Kristi Tarr Email & Phone Number

Syracuse, New York, United States

Syracuse, New York, United States

Syracuse, New York Area

Syracuse, New York Area

Analyst, (Contractor) at National Grid. Supported the Retail Connections Policy and Standards group. Created and managed group activities task list and timeline. Reviewed budget and forecasts and reported variances monthly. Administrated internal and external meetings.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Led team of four who are responsible for calculation of monthly commissions for over 350 staff, $25M annual payout.
• Oversaw the costing of over 10,000 monthly contract and project invoices to calculate gross margin for commissions payouts. Reviewed data for anomalies and outliers, resolved issues and adjusted accordingly.
• Created sales reports for management on monthly and annual quota attainments.
• Participated in annual company quota planning for new year. Updated metrics and quota attainments, created new plans and implemented new policies for staff. Created PowerPoints and FAQ outlining changes to plans year.
• Streamlined contract invoice costing process by finding efficiencies and utilizing Excel macros.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Remote national team member, interfaced with Biomedical IT, Humanitarian IT and Telecom Division staff members throughout the U.S. Built $100M budgets and forecasts as part of the $160M IT Portfolio.
• Participated in Telecom center of excellence as co-lead with objectives to find efficiencies in processes, cost savings, to create metric reporting and consolidate financial data for all lines of business. Results.
• Revamped all Webi Financial reports for Senior Management. Results: Reduced reporting time by 80% while improving accuracy and increasing the amount of useful information.
• Created budget and position management templates for FY16 budget cycle. Results: Consolidated finalization of budget from 2 months to 2 weeks.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Remote project leadership team member for software implementation project, building a $200M budget from the ground up that had 10 work streams and over 900 resources. Supervised 4 employees and contractors.
• Participated in planning and strategic meetings for successful execution, and conducted ongoing financial impact analyses for Project, Program and Executive Leadership.Results: Enhanced strategic decision.
• Built and managed forecast and position control file that linked to the Integrated Master Schedule. Results: Allowed accurate financial and human resource forecasting.
• Developed budget vs. actual and forecast vs. actual templates for work stream review and analysis. Conducted monthly finance review meetings with work stream leads and project managers. Results: Consolidated work.

Portland, Oregon Area

• As a remote member of a small working team, created complex Activity Based Costing (ABC) models of all American Red Cross blood services products and work processes which provided key profitability data for sales and.
• On a semi-annual basis developed and ran models for each of the 36 regions and 7 divisions using CostPerform software, tailoring each model to identify cost flows, cost per unit and scenario analysis. Results: Provided.
• Provided costing support for Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma team initiatives across the system. Results: Identified best practices that could benefit other locations.

Portland, Oregon Area

• As a local member of a team of 4, provided finance support, analytics and ensured Internal Controls were established and followed.
• Prepared annual expense and operations budgets of $91M for regions that collect, manufacture, and distribute 500,000 blood products and services, with over 100 departments. Results: Allowed accurate financial and human.
• Project Lead for Fixed Asset audit according to GAAP in the Portland region. Coordinated with over 20 managers and departments to locate, label, and organize over 300 assets with a net book value of $4.2M. Results.
• Supported local Six Sigma team by providing financial and operation data for analysis. Results: Verified and approved reported savings during control phase for 5 projects with a total of $2.1M in savings.

Portland, Oregon Area

Oversaw inventory and purchasing of supplies for laboratory performing over 10 million separate tests for over one million donors to ensure adequate levels for efficiency. Annual budget: $22.5M.Project Lead of new inventory program for multiple facilities across the United States as well as liaison for on-going operations in supply and inventory.

Portland, Oregon Area

Provided support activities to the Regional Support Manager of the Western Region.Analyzed phone services for perspective client companies.Consultant between sales representatives and local phone companies.Responsible for creating, updating and analyzing reports for operations.