Catherine Grattan Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca

• Present monthly Overhead and G&A rate status to VP of Finance• Ensure that the company remains compliant with internal and external policies• Manage a large group in multiple business areas successfully• Establish company wide overhead and G&A rates • Improve company policies thru business process optimization• Provide guidance and support to the Director of Business Management and Sector Director

Santa Clara, Ca

• Provide financial leadership with forecasting/budgeting , strategic planning activities and management reporting• Ensure key business performance risks, issues, and opportunities are highlighted to management; track record of maintaining forecast accuracy• Collaborate cross-functionally to define, track, and interpret key operational metrics for financial management • Utilize Oracle and Hyperion to provide senior management with strategic quarterly and annual forecasting • Develop program baseline and work authorization documentation along with managing monthly Earned Value Reporting in order to support program management• Maintain estimates to provide scope growth and completion of proposal pricing inputs for new business development• Project Manager/Control Account Manager for both international and domestic programs collaborating with Engineering and the Customer to successfully deliver product on time and within budget• Serve as Proposal Manager and successfully won large multi-year program

Santa Clara, Ca

• Responsible for annual strategic plan, quarterly forecast of sales, earnings, orders, cash flow, investment, and analyses for the Geospatial Solutions LOB with a value of approximately $150M in yearly revenue• Consolidate annual plan and quarterly forecast data provided by LOB Program Managers and GDAIS International Subsidiary, analyze and challenge reasonableness of data and drive changes as necessary• Present and review data with LOB Operational Director and VP of Operations in support of the President’s Review. • Manage team of financial analysts located in various sites throughout the United States who provide weekly and monthly financial analyses and reportage in support of the various contracts within the line of business• Successfully support Operational Director and their technical staff by providing financial mentoring and guidance as it relates to all levels of the LOB, while working remotely • Provide financial and operational executive management with monthly variance analyses comparing Orders, Sales, Earnings, Backlog and ROS results against the monthly plan and forecast values • Supported the conversion of legacy financial systems to SAP, Oracle and Hyperion • Work effectively with Program Management, Engineering and Contracts in cross-functional environment

Santa Clara, Ca

• Provide comprehensive financial planning, analysis, and decision support to Enhanced Sales & Services Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations (Over $500M Line of business)• Manage financial team which provided operational Vice Presidents with financial reportage for the Consulting services LOB, and the Financial Software Services LOB, thus enabling them to drive improvements in their business• Responsible for the development of the annual operating plan, mid-year plan, and monthly and quarterly forecast for all of Field Operations• Project Manager for special assignment related to the sale and divestiture of the Lucent Technologies ESS Division

Santa Clara, Ca

• Manager of an Information Technology finance team tasked with all business operations involving the Chief Information Officer and Director of Client Services supporting a multi-billion dollar customer. Responsibilities included enterprise level financial planning, integration and management of annual and long range budget planning, price modeling, forward pricing rate agreements, customer site operating plans, and development/negotiation of customer Service Level Agreements involving IT Services.• Produced ad-hoc and independently designed financial reporting as required to facilitate strategic decision making by senior level management regarding issues and concerns relating to IT performance• Selected as member of a senior-level finance team that successfully implemented an SAP/R3 Enterprise level solution • Directly responsible for successfully mapping out required business process changes for all financial billing and reporting of customer provided IT services for which I was presented an EIS Corporate Award • Provided customer assistance related to the IT business integration management activities such as total IT resource planning/integration and reporting; overhead planning/control and reporting• Continually ensured a high level of customer satisfaction and partnership by supporting Project managers involved in Enterprise level software development, providing financial resource planning and forecasting of IT services to ensure successful project roll-outs• Responsible for maintaining compliance to all applicable accounting disclosure statements as it related to customer and internal financial cost reporting

Minor, Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Senior Honors