Gregory Parchment, Executive Mba Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

Excelled as trusted business advisor to 20+ member BPO Financial Analyst sector team for monthly forecast and quarterly close cycle managing $1.6B in outsourcing service contracts generating $650M in annual revenue. Cross-functionally worked with senior management to establish budgets and use growth projections to assess future business needs. Streamlined processes for evaluating, developing, and offering insightful recommendations to senior leaders, as well as facilitating ongoing feedback. ► Provided pivotal guidance. Led analysis, interpretation, and consolidation of business intelligence data to establish budgets for all sector contracts. Presented results for approval and communicated final budget to contract managers.► Reliably developed and implemented models to consolidate and analyze sector-level financial data to better highlight and deliver meaningful insights into business areas for executive attention.► Met organizational objectives to optimize profit margin, yielding 9-point sector boost (13%-22%, year-to-year). Spearheaded and managed complex excel-based financial models to assist in performing complex querying, data modeling and analysis to facilitate executive-level decision-making, process improvement, and implementations.► Mitigated forecast accuracy issues in six months with sectors delivering more accurate forecasting within 4% and 8% margin of error. Worked closely with offshore team to identify root-cause of attrition and lacking knowledge transfer. ► Proposed and implemented actionable steps, including assigning financial analysts to develop and deliver quarterly training on various topics to ensure readiness of SMEs to mitigate issues.► Advocated for upskilling and promotion of strong candidate to Team Lead with Subject Matter Expert (SME) knowledge and documentation of overall process critical to delivering accurate forecast.

Atlanta, Georgia

Led as trusted sales tax advisor and subject matter expert Liaised between BPO & Sales Tax Department to design audit process utilized for test controls and compliance of data retention to support external audits. ► Managed overall operations of sales tax compliance of BPO Organization. Directly enhanced end-user understanding of database systems by conducting robust workshops, trainings, and creating user-friendly training materials.► Bolstered audit results by streamlining sales tax compliance process to be more accurate, efficient, and automated. Designed, created, and implemented successful sales tax database in collaboration with programming team.► Maintained requirements for tax compliant status. Successfully implemented annual sales tax revalidation process to halt potential negative impact by attrition (i.e., delivered targeted education based on database test results).

Atlanta, Georgia

Managed tasks of varied scope and responsibility spanning deep-dive analysis of financial spend and expense, finance and accounting solutions and consolidations, as well as global contracts. Key areas of impact include:► Ensured compliance with entries related to Restructuring Accounting, GEB, and 401K for the BPO Service Line via strong financial management and collaboration with CHQ Accounting.► Steered consolidated reporting of CPR (New Service Line) over / under financial data to Financial Leadership Team. Consolidated and reported BPO Controllable Expense data on PTI (Pre-Tax Income) external reporting requirement.► Facilitated achievement of over / under financial goals through collaborative communication with Workforce Management Team and Financial Leadership. Presented monthly forecast estimates with emphasis on financial drivers.

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Provided financial leadership and consultation to support the engagement management of complex global outsourcing contracts spanning +14 countries, +$420M total contract value, and a +4,000-delivery team. Delivered superior client service by rapidly adapting to new technologies and interacting with the business units and geographies on the forecast, actuals, budget, and business metrics.► Offered proactive financial planning recommendations, leveraging in-depth knowledge of the development of forecast and budget variance analysis and provided business assessments on an on- going basis.► Designed and implemented models to achieve financial goals by utilizing variance analysis identifying problems and performance exposures to financial operating plans and root cause analysis.

Southbury, Connecticut

Researched and analyzed specific sales/use tax laws that apply to particular taxing jurisdiction and developed a framework regarding their application to service contracts (for a newly acquired business unit) to ensure compliance with applicable sales/use tax laws.Provided technical advice and assisted internal clients to make to sense of the continually evolving issues related to sales/use tax laws to optimize their tax position.

Atlanta, Georgia

Provide tax consultation, professional advice, and recommendations on tax-related issues via proficient use of common tax preparation software applications. Assist clients with annual state and federal tax preparation and ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local tax codes by utilizing strong research skills to access online resources and quickly identify answers to complex tax questions.► Offer proactive tax planning recommendations, leveraging in-depth knowledge of applicable tax laws, regulations, and deadlines to provide tailored support to customers completing complex returns.► Received award-winning recognition for reliable organizational, time management, and creative problem-solving skills.

Executive Mba, International Business, 3.8

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting, 3.5

Activities and Societies: NABA and Accounting Society Phi Eta Sigma