SUMMARY:

• Versatile financial professional with broad skills and notable accomplishments in accounting, financial operations and business analysis with the proven capability to thrive in the dynamic and fluid environment of global enterprises.
• Recognized for consistent success in developing systems, processes, and procedures to streamline corporate operations, document processes, and enhance profit performance.
• Strong research and analytical skills. An outstanding communicator and relationship builder, with multiple systems skills.
• More than 20 years of experience leveraging industry knowledge and technical acumen to drive financial management results in the high - tech and manufacturing industries.
• Technical skills: Advanced Excel, Word, Powerpoint. Sharepoint, SQL, SAP, Oracle, BEx, SAP Business Explorer, Business Objects, Planning and Consolidation, Cognos, Hyperion, Prophix, Netweaver, Mercury, MAPPS, Calypso, JD Edwards, SSRS, Epicor, Industrious

AREAS OF STRENGTH:

• General Ledger Accounting
• Forecasting and Planning
• Account Reconciliations
• New system training
• SOX Testing
• FP&A
• Confidential SQL Reporting
• SSRS/Power BI
• Cost Accounting
• ERP Implementations
• Financial Modeling
• Corporate Consolidations
• SAP Super User
• Dashboard development
• KPI’s and Metrics Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SR. COST ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Developed comprehensive forecasting process for new products and programs for the company
• Reporting of costs for new programs in initial development stage and through entire life cycle
• Streamlined processes for forecasting NRE costs; eliminated repetitive steps; automated processes and reports
• Financial partner to Engineering and Program Managers
• Overhead rate analysis and reporting
• Direct and Indirect labor analysis by program
• Reporting, querying, dashboards, and financial modeling using SQL

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SR. ACCOUNTANT

Responsibilities:

• FP&A, Monthly Consolidations
• Contract assignment as Controller was on maternity leave

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SR. BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• R&R Supply Chain reporting for Confidential and Surface product lines
• Forecasting and Budgeting for worldwide repair spending
• Managed invoicing and purchase orders for repair expenses worldwide
• Cost of repair analysis by product line

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

SR. FINANCE/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• UAT for Corporate Oracle r.12 Implementation in Accounting
• Balance Sheet and Trial Balance reconciliations and testing
• Responsible for Business and Functional documentation reviews and markups
• Primary liaison between Accounting and IT, Program Managers and Oracle team

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

SR. BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Accounting for IT/Supply Chain Operations
• Completed audit of vendor contracts to invoices
• Business Explorer and SAP Power User
• Documented processes and systems
• Heavy data analysis and dashboard creation using SQL and SSIS
• Database audits

Confidential, Everett, WA

ACCOUNTANT

Responsibilities:

• Month end close entries for Corporate Consolidations; reconciling SAP vs. BI financials for each entity: Canada, Asia, Americas and Europe
• Liaison between business and technical groups
• Developed financial models for metrics and scorecard reporting; variance analysis, revenue and cost structure analysis
• Revenue reporting and analysis; analysis of sales and margin issues and trends; monthly revenue reports
• SAP, Business Intelligence Planning and Consolidation, and COGNOS Administrator
• SAP and Cognos applications and software support
• Developed customized work procedures and instructions for new SAP processes spanning new Vendor Set - Up, new GL Account Set-Up, GL Account Mapping, Cognos procedures
• Documented processes related to daily and monthly accounting activities, identified process improvements
• Responsible for developing and providing weekly, monthly and quarterly financial management reports for business managers and corporate finance

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SR. ACCOUNTANT

Responsibilities:

• Project Accountant for Consignment Inventory program
• Developed and defined process for Consignment Inventory, coordinating efforts and requirements with the Contracts Department, Materials Management, Finance, Vendors and Surgery teams.
• Reconciled and audited Consignment Inventory on site with Vendors
• Defined process for labeling and storing of inventory

Confidential, Redmond, WA

ACCOUNTANT

Responsibilities:

• Accounting, Forecast and Budget management for Marketing WEP group
• Prepared and updated monthly management reports/financial models, variance analyses, trend analysis and financial review documents for Marketing
• Month end variance analysis for OPEX and COGS; Completed OPEX GL review, restatements for FY09 to date and OPEX account definition review and adjustments; responsible for I/O process improvement and hierarchy changes and restatements
• Liaison between business and technical groups
• Training users on new system and functionality

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

COST ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Manager of Cost Accounting Staff
• Preparation and review of monthly financial statements and reporting package
• Month end variance analysis for P&L, OPEX and COGS
• Standard costing
• Completed and reviewed audit schedules
• Inventory Reporting and reconciliation
• Prepared Forecasting and Budgeting report modeling for Manufacturing, Engineering and R&D
• Cycle counting; Physical inventories
• SAP implementation

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SR. FINANCIAL ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Prepared monthly management reports, variance analyses, trend analysis and financial review documents
• General Ledger posting, reconciliations, reclasses, month end processing, variance analysis, reporting
• Project Accounting for Refurbishment and Repair process; coordinated management of returning and refurbishing of Xray equipment between hospitals, field service, sales, repair facility and program management teams; tracked and reported the movement of equipment in process; tracked the financials tied to equipment in process for financial reporting and analysis
• Vendor profile administration
• Presented total program performance to forecast