Cheryl Taylor Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, CA

• Conduct financial feasibility for emerging agency programs, develop project plans, drive decision-making points, and convene/steer cross-functional teams toward implementation.
• Served as interim program director; guided analysis and reporting of clean energy financing options for proposed CleanPowerSF.
• Identify key biennial priorities for agency’s financial sustainability goal, develop performance metrics, oversee tracking, and recommend changes to future activity.
• Coordinate reporting efforts consistent with federal and state standards across multiple internal systems.
• Conduct analyses of revenues/energy spending for clean power program ensuring adherence to creditor terms.
• Develop and implement procedures for tracking revenues and eligible grant expenditures.

San Francisco Bay Area

Oakland, CA

• Prepared, presented, and monitored annual budget of $980M.
• Forecasted $420M of general fund revenues.
• Planned and facilitated biennial budget review for City departments and City Council.
• Led preparation of quarterly report on revenues and expenditures for presentation to City Council.
• Monitored Oakland Redevelopment Agency (ORA) and City legislation for their effects on City and ORA budgets.
• Managed staff of 12, including five direct reports (one principal financial analyst, two financial analysts, five budget analysts, three accountants, and one administrative assistant).

San Francisco, CA

• Planned, organized, and directed all functions of the Authority’s Finance Department, including budget and analysis; general and payroll accounting; annual financial audit; banking and treasury; and internal US Housing.
• Managed staff of 12, including three direct reports.

Hayward, CA

• Oversaw payroll expense budget of $220M.
• Assisted executive vice-president and vice-president with strategy development.
• Ensured proper accrual of stores’ end-of-month payroll expenses; configured weekly/seasonal/end-of-month financial results forecasts, provided variance analysis, and researched/corrected irregularities.
• Conducted ad hoc analyses of sales revenue and personnel expenses.
• Supervised staff of two planning analysts.

Oakland, CA

• Analyzed monthly health plan forecasts of investment project spending; prepared detailed explanations of key variance drivers.
• Created management reports that compared cost center/investment project actuals to budgets and forecasts.
• Evaluated decision point documents presented to governing bodies in support of “go/no-go” decisions.

Oakland, CA

• Responsible for $137M health plan portfolio and annual software development budget.
• Prepared monthly financial reforecast of year-end spending on software applications under development.
• Presented financial reforecast/analyses to executive-level operations and information technology committee.
• Managed staff of three financial analysts and one program controller.

Master Of City Planning (Mcp), City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Additional accounting and finance courses completed at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History And African & Afro-American Studies