentation
Proficient with Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products, including Word and Powerpoint

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

Write sections of the technical volume of multiple contract proposals, including an $85M win
Lead Training Delivery team, including both Confidential and subcontractors, responsible for scheduling, client communication, and travel budget estimates
Lead design and documentation of a methodology for financial transformation
Write monthly newsletter column attributed to government agency CFO
Lead communication team in developing messaging and delivery plan to provide information to staff from senior management using a variety of transmission methods
Perform workload/staffing analysis in partnership with client leadership to identify primary workload drivers and recommend more efficient allocation of resources
Write, consolidate, and edit deliverable documents including training course materials, technical documents, white papers, executive summaries, and marketing collateral
Perform process mapping and analysis, including identification of risks and analysis of controls and control gaps, and identify strategies for mitigating those gaps
Deliver client-specific training, developed internally, to classes of up to 20 participants

Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Established and supported an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) office for a national bank to process branch referrals and create Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) while training contractors and bank employees
Created and reviewed maps for financial operations processes under the direction of the CFO, evaluating controls and identifying risks and control gaps, making recommendations for process improvements
Developed tool to automate manual process of formatting data, saving 2,400 labor hours for $208K annual cost reduction
Developed Spotfire dashboard implementation and visualizations to present time and entertainment expense reimbursements to compliance department for detection and reduction in fraud

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Senior Multi-Function Program & Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Deputy Team Lead of Program Controls
Supported entire Site Services Portfolio of accounts (over 300 accounts totaling $40-$60M/year)
Developed and maintained Excel-based tools to assist Account Managers and Program Leadership
Created and performed baseline changes, moving budget within and between accounts to accurately match future activities and scope

Multi-Function Program & Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Led development of new Work Authorization tool (based in MS Access) which, due to substantial performance increases, reduced time required to create, modify, and approve work authorizations from minutes to seconds and eliminated missed approvals

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Performed product research, analysis, and testing to support the program’s chief software architect and maintain a secure and compliant software baseline

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Intern - Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed a plan to reduce finished vehicle shipping costs by more than $5M by improving routing and rail shipping strategies

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Created new systems to assemble and integrate information from classified and unclassified sources and to present it to Confidential decision-makers, building a one-stop site for pertinent intelligence information