Christopher Vellon Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

• Build and maintain ongoing robust & accurate forecasting models with complex inputs to predict & measure business performance vs expectations (key outputs include Revenue, Active Users and New Players)• Owns the Analytics relationship with the Sales and Finance teams. Key rituals include the cyclical forecasting process and flash forecast events.• Management of the Demand Planning team, including people development, prioritization, and roadmap planning.• Builds scenario models to inform business cases and strategic opportunities - from the initial modeling to quantify an opportunity to estimating expected costs of execution.• Build and maintain executive-friendly reporting scorecards to track KPI performance.• Owns Presentation to Executive Leadership during Budget and Forecasting periods.

Rockville, Maryland

• Strong contributor to the Financial Planning & Analysis team managing the monthly and quarterly forecasting, annual planning, and management reporting.• Work with the development and publishing teams to prepare monthly/quarterly/annual operating and capital forecasts throughout lifecycle of game projects and annual studio expenses.• Maintain strong relationships with clients both domestically and internationally through collaboration and monthly cadences.• Manage the Greenlight process by gathering key information from Sales, Development, Marketing and Publishing and compiling into digestible reporting for Senior Management.• Update and maintain internal forecasting applications via Oracle ERP financial suite and Adaptive Planning.• Provide analytical review of development studio costs during monthly closing process including preparation and submission of expense accruals to Accounting and explaining variances to budget upon month close.• Proactively investigate and identify improvements to financial reporting.• Assist with ad hoc analysis on various projects upon request.• Assist in interviewing/onboarding new Analysts to the Financial Analysis team

Columbia, Maryland

Columbia, Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

-Accountable for month end financial closing activities including journal entry preparation, account reconciliation and financial reporting schedules– Areas of responsibility include prepaids, accruals, AR, AR reserve, AP, bank recs, rebates and fixed assets among other GL responsibilities– Responsible for Vendor Rebate management and tracking accruals on a monthly basis– Currently maintain depreciation schedule for all fixed assets and maintain fixed assets– Support leaders in preparation of financial audit schedules– Support preparation of internal reporting– Support Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts

– Work in excel on a daily basis to analyze sales figures and keep track of product pricing. Special porjects are assigned daily – and require functions such as VLOOKUPS & PIVOT TABLES– Work with Marketing and Sales team to ensure customers are receiving correct price and models ordered – Work in SAP daily to update model pricing when needed and to run reports for month end closing.– Ensure that all deadlines are met in accordance with the closing dates set by management.– Help with consumer care when replacement models need to be sent out or customers of inquiries about orders.– Keep a running record of all replacements and refunds to ensure correct amount is being billed back to the company each month.

– Assist with day to day accounting functions including month and year end close processes, payroll processing, account reconciliations, and creating and posting entries to the general ledger.– Prepare ad hoc reports in SalesForce and in Excel.– Compile and analyze financial information to prepare month and year end journal entries.– Review, investigate, and correct errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and reports.– Ensure that all deadlines are met in accordance with the closing dates set by management.– Set up seasonal employees in payroll system and update profiles as needed as well as prepare payroll files for internal and seasonal employees bi-weekly.– Work in Excel weekly to ensure Seasonal Benefit Counselor payroll is finished accurately and on time. Must communicate with various departments to capture correct per diem amounts as well as any days missed on the job.– In contact with Seasonal Benefit Counselors daily to assist with any payroll discrepancies and any assistance needed with various work websites.– Assists HR with annual enrollment duties and reporting.

Hanover, Maryland

– Was responsible for billing and collecting from clients nation-wide on accounts totaling more than $3,000,000 in revenue.– Conducted research and data mining to find resolutions to billing errors that were occurring before my employment. Worked with field offices to correct errors and push through debits and credits that would reconcile previous problems.– Was necessary to have a precise routine every week in order to limit errors and increase efficiency in day to day tasks. This routine would include running a query every Monday to show which clients invoices were current and which were past due. This Monday report was necessary for all tasks performed throughout the week.– Quality Query was run every Wednesday to check if hours that were input by VMS clients matched the hours we had in PeopleSoft. It was necessary to run a main query out of PeopleSoft and a query for each VMS client that input hours. An excel sheet was then created to pull data from both queries and compare hours. If hours were incorrect I would then reach out to the branch offices to make sure correct hours were inputted.– Worked with associates at corporate headquarters as well as associates located in various regional field offices to ensure error free and precise billing for our clients.– Work with Excel on a daily basis to organize receivables and ensure that all revenue is collected and applied to the correct invoices. Pivot tables and VLOOKUP are critical to this aspect of the position.– Worked as a team within the corporate headquarters in order to meet goals set by management and ensure that all employees are working towards error free billing.

-Worked with customer on job site to ensure the completion of the job was timely and met all the customers needs.-Worked with upper management to estimate cost of projects and communicate the needs of the customer.-Helped in moving materials from suppliers to job sight and ensuring that projects stayed on budget.-Translated between the workers and customer to ensure precise work and to communicate any changes that the customer wanted done.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration, Finance

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon

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