Sr. Financial Analyst
Tokyo, Jp
Worked directly in the media business unit doing monthly reporting, this includes SG&A, Inventory, Flash and Forecast supporting over $550 million in net sales. In 2009, recruited to Accounting Service Center, which included analyzing trial balances, doing research, and processing month end journal entries. In both areas, duties required strong skills in supporting of financials in the BU, with a range of 100 different product categories.• Exceeded job position expectations for 2013 goals by working closely with BU, as part of the implementation of automated sales incentive programs. This reduced the need for a manual calculation for promotional accruals.• Participated in BPO offshore initiative which enabled time savings in close deadlines and fixed cost reductions. • Implemented automation of Blackline Account Reconciliations which enabled Shared Services to use time more efficiently in doing greater analysis of general ledger accounts.• Made recommendations for updating and streamlining balance sheet commentary resulting in more accurate analysis and user friendly wording.• Worked closely with marketing teams regarding reserve analysis for customer rebate. This reduced the number of erroneous payments made to dealers and kept a tighter control on post audit claims.• Completed Chart of Account Initiative reducing 70% of general ledger accounts.• Reviewed financial statements, and analyzed revenues, cost, and expenses in working with marketing teams to meet senior management deadlines and end user reporting.• Participated in sales audit regarding to financial services discrepancies and banking fraud.