Alec Fink, Mba, Lssbb Candidate Email and Phone Number

Transferred to Process Improvement Engineering team responsible for promoting and facilitating continuous change through Lean Six Sigma methodologies in complex manufacturing environment.• Actively participated in Rapid Improvement Events with several stakeholder organizations to identify opportunities and potential solutions to complex manufacturing issues.• Evaluates potential critical path impacts as they apply to dynamic manufacturing schedules.• Current Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Candidate

Recruited internally to join the COLUMBIA team due to Excel expertise and experience working with large datasets and inclination towards process improvement. • Build and maintain various reports and data visualizations in multiple formats (e.g. slicer files, pivot tables, charts, graphs) used by internal stakeholders and external customers. • Re-engineered, consolidated, and automated metrics using Excel to reduce time to produce a 300+ PowerPoint slide deck from 2 days to 1.5 hours. • Overhauled the group’s staffing metrics, centralized separate and often competing metrics packages, and built a new comprehensive package to reduce weekly maintenance from ~8 hours a week to ~15 minutes. • Assumed additional responsibilities in November 2022 related to a supervisor vacancy that included additional reporting requirements, more frequent engagement with customer and program management team, contribution to higher-level decision making, and increased responsibility for new hire onboarding. • Deliver monthly Provisioned Item Order / Material Order reports covering subcontracts totaling >$800M. • Support Accounting, Tax, Contracts, Supply Chain Management, and Program Office organizations on ad hoc projects and reporting requests. • Works closely with Program Office and Engineering in developing and tracking EACs for complex efforts.

Transitioned to the Subcontract Audit group responsible for reviewing supplier proposals and preparing reports for supply chain management for use in procurement negotiations with suppliers. • Executed desk audits that required direct communication with vendors (foreign and domestic) and supply chain management to generate reports. Produced 20+ reports each year on annual target of 12 to achieve top producer among up to 18 analysts.• Conducted field audits that required travel to vendor locations and interaction with vendor staff ranging from shop employees to C-suite. • Performed a solo audit to support procurement of vital components for the COLUMBIA Class submarine (>$650M) and contributed to the negotiation process that led to >$80M in procurement savings. • Reviewed Engineering Proposal Analyses (EPAs), analyzed vendor forward pricing rate packages, and conducted financial stability audits and financial condition analyses on suppliers. • Built automated pricing templates using advanced Excel functions and formulas to expedite proposal reviews. • Onboarded and trained new hires. Started tenure as a Financial Analyst, Project and was promoted to Financial Analyst, Systems (December 2020)

Accepted a return offer after completing multiple internships with responsibility for supporting maintenance and modernization contracts for delivered boats.• Prepared cost reports for stakeholders and customers, contributed to profit reporting used for earnings reports, and participated in government audits. • Partnered with Accounts Receivable to construct and update billing instructions and collaborated with Accounts Payable and supply chain teams to place requisitions and pay invoices. • Overhauled multiple Excel reporting tools (e.g. charts, graphs, metrics) to reduce manual effort. • Worked closely with directorate to review Labor and Material Transfer trends, ultimately revising related multi-department wide procedures as a process improvement.Hired as an entry level financial analyst, promoted twice: to Financial Analyst, Senior (December 2013) and to Financial Analyst, Project (October 2017).

Assisted Corporate Reporting group with various ad-hoc drills, forecasting and reporting.

Interned in the Payroll / Timekeeping department between college semesters, from May 2007 to August 2007, December 2007 to January 2008, May 2008 to August 2008, December 2008 to January 2009. Assisted with daily Payroll / Timekeeping duties including the printing, sorting, delivering of checks to employees; servicing of employee time punches; and the sorting of vital information and documents needed in the department. Occasionally assisted in the Accounts Payable department by reviewing and sorting of vendor invoice vouchers and scheduling of offsite storage vendor service visits