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Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

• Oversaw the annual budget and quarterly forecast modeling process by ensuring alignment with organizational goals providing accurate financial insights for decision-making. Supported business units in monthly close.
• Created process that reduced the timeframe to receive and process forecast/annual budget updates for P&L with $300MM in revenue. Established regular update intervals with operations/sales/accounting teams. Result.
• Created a reporting/tracking template that improved a $25MM Capital Expenditure forecast. Worked with strategic finance and operations to evaluate project purchase orders and progress on construction. Result: More.
• Established reporting metrics for Month End C-Suite reporting package for a $300MM P&L. Worked with accounting/sales/metrics teams to collect accurate data related to sales bookings/installations/churn. Result.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Oversaw $300MM Global Intercompany Charge Out for Citigroup Operations and Technology group using allocation methodology and Oracle based systems ensuring accurate posting and recording. Participated in annual.
• Coordinated audit for controllers group liaising between audit and controller teams. Assigned audit activities, monitored/interpreted results and ensured timelines were met. Result: Passed audit ensuring controls were.
• Oversaw $300MM+ Global Intercompany transaction process including on-boarding of manual models into an automated modeling tool. Result: Reduced processing errors from 15% to 3% while increasing analysis bandwidth.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Created models for global intercompany expense plan using various allocation methodologies within an Oracle based allocation system which ensured Legal and Management Plan/Actuals reporting per organization policy..
• Facilitated initiative to move some operations offshore. Trained individuals in concepts, process, and execution of the expense allocation system. Result: Successful transition and positive feedback from offshore team.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Managed and supported implementation of a new General Ledger for North America businesses (Global Consumer Bank and International Clients Group) by engaging with Technology partners in the resolution of system defects.
• Participated in GL conversion project including data attribute mapping, testing/reconciliation of feed data, as well as "training the trainers" for end user training. Result: More timely and accurate GL feeds/reports.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Contributed to Financial Month End Close process, reconciling expense accounts between posting and reporting systems, identifying gaps and errors in journal posting. Researched, prepared, and posted financial.
• Implemented/Managed an automated global intercompany expense allocation system (total transactions of >$B) involving testing/training/development. Project turned a manual process into a largely automated one with the.

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Assisted in the processing of monthly expense recoveries for the Global Functions Allocation group.Prepared monthly upload of transactions to Cash Processing system.Ensured accurate reporting during month-end close by investigating variances from monthly expense.plan. Provided assistance to Financial Regional Officers on an as needed basis via ad-hoc.