SUMMARY:

To obtain a career in finance/accounting allowing me to utilize my acquired skills and continue to grow professionally.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Proficient with Microsoft Office Products including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access. Maintain a working knowledge of Peoplesoft and various custom applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER

Responsibilities:

• Manager for staff of 5 for Wireline Revenue, Bad debt and Receivables
• Responsible for reviewing monthly journal entries, account analysis, and reporting
• Responsible for providing detailed variance analysis related to monthly/quarterly/annual variances
• Responsible for providing detailed variance analysis related to budget/ forecast variances
• Responsible for overseeing various SOX controls within Wireline revenue
• Teamed with Finance and Corporate Accounting to assist in developing and analyzing costs for forecasting and monthly variance reporting
• Responsible for financial reports for Wireline, Wireless revenues and Cost of revenues, as well as compiled reporting package to present to senior management
• Prepared and reviewed quarterly analysis for external auditors - PBC requests
• Led the team for D&T, KPMG and Puerto Rico audits
• Served as a lead team member on the Finance Learning & Development Team
• Participated as team lead for Wireline systems consolidation project(s)
• Participated as team lead for New revenue recognition converged standard project (ASC Topic 606 Contracts with Customers)

Confidential

TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER

Responsibilities:

• Cost of service - Supervisor for staff of 5 for Interconnect Access and Backhaul Cost of Revenue for Wireline and Wireless.
• Responsible for journal entries, account analysis, and reporting for Access and Backhaul costs.
• Analyzed monthly variances and reported on any material discrepancies
• Teamed with Finance and Corporate Accounting to assist in developing and analyzing costs for forecasting and monthly variance reporting
• Prepared quarterly analysis for KPMG-PBC requests
• Led the team for KPMG and Puerto Rico audit
• Reviewed account recs and account analysis on a monthly basis
• Led major initiative to automate a manual accrual process to simplify and reduce a 2 day process to 2 hours
• Implemented processes to account for prepaid vs postpaid accounting and analysis
• Continually focused on process improvements and simplification
• Served as a team member on the DEP Education Committee Team

Confidential

Financial Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Provided financial support for three VP’s and nine IT Finance directors and operations support.
• Developed annual budgets for two VP’s and nine IT directors for both Confidential and Nextel expenses. Includes forecasts at a project level for various programs, including Cable JV, Boost, 4G and CTA
• Developed quarterly re-forecasts and prepared analysis roll-forward schedules for quarterly comparisons.
• Worked on various teams related to the People Soft 8.9 conversion involving project costing, general ledger, reports, time entry coding for IT.
• Supported the merger of Confidential /Nextel and incorporated Confidential and Nextel budgeting and month end processes.
• Analyzed monthly variances and reported on any material discrepancies for capital and expense at a director and project level.
• Served as the SME for learning and incorporating the various Nextel systems and reports pre conversion
• Attended monthly director meetings to present financial results.
• Reconciled headcount for 1,000 + IT employees.
• Provided support to IT operations for SCM, SD, payroll, HR, contractors and misc. issues.
• Served as the department lead for organizing various team events such as birthday and miscellaneous celebrations.

Confidential

Financial Analyst III/ Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for expense accrual and reclass web application. This included developing, testing, training and implementing and rolling out the web application to about 300 users.
• Served on an account reconciliation review team which involved reviewing a variety of account reconciliations ensuring they were in accordance with the Account Reconciliation Guidelines and SOX404.
• Served as the Customers Relation Manager for Confidential PCS Sales and Distribution group. This involved providing support for research, financial analysis and variance reporting. Participated in month end close meetings to report results to upper management.
• Served as the GL groups’ lead on coordinating all month end process scheduling.
• Reconciled numerous balance sheet accounts which included one account which had not been reconciled for three years.
• Provide monthly reports and account reconciliations for both E & Y and internal auditors.
• Identified area for process improvements and implemented procedures to streamline processes.
• Served as team lead for providing general ledger support in answering field questions regarding journal entries, various application assistance and People soft combination edits.
• Completed special projects/analysis as requested by management.

Confidential 

Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Supervisor for staff of five.
• Supervised the payroll function for 1100 employees and commissions and bonuses function for 500 sales reps.
• Analyzed monthly company financial results for accuracy and any significant variances.
• Worked with HR and IS to develop and implement Sales Compensation Plans, guidelines and administrative procedures.
• Evaluated and implemented conversion of SPA’s current proprietary payroll system to the Confidential Corporate payroll system. This involved project planning, employee training, and application support for all employees.
• Managed the development of a reporting results process to support HR’s need for information as it related to the Sales Compensation plan.

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Served as a member of a 6 person special taskforce team chartered by SPA’s President to look at company process improvement ideas.
• Team developed a detailed business case to consolidate SPA’s 9 telephone sales division offices into one national telephone sales center. As the financial subject matter expert, prepared various financial reports, including P & L, EVA, ROI, NPV, Payback, Capital Requirements, and Cash Flow.
• Prepared and communicated presentations to various SPA departments regarding Process team’s progress.

Confidential 

Senior Budgets Analyst/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead budget analyst for staff of four.
• Coordinated the upcoming year budget ensuring accurate and timely preparation of all information.
• Prepared monthly Financial Packages, forecasts, and identified various risks and opportunities.
• Lead the process for determining costs of processes at department and process level.
• Lead the process for identifying and implementing process improvements within the Finance department.
• Provided training and support on the People soft budget module.
• Prepared budget presentation for upper management upon budget completion.

Confidential

Telecommunications Provider

Responsibilities:

• Supervised staff of three.
• Performed gross margin analysis for sales/cost of sales.
• Prepared revenue accruals/cost deferrals.
• Analyzed variance accounts for proper job costing.
• Analyzed all balance sheet and income statement accounts for twenty six branches for accuracy and discrepancies.
• Worked with management group to establish and implement improved job costing methodologies.
• Worked in teams to establish and implement improved accounting policies/procedures.
• Participated in computer conversion to new accounting package.
• Prepared monthly/quarterly reports for corporate office.

Confidential

Retailer/Wholesaler of Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Accounting liaison between corporate office and fifteen retail offices.
• Performed month end closings for fifteen retail offices.
• Reconciled all balance sheet accounts, reviewed and analyzed all income and expense reports.
• Reviewed and analyzed all income and expense accounts.
• Completed acquisition analysis for potential acquisitions.
• Assisted with budget preparation, analysis, and review.
• Maintained fixed assets for all retail locations including depreciation reporting, property tax filing, and divisional transfers.