Michael Decarlo Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, US

Columbus, Ohio, US

Dublin, OH, US

Enterprise Information Technology Division & Total Cost of Ownership Initiative

Edinburgh, GB

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Drove the Annual Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasting rhythm for Business Units exceeding $600M in revenue.
• Managed the analyses of monthly and quarterly financial results for the Income Statement, Labor Utilization, Capital Assets and Headcount; including providing insightful commentary and leadership summaries.
• Serve as the main point of contact for Leadership regarding all financial matters pertaining to the Business Units.
• Aligned with Leadership to implement a lean finance model decentralizing three support disciplines into cross-functional teams resulting in a deeper business acumen for staff in both the Business Unit and Support.
• Successfully transitioned financial reporting to system generated Dashboard Solutions from traditional Excel-based manual reports resulting in substantial reductions to cost and FTE’s plus the re-alignment of several.
• Provide wide range of ad-hoc analyzes and presentation materials to Senior Management to support decision making.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Partnered with Financial Leadership to establish the Financial Planning & Analysis department.
• Designed the Institute’s Profit and Loss Performance Reporting Strategy for its Business Units utilizing standardized and efficient dashboard-centric business intelligence toolkits.
• Develop and maintain the Organization's annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes.
• Support the Chief Financial Officer and various Executive Committees through ad-hoc financial analyses and modeling.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on essential financial committees and cross-functional "issue resolution" teams in the area of financial reporting and systems.
• Established an organizational-facing distribution instrument utilized by the Chief Financial Officer to communicate the Institute’s year-to-date financial performance and fiscal health. This process has been impactful.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Promoted to Finance Manager II in May 2013.
• Provide fiscal awareness and strategic guidance to Leadership using large data analytics, diverse modeling, and comprehensive reports
• Fiscal steward enforcing Federal Acquisition Regulation, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and various corporate policy.
• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert promoting the financial impacts of potential management decisions through constant communication with key stakeholders and technical staff.
• Create various ad-hoc financial tools and cost impact calculators for management’s discretionary use.
• Generate and distribute monthly financial statements, perform account reconciliations, and validate key performance metrics to Business Unit Leaders and other Leadership.

• Established an innovative department, reporting to the Executive Director, to drive financial forecasting, model plan-design modifications, and validate asset valuation competencies.
• Created and managed a staff of talented professionals with diverse skill-sets to define, quantify, and resolve intricate challenges that required analytics of large data sets, advanced modeling and crossed internal.
• Performed presentations and recommendations to the OPERS Board and Leadership team as assigned.
• Implemented a $250k actuarial solution involving seamless application implementation and integration within existing legacy architecture.
• Streamlined preparatory processes of the system’s 900,000+ member data through front-end classification validation and consolidation of complimentary efforts.
• Administered fiscal appropriations for a departmental budget exceeding $1 million annually.

: Security and system administrator of the Microsoft Dynamics Financial Platform.: Performed as the Interim Financial Services Manager from January 2007 to May 2007.: Lead for the Concurrent Financial Analysis and Reporting initiative.: Functional Project Manager for the Kronos Implementation Project: Successfully trained 600+ OPERS employees on the.

Dallas, TX, US

: Reduced annual expenditures by $125k and re-allocated the work of 1 full-time employee through the implementation of a multi-departmental cost approval & tracking solution.: Decreased the division's litigation exposure by 56.7% ($750k to $325) through vendor conciliations.: Provided process improvement and strategic management guidance that resulted in.

Dallas, TX, US

: Performed as Interim Division Controller for 3 months.: Departmental Manager accountable for all the growth/management of an 8 to 12 person Accounting team.: Spearheaded implementation of technology that improved Division wide efficiency and accountability through multi-tiered approval/tracking systems that in turn eliminated unknown variance cost and.

Dallas, TX, US

: Recognized for implementing an organizational training program exposing non-financial employees to financial concepts and cost management methods.: Instituted a digital Variance Purchase Order and Electronic Funds Transfer solution that maximized vendor discounts, modernized external communications, and promoted healthier vendor relationships.: Reduced.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

: Created a performance tracking mechanism that quantified the relationship between daily marketing activities and operational performance.: Implemented Annual WIP (Work-In-Progress) Customer Relationship handbook that standardized the division's strategic initiatives.