EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Financial Statement Audit, Audit of Internal Control and Financial Reporting for financial and mixed financial systems.
• Providing support in Information Technology Audit and assisted in updating the system security plan.
• Developing users’ requirements for COMSATCOM and working on selecting a new multi factor attenuating process for DirectAccess.

Confidential, Fort Belvoir, VA18

Financial Analysis Manager/ Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Identified, documented, and reported on Notice of Findings & Recommendations (NFR) solutions; waivers and/or exceptions as applicable; and assistance with Confidential remediation. This included Confidential review and feedback; Confidential Recommendation and Management Response development; Confidential remediation; and Confidential management and reporting support (Plan of Action and Milestone POA&M management).
• Identified electronic transactions or records keeping that is covered by the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA) and generated responses to Audit Notices and requests for information received from the auditor team(s).
• Ensured compliance with the Privacy Act, prepared and submitted deliverables and participated in Information System Control Audit Manual (FISCAM), financial system, and internal control audit support.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Financial Analysis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed systematic examinations of financial records, management reports, management controls, policies and practices while reviewing allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse in Confidential ’s grants.
• Developed recommendation and corrective actions plans for management review based on FIAR Act and Privacy Act requirements.
• Responsible for formulating case theories/plans, reviewing contracts/grants records, conducting interviews with subject of investigations and witnesses and gather evidence.
• Drafted investigation reports that include recommendations for remediation, briefed findings to appropriate parties including senior executives and conduct interviews with subject matter experts for opinions for recommendations or follow - up on remediation measures.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Financial Consultant/Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Examined and tested financial records and management controls to determine if financial records had been maintained in accordance with applicable regulations.
• Reported significant audit findings that cover the conditions discovered such as their cause and effect as well as developed recommendations for corrective action.
• Documented business processes, developed process narratives, developed flowcharts, conducted internal audits of financial systems and IT system controls.
• Performed operational and financial/functional analysis of transaction flows, workflow documentation, validated general ledger balances, identified discrepancies with financial statement line items to include identifying abnormal balances, reviewed journal vouchers and identified unsupported adjustments while demonstrating understanding of Financial Reporting Controls.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Institutional Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Review audited financial statements submitted member institutions to monitor compliance with policies and procedures as well as applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
• Meet with management to discuss financial improvement plans, access financial stability of the institution, addresses areas of significant risk, develop financial presentations and evaluates overall effectiveness of operations at institutions.
• Conducted site visits to investigate adverse financial information and ensure management action plans implementations were consistent with internal control considerations as well as cost beneficial.
• Supervised the collection and analysis of over 900 institutions’ financial ratios to advise management on financial, compliance and business matters of member institutions as well as assisted in CFO in preparation of financial projections by monitoring budgetary actual versus projected on a monthly basis.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared, reviewed and populated the company's SOX database.
• Prepared risk assessments, developed annual audit plans, performed compliance reviews, and prepared work papers to support the fieldwork.
• Reconciled work breakdown structure (WBS) codes in the financial database functions to determine risk levels, documented operational procedures (COSO) and evaluated the existence/effectiveness of manual and automated internal controls.
• Conducted benchmark study to identify financial management best practices from other federal agencies in order to develop policies and procedures. Developed performance measures and dashboard reporting tools to communicate key performance metrics on a timely basis. Gained direct liaison experience with federal agencies for developing compliant policies and documented complex business specifications for risk platforms and processes.
• Performed research and analysis in support of management decisions. Translated goals and special requests into workable action plans. Converted an out of date legacy system to a fully integrated accounting system while responsible for utilizing USSGL principals to reconcile general ledger accounts (Hyperion) with over $45M monthly activity to produce monthly narratives that explained budget variations.

Confidential, Washington, DC November

Director Internal Controls and Policy Administration

Responsibilities:

• Assembled team from across departmental lines to address lack of documentation audit findings. Researched various storage options and prepared recommendations. Created a tracking tool to monitor invoice request, receipt, and identify process owners. Increased storage capacity by 37% and negotiated a lower yearly storage fees in exchange for cleaning out six abandoned storage spaces. Saved $1.2 million in resolved question cost and reduced the number of audit findings the following year by nine.
• Prepared the Management Letter Comments responses. Translated complex information into an easily understandable crosswalk to facilitate more accurate and expedited responses. Served as an internal consultant to the business to ensure that as business practices change, adequate internal controls and processes are implemented. Created and implemented templates with guidelines and instructions for Management Letter Comments response preparation that are still used today. Applied knowledge of GAAP to assure compliance with OMB Circular A-133.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with cross-functional, multi-organizational teams in planning and developing an effective, customer-focused training for improving Customer Quality scores and reducing non-compliance fines. Created contest to motivated employees and increase their awareness of the issue. Partnered with supervisors to develop management action plans. Reduced fine by $136K over a year period. Improved CQ score by 36%. Maintained improved customer quality scores for six consecutive quarters.
• Audited financial statement and tested effectiveness of centralized financial controls at federal agencies for compliance audits. Relied on knowledge of Microsoft Office while developing process narratives and creating tools for testing internal controls on the entity and process level. Executed financial audit with emphasis on evaluation of procedures and controls that resulted in system changes, improved financial performance, drastically improved the accuracy of forecasting, and reduced errors by 40%.