SUMMARY:

• Strong financial analysis and critical thinking skills, excellent communication skills, expert Microsoft Office user with particular focus on Excel, able to understand complex contract structures, and able to work in a dynamic environment in a dispersed organization while meeting critical deadlines
• Experience with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Sarbanes - Oxley Act (SOX), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR), SAP, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Business Warehouse (BW), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Year-End Supplemental (YES), Quarter-End Supplemental (QES), the defense industry, contracting with government agencies, indirect rates, developing program budgets, forecasting, and a wide range of reporting financials

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Program Finance Manager

• Provide financial management support of awards, program and event budgets, including budget projections, reconciliation, and monitoring of expenditures
• Create a budget that supports appropriate funding for all the educational programs
• Develop and manage work plans and timelines for overlapping award cycles and multiple project activities
• Develop quarterly reports to funder, survey development and implementation, data collection and processing
• Provide oversight of the implementation of sub awards with multiple host universities
• Serve as primary point of contact for ECA (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs)
• Represent the interests of IIE’s Practice both within and outside of the organization
• Support ad hoc requests, as required

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Planning & Reporting Financial Analyst III

• Tracked and analyzed division budget for Non-Contractual Target Activity (NCTA).
• Ensured budget and forecast data were collected to support the different levels of sector reporting.
• Developed summary of monthly expenditure and forecast NCTA analysis and present an overview at monthly meeting.
• Prepared and consolidated annual operating plan, Indicated Finals (IFs), and other financial forecasts
• Coordinated project setups, prepared billing detail support, facilitated IWOs and continued to develop strong working relationships with technical leads and functional departments.
• Coordinated business and operating units on financial reporting, planning and financial systems.
• Coordinated and consolidate NGTS entity inputs for monthly corporate treasury cash forecasting.
• Created monthly sales, margin and awards analysis report.
• Prepared and consolidated annual operating plan, Indicated Finals (IFs), and other financial forecasts.
• Supported business unit and field any financial reporting related questions.

Confidential

Contractor - Senior Business Analyst

• Lead analyst for Terremark Federal Group program which comprised of over twenty programs generating annual revenue of $20 million.
• Create and maintain various spreadsheets to track funding and expenditures on over twenty contracts that generate monthly revenue of $5,000 to $2 million per contract/purchase order.
• Ensure adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.
• Work closely with Contract Managers to ensure proper contractual language, terms and conditions are reflected in contracts and service agreements.
• Analyze detailed product revenue reports on a monthly basis to complete roll forward, growth and churn reports of Federal Group customers to Corporate Finance
• Provide validation and acceptance of contracts and purchase orders before service orders are released by service engineers.
• Review invoices to Government customers and subcontractors prior to invoice submission. Work closely with billing specialists to invoice according to customer contractual terms and requirements.

Confidential

Senior Financial Analyst

• Developed financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and business cases.
• Collaborated with accounting department for the month end close, support of the budgeting process, and support of overall Finance objective.
• Maintained and updated accounts receivable aging schedule and bad debt expense report.
• Analyzed sales results compared to budget, forecast and historical trends.
• Act as liaison in communicating with accounting department and sales team.
• Identified and solved issues related to accounts payable, accounts receivable, transaction coding, invoice coding, and revenue recognition.
• Attended monthly review meeting of financial results with sales team and accounting department.
• Prepare schedules and analyses in support of quarterly reviews and year-end audits.

Confidential, Ashburn, Virginia

Contractor - Business Analyst

• Conducted analysis of metrics by product and provide feedback for internal and external requests regarding statistical data.
• Supported Commercial Solutions Team with the interpretation of cost and schedule variances; providing additional analytic support of performance trends.
• Ensured business requirements comply with regulations, policies and processes.
• Assisted and supported financial institutions with the transaction dispute process.
• Prepared ad hoc reports for sales department as required.

Confidential - Parsippany, New Jersey

Financial Analyst

• Performed corporate planning functions, including quarterly forecasts, capital budgeting, variance analyses and reporting to upper management in the Northeast Region.
• Provided accurate and timely reporting of financials during the month end closing processes and planning cycles.
• Completed regional audit headcount projections by level. Projected service hours by level and calculated salary expenses using schedules and historical trends
• Input/maintained actual, budget and plan allocations in SAP to responsible cost centers.
• Prepared and verified various, routine financial transactions such as journal entries, intercompany transfers, and accruals
• Developed and implemented accounting procedures and internal controls designed to assure the accuracy of accounting records and to verify compliance with corporate policies and GAAP
• Improved accounts receivable billing and collection performance through financial controls and process improvement
• Researched and resolved invoice and chargeback issues
• Handled requests for ad hoc reports or financial information as requested by Controller and Partners