FINANCE ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL

• Forward-thinking leader of financial reporting, management and strategy with a record of success working with senior levels of management and key stakeholders. Expertise in multiple industries, including Consumer Products, Information Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare, Government Real Estate.
• Financial Services Management Advanced Microsoft Office, Excel/Access
• Profit, Loss Capital Asset Management Consumer Product Marketing
• Corporate Finance Accounting Audit, CPA Candidate
• Project Management Financial Modeling
• Hyperion, SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Accpac Commercial Real Estate Finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Financial Reporting Manager

• High profile role directly supporting the Chief Financial Officer and the Sales Marketing teams for a leading consumer products manufacturer and exporter operating in over 70 international markets. Responsible for consolidated financial reporting on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis creation of quarterly board of director presentations cash-flow projections budgeting forecasting and analysis of capital, revenue and expenses. Performed analysis on and resolution to issues relating to open orders, sales returns, dealer allowances and customer incentives.
• Collaborated with CFO, Sales, Marketing Operations teams in developing strategies to increase revenues from key customers such as Wal-Mart and to lower product cost based on new sales programs, pricing incentives and operational changes. Results: Revenues in key markets increased by more than 50 and cost of production for selected core products were reduced by 8 . Company successfully entered 5 new markets
• Designed and built multi year financial models based on macros, pivot tables and other advanced excel tools designed to project full financial statements and overall impact on the company. Results: CFO, sales and marketing teams were able to quickly analyze feasibility of product line and international market expansion plans based on 30 interchangeable growth initiatives.
• Drove process improvement efforts resulting in enhanced visibility of key performance metrics via enhanced financial analytics, rolling forecasts, customer profitability, promotion performance, greater data mining and management reviews. Results: Management was provided with the ability to view with greater detail sales, cost and other performance metrics in 1 week earlier in each period. Improved the financial reporting process to the extent that 3 days were eliminated from the month end closing process.

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Provided operational auditing services for the Information Technology Services Group within the largest health insurance company in the state of Illinois. Analyzed the capital projects procurement processes and fixed assets capitalization procedures. Results: Identified over 1 Million in under capitalized assets, determined root causes of under capitalization and provided solutions to prevent re-occurrences.

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• Principal / Finance Manager Managed the financial, investing, marketing operational functions for a commercial real estate finance company. Expertise developed in marketing, commercial real estate finance and real estate management.
• Developed, scheduled and executed nationwide marketing plans and promotions designed to capture the attention of potential clients, provide information on available financing solutions and solicit immediate action. Result: Consistently generated at least 15 commercial project submissions per month
• Provided detailed analysis of commercial real estate projects for profit potential, rates of returns, capital requirements and cash flows for funding feasibility
• Quickly developed fundamental understandings of each client's business structure, goals, financial capabilities and capital requirements so as to quickly assess their situation and provide the appropriate capital solutions. Result: Processed over 10 million in commercial loan files

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A Global leader in the marketing of soft drinks, energy fruit beverages 38 Billion in annual sales. Expertise developed in advanced financial management, strategic planning, head count planning, business process improvement, Global IT projects management Consumer Marketing Programs.

Financial Services Manager

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• Provided financial management, reporting analysis for the company's investments in the Evian, Dannon, Sparklett's and Seagram's brands. Served as primary finance resource for senior executives, joint venture partners, customers and distributors providing real time financial insight into the viability of the Brands.
• Member of the finance and marketing team challenged to seamlessly integrate the financial, marketing distribution systems of 4 newly acquired brands Evian, Seagrams, Dannon Sparklett's into the Coca Cola Company's system from Danone France . Result: Responsibility for all prior future financial commitments was assumed by Coca Cola, all brand management teams were trained on Company policies and procedures, with all operations integrated into The Coca-Cola Company's system.
• Partnered with operational leaders in the design and implementation of cost center for newly acquired brands. Result: Correct alignment of people, assets and expenses to cost centers by business unit functions/ purpose..
• Collaborated with executive management at Coca Cola and it's joint venture partner, Dannon of France in developing multi-year sales, marketing and operating business plans focused on increasing revenues and lower costs through customer incentives, wider distribution channels, enhanced marketing exposure and consolidation of vendor supplied services. Interfaced across companies for financial projections and current results. Maintained ledgers reconciling Coca-Cola's operations with Dannon North America for joint venture reporting. Result: Sales volume was increased by 2 while concurrently reducing annual expenses by 5

