Benjamin Willingham Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

- Manage financial settlement, data analytics, and customer relationships for a group of wholesale settlement contracts in the PPA Market.- Serve as a financial representative in cross-functional projects with our Technology Organization, ensuring business-side representation for application, system, and database-driven enhancements rolled out to our business units.- Develop reporting and analytics to address business use cases for Financial & Contract Services, using standard reporting applications (PowerBI, Microsoft Power Platform) and integrated development environments (SSMS, Oracle SQL Dev).

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

- Generated staffing model insights, KPI analysis reports, invoice tracking metrics to guide multi-department management.- Created departmental budgets and quarterly forecasts and conducted monthly/quarterly variance analysis to help align business performance with decision-making of senior leadership. - Built financial models for special projects to determine financial competency of complex ad hoc scenarios (vendor changes, emerging technologies, internal reorganizations, workforce reductions).- Managed one of Protective’s two interns from the Birmingham Promise Program, a city-funded program designed to provide occupational experience, professional development and mentorship to high school seniors from Birmingham City Schools (Jan-May 2023).

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

- Worked with the customer experience team and financial operations department to optimize, automate, and restructure financial analysis processes across both teams.- Tasked with an Executive Benefits claims project to streamline claims data intake pipelines for high-profile corporate executive clientele.- Hired upon college graduation as a full-time analyst in Financial Operations.

- Collected field documentation, photographs, and real estate data of potential properties for sale.- Took on complex projects troubleshooting data submissions and digital communication channels to improve work experience and system performance.- Gained valuable experience multitasking in a dynamic work environment requiring extreme attention to detail, fast-paced critical thinking, and consistent follow ups with customers and administration.