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- Directly support the Department of Navy’s financial reporting by providing direction, guidance and oversight to all stakeholders, including Budget Submitting Offices (BSOs) and Defense Finance Accounting Services (DFAS); establishing a robust financial statement compilation and analyses infrastructure, processes, and capabilities; and producing accurate, reliable and timely DON financial reports in accordance with OMB Circular A-136.- Team member of contractor support for United States Navy, Office of Financial Management, Accounting Policy. Provided administrative support in facilitating policy and publication review and standardization to incorporate financial and audit compliance and facilitate dissemination across the DON enterprise. Managed and updated the Financial Management Policy Manual and Knowledge Management Portal as well as administer the FM policy mailbox for questions and inquiries.

Responsible for the overall business practices of a Marine Corps finance office consisting of 45 personnel. Administrative responsibility of maintaining and processing over 12,000 military pay accounts and applicable vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.Responsible for internal controls audit requirements. Data analysis of trends, accuracy, financial management compliance, and business process improvement including consistent reporting and briefing to upper level management.

Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, United States

Responsible for analyzing accuracy and efficiency of business practices of the Marine Corps’ largest disbursing office consisting of 150 personnel and an administrative responsibility of maintaining and processing over 75,000 military pay accounts and applicable vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.Responsible for internal controls audit requirements. Data analysis of trends, accuracy, financial management compliance, and business process improvement including consistent reporting and briefing to upper level management.Trained and developed extensive curriculum and trained the organization for modernized business processes using a modernized interface and tracking system for internal controls requirements.

Camp Pendleton Mainside, California, United States

- Responsible for the accurate and timely certification of travel claim vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.- Responsible for analyzing trends and correcting internal controls identified discrepancies.- Responsible for leading and developing a team of 50 United States Marines.

San Diego, California, United States

- Responsible for the accurate and timely certification of pay, separation and fiscal vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.- Responsible for analyzing trends and correcting internal controls identified discrepancies.- Responsible for leading and developing a team of 45 United States Marines.

Okinawa, Japan

- Responsible for the accurate and timely certification of pay and separation vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.- Responsible for analyzing trends and correcting internal controls identified discrepancies.- Responsible for leading and developing a team of 25 United States Marines.- Deployed to Joint Exercise Balikatan in The Phillippines. As a Pay Agent, processed 125 Public Vouchers and 49 Mutual Logistics Support Request/Agreements totaling 61,365,370.63 Philippine Pesos, equivalent to $1,409,072.40 and disbursed in cash 149 SF44 Purchase Order-Invoice-Voucher payments totaling 7,712,845.30 Philippine Pesos, equivalent to $176,440.41

San Diego, California, United States

- Responsible for the accurate and timely certification of pay, separation and fiscal vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.- Responsible for analyzing trends and correcting internal controls identified discrepancies.- Responsible for leading and developing a team of 10 United States Marines.

Camp Pendleton Mainside, California, United States

- Responsible for the accurate and timely certification of entire gamut of financial vouchers in accordance with Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations.- Responsible for leading and developing a team of 20 United States Marines.- Focuses of work: complex pay and accounting problems, waivers of indebtedness, preparing and inputting monetary entitlements of permanent change of station and temporary duty travel vouchers, and corrected W-2s tax statements.- Deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, personally disbursed over $1M as a Disbursing Pay Agent. In an active combat zone, securely transported over $3M in USD and Afghanistan afghani cash over 18 missions.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology, Cum Laude