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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

-Develop, perform and manage all aspects of the Retail unit’s financial planning, budgeting and forecasting-Develop and maintain financial reports to communicate actual results, forecasted performance, and variances-Support and coordinate multiple business partners to ensure deadlines are met and processes are complete for month-end.-Manage Capital projects, including calculating ROI and tracking costs of projects-Implement process improvements into day to day functions to improve efficiency-Develop reports to standardize the reporting of expenses with both drill down and aggregate functionality-Experience in zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and zero-based resourcing (ZBR)

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

-Led 2018 & 2019 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing for both Office Depot and CompuCom across multiple processes and controls.-Led a review of Supply Chain Distribution Centers focused on the receiving process, inventory management and the pick, packing and shipping process. Drove consistent practices across the +20 Distribution Centers across the nation through recommendations to Distribution Center SOPs.-Led a review of the BSD website and customer service internal ordering system focused on inappropriate access. Resulted in best practices to password security, BSD website provisioning/de-provisioning, price overrides, and customer account monitoring.-Participated in the Finance Department's Rotational Program with the Strategy Department during April 2019.-Created automated excel spreadsheets for the Strategy team's utilization to manage acquisitions.-Utilized financial models to analyze potential acquisitions.-Analyzed potential acquisition company financials for due diligence-Led an advisory review of the Billing and Crediting process across multiple departments focused on -process improvement.-Drove process improvements throughout the Internal Audit Department through the use of GRC technology, SharePoint, Microsoft Applications and other methods.-Guided and trained new associates and interns on internal audit methodology and SOX testing.-Use of Data Analytics throughout Operational Audits via Excel and Tableau

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

-Conducted 2017 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing of multiple controls and processes.-Developed operational audit program, conducted testing and drafted audit reports for operational areas including: Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Indirect -Procurement and 10K(Q) tie out of Financial information.-Performed analysis during audits to assist in identifying risks, trends, outliers and to draw conclusions.-Created Macros to drive improvement in internal processes.-Guided and trained new associates and interns on internal audit methodology and SOX testing.

-Led reporting process of 200+ field locations-Posted journal entries to the general ledger-Reconciled multiple bank accounts-Reconciled and analyzed multiple balance sheet accounts-Assisted in posting financial statements-Assisted in creating models, using Excel macros, to increase work productivity-Ad hoc analysis for Management

-Posted journal entries to the general ledger-Reconciled multiple bank accounts-Reconciled and analyzed multiple balance sheet accounts-Assisted in posting financial statements