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Burton, Mi, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Developed a model for analyzing Accounts Receivable data for off-cycle presentations. Mid-month updates on company cash position and forecast.Worked hand in hand with the Treasury team to support executive summaries for off-cycle cash reporting on a bi-weekly basis. Hands on experience building the executive slide deck and developing the narrative using data analytics, financial key performance indicators, and fellow colleagues’ expertise.Played a critical role in implementing best practice for both Direct and Indirect free cash flow methodologies for Dematic North America. Effectively ensuring the entire region was following the same standards, protocols, and procedures to reduce errors and improve overall outcomes.Participated in a complete overhaul of an existing Cash Disbursements financial model. Becoming a key contributor in managing and designing the project to overhaul our cash payments forecasting process.Utilized Oracle and SAP to build scalable and repeatable models for forecast and budget.Played a key role in both the Direct and Indirect Free Cash Flow budget, preparing the 2024 Cash Disbursements budget, as well as the Balance Sheet to be utilized for the Indirect Free Cash Flow and Net Working Capital statements.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Create and optimize complex financial models. Includes a 13-week cash flow forecast and 13-week sales forecast.Deliver actionable business intelligence through analysis of cash flow and sales forecast. Provide explanation for variances and identify key drivers behind them.Create and present monthly operating review slide deck and supporting documentation to the executive team. Provide an overview using a waterfall for the EBITDA walk as well as financial KPI’s, trend analyses, budget vs actual comparison, prior month vs current month actuals comparison.Create weekly management dashboard consolidating operating results to give a clear comparative picture of inventory, materials, labor, and overhead costs. Includes sales, revenue, and cash flow actuals presented with applicable forecasts consolidated in a week over week format for trend analysis.Organized a cross functional team partnering finance, IT, and program management to accurately track and manage capital expenditures related to existing programs and growth programs for financial planning. Proactively identified process bottlenecks to improve forecasting accuracy. Update company quote models to reflect budgeted costs to ensure accurate and profitable business decisions are made.Audit financial information system data to ensure key components within the system are reflected accurately such as standard cost rolls. Partner with various plant and corporate controllers to fix identified errors. Provide ad hoc analysis and assist with special projects as needed.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Review and approve critical journal entries for accuracy.Spearheaded an Excel training program to mentor and teach existing accounting staff members.Created templates consolidating critical financial data from multiple sources within our accounting system. Transformed the data into actionable insight using Excel. Resulted in reducing the time required to draft final financials by five business days. Template allowed for actionable business intelligence for trend analysis and variance analysis regarding operating expenses of the business year to date, year over year, and month over month.Create PowerPoint presentations and supporting documentation for the CFO to present to the board of directors. Effectively summarizing the impact of financial information in an easily understandable way to non subject matter experts.Implemented and created a series of internal controls for journal entries that resulted in a 25% decrease in overall errors when booking entries. Documentation standards and protocols were followed consistent with AICPA recommendations.Redesigned and streamlined critical processes and took ownership of daily cash tracking and month end bank reconciliation activities. Improved efficiency by 50% by reducing time to completion for bank reconciliations across four different active accounts. Review and provide feedback for financial statement package to the CFO. Make recommendations, analyze financial information and tie back out to source data. Identify any material variances and provide explanation.Perform profitability analyses for various divisions or departments as requested. Work with various managers to identify key areas of strength and weakness to improve performance.Create standardized templates as requested, design effective and creative ways to consolidate data in Excel from other platforms.

Hicksville, Ny , Us

Reconcile 18 general ledger accounts weekly.Assist with the month end close process, finalization of GL balances and report results to accounting leadership team.Assist the tax team with the preparation of the B&O for 2020.Document and support loan accounting by confirming and validating trade details for the MBS pipeline portfolio by collaborating with secondary marketing.Prepare RC-P call report for loan originations for Flagstar Bancorp and all of its subsidiaries.Prepare monthly loan held for sale trial balance for the loan accounting team.Maintain the fair value general ledger and monitor for accuracy. This is a critical component of the loan accounting teams responsibilities.Maintain and create loan aging deck for review to the accounting and financial management team to coordinate strategic planning for secondary marketing.Utilize knowledge of scratch and dent non forbearance loans to assist treasury and secondary marketing with selling applicable loans and maintaining an accurate fair value for these assets.Assist with optimizing accounting procedures leading to significant reductions in overall work time through the use of VBA automation as well as thorough procedural recreation. Also involves recreating, rebuilding, or optimizing existing reconciliations to make them easier to understand for management as well as external auditors.

Hicksville, Ny , Us

Hicksville, Ny , Us

Hicksville, Ny , Us

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Created administrative budgets and forecasts.Created the new loan volume budget for 2019 by performing commitment, funding, and maturities studies on 2018 data. This allowed me to project the new loan pipeline for 2019 broken down by each product and how many dollars in loans to expect for each month. Performed data analysis using Excel, Cognos business analytics software, and SNL Banker.Responsible for weekly financial reporting to the Federal Reserve (FR 2644). Recently my role has been expanded to also include a large number of monthly call reports (Ex: RC-E, RC-N). Prepared block entry support files for our 2018 year-end audit, continuously tracked 2019 block entry support for the management team through Q1 2019. Managed SNL Banker daily dashboard by assisting with the creation of new reports to aid retail branches and the management team. Utilized VBA coding to optimize data entry into the Master Investment file. Assisted the treasury team by building out the Level One Bank Gospel file for 2019.Reconciled Q1 call reports for the financial reporting management team.Reconciled the 1099 vendor listing to ensure the organization was not being fraudulently billed.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance, General

Associate, Business Administration And Management, General

Associate, General Studies