Candace Hicks Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Va, Us

Alexandria

Managed Financial and budgetary functions of the unit. Engage in procurement and accounts payable facilitation and monitoring. Program support, limited grants administration, supervised and approved processing of purchase orders and invoices, engaged and collaborated with stakeholders, as needed. Building experience with University and fund accounting.

Washington Navy Yard, District Of Columbia

Washington D.C.

Assistant to Director of Washington Navy Yard Office

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Alexandria Va

Boeblingen Germany

- Identified, contracted and scheduled 5 speakers and events for the student body of over 800 students. Enabled students to have a richer academic experience by hosting writers and speakers, and conducting a school-wide STEM competition.- Negotiated scheduling of events with school administration inside busy academic schedule.- Employed excellent organization and planning skills to successfully supervise a team of up to 20 volunteers per event. - Wrote a grant request for funds including detailed explanation of need, purpose and itemized, quantified support of grant request amount.Key Accomplishments: - Successful outcome of 4 large-scale enrichment events including “Guest author and follow-on Writing Workshop with Author”, “Irish Story Teller”, “The Great Pumpkin Drop” STEM event, “Dr. Seuss Week Celebration”, inclusive of Dr. Seuss book reading with the Deputy Commander of European Command. - PTA was awarded requested grant money of $400 to fund full event schedule for Dr. Seuss Week.

Greater San Diego Area

- Provided financial and budget counseling to service members and their families by developing family budgets. Advised clients on strategies to improve financial self-sufficiency by uncovering spending and debt habits and making individualized recommendations. - Provided loans and grants, or identified alternate strategies, including but not limited to, identifying additional community resources. Recorded personal information and recommendations into proprietary confidential database to protect personal identifiable information. Key Accomplishments: - Completed full extended policy and Customer Service Management training. Advanced from Apprentice Caseworker to Level III Caseworker.

Bethesda, Md

- Temporary staffing assigned for Strategic Finance application support. Attended IT request for modification meetings. Worked as liaison between IT and finance stakeholders to ensure IT modifications and updates met their needs. Reported findings to management.

New York, Ny

* Performed five-year planning for $81 Billion world-wide company including current year budgeting, variance analysis, reporting comparative peer data, modeling diluted shares and balance sheets to support company officers in making key strategic decisions.* Streamlined, improved accuracy and tripled the speed of forecasting multiple share and pricing models.* Increased department’s understanding of multiple debt and equity instruments by strengthening relationships between departments.* Liaison for team implementing the SAP/CRM accounts payable sub-system, ensuring proper communication among internal and external teams, resolving centralized configuration issues and establishing company-wide business rules.* Developed departmental Business Partner Contingency Plans, Business Process Contingency Plans and coordinated Business Partner testing. * Supervised department monitoring and supporting automated payments of over $6Bn annually to company’s program participants, including 206,000 retail and wholesale accounts nation-wide, and supporting a sales-force of over 2,500. * Managed audit process of payments to customers originating from field resulting in over $10,000,000 savings.* Managed team of eight professionals and non-professionals in fast-paced, high-pressure environment. *Co-developed new database which streamlined research on historical records improving company’s response to customers, sales-force, and legal department inquiries.* Managed and performed Information Technology and financial audit engagements for Fortune 500 clients within brokerage, banking, entertainment and publishing industries. * Responsible for performing data center, system development, post-implementation reviews, evaluating operational performance, and developing innovative solutions for complex business and data processing problems. Evaluated application controls, disaster recovery plans, computer security and program change control on a wide range of platforms.