Principal Financial Analyst

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• Recruited internally to improve the financial management of the company's 2 billion information technology investments. Challenged to facilitate financial reporting improvements while reducing annual expenses. Developed an intimate understanding of the company's products, business structure, processes and operating environment so as to facilitate effective business process improvements. Created and distributed roll-up financial reports from globally disbursed business units to corporate headquarters.
• Partnered with Global Shared Services, CTO's and CIO's to drive lean initiatives to reduce the Coca Cola Company's annual investments in information technology through strategic outsourcing, consolidation of services, Activity Based Costing ABC exercises and usage reviews. Designed the ABC system used to bill out the cost of providing shared IT Services networks, processing, applications and desktop support to business units in over 100 countries. Secondary goal was to reduce the company's overall infrastructure footprint via identification of applications and services that could be eliminated or procured at significant savings under global agreements. Result: The company's corporate division eliminated over 20 million in redundant overhead recouped over 400 million from external units.
• Led the collaborated efforts of corporate finance, IT management external vendors to design and deploy a new system that tracked all networked assets throughout the service life cycles. Result: System integrated SAP and vendor systems with the company's wide area network, effectively tracked computers, servers, printer and other IT assets reducing losses by 95 improving the validity of reported expense.
• Performed annual design and effectiveness assessments of internal controls for Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance via gaining an understanding of the company's systems and the flow of transactions to identify and improve points at which material misstatements could occur. Result: Dramatically improved reporting by identifying automating processes to minimize human errors, such as accounts reconciliation.
• Worked directly with Project Management Office and IT project managers in the process of improving and managing the company's Capital Project System from growth to obsolescence for servers, desktops, voice data networks, VOIP, information security and infrastructure. Acted as interface between business and technical teams including PMO, finance, infrastructure and operations, and business leadership monitored and provided status of portfolio of projects financially and towards completion. Result: Working closely with various level of IT, business IT Project Management successfully shepherded over 200 million IT Capital Projects from conception to planning to building and production. Identified over 20,000,000 in capital project expense savings
• Managed general ledger postings, forecasts and period ending closing processes for expenses, receivables, coupon redemptions, customer account and trade accounts. Result: Errors in the period end accruals process reduced by 95 . Processing times for customer deductions and payments were reduced from 35 days to 10.

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Multinational Commercial Real Estate Management Firm with over 10 billion in assets under management. Expertise developed in treasury functions, financial analysis, partnership fund reporting investor relations.

Financial Analyst

• Complex financial services position, responsible for providing overall accounting, financial analysis, portfolio investor reporting services for eight tax low-income housing tax credit LIHTC Section 42 , limited liability partnership investment portfolios. Provide accounting and financial support to business units in the form of journal entries, accruals and reconciliations.
• Evaluated competing potential real estate projects for profit potential, rates of returns, cash flows and best fit within fund, portfolio and investors goals using Tax Benefit, NPV, IRR, CAP Rate, ROI, ROA, Revenue Analysis, Forecasting, financial modeling and other valuation tools. Result: Company consistently improved profit margins average 5 per year.
• Prepared monthly cash forecasts with detailed analysis of revenues and expenses for US and Foreign currency Prepared, managed and updated general ledger entries as needed. Prepared partnership tax return schedules for income, losses and equity stakes.
• Led an aggressive information technology improvement program, which dramatically improved the performance of the company's cash management system by automating the accounts reconciliation process. Result: Quality of reporting was vastly improved reconciliation time for over 200 cash accounts was reduced from three weeks to two days, eliminated 98 of keying errors and reduced manpower requirements from 3 analysts to 1.
• United States Army, Military Finance Manager 1987-1997
• Managed the daily accounting operations of 3 military companies. Forecast and managed operational budgets supervised and trained 20 personnel.

MBA Management of Information Systems

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• ms office, access, crystal reports, speaking, powerpoint, peoplesoft, jd edwards, quickbooks, pivot tables, macros, vlookup, hlookup, html, mysql, hyperion, rolling estimates, SAS, Business Objects, GAAP, general accounting principles, capitalizations, presentation public accounting, Arthur Andersen, Arthur Young Co.
• Coopers Lybrand, Ernst Whinney, Deloitte Haskins Sells, Peat Marwick Mitchell, KPMG, Price Waterhouse Touche Ross, controller, director, direct reports, reporting, tax, cash management, treasury, internal audit, accounting manager, accountant, business manager, business analyst, advanced excel, data warehouse, six sigma, manufacturing, petroleum, chemical, metrics, great plains, peachtree, peoplesoft, sap, project manager, project management, bilingual spanish english, , goldman sachs, lehman, Public accounting, certified public accountant, KPMG, Ernst Young, Deloitte, touche, PwC, price waterhouse coopers, audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers, spanish, bi-lingual, international, statistical analysis, variance, euro, europe, currency, fixed assets, month end,, sharepoint, accpac, indian gaap, mna, controller, assistant, CFO, director of finance