• Current team member tasked with evaluating and improving margins by investigating operation and sales methods• Evaluates the optimal way to produce PVC pipe, main responsibility includes analyzing possible project paybacks• Utilize advanced spreadsheet development capability to handle immense amounts of data in multiple ways to help improve efficiency• Help operations and sales to track down product cost changes that affect margins• Calculate standard rates for all business cost centers as well as determine variances between actual and standard• Provide technical resource experience for sales, operations, and executive levels• Communicate financial information to upper level executives on a regular basis• Review budget discrepancies from budget of $100 million+• Determines, records, and reports unit costs of factors affecting production, such as raw materials, labor, inventory, machine maintenance, etc.• Analyzes changes in raw materials, overhead, manufacturing methods, etc., for effects on production costs.• Provides management with cost and comparative reports to indicate need for change in production.• Assists in developing, installing, and maintaining cost accounting methods and procedures.

Finance & Actuarial- Business Metrics: Performance Reporting AnalystDevelopment of reports using Crystal Reports 11Measuring balanced scorecard items for Fund Administration and Real EstateAnalysis of department processes and reportsDeveloping process improvement strategiesGathering compliance data for Board of Directors annual review

I work in the Finance & Actuarial, supporting the Operations & Management Services team. In my time with TIAA-CREF, I have worked on several different projects and have many different duties, including:- Corporate tax (preparing corporate tax return for an LLC using OneSource, audit research, Unitary tax model preparation and development)- I am in charge of designing and building the quarterly newsletter for Finance & Actuarial using Microsoft Word- Administrative support for all of Finance & Actuarial- Support for internal project such as Management Reporting & Analytics (MRA) building Vizio documents and some cost allocation. MRA's goal is to streamline and make reporting easier for the complex systems at TIAA-CREF- Support of the Corporate Tax Roadmap to streamline the sales and use tax processes within the companies software.- Developing support to show inefficiencies in the project reporting area and show needed closures and past data for projects.

Performed the weekly processing of invoice batches ranging from $100,000-$300,000.Assisted in reconciling monthly bank statements, bank account of $900,000-$1,100,000.Assisted departments with explaining any discrepancies in their budget.Assisted in managing 3 work study students and helped them with professional and academic development.Responded to budget variances, total expense budget of approximately $35 million.

Part-time bookkeeper for a local web design firm using Quick Books to record revenue and expenses for the company.