SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Seasoned professional with over 10 years experience in Financial analysis, Accounting, Auditing. Budget and Data analysis, and Grants Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficiency in the MS Office Suite of applications including Power point, Access and Excel.
• Expert use of Advanced Excel features including Pivot tables, array formulas, lookup functions, graphing features and database/filtering features.
• Expert knowledge of the Government E2 Travel Solutions and ETRAMS portals.
• Google docs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Grants Management/Program Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managing and coordinating a complex grants portfolio including inter - agency agreements, Cooperative Agreements, and highly technical special projects .
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of grant proposals.
• Review and evaluation of competing and non-competing grant applications by reviewing, revising or preparing excel spreadsheets to reflect current funding levels
• Work with staff to collect and gather materials for grant related activities.
• Upload information into IMPACII.
• Revise terms appropriate to reflect budget adjustments.
• Review applications thoroughly and accurately within timeframes specified for award.
• Provide quality and timely administration of a grant.
• Forward grants for signature in a timely fashion.
• Communicate with appropriate Program Officer and/or Grantee Sponsored Research Administrator when questions arise.
• Apprise Grants Management Staff of issues/problems that will cause the grant award to be late or delay.
• Facilitate the coordination of training of staff with management team.
• Maintain information for telework laptops, keyboards and docking stations.
• Interact with LAN staff to create and GMP e-mail groups as necessary.
• Maintain and surplus of inventory office equipment and provides recommendations of office property needs.
• Troubleshoot equipment issues.

Data Entry/Document Prep Associate

Responsibilities:

• Records storage and management support
• Sorting and preparing hard copy records for scanning and document preparation.
• Assuring a quality image and perform quality control functions.
• Scanning hard-copy files to electronic images.
• Review existing templates for proper coding, format, style and other requirements needed.
• Maintain Time, Volume and delivery of records.
• Ensure Safety and security procedures are followed at all times.
• Prepare Items for Processing, shipment or transportation.
• Other Duties as assigned

Program Analyst Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Generated multiple reports in Microsoft Access, Excel and various Government Databases including Phoenix and the Foreign Assistance Coordination and Tracking systems Database (FACTS Info).
• Provided procurement support to the Business and Acquisition department for the office including market research, prepare purchase requests, monthly procurement request, contract folder creation, and creation of multiple financial reports.
• Prepares Data for preliminary analysis for budget preparation.
• Gather and organize information from a variety of sources such as records, computer files, previous studies, interviews, etc.
• Prepared and Provided Correspondence tracking of all USAID/EGAT Action Memorandums, including Inter-Agency Agreements and Congressional Notifications.
• Routinely conducted price reasonable analysis to effectively negotiate the best value for the Government, which have resulted in upwards of $1M in savings.
• Monitored and reported performance against plans to ensure contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
• Analyze Financial Information concerning expenses such as equipment, supplies, professional services etc.
• Coordinated Payments of all bureau vouchers in accordance with USAID standards and applicable USAID policies, procedures, and instructions
• Developing and maintaining logs and databases to track financial and budgetary program activities.
• Assisted in the preparation, organization and planning of the annual USAID/E3 portfolio Review, a periodic review of all aspects of a USAID Mission/Office's assistance objective, projects, and activities, held prior to preparing the annual joint Operational Plan.
• Functions as Foreign Assistance Coordination and Tracking Systems (FACTs Info) Administrator making sure all database users adhere to and follow guidelines as established by Management
• Conducted primary review of transactions looking for irregularity or commercial issues that will indicate a problem
• Assisted in conducting research on factors affecting overall budget requirements.
• Assisted the Program and budget office in Fund Transfer, Obligation/de-obligation of fiscal year budget funds
• Arranged Local and International Travel for all USAID/EGAT employees and contractors using the Government E2 Travel Solutions and ETRAMS portals.
• Obtained Country Clearances for employees as needed.

Accountant/Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Audited and reconciled accounts for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Egypt).
• Conducted post transaction reviews of the commodity import transaction for the Commodity Import Program (CIP) for USAID /Egypt.
• Examined CIP voucher in accordance with USAID/Egypt standards and applicable USAID/Egypt policies, procedures, and instructions
• Maintained client database
• Generated multiple reports in Access and Excel from client database.
• Conducted primary review of transaction looking for irregularity or commercial issues that will indicate a problem.
• Implemented the USAID Automated Directive System guideline, USAID Handbook 15 and 19, policy insurances and the Department of Commerce standard operating procedure to ensure an effective review and establish correct pricing position.
• Performed complex price comparisons including, identification of commodity, identification of terms of sale, verifying freight rate, identification of any Non-AID financed portion of price
• Adjusted commodity units and verifying number of units. Computing unit price
• Documented the CIP Transactions analysis. Interpret and evaluate data and information gathered
• Made sure that all payments made are legitimate and that there was no commingling of funds.
• Preparing correspondence on behalf of USAID/Egypt to suppliers.

Help Desk Associate

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to end users on a variety of technical issues with hardware, and software.
• Identified, researched, and resolved problems within the scope of the service level agreements.
• Responded to telephone calls, email and personnel requests for technical support.
• Documented, tracked and monitored the problem to ensure a timely resolution.