• Provide vision and leadership to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for the optimization of financial data• Lead process improvement related to financial tools, including creating and driving an adoption strategy for new and existing tools, automation, and process transformation• Partner with leadership to understand and document reporting requirements and needs• Identify, develop, and maintain metrics to enhance data visualizations and provide better visibility into performance• Collaborate across divisions to ensure alignment with enterprise solutions, data structure standards, and best practices

• Led effort to successfully remediate ten internal audit findings• Thoroughly remodeled function and rewrote policies and procedures to reflect new standards• Enhanced relationship with Managed Service Provider, introduced and monitored adherence to rate cards, implemented contingent labor approval workflows, led efforts to mitigate co-employment risk, insourced administration of background checks, categorized contractor type, expanded and enhanced reportable data on contractors, reworked compliance training, evaluated vendor management tools• Develop and continuously iterate best practices for contractor utilization across MISO• Ensure adherence to NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) standards

• Oversee, coordinate, and facilitate the completion of day-to-day financial planning, annual budgeting, and long-range forecasting for the company• Lead and coach FP&A staff to generate analyses and support key business decisions• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages for presentation to executive leadership, the board of directors, and stakeholders• Proactively identify, understand, and summarize risks that could prevent the achievement of objectives and recommend action for resolution• Organize, analyze, and interpret large data sets (financial, internal labor, project milestone) to deliver actionable business metrics• Continuously develop tools and systems and automate processes• Own corporate accrual policy (GAAP) and collaborate with business partners to ensure proper recording of expenses

• Partnered with leadership to develop, prioritize and manage operating and capital budgets• Developed and automated scalable reports and interactive dashboards to provide insights and performance metrics• Acted as a liaison to internal groups to ensure alignment• Implemented use of ETL and visualization tools to improve financial analysis and reporting• Identified trends and predicted future issues to facilitate problem-solving and issue resolution efforts

• Led portfolio analysis reviews as on-site manager• Prepared portfolio analysis reports for clients and presented to boards of directors• Assessed credit risk associated with individual commercial borrowers and with entire loan portfolios• Evaluated loan documentation• Recommended alternatives for improvement