Kathleen Walker Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Most recent projects include: - documenting business processes and evaluating business systems for small private solar company - consolidating and analyzing financial statements for start-up SaaS company

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Corporate Turnarounds course under Professor Peter Goodson for the Executive MBA Program

Berkeley, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

My career at URS Corporation spanned 11 years with progressively more responsible roles. The last 5 years were spent leading Financial Planning & Analysis for the Infrastructure & Environment Division (~$3.8 billion in turnover and 20,000 employees).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Guided over 400 people across numerous functions through the planning and budgeting process for a $4 billion turnover division• Coordinated logistics including the approvals, communications and calculations for the division’s annual incentive compensation plan• Planned semi-annual strategy meetings and associated presentations for the division• Led a team of analysts and a controller on financial analyses and management reports• Chaired a committee reviewing, approving and holding accountable internal growth investments• Oversaw the efficient operations, annual upgrades, and improvements of planning and reporting in Hyperion

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Responsible for management reporting across the Asia Pacific operations including financial and key performance indicators, income statements, variance analysis, new sales and backlog analysis• Introduced reporting standards to increase efficiency, reduce production time and minimize potential errors• Coordinated the plan and budget process for Asia Pacific and guided business line leaders, office managers and finance supervisors in the preparation of their financial budgets and strategic plan• Participated in quarterly financial and strategic management meetings and coordinated all financial material and ad-hoc analyses including client profitability and benchmarking• Responsible for treasury functions in Asia Pacific (turnover roughly $200 million), including cash flow management, on-line user maintenance and direct interface with bank relationship manager for query resolution and issue escalation

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Prepared financial analyses such as profit and loss flux, labor, accounts receivable, and DSO analyses for senior management of $3 billion turnover division• Developed new and improved upon current management reports for use on a weekly, periodic, and quarterly basis for tracking achievement of financial goals including key performance measurements• Captured the management reporting team’s processes and created the team’s baseline project calendar• Created tools, conducted trainings and provided support for over 100 offices in 20 different countries for the Hyperion system during quarterly forecasts and annual plan and budget • Administrator for Hyperion, including Planning, BI+ Reporting, Smartview, Web Analysis and Essbase

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Streamlined reports to facilitate over-the-counter sales, minimizing over $100 thousand quarterly in losses• Analyzed secondary marketing activities to create and implement tools that improved accuracy and consistency• Screened and coordinated high volume of phone calls from loan counselors on pricing exception requests

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bs, Economics