• Oversees all preparations for the annual financial audit, including the preparation of audit workpapers, account reconciliations, account confirmations, fiscal year-end adjusting journal entries, and next year’s reversing entries. Acts as a liaison with auditors and compiles financial statements.• Manages the City’s financial accounting, payroll, and billing systems by monitoring, reviewing, and verifying accounting records and transactions for accuracy, timeliness, and proper documentation. Conducts ongoing analysis of accounting information and policies to assess their relevance and develops new reports and policies as needed.• Supervises daily operations in accounting, financial reporting, accounts receivable, revenue collection, utility billing/customer service, grant billing/financial reporting, payroll, accounts payable, and business license/sales tax.• Coordinates year-end and new year preparations, including overseeing and scheduling the closure of the City’s general ledger and sub-systems. Ensures that all funds and interfund accounts are balanced, prepares and reviews year-end journal entries, and rolls over prior year encumbrances with related journal entries.

• Facilitates the development and distribution of annual budgets, capital improvements plans, financial forecasts, short- and long-range financial plans and reports.• Coordinates with external auditors in the preparation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and Federal/State Single Audit Act Audit Report.• Performs department administrative oversight of bids, agreements, contracts, grants, and/or regulatory compliance issues. Develops, tracks and analyzes assets and prepares related schedules.• Evaluates methods and procedures for adequacy of controls to ensure compliance with internal financial policies, budgetary policies, and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

• Develops, promotes, and provides direction on regulatory and policy guidance for the financial management of Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)/State highway programs. Represents the Division Administrator with delegated authority to make decisions on improving accounting practices, procedures, and financial management reporting systems. Ensures State and FHWA officials receive accurate data and analysis for joint management decisions.• Prepares an annual single-audit progress report based on observations, recommendations, and findings from the Iowa DOT’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, and presents it to FHWA Division Leadership and Iowa DOT directorates. Reviews and evaluates significant reports of noncompliance, such as State internal audits. As needed, conducts or coordinates additional reviews to ensure comprehensive coverage of relevant facts and adherence to rules, regulations, and sound management principles.• Participates in negotiations with State officials to ensure a clear understanding of applicable rules, regulations, agreements, and acceptable corrective actions for both immediate and long-term issues. In a management capacity, develops recommendations, presents facts, and interprets policies to address questions of noncompliance.• Collaborates with transportation planners, engineers, and technical representatives from other DOT divisions to advise State and local governments on innovative financing and funding strategies from public and private sources. These techniques aim to provide flexible uses of Federal funds and encourage greater investment from State and local governments, private investors, and the financial community in transportation projects.

Worked as an usher at the Hilton Coliseum for Division 1 sports events which included basketball, gymnastics, and wrestling.

• As the Base Kodiak Supervisory Budget Analyst, I support the Comptroller with developing, presenting, and justifying a $36 million-dollar internal operating budget based on directives received from Headquarters and advise the Comptroller of potential problems for assigned area of responsibility.• I manage the entire District 17 Reimbursable Program which can be as a large as $2M per year. I handle the creation of interagency agreements (IAA(s) / 7600A(s)) which are primarily established with the Coast Guard acting as the Servicing Agency. I work closely with external agencies to ensure that they understand the policies and requirements expected of the Requesting Agency in an IAA. Some of the Federal agencies that I have established IAAs with include, USAF, FAA, multiple units within DON, NOAA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) to name a few. • I create and modify reimbursable and non-reimbursable standard operating procedures (SOPs), communicate processes reimbursement collections, perform annual cost analysis to update the Base Kodiak fee addendum appropriately, and coordinate with multiple stakeholders to provide accumulated servicing cost, and ensure USCG is reimbursed in a timely manner. • I dedicate some time on special Projects that affect the entire Coast Guard with the intent to streamline and centralize processes which assists in reducing countless manpower hours focused on heavily manual labor-intensive work.• As a Supervisor, my responsibility challenges me to stay aware and update on all EEO policies and communicates the support of these policies to subordinates which is primarily comprised of Active-Duty Coast Guard members and one civilian employee. In addition, I foster an environment focused on equality of treatment for employees in determining qualifications and making selections for assignments, training, promotions, awards, and employee discipline.

• Serves as the Financial Manager (Comptroller) responsible for program planning, budget and execution of the funding associated with an organization.• Performs a wide variety of administrative and analytical duties related to program/budget planning with the formulation, justification, presentation, execution, and review for associated funds.• Prepares highly detailed, historically based annual budget estimates for all operational, training, supply, contractor service support, and equipment requirements.• Works directly with our Reimbursable customers to ensure that the tracking of their money and services is accurate and on track to exhaust all monetary resources.• Supervises a team of financial management analysts.• Directs reviews of budgetary and mission policies, objectives and systems to assure complete understanding and consistency in resource use at all levels within the TSO.• Provides financial support including budget formulation, budget presentation and justification, budget execution, contract review and monitoring, financial management and financial security.• Prepare, provides oversight and reviews major budget justification materials to include the POM, BES and President's Budget (PB).• Monitors budget authority, obligations and expenditures of funds and perform continuous analysis of cost trends to identify areas with programmatic or fiscal problems.• Effectively executes the development of individual development plans in accordance with OPM regulations and DoN and Marine Corps submission schedules. • Completes Don Tracker tasking requirements essential to the overall financial health of the TSO (M40094).• Creates various SOPs to increase efficiencies within the Financial Management branch with the labor process.• Ensures compliance with audit standards, financial processes, and execution of funding from outside entities (i.e. AROWS, AROWS-R , NROWS, and DON).

