SUMMARY

• Leadership - Adept at leading/managing cross-functional programs.
• Capable of leading high performing teams under tough deadlines, to meet expectations of multiple customers.
• Exceptional ability to lead cross-functional teams in order to identify program capabilities, assess resources, and collaborate with personnel ensuring projects delivered on time and within scope of budget.
• Problem solver - Creativity and forethought in solving complex project issues.
• Advanced complex financial data study and analysis expertise
• Comprehensive financial data tracking tools knowledge from customer to suppliers and vendors’ accounts
• Organizational ability and multi-tasking skills.
• Service orientation - “People person” and a team player.
• Detail oriented, accurate, flexible and adaptable

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP
• Oracle
• Essbase
• Smartview
• Khalix-ePlan
• Hyperion
• Iprocurement
• Tableau
• MS Access
• Business Objects
• Sharepoint
• PowerPoint
• Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Provide financial analysis and modeling to support business planning, projects, reporting and strategic and operational decision making.
• Partners with the Senior Executive to manage the achievement of strategic finance projects from initial concept through to implementation.
• Have primary responsibility for the quality of the business analysis and the alignment between the business need and the recommended change to systems that will deliver the specified result.
• Assist the Financial Controller with the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes ensuring budgets, plans and forecasts reflect latest projections for the business and supports the Financial Controller in development and ongoing maintenance of a consolidated group budgeting and forecasting model.
• Managing and tracking project budgets, forecasts, and schedule to achieve target scope, schedule, and cost.
• Directing project activities, conduct reviews, manage risk mitigation, issues, and change control processes, and communicate status to various levels of management within the IT and business partner organizations.
• Demonstrating & leveraging strong business and financial acumen.
• Centralizing PO management activities within Corporate IT Dep by managing the full Po life cycle. Developed expert knowledge of in-house data sources, and became adept at quickly extracting and analyzing data from these sources.

Sr. Financial Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for WW Sales Org. operating expenses monthly and quarterly.  Planed targets that considered the needs of both organizational and corporate objectives.
• Completed quarterly management reporting commentaries reflecting actual vs. guidance, year over year and sequential changes in operating expense.
• Completed weekly headcount report using Essbase and BO data. Collaborated with HR and WW Sales Finance managers to define and resolve any reporting discrepancies.
• Provided quarterly consolidation and analysis of WW Sales SPH, productivity, and headcount comparing forecasts with actual by organization and function.
• Supported the month-end close process to validate accruals and book entries.
• Provided monthly/ quarterly metrics and financial models for tracking and performance measurement.

Sr. Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for compiling Equipment products group performance metrics for planning analysis and management review.
• Compiled financial and monthly Income Statement and Balance Sheet variance analysis for senior management.
• Developed financial models, including long- term forecasts for accounts receivable invoices, labor cost forecasts, key measurement ratios and graphs.\

Finance Manager 

Responsibilities:              

• Generating detailed financial and operational projections per department (i.e. revenues per region and product, expenses per headcount, expenses and project.
• Monitoring expenses to ensure compliance with budget by performing monthly variance analysis.
• Track and review gross and net sales including gross margins in producing forecasts and trend analysis on an on-going basis.
• Maintained and updated business unit and cost center hierarchy.

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Built monthly forecasts and support development of the quarterly and annual plan for NA Marketplace.
• Managed the reporting, tracking, and reconciliation process for headcount by working cross functionally with the business and HR.
• Prepared monthly executive presentation that highlighted the key drivers of expense variances vs. the Budget, prior forecast and prior months.
• Extracted financial data from various accounting and information systems; performed moderately complex statistical, cost and financial analysis of financial reports and data, and prepared subsequent narrative analysis for management.
• Prepared weekly Scorecard report to finance/ non-finance team.

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing accounting close and financial/management reporting process inclusive of P&L Flash, Service file and Revenue submission.
• Performed actual to budget variance analysis while highlighting risks & opportunities to plan.
• Performed financial analysis and ad hoc reports for revenue Analytics, providing MTD detailed revenue update and forecasting.
• Recognized Revenues was booked but not invoiced.
• Provided Weekly Booking Report & Weekly Reporting Package to finance team.
• Responsible for reconciling deferred revenue accounts.
• Owned certain end-to-end financial reporting, from report development sourced through various systems through regular distribution to various areas of the business. Use this reporting to drive key insights into the business and act as a dashboard to monitor financial performance against revenue, profitability, expense and other metrics.

Financial Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and submitted monthly/ quarterly forecast and consolidated total expenses for CM team.
• Participated in formulating a support implementation program within the CM finance team to efficiently centralize the entire financial operations.
• Efficiently provided professional support to the entire accounting cycle from journal entries and reporting to account reconciliation and month end closing reports.
• Provided adhoc project support as needed.