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South Carolina, United States

United States

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Assist ownership and executive leaders of Blue Ridge Thermoforming, Del-Tec Packaging, T.A. Barker Associates, Pelham Partners, and Burdell Partners in a variety of roles to optimize specific company and overall business portfolio performance.

Financial Analyst responsible for financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and presenting key financial information to executive leadership. - Provide balance sheet, income statement, and ratio trends on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year to date basis. - Perform monthly consolidation of financial data on a corporate and business unit (zone) level. - Assist in the preparation of financial presentations for the Board of Directors and key managers.

September 2012 – June 2013 Global Supply Chain Data Analyst o Create metric data collection procedures, manuals, and tools to be utilized by operational leaders. o Perform statistical and financial analysis to determine areas for improvement with high ROI, such as internal bottlenecks and responsiveness issues to items such as unfilled aging purchase orders or RFQ’s. o Formulate courses of action with regional operations managers to address areas in need of further improvement. o Present findings to regional and corporate leadership and provide recommendations on implementation procedures needed for selected improvements. o Enhance responsiveness and reliability of inventory forecasting needs with ongoing review of historical demand and projected sales awards.September 2009- September 2012 Project Business Analyst o Ensure strict accordance with project contract terms to recognize accurate monthly recoverable values for equipment rentals, freight fees, labor fees, third party rentals, and service fees. o Work tirelessly with clients and their accounting departments to ensure accurate and efficient invoicing in order to keep a minimal outstanding A/R balance open. o Maintain complete knowledge of specific projects financial standing in order to report variances between as sold contractual values vs. actual performance to the executive team.October 2007 – September 2009 Project Support Coordinator/Operations Support:o Highly instrumental in the success of AMECO’s blast resistant shelter product line by building a strong rapport with each customers employment base, recognizing up sale opportunities, spear heading the creation of a globally recognized standard operating procedure manual, and effectively coordinating and executing scores of field blast resistant air shelter installations

Reconciled general ledger accounts with vendors' statements and forecasted upcoming payments with weekly cash flow reports. Processed a high volume of invoices daily for multiple vendors' payments and entered invoices into the OnBase database system.Coordinated the printing, official signing and issuing of multimillion dollar payments to various vendors on a weekly basis. Worked with product managers and vendor contacts to correct pricing errors, material quantities received, product returns, credits due, product replacements and timely payment of invoices issued.

Processed financial aid eligibility for Strayer University students which included communication with students and financial aid institutions. Advised students and campus financial aid offices on aid status and certification information while providing excellent customer service through direct phone calls.Provided detailed information to students regarding loan status and aid eligibility by phone and email. Communicated daily with university financial aid departments to mitigate issues and ensure compliance with Department of Education policies. Gained practical organizational skills, a keen attention to detail, accurate filing experience, highly proficient typing abilities and professional phone manners.

Initiated contact with customers who had delinquent accounts and negotiated repayment terms. Reviewed payment history and customer loyalty to assess repayment options.Notated all phone conversations in home intranet system during a live call environment and terminated phone service when repayment options were not agreed upon. Provided customer service to answer any questions about the customer's mobile service contract agreement or any upgrade interests.

Instructed a crew of workers to install sheetrock in commercial and residential sites as well as various other small construction projects. Managed hourly work and evaluated worker performance.Responsible for detailed information regarding payroll, tax deductions, receipt/invoice filing and equipment replacement costs to properly file subcontracting status with the IRS. Maintained a constant log of sheetrock per hour completion percentages in order to forecast revenues, efficiency and accurate job completion timelines to all customers.

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelors Degree, Business Administration; Corporate Finance