Kari Holwick Email & Phone Number

United States

Aid WaterOne divisions with annual operating and maintenance expense budget, annual capital budget and five-year capital planning.Assist WaterOne divisions with analysis related to new personnel requests in the annual budget and five-year personnel plan.Update the Master Plan Capital Fund and Transmission & Distribution Capital Fund models and complete the corresponding monthly financial reporting.Complete a monthly budget versus actual variance analysis for operating and maintenance expenses as well as annual capital projects.Lead other financial analysts in reviewing and analyzing historical financial information and financial statements including ratio analysis. Create pro-forma financial statements for projections and analysis.Create, improve, and maintain complex financial planning models including cost of service models.Utilize data from an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well as other databases to perform elaborate analysis using advanced statistical methods.Create and lead other financial analysts in developing capital budgeting analysis including the calculation of net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, and discounted payback period as well as related sensitivity analysis.Create, review, improve, and lead other financial analysts in developing written and oral presentations of financial and related operational data used by management to make financial decisions. Also, routinely give oral presentations internally or externally.Manage or assist other financial analysts in managing a project from start to finish. The project can be within finance, a cross-divisional effort, with external entities, or any combination of all three. Work with other finance staff and external consulting professionals on issuing new and refunding existing tax-exempt bonds. Also, develop bond financing plans including the timing and size of new or refunding issues along with the corresponding bond maturity schedule.

Olathe, Kansas, United States

Supports fiscal operations by analyzing financial data and transaction processing to assist in the areas of financial reporting, revenues, expenses, and reserves forecasting, budgeting, capital improvement planning, accounting, payroll and labor costing, staffing analysis, scheduling management, various reconciliations, and accounts receivable.Establishes documented procedures including internal controls around cash handling, segregation of duties, accounts receivable management, billing, and timely reconciliations of all accounts and funds.Performs analysis and assists with the preparation of the annual operating budget.Provides trend analysis and forecasting of revenues, expenses and reserves.Prepares short-term strategies for the most effective use of current year resources.Performs staffing analysis and verifies staffing levels are available to meet service demands.Prepares and updates the five year capital improvement plan; calculates performance measures and communicates outcomes with management.Prepares monthly financial reports (budget to actual) for review by management.Reports on variances and advises management on financial issues.Performs analysis on the financial reporting/budgeting structure and collaborates with management on revising the reporting model.Evaluates and reconciles funds and funding sources unique to assigned department/agencies.Defines, implements, audits and monitors internal controls to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and minimize the risk of fraud within assigned area.

United States

Directly oversees the Fiscal, Administrative, Real Estate, Information Systems, Enterprise Print Services and Postal functions for the Facilities Management Department. Develops and manages the department operating budget and various capital project budgets.Participates on the Facilities Department Leadership team to develop and implement the planning, goal setting, implementation of the High Performance Organization culture and strategic management. Works with division directors and managers to identify and manage needs within the Facilities department and County facilities including staffing and funding requests, establish and document department standards, transition planning, analysis, implementation of County initiatives.Manages Business Operations Division which includes Administrative Support, Print Shop, Postal, Information Technology and Financial. Develops department procedures and guidelines, prepares and presents correspondence/reports for decision making purposes, manages contract services such as cafeteria operation and other outside service providers.

Monitors annual revenue and expenditure budgets for various departments/agencies to anticipate potential financial and/or operational issues.Advises departments/agencies on potential courses of action with regard to financial and/or operations matters.Compiles and analyzes annual revenue projections, expenditure requests, and performance measures for various departments/agencies to create the annual budget recommendation for the County Manager. Presents, explains, and justifies the annual budget recommendation to the Board of County CommissionersModifies the budget recommendation as directed by the Board of County Commissioners.Coordinates special projects as requested by the Budget Director and participates on county-wide teams to incorporate strategic issues into the annual budget process and to provide advice on various financial and operational issues.

Assists with the coordination and preparation of the annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and strategic plan.Prepares and assists with the interpretation of internal financial assessments for scenario planning, overhead rates, financial & staffing analysis and other core business metrics.Develops department and project models for budgets, forecasts and the strategic plan.Provides department and project model training and assistance to department and service area managers for budgets, forecasts and the strategic plan.Works closely with management to provide financial insight. Maintains the Finance Sharepoint portal on the intranet.Prepares monthly budget-actual reports, bi-weekly business development reports and weekly productivity reports.

Coordinates the overall preparation and compilation of the annual operating and capital budgets. Implements the strategic plan and forecasts city revenues.Reviews and monitors departmental expenditures.Assists in developing analytical tools to be used when making financial projections and recommendations. Assists in developing long-range capital and financial planning strategies for policy recommendations. Provides budgetary control reports and analysis monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and annually for all revenue and expenditure accounts. Prepares necessary budget adjustments and budget amendments.Assembles relevant historical revenue and expenditure information for maintaining the financial trend monitoring system. Prepares, reviews, and reconciles internal accounting data and reports.Provides analysis of city operations, functions and programs.Updates the Finance website with monthly dashboards, sales and property tax rates, budget information and updates.Prepares journal entries for inter-fund transfers and monthly accruals.

Calibrates the macro and micro fiscal models for the various proposed development projects to determine the financial impact of the projects.Performs analysis on proposed development projects or current active projects such as payback calculations, cash flow analysis and return on investment. Prepares monthly Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Transportation Development District (TDD) & Economic Activity Taxes (EATS) wires, journal entries and other reports. Attends meetings on development projects and negotiation meetings.

Produces and verifies daily financial statements.Prepares proofs of account balances.Enters and monitors general ledger activity.Daily pricing and reconciliation of Mutual Funds.