Cassandra Lowe Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Ct, Us

Windsor, Ct

Bloomfield, Ct

• Responsible for updating daily and 18 month forecasting cash flow model report used to make crucial financial decisions for the company.• Oversaw the monthly close cycle, approving journal entries and reconciliation of all accounting activity for North America and U.K along with consolidation of results.• In charge of all Credit and Collections for US Operations, working with government agencies and other customers.

• Led all Resort and Land portfolio accounting representing $1.7B in assets and over 200 borrower accounts. • Consistently performed an accurate and timely reconciliation of all activity using Lawson G/L within a 2 day month end close in accordance with GAAP.• Performed complete financial analysis and communication to corporate accounting of monthly operating results including revenue and expenses. Worked with a cross functional team in the preparation and presentation to Executive Committee during the monthly operating review and financial planning cycle.• Identified changing business needs applying training of the LEAN principals in order to minimize waste, maximize value, and improve capacity within the Finance department. Significant reduction in staff with no change to the quality of work produced by the team.

• Responsible for the monthly forecasting and strategic planning along with working on the Strategic Business Review and the Long Range budget plan for $1B in assets.• Prepared monthly funding report actual and forecast by account to analyze funding trends; this included working with various Account Managers to understand specific issues that influenced funding demands.• Conducted financial analysis on financial portfolio metrics, margin analysis, expenses and earnings actual vs. forecast.• Communicated monthly results, forecast and yearly budgets to Division President and Corporate Accounting office.

• Consolidated, analyzed and reported the monthly profit and loss statements by three site locations, revenues exceeding $300M and EBITDA of approximately $33M.• Worked with departmental managers and Controller to develop the Space, Land and Sea budget of $90M by department group and object classifications.• Learned the Manpower reporting system using various excel functions to reduce preparation time of reports from two weeks to one day generating monthly graphs and analysis by program as compared to forecast and plan for over 600 employees.

Mba, Finance

Bs, Accounting