Business/Financial/Budget/Reporting/Analyst Resume

Title
Business/Financial/Budget/Reporting/Analyst

Primary Skills
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT/ANAL, REPORTING/DOCUMENTATION, BUSINESS ANALYSIS, BUDGET DEVELOPMENT/ADMIN, DATA ANALYSIS/TREND ...

Location
US-IN-New Albany

Posted
Sep-14-09

SUMMARY
With 20 years of comprehensive experience in ? ORGANIZATIONAL RE-ENGINEERING REPORTING/DOCUMENTATION GENERAL ACCOUNTING? FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT/ANALYSIS PLANNING/SCHEDULING STAFF MANAGEMENT? BUDGET DEVELOPMENT/ADMINSTRATION BUSINESS ANALYSIS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT? CLIENT/SERVER TECHNOLOGIES MANUFACTURING PROCESSES DATA ANALYSIS/TREND TECHNOLOGIES? Expertise in preparing financial statements, developing the annual budgets and analysis. Self-starter, detail oriented, who possess strong analytical and problem solving skills with broad experience in all aspects of accounting and financial management. Demonstrated hands-on management style in the development and implementation of strategic plans to ensure company growth. Solid planning and organizational skills in coordinating all aspects of each project from inception through completion. Sees the big picture and plans appropriate strategies to achieve results. Well disciplined with proven ability to manage multiple assignments efficiently under extreme pressure while meeting tight deadline schedules. Strong team builder and facilitator, fosters and atmosphere that encourages highly talented accounting professionals to balance high-level skills with maximum production. Ascertains needs and goals, streamlines existing operations, turns around unprofitable functions, envisions new concepts and future trends, and follows through with development, direction, and accomplishment. Effectively communicates direction, commits people to action, and conveys complex information in easily understood formats. Dedicated, multi-talented team builder who develops improved methods/systems and managers and grows people.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business and Reporting Analyst - Jun. 2008 - Apr. 2009
Kentucky Trailer Company, Louisville, KY 2008
Design and deploy user-based Business Intelligence reporting tools for reporting analytical and graphical capabilities throughout the organization.? Train users on available reporting resources/tools, their capabilities and their interpretation. ? Provide support to CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems and processes.? Provides oversight of web-based applications to include CRM, company website, intranet and HR self-service.? Manage assigned projects; provide regular status communications to internal business partner's requirements.? Design, developed and maintains a Q&A/Warranty model using Microsoft Access.? Collaborate with project sponsors and managers to determine project scope and vision? Gather user requirements via questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods? Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirement specifications? Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the Developers/Project Team? Where necessary, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on findings? Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions? Work with stakeholders and the Project Team to prioritize collected requirements? Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to Developers and/or the Project Team? Develop and conduct peer reviews to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted? Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications (verbally or through written documentation) to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders, so that issues and solutions are understood? Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes? Ensure that testing activities will allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues

Financial Analyst/Budget Analyst/Reporting Analyst - Jun. 2000 - Jun. 2000
PPG Industries, Louisville, KY
Design, developed, and maintains a budget model using Microsoft Access, which has replaced the current PPG Architectural, finishes model. This model has reduced the budget process from a six moth process to just a one month process.? Assisted in the installation and implementation of Hyperion system 9 products.? Completed the development of Financial Planning for the entire PPG Architectural Finishes using Hyperion Planning (Hyperion System 9). This is a common and integrated planning and reporting system that would be implemented at an enterprise level with every Business units to provide "One Planning System". This implementation will allow executed calculations, consolidations, web forms to enable data entry and report to allow analysis of the data. It will allow the ability to support greater involvement and ownership of the planning process by all levels of Financial Planners with the greater value analyzing consolidated results and offering insights not currently available. ? Developed and automated the distribution and delivery of yearly budget and monthly financial reports using Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion Workspace and xml which has allow user to receive emails, view snapshots, and run customized web reports. This automation has increase the monthly output of financial reports for all business units to 5000 reports sent monthly. ? Assisted with implementation and transition to Oracle accounting system.? Reduced the month-end closing process from eight to three days.? Analyze and explain Operation's allocations to the front office and indirect costs (allocations into Operations) to the Operations Managers.? Prepare, Analyze and review month-end financial reports and reconcile any differences and explain P&L attribution and sensitivity measures. ? Generate, prepare, distribute and work directly with Operations leaders to provide financials analysis and guidance in order to enhance cost efficiencies, vertical integration initiatives, manufacturing strategy, verify financial stability, inventory strategy and strengthen long term financials performance.? Develop analytical tools and frameworks for understanding, modeling and explaining cost and performance trends using Access, Excel, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Reports, and Hyperion Retrieve.? Enhance process improvements to enable more efficient use of data and increase analytical contribution to operating management.? Created and presented monthly/quarterly/yearly expense analysis spreadsheets to inform management of opportunities to decrease expenses.? Maintain and update allocation methodologies and compute adjustments resulting from changes for implementation.? Maintain the General Ledger for Operations including month-end book close an d re-class of accounting entries and support areas above including month-end closing.? Involved in creating the ad-hoc and customized reports based on the user requirements using Excel Spreadsheet Add-In.? Involved extensively in the documentation and end user training.? Take the initiative to coordinate with IT department on projects related to future automating.

