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Martinsburg, Wv, Us

• Prepare monthly financial reporting package for both leadership and private equityownership• Support the annual budget process and monthly forecasting• Build and maintain presentation material for Board of Directors meetings• Liaison with operating unit managers to prepare monthly operating analytics andpresentations• Perform monthly variance analysis and coordinate with department heads to ensure webeat budget • Develop detailed financial models and revenue and cost projections• Analyze, synthesize and translate data into key strategic inputs and insights that will drivestrategic decision making within the company• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly companywide revenue reports and analyses• Work in RBmedia ERP system (NetSuite) • Participate in cross-functional business projects and analyses• Identify and drive business process improvement • Examine key performance indicators, looking for opportunities and risks• Support implementation of new budgeting and financial reporting applications• Other duties as assigned and required

Rockville, Maryland, United States

o Prepared financial plan, forecast, reporting and analysis by partnering with business clients.o Communicated with stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.o Supported the creation of the Forecast, budget, and scenario planning in support of business clients. Thisincludes analysis, distribution, and recommendations for management reviews.o Supported the FP&A in the preparation of final monthly analyses of business trends and budget varianceof financial results and Key Performance Indicators to be used in management reviews and strategicbusiness analysis sessions.o Developed, support, and maintain operational models driving financial impacts to the company.o Worked with the Consolidation and Reporting team to define the need for and the source of datarequirements for the planning & forecasting and reporting processes.o Created performance reports, including business insights and ad-hoc analysis to deliver compellingrecommendations to business unit leaderso Proactively identified possible scenarios, risks, and opportunities around business performance.o Supported Financial Ad-hoc analysis and requests as required by the organizationo Supported the FP&A Sr. Manager in the development of the final in depth analysis of the businessperformance and recommend action plans; including gap closures, considerations for managing cost,growing the revenue and profitability.o Partnered with Strategic Finance to provide an “operational” view of the business as an input to LRPeffortso Built detailed financial, scenario-based models to evaluate growth metrics, pricing, and funding forinvestment decisions.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

· Hybrid role that split between the Financial Planning & Analysis department and the Reimbursement department. During Budgeting, supported Financial Planning & Analysis with 70% of my working hours. During the annual filings for HSCRC and Medicare supported the Reimbursement Team with 70% of my working hours.· Prepared monthly financial packages for various departments across several hospitals and within our corporate center. This included standard financial statements as well as operating summaries containing customer specific key statistics and elements of performance.· Lead monthly discussion of financial performance of Rehabilitation Hierarchy. This included preparing necessary journal entries for Accounting, budget variance analysis/performance analysis for CFO and FP&A team, and compliance monitoring for the HSCRC and Medicare.· Built and maintained data queries that are used for both routine reporting and ad-hoc requests for departments across the organization.· Served as liaison and data analyst between vendors and corporate entity for working capital relationship· Performed forensic billing audit for claims that can be claimed by the state for unpaid psychiatric analysis in upcoming criminal cases.

Reston, Virginia, United States

· Built annual budget and mid-year forecast process for 2020 fiscal year, including executing a zero-based budget resulting in net savings of $5 Million in G&A expenses, provide necessary analysis for budgeting recommendations, and implement rolling forecast methods to provide updated information for budgeting decision making· Created monthly financial reports and analysis and distribute to budget owners, including writing financial narratives, holding quarterly organization financial reviews, and assisting in ad-hoc requests relating to monthly financial closing· Developed and implement new methods of financial reporting, including rolling monthly forecasting, Product-Line-Profitability metrics, various revenue modeling methods for media department, and other ad-hoc analysis that have been implemented into routine reporting· Built and Monitor monthly Microsoft Power BI Sales reports for Connection Revenue Team for Market Developers use· Built Quarterly and Annual presentations and models for Board of Directors meetings and provide necessary analysis upon request for the Senior Leadership Team· Provided technical support for questions relating to WorkDay financial planning software, including building routine reports available for budget owners, data scrubbing reports to ensure there are no inconsistencies, and translating third party accounting information to international sections of the organization

Laytonsville, Md

· Conducted variance analysis on forecasts, highlighting variances and made recommendations to the Maintenance Division President, Regional-Vice Presidents, and · Regional Managers, including monthly financial projections, YOY variances, month-over-month variances, income statement reconciliation, and other financial analysis· Managed the annual budget process, including the gathering of supporting documents, providing guidance to BranchManagers, developing summary for Regional Managers, and analyzing individual branch budgets· Built Yearly Financial Projection Models templates, budgeting templates, and other Excel workbooks that require advanced functions such as INDEX, INDIRECT, VLOOKUP, HLOOK, Pivot Tables, and MACROs· Prepared data and reports for weekly production meetings of Corporate Maintenance Division Team to establish plan of action· Supported and represent the Division on technology initiatives and assist with implementation through testing of new systems as required, including developing mapping software to demonstrate profitability within current markets and developing in-field applications and other productivity tracking measures· Acted as Maintenance Department Representative for H2B program while preparing Requests for Evidence for the Department of Labor by analyzing historic payroll data, labor hours, direct costs, customer contracts and other sources ofinformation· Prepared presentation materials for Executive Committee, Board of Advisors, Monthly Financial Meetings, Annual Reports, and 5 Year planning, outlining future management development programs, curation and analysis of past financial data and other ad-hoc requests