SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

• I have functional experience in Finance (GL, AP, AR) Financial, Spend and Credit Analysis, Forecasts, Budgets, Project Management, PMO, Controls, Coordination, IT Administrator, Resource Allocation, Business Analysis, Planning, Facilitation, procurement (RFI,RFP,RFQ) Purchasing, Contracts, SOWs, and SLAs, Vendor, Billing, Asset, Office and Inventory Management, Process Documentation, Change Management Requests, User Training, Telecommunications and Customer Service

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COMPUTER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE: SAP(HR, Financial, SD, PR, BI, Procurement, SRM) Solution Manager, SharePoint, ChangePoint, MS Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint and Project, Proxima Contract Management System, HP - Portal Asset System, Microsoft Portal, LX - ERP, System, ICOMS, JD Edwards, Oracle iProcure, and Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Business Services Sr. Analyst/Administrator

• Management of IT budgets from 15 to 20 million, IT forecasts, project spend, cost analysis and other adhoc reporting.
• Develop, implement, track and maintain budgetary/project controls. Primary contacts for financials, Capex/Opex spend, accruals, procurement, reconciliations, billing, and invoice payments for IT infrastructure/applications globally.
• Manage and ensure compliance of IT assets, HP leases, contract repository, software/ hardware maintenance and MS administrator. Assist with evaluating and reviewing contracts, change requests, SLAs and proposals.
• Manage vendor relationships, small to medium project deliverables; analyze data, present solutions to management teams for consideration. Maintaining of SW releases and the impact to users.
• Responsible for meeting facilitation, monitoring, planning, tracking and executing assigned project schedules to ensure milestones are completed. Maintain project documentation, issues logs, action items and risks.
• Responsible for publishing communications to the business regarding IT project activities, status and scope. Manage PMO project calendars, and resource allocation schedules.
• Support senior management, stakeholders, and project managers with IT Infrastructure and Applications deliverables.
• Attend weekly and monthly management and project meetings. Occasional travel in North America and Europe.

Confidential

Sr. Financial Analyst

• Management of IT infrastructure financial forecasts and budgets of 5 - 10 million. Prepared month-end accruals, IT project spend and cost variance/savings reports for US and international cost centers.
• Monitored global financials, assisted with IT audits, invoice reconciliation, and resolution of billing disputes.
• Managed costs for IT assets, services, equipment, software, hardware, maintained accurate account for inventory.
• Maintained project controls, resources, plans and documentation. Provided status reports to stakeholders and management. Created purchase requisitions, purchase orders, RFI/RFP/RFQ and proposal requests.
• Facilitated vendor and business case meetings. Prepared business cases for executive panel review.
• Partnered with internal customers to ensure effective sourcing, documented requirements, assisted with training.

Confidential

Procurement Analyst

• Responsible for analysis, evaluation and drafting of contracts, amendments, and statement of work (SOW).
• Performed analysis of supplier bids, financials and submitted recommendations to management. Maintained supplier database, scorecards, and proposals. Assisted with the proposal process for assigned suppliers responding to RFI/RFP/RFQ requests. Reviewed project milestones, schedules and dependencies.
• Monitored contract life cycle, and ensured timely responses to meet required due dates. Managed and foster key relationships with both external suppliers and internal personnel.
• Processed timely rebate check processing. Prepared journal entries, reconciliations and assisted with special projects.

Confidential

IT Financial/Project Controls Analyst

• Developed, maintained and monitored departmental budgets from $7.5 million to $25 million annually.
• Participated in annual budget processes with clients based on business objectives and portfolio requirements.
• Responsible for financial/spend analysis, reporting monthly variances and forecasts to executive leadership and corporate accounting; including accruals, journal entries, financial and inventory audits.
• Managed assets and inventory levels for IT equipment, software, and hardware. Identified opportunities for inventory reduction. Analyzed replenishment requirements, to insure that all requisitions were purchased within budget.
• Liaison to corporate legal, accounting and compliance organizations for contract negotiations, statement of work, policy, software license agreements, manage services, professional services, and Banta Immigration processing.
• Responsible for office and facilities management, project coordination/controls, documentation, resource allocations, equipment requisition, vendor management, facilitation, PO processing, procurement analysis, invoice payment/reconciliation, T&E approvals, cost tracking, improvement initiatives, maintained organizational training, PCard approvals.

Financial Analyst

Confidential

• Provided project coordination, planning, controls and execution of tasks which included monitoring timelines and progress, identifying resource needs. Assisted with metrics, status reports, documentation, and portfolio management.
• Coordinated the procurement of IT equipment, professional services, hardware and software for the SAP service center. Responsible for asset and cost tracking, change management, and improvement of existing office procedures.
• Worked closely with project teams and client support to assist with QA testing of scripts for system functionality.
• Responsible for financial analysis and reporting monthly variances and forecasts to executive leadership and corporate accounting; including accruals, resource plans, payroll support, invoice and PO processing, and project spending files.
• Partnered with project managers and teams to assess project performance, project cost variances, research and gather data for monthly steering committee deliverables. Assisted in the coordination and implementation of the SAP system for Cox Newspaper locations.
• Provided support to internal or external auditors for risk and financial reviews performing data analysis and providing explanations where needed. Weekly review of employee and contractor timesheets validating work performed.
• Assisted with general on- and off-boarding to employees and contractors, maintained personnel files, resource planning, scheduling, coordinated client and technical support requirements.

Confidential

Financial Analyst III

• Responsible for month-end close, forecast details, processing settlements, invoices, PO’s, reconciliations, resolving billing disputes for international telecom invoices, and vendor management. Responsible for auditing of North America, government and international invoices and reconciling circuit level details for each vendor.
• Reviewed new and existing customer and government contracts for consistency with policies, procedures, and system capabilities. Responsible for rate and tariff reviews for LEC and ILC vendors.
• Assisted in the reinstatement process, which included work to audit and reconstruct over $70B of M&A transactions, resolving over 100 technical accounting issues, and provided quality control reviews.