Financial or Senior Financial Analyst Resume

Title
Financial or Senior Financial Analyst

Primary Skills
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Location
US-MI-Souht Lyon

Posted
Feb-02-10


Core Strengths and Expertise
-Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP.
-Financial Modeling and Financial Analysis.
-Monthly and quarterly Management Reporting Package to satisfy internal and external reporting requirements.
-Proven problem solving and analytical abilities.
-Manage monthly close process.
-Monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
-Monthly gross margin analysis.
-Search out and correct inconsistent data.
-Budgeting and Forecasting-Revenue, COGS, GP, commissions, vendor rebates/discounts, operating expenses, BS, and cash flow.
-Direct communication with department managers, executives, and product marketing managers to develop the yearly budget.
-Actual to Budget/Forecast variance analysis
-Department budgeting process development from the ground floor through monthly variance discussions.
-Report Creation and distribution
-Self Motivated - constantly seeking a better solution.
-Proven ability to multi task, work independently under pressure, and deliver results in a dynamic environment.
-Proven ability to train and mentor.
-Excellent knowledge of accounting and reporting software.(Oracle, Business Objects, Peoplesoft, MAS200, Crystal, FRX, Monarch)
-Excellent knowledge of Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Arrow ECS' Alternative Technology Group- Englewood, CO
May 2002-July 2009 August 2009 - Current
Alternative Technology Group is the leading North American specialty distributor for Value Added Resellers with over 700mm in gross sales.
Contractor
-Developed reports for internal use, vendor point of sale, and customer reports.
-Created over 150 reports delivered automatically to our many customers.
-Team lead on the Fee for Service project. Reviewed over 50,000 ATG skus for all their vendors determining the revenue recognition of gross or net for each sku.
Senior Financial Analyst
-Created the financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
-Completed the management package for the executives and outside investors providing the key drivers necessary to make decisions to increase gross profit for the company.
-Developed and completed the budget process each year.
-Reforcasted monthly, quarterly, and yearly numbers to report to Arrow.
-Completed and discussed the Quarterly Business Review with the CFO
and President of Alternative Technology.
-Prepared and distributed the daily sales log and prepared monthly sales commissions.
-Serviced 39 to 45 vendors by providing monthly sales and inventory reports to each vendor's standards for reporting. Followed new contractual agreements each quarter for vendor reporting to obtain $100k to $300k of rebate dollars per quarter.
-Prepared actual to budget analysis each month. Prepared revenue and gross profit analysis each month. Prepared operating expense variance analysis to uncover and correct the general ledger or explain the correct amounts in the general ledger. (For the US and Canada)
-Indirectly supervised and trained a co-worker on the Crystal software to enhance reporting to salespeople, customers, and vendors.
Budget Software Project Manager
-Researched budget software vendors and made recommendations on purchasing budget modeling software to the Executive Management Team. Installed, configured, and uploaded the actual and budget data into the budgeting software.
EDI Project Manager
-Managed EDI consultants and owned the EDI communication and testing with vendors. Attended a 5 day EDI boot camp located in California with the IT Director. Owned the EDI process until an EDI expert was hired allowing me to focus on the financial analysis of ATG's business.

SchlumbergerSema - Greenwood Village, CO April 1999 -May 2002
In November of 2000, Schlumberger bought Convergent with the focus of transitioning their Utility practice into the Colorado office and the beginning of SchlumbergerSema. After the Controller left in February 2002, I took over the responsibilities of the Controller and transferred the responsibilities to the new Controller in Texas during May of 2002.
Financial Reporting Manager
-Oversaw monthly reporting of the financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
-Resolved all mapping and reporting issues for internal reporting and consolidation reporting.
-Prepared all the MTD, QTD, and YTD reports including, but not limited to, P&L, BS, Days Outstanding, and the tax calculation.
-Provided for the inter-company cost allocations, variance analysis, information requests, and any other related items from the Corporate Headquarters.
-Major Contributor to the new system implementation as we are converted to the Schlumberger Accounting System. Reported directly to the CFO.

Senior Accountant/Senior Financial Analyst
-Performed the General Ledger Functions for month-end close including the Percent of Completion calculation, expense variance analysis, fringe benefit allocation, joint venture and purchase accounting entries.
-Prepared year-end audit schedules such as, BS, IS, Equity Roll forward, Statement of Cash Flows, and acted as a liaison between the external accounting firm and management.
-Reduced the close process from 10 business days to 6 business days by implementing closing schedules for Revenue, AP, and AR.
-Drove and implemented a billing procedure providing the business analysts and project managers with a consistent template increasing the efficiency and timeliness of the billing process.
-Indirectly supervised, trained, and developed the AP consultant to advance into the General Ledger position.
-Acted as a liaison between Operations and Finance to prepare the Business Plan.
-Implemented the process of allocating the facility and depreciation costs throughout the business operations and administrative departments.
-Implemented the process to create the budget plan for HR, IT, S&M, and G&A departments. Uploaded the budgets for 25 departments in FRX to allow an actual to budget comparison in the system for the first time.
-Involved executive management in the monthly analysis creating a new level of accountability for department managers, and in turn, increasing efficiencies within each department.

Verio, Inc. - Centennial, CO January 1997 - April 1999
Verio, Inc. was a start up ISP in 1996. Verio became the largest web hosting company, and now is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT Communication).

Corporate Accountant
-Performed all aspects of the monthly close process.
-Implemented an expense trend analysis for all G&A expenses and actual to budget analysis for the engineering departments.
-Acted as a liaison between the external accounting firm and the management for all audits.
-Managed the cash flow for the corporate headquarters.
-Major Contributor to the implementation from Peachtree to PeopleSoft for the General Ledger and Fixed Asset Modules.

Fischbach Corporation - Englewood, CO June 1996 - January 1997
Fischbach Corporation was a nationwide construction company.

Corporate Cash Accountant
-Consolidated and managed the daily cash flow of 8 divisions nationwide.

Telectronics Pacing Systems - Englewood, CO April 1993 - June 1996
Inventory Accountant/Fixed Asset Accountant.

University Hospital Finance Department January 1992- April 1993
Fixed Asset Technician, Payroll Technician, and Accounts Payable Technician

Pace Membership Warehouse - Englewood, CO January 1990- January 1992
Sales Audit Analyst, Tax Analyst, and Accounts Payable Analyst

EDUCATION
B.S., Business-Accounting, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Certifications
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