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Dearborn, Michigan, United States

• On-going management, coaching and training of Business Intelligence Analysts in multiple locations, continually improving team skill sets and efficiencies. • Create and maintain review protocols to ensure accuracy and consistency across all reports, both automated and Ad Hoc• Collaborate with Function Leads to determine the budget reporting needs of each support function Key Projects/Finance Lead: Developed global monthly forecasting process, created revenue projection reporting to gain seven weeks insight into operations performance, implemented global reporting tool for budget status tracking, expanded invoicing support from North American to global programs, re-launched client facing monthly business review meetings, increased publishing cycle for billable hours reporting resulting in 39% reduction in manual corrections

• Responsible for financial reporting of actual, forecast and budget of $200M+ annual corporate expenses along with the allocation to operating segments across North America, Europe and Asia• Manage planning and analysis for multiple corporate departments, including: Sales, Marketing, Service, Human Resources, Strategic Initiatives, Legal, Facilities and Risk Management.• Facilitate monthly meetings with corporate department leaders, including C-level executives, on actual results compared against annual plan and forecast.• Authorize and prepare monthly journal entries, budget transfers and capital spend.Key Projects/Finance Lead: Implemented Operational Shared Services branch-level chargeback process and developed resulting financial reporting, annual HQ budget and target development, various budget reduction initiatives, Marketing and Sales Division reorganizations, Micro Governance Wage-Hour team and Strategic Workforce Planning certification.

Troy, Mi

• Manage three full-time Accounts Receivable Analysts including training, evaluating and prioritizing workload and providing direction to meet daily, weekly and monthly deadlines and objectives. • Facilitate inter-departmental assistance to resolve outstanding AR issues. • Developed strong team presence, engaged employees and improved work relationshipsKey Projects: Developed team performance tracking metric, initiated cross-training and career development for staff, automated cash application process using macros and pivot tables

Troy, Mi

• Responsible for database administration, consolidation, analysis and management reporting. • Support CWO accounts with standard and ad hoc reporting, including performance metrics through compilation and interpretation of data pulled from vendor management tools.• Provide analysis of past and present operations trends, analyzing data to identify root cause and present findings to management. • Propose, research, analyze and implement recommendations to resolve/streamline reporting and invoicing processes.Key Projects: Designed dashboard to report and track Key Performance Indicator metrics to leadership and both internal and external customers.

Troy, Mi

• Develop combined $100M budget for corporate departments, including headcount analysis, chargebacks and allocations.• Provide internal financial analysis, consultation and decision support for multiple corporate divisions.• Complete performance analysis by reviewing comparative operating results, researching variances and documenting variances.Key Projects: Established legal fees budgeting system to manage and improve tracking of outside counsel expenses, advised key stakeholders with recommended cost savings to support corporate wide mandates.

Troy, Mi

• Provide real estate appraisal consulting for residential and commercial loans• Prepare written description and analysis of real estate properties, research sales information and examine operating costs of income properties to determine estimate of value. • Complete performance analysis by reviewing comparative operating results, researching variances and documenting variances.Key Projects: Managed team of six appraisers, including assigning projects and reviewing final reports. Evaluated and implemented accounting and billing system

Detroit, Mi

• Develop budget and value inventory levels for several Powertrain plants, research and explain resulting budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual variances, including thorough Bill of Material audit. • Journalize month end accounting close and annual physical inventory adjustments. • Develop training for the department’s accounting system, including overhaul of the course content and instruction manual.

Detroit, Mi

• Prepare and post month-end cost of sales/inventory journals to the general ledger and perform material reconciliations.• Prepare and reconcile annual physical inventory gains/losses for two Powertrain plants

Detroit, Mi

• Develop and conduct instructor-led training, resulting in decreased learning curve and increased productivity.• Implement new cash forecast process, resulting in average 2.1% forecast-to-actual variance• Coordinate the successful effort to enroll 8,700 dealers on electronic funds transfer

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Corporate Finance