Garrett Davidson, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

*Manage team of global financial system analysts*Serve as product owner for Workday finance*Technical finance lead for global deployment of Workday*Ensure proper maintenance and continuous improvement of financial processes and systems

Arlington, Va, Us

• Empowered Functional Teams, Eliminated Bottlenecks, Reduced Incident Backlog, Streamlined Decision Making, Enabled Technical Teams, Improved Quality of Service and Increased Feature Adoption by: Mentoring, Onboarding, and Training a team of Junior Analysts Identifying and Developing SMEs on our Finance and HR teams Establishing Clear Roles and Responsibilities Pioneering Adoption Planning and Product Management Cycle for Workday Platform Partnering with Business Leaders to Maintain Product Backlog and Develop Adoption Roadmap Communicating Project Status via Monthly Meetings and Status Reports• Served as Cross-Functional Lead for Workday Platform

Arlington, Va, Us

• Developed and administered advanced, matrix, and composite reports in the Workday ecosystem • Designed, developed, implemented, communicated, and administered tools for various functional areas• Managed training and onboarding project to deliver training materials to targeted audiences via dashboards• Recommended and piloted new functionality to improve efficiency of processes for functional teams Examples include request framework, worksheets, and prism analytics• Participated in project planning for a global rollout of Workday to 18+ field offices• Acted as primary point of contact between Workday product teams and business partners• Completed a variety of Workday learning courses Financials fundamentals, advanced reporting and analytics, composite reporting, calc fields, etc.• Supported day-to-day activities of multiple functional areas Grants management, security, reporting, business assets, business processes, and integrations

Arlington, Va, Us

• Constructed and maintained a robust and dynamic rolling forecast using a bottom-up approach• Implemented business intelligence/consolidation software• Monitored and assessed requirements to ensure compliance with quarterly bank covenants• Prepared quarterly board packages for owners (private equity) and senior management team• Analyzed variances between actual and planned behavior Developed methods for budget process improvement• Oversaw financial segment of monthly operational reviews with program managers• Gained foundational knowledge of SQL Server Queried databases for information in order to automate financial reports

Arlington, Va, Us

• Reported directly to the President & group CFO• Gained experience in Sage Mas 500 and Microsoft FRx• Consolidated financial data for all foreign and domestic subsidiaries 20+ entity consolidation Foreign exchange translation gain/loss calculation Investment in subsidiary accounting and eliminations Converted trial balances into financial reports using pivot tables• Managed reporting packages for BNP Paribas and JF Lehman & Company Compiled any supporting data such as account reconciliations, contract backlog, budget forecast, etc.• Wrote Visual Basic applications to improve spreadsheet efficiency• Reconciled all intercompany accounts on a monthly basis• Participated in the monthly closing process for multiple subsidiaries• Initiated international wire payments and applied payments to vouchers in the accounting system• Worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers to compile year end audit reports

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance And Financial Management Services

Accounting And Finance