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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Led a high-performing finance team through diverse reporting cycles and strategic initiatives, driving efficiency and collaboration.• Helped develop and launch a comprehensive financial dashboard allowing for enhanced data visibility. Supported end user training and collaborated cross-functionally on ongoing improvements.• Oversaw the execution of detailed per diem revenue modeling for annual planning and reforecasting.• Collaborated closely with firm leadership to leverage data-driven insights for strategic decision making.• Delivered annual profitability reports to all partners, sections, and offices, ensuring transparency and accountability in financial performance.• Supported performance management reporting for timekeepers, incorporating relevant KPIs to drive accountability.• Conducted ad hoc scenario modeling to evaluate financial impacts of potential business decisions, enabling informed strategic planning.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Serve on a cross-functional team with HR as a strategic finance partner evaluating headcount management and reporting. Successfully rolled out headcount targets for multiple fiscal years and provide monthly updates to the Executive Committee. Conceptualized and executed development of Power BI dashboards to centralize reporting and provide accountability.• Led and managed effort to create consolidated worldwide functional reporting, ensuring alignment across the business.• Business partner for Aviation team, driving multi-year AOP achievement and completing a successful business case analysis for a new aircraft.• Communicated and managed deadlines for Corporate Functions finance team as the systems lead. Consolidated and loaded AOP/Forecasts for $1.6B.• Manage intercompany charges amounting in $5M/month.• Support Risk Management organization, evaluating legal claims against reserves.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Monitor budgets for multiple research and development groups and programs, totaling $80M/year• Complete yearly and quarterly forecasting, aligning business financial goals with project spending• Perform monthly variance analysis of actual results vs. planned results for multiple R&D groups• Reallocate employee expenses to projects monthly to accurately provide true project costs• Reported on monthly actual headcounts and forecasted openings for division• Approved all division headcount requisitions, ensuring requisitions were budgeted• Submitted translations analysis to support sales in specific markets• Supported two legal entity transfers

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Fiscal responsibility for $60 million of contract value.• Complete weekly and monthly metrics reporting for program management and customers.• Maintain current financial cost and schedule baselines for earned value reporting.• Assist with yearly and monthly outlooks, including orders, sales, and EBIT forecasting.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Finance Leadership Development Program: Rotational program consisting of 3 one year positions.Independent Cost Evaluation (ICE) Analyst, July 2008-July 2009• Assessed the risks and opportunities associated with proposals and current contracts.• Worked closely with various functions to obtain complete understanding of program.• Evaluated the business unit’s long range and operating plans.• Presented findings to upper management to assist in bidding decisions.Financial Analyst, July 2007-July 2008• Maintained cost accounts for multiple projects.• Assisted in the planning and cost baseline of a $200 million international program.• Worked closely with corporate treasury to lock into a favorable exchange rate.Compliance/Internal Audit, July 2006-July 2007• Completed various audits, including monthly Sarbanes-Oxley testing, measuring the security of the business and effectiveness of controls, writing improvement recommendations where needed.• Served as the Lockheed Martin liaison for several government-run audits.

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Bba, Business Management - Entrepreneurship, German