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Greater Chicago Area

Summarized and managed $650 million of operating and $140 million of capital budgets, collaborating across teams to ensure adherence to GAAP and company policy, and control cost through efficiency.• Restructured North American finance team after developing multiple automation improvements, reducing cost by 3 employees. Coached team of eight out of Argentina.• Composed real estate financial reporting for over 150 offices in North America, which integrated with SAP lease accounting and cost modules, and generated outputs for streamlined forecasting and accurate variance analysis. • Established monthly forecast updates on $200m Human Resources budget through consolidation of multiple SAP reports, macro-driven detailed contractor reporting, and partnership with team leads. Enabled budget adjustments based on latest hiring plans.• Coordinated macro analysis of operating budget gross cost and usage-based internal recoveries to establish residual overhead cost pools. Evaluated North America payroll forecasts and formulated rates to charge external projects for accurate contract pricing.• Built detailed capital project reporting by purchase order for project managers, improving accuracy of capital forecasts by facilitating correct accruals of completed construction efforts. • Improved periodic review of fixed asset registry by working with real estate and technology teams to update asset location and write off disposals, reducing personal property tax by 20%.• Assembled template for controllership that utilized upcoming headcount attrition inputs and cross-referenced company policy to calculate and generate severance accruals for posting.• Supported prior role and various business runners as a super user for SAP Business Reporting, authoring reports to analyze cost to serve metrics, payroll details, business development trends, transfers between organizations, headcount movements, non-contract cost details and more.

Chicago, Il

Assembled analysis and scenario modeling for the North America book of business, reporting to NA CFO and contributing to financial review decks for Executive Leadership Team.• Engineered dynamic workbooks to analyze sales through controllable income metrics from SAP exports and configure data into key views for North America leadership. Strengthened analysis further by cross referencing contract backlog and sales opportunity pipelines to establish revenue models and scenarios.• Launched acquisition revenue growth report detailing organic vs. inorganic growth by service line, a dynamic Top 100 playbook for Marketing leadership with a financial metrics dashboard for major clients, and a margin rescue report for Products division that drilled down on cost per hour metrics of account leadership.• Originated KPIs like “Addressable Income” which navigated cost structures to exclude global budgets, and “Margin Impact” which analyzed a client’s contribution to regional margin.

Chicago

Compiled reporting and variance analysis for $300 million of corporate overhead budgets including Human Resources, Finance, Travel and Mobility, Corporate Citizenship, and Marketing.• Led various programs and transformations, including global implementation of CWT travel vendor, Location Strategy financial reporting, Community & Social budgets, C-Suite Initiative programs, and more. Designed allocation methodologies and executive summaries and worked with customers to resolve queries and issues to facilitate their forecasting.• Acted in interim portfolio finance manager role for Products Goods & Services division, concurrent with regular role to assist during a maternity leave. Compiled and facilitated client-level forecasts, reviewed and reported on client service group results, and worked with finance, sales, and Products leadership teams to solve accounting issues and ensure accurate results.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Designed account reconciliations for 200+ US and Canadian payroll-related ledger accounts and counseled team of two specialists and four analysts.• Promoted twice in role after demonstrating problem solving skills and accuracy through development of reconciliations that utilized payroll system extracts as source documents.• Created technological improvements using MS Excel and Access to convert raw text extracts from the SumTotal Cyborg payroll system into dynamic and useable Excel spreadsheets, and facilitate reconciliations like corrected W-2 tax liability. Contributed majorly to initial firm-wide journal upload tool after SAP implementation, which utilized Visual Basic macros to pre-certify data and enabled dynamic individual user settings.• Collaborated with acquisitions on consolidating their payroll accounts into Accenture financials after cutover, and with vendors such as ADP and Hewitt to update their invoicing and reporting to Accenture. Recommended process changes in the interest of cost, efficiency, and GAAP compliance after auditing various controllership, tax, finance, and operations teams and documenting their processes.

Arlington Heights, Il

Responsible for accounts payable and accounts receivable for multi-million dollar independent retirement community. Prepared journal entries, created invoices, prepared account reconciliations, and acted in customer service role with residents to resolving billing questions and disputes.

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts, Liberal Arts & Sciences