Staff Accountant - Nov. 1995 - May 2000
Community Foundation of Louisville, Inc, Louisville, KY
Prepared and maintained all financial records and supporting documentations related to donor funds, grant disbursements, investment accounts, tax return, and internal financial operations of $135,000,000.00 in assets. ? Liaison between the Foundation and the banks and brokerage firms to insure the efficient and proper settlement of securities.? Reconcile monthly bank and investment statements.? Process account payables and receivables.? Transfer funds to and from investment accounts.? Prepared Quarterly Endowment Funds Activity reports, and balanced the reports to ensure accuracy.? Provide external auditors with assistance and additional documentation.? Assisted with the source, purchase, and install of multipurpose Blackbaud database software to facilitate real time communication of financial and donor information with external fundraising consultant.

Senior Accounting Clerk/Billing and Receivable - Dec. 1994 - Nov. 2000
Environmental Elements Service Corporation, Jeffersonville, IN
Responsible to the Controller for a variety of accounts receivable, job cost and billing functions.? Managed Accounts Receivable and Billing Staff, provided training to ensure consistent quality, and addressed employee concerns. Improvements in workplace environment reduced staff turnover by 25%.? Entered orders into booking/backlog system.? Prepared invoices, posted cash, generated monthly accounts receivable reports and reconciled to general ledger.? Customer contact regarding payments of outstanding invoices.

Training Budget Coordinator/Administrative Office Supervisor/Reserve Field Reporting System Coordinator - Nov. 1983 - Jul. 2000
United States Navy
Tracked expenditures to a $2,000,000+ training budget for the command's eighteen subordinate reserve centers operating computerized database and spreadsheet.? Trained and supervised eight personnel in the preparation and handling of correspondence, travel orders, and required reports.? Installed the Reserve standard Training and readiness Support drill accounting computer system and maintained its operational capability.? Completely revamped the command's Security Access Program, documented security clearances for all command personnel and established a model security-training program.? Supervised the actions of fifteen Reserve RESFIRST Petty Officers.? Maintained over 1500-selected reserve drill pay accounting records.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS EDUCATION
United States Navy School of BusinessUnited States Navy School Reserve
American Council onReporting System? United States Navy Leadership Development Program? Certification? Microsoft Office User Specialist Access 2000? Hyperion Essbase XTD Analytic Services FundamentalHyperion Essbase XTD Analytic Services Boot camp - Basic Database and Administrator Design

Mar. 1984
US Naval Technical Training Center
Honor Student of Class 84131

May 1992
US Naval Technical Training Center
Honor Graduate Yeoman Class "A" School? Navy Achievement MedalNavy Achievement MedalGold Star in lieu of Second Award

STATEMENTS
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SUMMARY
? Skills? Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook? Windows 2007/2000/NT/98/95/CE? MAS90? Blackbaud (raiser edge)? Oracle 11i? Hyperion Essbase (EAS Essbase Administration Services) ? Hyperion Reports? Hyperion Planning? Hyperion Shared Services? Essbase Excel Spreadsheet Add-Ins? Hyperion Planning Workspace? Hyperion Smart View? Hyperion System 9 (9.2)? OLAP Extractor? Noetixs? Citrix? Salesforce? Syteline (ERP)

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