Gregory Simms Mba Email & Phone Number

Frederick, Md, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Project Manager on the TaxPayer Workstream for EFTPS program within the Fiscal Service Department in U.S Treasury-Managed day to day tasks with the vendor of up 15 projects at at time spanning a budget of $200K to $2M a project. Projects were updates/improvements to tax payment channels with a majority of work around the IRS Online Account for Individuals and Businesses-Implemented over 30+ technology enhancements into production on the Taxpayer workstream-Coordinated weekly briefing to the client to review project statuses and provide key details and accomplishments of the prior week-Worked with vendor to facilitate more efficient processes and documentation that would enable cost saving in hours being billed to the client-Reviewed/edited project schedules in Microsoft Project to look for areas of duplication or overlap to improve time to implementation-Created and facilitated technical meetings around QA/UAT testing to work through defect remediation with various stakeholders and managed the completion of those issues

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Cost manager for Maryland West Division of NVHomes. Main objectives were assessing new sales and starts assuring all home building costs were in line with plan. Worked on collaborative basis with the sales team and project managers in the field.

Reston, Va

-Project Manager on Salesforce transformation project and on other organizational efforts such as renewal retention and a new contract management process. -Official Salesforce Admin for FS-ISAC engaging in process mapping and data integrity/integrations. Created change management process for Salesforce working with the functional business areas.-Key internal point person on Salesforce org transformation from non-profit to profit, classic to lightning UI working with Salesforce third party vendor.-Key integration Salesforce specialist on funneling new member data in to Salesforce and connecting to member facing portal.- Negotiated renewal contract for Salesforce and vendors that integrated with our Salesforce module.-Reported to the Director of PMO.

Reston, Va

Promoted to Senior project manager in the finance and accounting department. Lead project on creating monthly variance reports and cost/revenue allocations by department and other projects listed below. - Upgraded to new versions of various cloud based systems such as Financial Force and Survey Monkey and did training on both systems. - Project Manager on rollout of company intranet site via SharePoint with a team of 5-7 employees. Project was rolled out on time and on budget.- Negotiated contract renewals for Financial Force, Conga, Survey Monkey by having meetings with stakeholders, gathering requirements, and negotiating price.

Reston, Va

Project Manager in the Finance and Administration department implementing various different projects that touch both departments along with day to day reporting and analysis activities. I'm also the SalesForce and SharePoint admin for the company. Reports directly to the CFO. Projects I completed: - New ERP system (Financial Force) along with the back end reporting (monthly financial statements)- New intranet site through SharePointWeekly/Monthly Tasks- P&L for sector services- Cost Benefit reporting for company workshop and events- Event planning using CVENT- Running monthly financial statements- Creating Membership reporting on a monthly/quarterly basis- Forecasting and Budgeting

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Contractor working solely for Fannie Mae in the FP&A department of the MHA Division. Key contributor of Fannie Mae and Treasury forecasting and support center metrics for the MHA HAMP Division. Tasks involving MHA Support Centers:-Monthly and Long Term Forecasts- Forecasting upcoming call volumes using historical data and upcoming radio ads in different areas of the United States.-Case/Escalation Forecast - Forecasting upcoming case and escalation volumes into the MHA Help cost center using prior trending and current programs that may fluctuate case openings.-Cost Per Call- Monthly analysis for MHA Help and Hope to breakdown the cost per call using base metrics such as hours worked and volume of calls.-Quarterly re-forecasting of total expenses for Support Centers for TSY Forecasts-Created new schedule and deliverables to maximize operations managers time and combine monthly and long term forecasts meeting into one meeting.Fannie Mae Quarterly Expense Forecasts:-Updating the model from prior quarter templates using vlookups and other excel linking methods.-Headcount analysis by cost center to prior forecast.-Updating actuals from Hyperion Essbase.-Updating PowerPoint presentation linking to the model in excel.TSY Quarterly Expense Forecasts:-Reached out to 20+ cost centers to distribute and than follow up for completion.-Updating TSY expense model from workstreams.

Morristown, Nj

I inherited most of the financial management related tasks and duties for this branch office for this multimillion dollar private company. I was heavily involved in processes from the day to day such as invoice and credit card approvals to expense and revenue reporting. I was in constant communication with all facets of the business from sales associate revenue projections to directors for their expense and revenue budgets. I also performed the month end tasks for this branch including the package of reports that was sent to management and a monthly revenue and expense variance analysis.-Managed Monthly Commission Process for 30-40 Sales Reps involving 3 different commission plans. Commission payouts to sales representatives were a range from $50 to over $10,000 a month.-Worked with billing team offsite to work on lowering A/R balances and was able to get a 43% drop in 6 months for 90 day and over balances by following up the sales reps and working with managers to collect payment or to write-off accounts that were delinquent.-Ran monthly financial package of reports for NJ.com and SI Live that is presented to GM and president.-Performed variance analysis on revenue and expenses for around a $6M-$7M annual revenue private company.-Created internal revenue reports by Sales Rep and Team, month to month comparisons.-Assisted on a team that implemented a new billing system by testing data, making invoice decisions, and building processes so billing followed revenue recognition rules while also being consumer friendly. Project lasted for about 4 months with a weekly staff meeting.

Branchville, Nj

I inherited more cost centers and also performed more complex variance analysis and profitability reporting for specific lines of business. I also participated in long term projects such as implementing Sharepoint for forecasting and budgeting templates and modifying expense budgetin templates to be easier to interpret and input for the upcoming budget cycle. In my last year, I also was a key contributor on a project loading and reconciling for a budget database transition to Cognos TM1.- Profitability Reporting,Cost Center Variance Analysis, Database maintenance, Premium Loading and Reporting- Sharepoint Implementation for Financial Planning- Cognos TM1 Implementation focused on commission/policy dividends rules and data reconciliation.- Received 20 additional budget cost centers for monthly expense analysis and annual budgeting.

Branchville, Nj

Finance analyst 1 for a Fortune 1000 ($1.7B in revenue for 2013) holding company for 10 property/casualty insurance companies. Completed tasks such as expense and revenue budgeting for a multitude of cost centers (over 50). Communicated with mid-level managers up to senior executive on budget and forecasting their respective departments. Also took on some individual projects that are listed below.- Responsible for cost center variance reports and preparation of semi-annual forecasts and budget with analysis for 70 cost centers company wide that encompasses $125 Million of expenses.- Prepared Premium (Revenue) Reports & budget analysis of a $1.4 Billion premium budget to Executive Management including the CFO & CEO on a weekly and monthly basis.- Review & perform transaction account analysis and journal entry corrections.- Perform multidimensional databases maintenance and reconciliations related to 70 cost centers.- Completed NPV Analysis on the possible implementation of solar panels on Selective Rooftops at the corporate headquarters that was $25 Million in initial capital.- Responsible for Daily General Ledger Loads & Reconciliations to replicate the General Ledger from Financial Accounting.- Coordinated a Personal Lines Territory Manager Staffing Model related to $10 Million of Expenses.- Load the Budget for Total DPW Premium Forecast & Budget Semi-Annually.- Reviewed & Reported on the Selective Donation Account, annual budget of $200 Thousand.

Project Management Certification

Project Management certification that explored planning and managing resources, organizing projects, assessing managing, mitigating.

Mba, Masters In Business Administration, 3.9 Gpa

Took a wide range of courses from theory courses such as Org and HR Management to more technical courses such as Management Accounting.

B.S Energy, Business, And Finance. Minor In Political Science

Activities and Societies: EBF Society Member.This major explored the different financial instruments used in the energy industry such.