Erica Classing Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

• Manages a team of 11 finance professionals to ensure that all priorities and initiatives are met
• Serves as an advisor/partner to the Health Business Unit leadership team on financial and business-related topics
• Provides support to leadership in the preparation, monitoring, and revising of financial forecasts, budgets, Estimates at Completion
• Monitors the overall financial performance of the Health Business Unit and provides guidance on ways to improve profitability
• Ensures compliance with Battelle policies/procedures, Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cost Accounting Standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Acts as the interface between the Business and the various corporate support organizations

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Interfaced directly with and ensured effective/positive relations with Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
• Coordinated activities related to the annual Incurred Cost Proposal and the various audits conducted by DCAA
• Responded to findings of non-compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and worked with leadership to help resolve such findings
• Provided subject matter expertise to the organization on topics related to CAS and FAR
• Led a team of finance professionals to ensure all priorities and initiatives were met

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Managed a team of finance professionals to ensure that all priorities and initiatives are met
• Served as an advisor/partner to various groups within the contract research business operations on financial and business-related topics
• Provided support to leadership in the preparation, monitoring, and revising of financial forecasts and budgets
• Monitored the overall financial performance of various groups with the contract research operations business and provided guidance on ways to improve profitability
• Acted as the interface between the Business and the various corporate support organizations
• Provided proposal pricing guidance and developed cost strategy in compliance with policy and RFP requirements.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Provided support to leadership in the preparation, monitoring, and revising of financial forecasts and budgets
• Monitored the overall financial performance of various groups with the contract research operations business and provided guidance on ways to improve profitability
• Acted as the interface between the Business and the various corporate support organizations
• Provided proposal pricing guidance and developed cost strategy in compliance with policy and RFP requirements.

• Worked as part of the Business Support Services (BSS) team to support proposal pricing efforts
• Responsible for material and/or labor cost analysis and estimations for highly complex or high risk proposal efforts
• Coordinated the collection of proposal data from Battelle technical and Project Control staff
• Prepared final cost details and reports for inclusion in proposals. Interfaced with auditors during price audits
• Coordinated with purchasing on documentation for materials purchases and summarized material prices for presentations to management.
• Utilized overall knowledge of Battelle overhead-rate structure, accounting, and financial systems to complete assignments within tight proposal schedules

• Performed complex accounting tasks to coordinate voucher/invoice preparation with internal and external clients
• Maintained advanced knowledge of a wide variety of prescribed accounting codes and classifications in order to select appropriate procedures for application to specific accounting transactions

• Responsible for billing, reporting, and closeout of all Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) sponsored research grants
• Reconciled DHHS cash account on a quarterly basis
• Served as a department team lead with the task of managing and prioritizing the workload of two Fiscal Services accountants
• Monitored research project expenditures to ensure that all costs are allocable and allowable
• Reviewed and activated new sponsored-research contracts in the PeopleSoft financial system

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Accounting

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