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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa

This was a new position for the organization charged with developing a finance cost control program. Responsibilities for this position include:- Oversee baseline project budget development and ongoing management- Review cost variance report with project management and provide financial guidance- Issue weekly labor productivity report- Provide CFO and CEO with entity wide cash flow forecast - Lease vs buy financial modeling for capital equipment- Integrate and support project controls best practices, such as risk and opportunity analysis- Streamline and facilitate monthly WIP meetings.- Work in conjunction with the Accounting Manager to complete month‐end reports includingthe WIP report.Accomplishments- Identified $500k of additional billings through analysis of billing schedule and collaboration with project team- Early identification of project cost overrun allowed team to reduce labor and save $15k- Created the standard reports for both monthly cost variance and weekly labor productivity

Seattle, Wa

Senior financial analyst position supporting WW HR Operations. This position worked closely with both HR recruiting and HR learning and Development. The primary role of this position was to support in budgeting and forecasting for HR partners. Responsibilities Included: - Prepare annual budget and quarterly forecasts for WW HR Operations- Support HR teams with cost and head count modeling- Develop finance portion of business case for new projects such as VR training- Prepare monthly bridge variance analysis for Finance Manager- Support and train finance intern

Redmond, Wa

Projects:Terex Strategic Sourcing Initiative Responsibilities and goals for this project included the following:- Provide engineering and sourcing teams with financial guidance for global commodity sourcing decisions.- Participate in supplier negotiations.- Assist with implementation of new suppliers.- Coordinate with finance teams to track project success. - Work with commodity team to achieve overall goal of creating long term mutually advantageous arrangements with our supplier base. German Accounting Shared Services Support Project8 month international assignment to lead SOX control remediation effort at Dusseldorf site. I also assisted with the transfer of accounting processes from the German manufacturing sites to the Northern Ireland accounting service centers. Responsibilities included the following:- Develop and implement best practices within finance and accounting departments.- Remediate significant control deficiencies at German accounting center.- Lead German accounting service center month end close process.- Manage an outside German consultant team’s translation of accounting processes and transfer of certain accounting tasks.- Coordinate transfer of accounting tasks from Zweibrucken manufacturing site to Northern Ireland accounting service center. - Support Zweibrucken local accounting team with monthly accounting close tasks during transition. - Train team members on SOX and US GAAP standards .

Redmond, Wa

Financial oversight for all of the Genie Redmond production facilities. This role required significant finance business partnerships with operations and strategic sourcing. Responsibilities included the following:- Develop and train direct report.- Provide monthly variance analysis to operations and sourcing teams.- Prepare monthly forecasts.- Assist operations and sourcing with head count planning.- Identify cost improvement opportunities and develop key performance indicator metrics.- Collaborate with business partners and prepare annual budget.- Develop ad hoc financial models upon request.- Produce business case and cash flow analysis for capital expenditure requests.- Provide accounting guidance to central accounting team for complex accounting issues. One of my best achievements in this role was creating a true business partnership with finance and operations. By the end of my time as the operations finance manager, I had business partners requesting finance training sessions. They saw the value and trusted my level of expertise. My partners also commented that I was able to simplify complex finance in to terms they understood.

Redmond

Redmond, Wa

Greater Seattle Area

Senior associate responsibilities included:- Led audit engagements of both private and public companies.- Reviewed financial statement disclosures.- Trained and reviewed work of new associates.