· Coordinates branch meetings for SABRS allocation process to discuss the necessary steps for allocating the Navy SABRS DISA bill and the Capacity as a Service (CaaS) charges within the commit, obligation, expense, and liquidation allocation process for SABRS.· Carries technical acumen within the majority of functionality within the Standard Accounting Budgeting and Reporting System (SABRS).· Collaborates with the Department of Navy (DON) for key issues such as SPAWAR and NAVFAC supports as it relates to the new G-Invoicing US Treasury requirement for the 7600A General, Terms, and Conditions (GT&C) inter agency requirements.· Participates in quality assurance reviews of un-liquidated obligations, negative unliquidated obligations, abnormal transactions (UMDs), liquidation greater than expense, obligation estimates and month-end reporting.· Presents reports on issues including budget, problem resolution, management planning, and policy issues to managers.· Heavily involved in civilian labor process for accurate accountability to include posting re-allocations in SABRS for direct and reimbursable funding.· Examines SLCADA related issues to assist with accurate reimbursable customer work in order to utilize all reimbursable authority provided by external customers.· Analyzes and recommends costs and benefits of alternative methods of financial management for the TSO’s program and administrative operations.· Persistent technical competence improvement with a willingness to accept any new assignments and coordinates and communicates to field experts to increase his SABRS knowledge base.· Investigates financial or budget information to determine program effectiveness.· Implements legal and regulatory controls over approved budgets.· Analyzes numerous accounts and transactions and determining the nature and extent of adjustments required to reconcile and balance accounts data.

Assured program operations are in compliance with applicable laws, and Division policy, regulatory guidance, standard operating procedures and related guidance.Provided advice and guidance to program officials concerning the administration and implementation of law enforcement programs.Participated in program assessments by conducting studies in accordance with the Division's plans, goals and objectives for implementation and administration of law enforcement programs.Recommended, planned, developed and executed Division-wide projects designed to correct operational challenges and avoid potential issues identified during studies.Managed the Law Enforcement Officer program for the Division which includes the Task Force Program; task force processes, agreements and termination of task force officers.Provided advice and guidance to Division managers and employees concerning regulatory aspects of applicable programs.Partnered with program officials to provide feedback or recommendations concerning operational policy.Participated in the implementation of new program policies and other operational guidance set forth by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Headquarters, Special Agent-in-Charge, Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge and/or the Division's Program Analyst.

Identified problems; determined accuracy and relevance of information; used sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and made recommendations to the United States Marine Corps customer.Adopted and implemented new, innovative approaches and technologies for strategic Marine Corps use.Researched technical issues that provided system change recommendations to higher management which led to improvements in database design and usability.Worked with clients and customers including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectationsConsulted with appropriate customer personnel and refined or revised strategic level projects and information systems.

Integrated efforts between the fiscal and logistics branches of the Marine Corps JROTC Headquarters to streamline materiel receipt/acceptance processes as well as expedite financial posting actions.Command-level internal auditor in support of TECOM’s portion of the Schedule of Budgetary Activities (SBA) audit, ensuring compliance with various financial management regulations and audit standards [e.g., Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) and the Department of Defense (DOD)].Reconciled financial transactions ensuring financial data accurately & systematically posted to general ledger accounts in the Standard Accounting Budget Reporting System (SABRS). Utilized root-cause analysis to eliminate interface issues amongst systems such as Defense Travel System (DTS), Procurement Request Builder (PRB), and Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF) into SABRS.Lead a team of 6 associates whose primary functions included tracking the execution of a $753 million budget, validating and revising fiscal data, certifying program execution within budgetary limits, facilitating communication with external entities [e.g., Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS)], and overseeing the reconciliation of current and prior year expenditures such as travel settlements, contracts, and supply procurements.Loaded and transferred budget authorizations and created financial data within accounting and procurement systems for 26 companies encompassing $140 M worth of goods and services which increased company proficiency and employment.Demonstrated advanced skill set of 3270 (MCTFS Family of Systems) by restructuring 3rd MLG SABRS Tables to help ensure accuracy and minimize deficiencies within all fiscal reports.Created lines of accounting within Global Combat Support System Marine Corps (GCSS-MC), Defense Travel Management System (Citibank), and Defense Travel Systems (DTS).