Ashley Shuster Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York

•Collaborate with the Director of Financial Data Governance in streamlining PeopleSoft Grants business processes, and lead enterprise solutions for system enhancements, upgrades, and / or functionalities.•Demonstrate experience with research-related data and how it integrated with Pre-Award RNAV, PeopleSoft HCM and Financial, CRMS, IRB, Research Navigator IACUC, iLab, DCM (DLAR), and Grant Reports, including incorporating the flow into analytics and highlight fit-gap components.•Monitor targeted test plans to assess business processes’ change impact on current systems within NYU Langone Health Business Units; write functional requirements for system and unit changes to PeopleSoft applications (testing plan, scenarios, documentation, and defect management).•Collaborate with Business Analysts in IT to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of issues during testing and post-production phases of system upgrades, implementations, and enhancements.•Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in analyzing and resolving complex system-related issues and / or errors that arise in PeopleSoft applications; discover and identify causes, inform and propose set of actions needed in order to correct, perform testing and validate results, and implement solutions.•Support the major goal of streamlining post-award processes to increase efficiencies and low overhead costs by providing real-time visibility into a single source of information for greater accountability.•Implement process improvement initiatives and provide support for ongoing enhancements with a focus on the integration of Grants Management, Billing, Project Costing, Customer Contracts, and Receivables in order to ensure smooth workflow of the financial transactions and activities.•Deliver training sessions to internal customers to assist them in performing and improving their daily work processes, as well as mentoring new hires via hands-on training and guidance to exceed goals.

Financial Systems & Operations

•Strategically supported team-focused development initiatives, including design, creation, testing, and facilitation of daily user support and troubleshooting of issues ranging from key detection to resolution.•Seamlessly co-managed requests from stakeholders following change management process, and developed change request business cases (i.e. define problem, pros, cons, suggestions, cost / benefit analysis, analytics).•Designed targeted test plans to assess business process change impact on current systems within multiple business units and wrote functional and technical requirements for system and unit changes to PeopleSoft application to provide comprehensive functional and technical support during project lifecycle phases.•Led the reassessment of Grants module configurations and corrected issues in collaboration with users.•Reconciled high monthly Grants modules with GL, project costing, asset management, expenses, and AP.•Delivered project and production-driven subject matter expertise and system training to functional users.•Improved business processes as primary contact among MCIT and IT Research and community peers.•Performed testing of new system reports and automated resources via enhancement of Actionable Data Queries (ADQs), dashboards, and work centers, and evaluated tools to develop and deliver ad-hoc reports.

Research Finance

•Capitalized on the opportunity to review and follow up on required accounts receivable schedules, policies, and procedures to ensure billing complied with Federal, non-Federal, and Sponsor statutes and guidelines.•Expertly assembled daily accounts receivable aging reports, submitted weekly accounts receivable metrics to senior management, and facilitated on-time invoicing of CRB-clinical research / pre-paid contracts.•Identified, analyzed, and resolved PeopleSoft billing / accounts receivable system issues and / or errors.•Built and sustained beneficial sponsor relationships and tracked outstanding issues and unpaid invoices.•Supported Assistant Director in performing miscellaneous ad-hoc projects, reports, research, and analysis.•Delivered system training for grants, billing, and A / R modules to staff members from other institutions.

Greater New York City Area

•Capitalized on the opportunity to review and follow up on required accounts receivable schedules, policies, and procedures to ensure billing complied with Federal, non-Federal, and Sponsor statutes and guidelines.•Expertly assembled daily accounts receivable aging reports, submitted weekly accounts receivable metrics to senior management, and facilitated on-time invoicing of CRB-clinical research / pre-paid contracts.•Identified, analyzed, and resolved PeopleSoft billing / accounts receivable system issues and / or errors.•Built and sustained beneficial sponsor relationships and tracked outstanding issues and unpaid invoices.•Supported Assistant Director in performing miscellaneous ad-hoc projects, reports, research, and analysis.•Delivered system training for grants, billing, and A / R modules to staff members from other institutions.

• Handled accurate and complete reconciliations for multiple balance sheet and income statement accounts.• Selected to perform daily roll-forward analysis for general ledger accounts while also recording month-end property tax accrual entries, accounts payable, and accounts receivable in the general ledger.• Actively supervised the preparation of quarterly true-up files to recover funds on repurchased loans.• Prepared tax schedules, produced journal entries, posted transactions, assisted in closings, performed variance analysis, gathered information for auditors, and handled ad-hoc projects and SEC research.• Skillfully administered weekly de-boards for FNMA loans and prepared remittance schedules.

• Handled account reconciliations, researched PMACS policies, and managed entire collections process.• Effectively processed manual journal entries to clear out accounts, maintaining accounts within an acceptable aging band.• Administered quarterly CORALS for BSC GAAP and BSC STAAT.

• Yielded 5% greater administrative efficiency by implementing a new inventory control system, and further increased client base 25% via new direct mail campaigns and targeted mailings.• Produced a 33% annual growth rate in 2010 by creating dynamic marketing campaigns, and boosted companywide sales 18% by generating high-volume growth and revenue.

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

MEMBER OF THE ACCOUNTING SOCIETY CONNECTICUT CPA REQUIREMENT TRAINING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING TRAINING FRAUD ACCOUNTING TRAINING

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