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LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST
Career Overview
Senior Financial/Accounting professional with broad experience driving and implementing processes and controls that significantly improve P&L scenarios. Expert in establishing budgets, defining accounting processes, reporting and forecasting; cost-reduction and cross functional strategies; develop lasting business relationships to ensure goal-surpassing fiscal performance.
Qualifications
| Excel, Hyperion, Essbase, SQL, TOAD, PowerPoint, and Word. |
Work Experience
Lead Business AnalystMar 2010 to Current
Total System Services, Inc.
Total System Services, Inc.
- Implement new processes and business models for Sales Compensation in an ever changing environment.
- Responsibilities included the development and ongoing control of Business revenue targets, and facilitate the cascade of these plans down to the individual level in the form of quotas.
- Ensure plans are logical, cohesive and communicated clearly to business unit management.
- Skilled at manipulating and analyzing large amounts of data.
- Key results: Developed monthly metrics package incorporating all aspects of Sales Compensation.
- Managed initial Business Unit target development, along with any in-year adjustments.
- Work closely with Finance and Sales to ensure tight linkage between corporate and compensation targets.
- Perform quota assignment "roll-up" compliance to the channels to ensure quota is fully assigned.
- Perform monthly analysis of pay performance distribution, and other metrics, to evaluate quota accuracy.
- Created comprehensive analysis of linkage between financials and compensation systems.
- Developed compensation models to determine quota levels for business groups.
Worldwide Senior AccountantMay 2005 to Aug 2009
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. － Raleigh , AL
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. － Raleigh , AL
- Promoted to Senior Accountant position to consolidate and streamline the P&L for an international computer hardware company.
- Supervised 3 accountants and oversaw financial analysis, financial audits, G/L, reconciliations and fixed-asset accounting in accordance with GAAP and IFRS standards.
- Developed and managed internal and external financial relationships (e.g., 3rd party contracts, auditors) and constantly looked for ways to strengthen overall financial performance.
- Key results: Streamlined the P&L consolidation process across geographies, fostering a collaborative environment that improved productivity, individual accountability and team morale.
- Revamped the P&L reports and schedules to improve data accuracy and standardize reporting procedures.
- Implemented and interpreted company policies to develop key processes and to eliminate workload and improve support for cross functional teams (e.g.
- Cost Accounting, Marketing, Finance, and Legal).
- Assisted in internal and external audits.
- Prepared responses for audit teams regarding issues and reports.
- Completed comprehensive valuation and transfer of company assets for divestiture from IBM to Lenovo.
- Reduced monthly closing cycle by three days identifying and implementing accounting process changes.
Sr. Financial AnalystMar 1984 to Apr 2005
Bickford Senior Living － NE
Bickford Senior Living － NE
- Progressively more responsible positions, including financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting; cost accounting, variance analysis and inventory accounting.
- Led several finance teams in budgeting and forecasting fiscal performance for Development, SG&A and Information Technology Expense and Capital.
- Collaborated with many cross functional teams for budget requirements, delivering comprehensive analysis for fiscal goals.
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- Restructured budgets and forecasting processes to ensure delivery of fiscal performance in accordance with new strategic organizations.
- Developed Information Technology matrix to capture all activities for tracking and reporting.
- Reduced physical inventory variance by 90% leading a team of accountants to reconcile the outstanding variance.
- Received an informal award.
- Effectively introduced business processes for costing, inventory and volumes planning for newly formed business unit.
- Developed Large Enterprise repository for customer pricing consistency on worldwide contracts.
- A one stop shop to ensure all contracts contained accurate pricing information.
Education and Training
Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Financial ManagementPace University State University of New York － CityAccounting and Financial Management
Associate of Applied Science, AccountingBroome Community CollegeAccounting
Skills
accounting, Accountant, streamline, budgeting, budgets, budget, business processes, closing, computer hardware, contracts, Cost Accounting, costing, delivery, Essbase, external audits, Finance, financials, financial, financial analysis, financial audits, financial reporting, forecasting, functional, Hyperion, IBM, Information Technology, inventory, Legal, Marketing, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Enterprise, policies, pricing, processes, reporting, Sales, SQL, strategic, TOAD, valuation, variance analysis
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School Attended
- Pace University State University of New York
- Broome Community College
Job Titles Held:
- Lead Business Analyst
- Worldwide Senior Accountant
- Sr. Financial Analyst
Degrees
- Bachelor of Science , Accounting and Financial Management
Associate of Applied Science , Accounting
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