Monica Carpenter Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Co

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Oversee day to day activities to ensure compliance with GAAP, CAS, and FAR. Develop, analyze, and respond to monthly financial statements. Generate and track all invoicing activities and reconciliation of revenue. Drive process improvement and documentation efforts in Human Resources, Purchasing, and Accounting to ensure consistent, efficient, and compliant steps are performed. Manage accuracy and productivity of the accounting staff. Train and mentor new program management staff in financial and contractual arenas. * Reviewed and investigated three (3) years of invoice and contract documentation to reconcile the A/R aging and the Unbilled A/R accounts* Created a workbook based on equity firm’s reporting requirement to track operations’ savings to budget saving four (4) hours of effort every two (2) weeks* Exclusively executed accounting software setup after L3 purchase in under 2 weeks to full operational usage

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Serves as the sole point of contact for all pricing and contracts activities across a company with over 500 employees and $52M in annual revenue. Develops and executes pricing formats, procedures, and pricing and Price-to-Win (PtW) libraries to increase productivity and effectiveness. Manages, reviews, and negotiates all contract documents, teaming agreements, and Non-Disclosure Agreements. Collaborates with other proposal development elements and provides prompt and effective recommendations on proposal strategy, and contract rollout and execution. Participates in pricing discussions and decisions with senior leadership, providing key insights into factors influencing responses to the solicitation. Advises and provides ad hoc support to corporate leadership in finance, program management, pricing, and contractual realms. Researched, selected, implemented, and now serves as the main point of contact for Microsoft Dynamics SL accounting software. Serves as the Microsoft Excel expert, developing critical special reporting for ownership, resulting in enhanced understanding and manpower savings.* In the previous two years, supported approximately 65 non-IDIQ, non-task order pricing exercises, valued at $3.75B, with an average proposal duration of 35 days

Alexandria, Va

Served as a strategic advisor to corporate leadership across multiple corporate management rungs (Operations, Division and Program Management levels). Provided critical day-to-day support and resolution to managerial and programmatic issues impacting business operations of a $260M, 800 staff organization. Responsible for the organization’s Program Execution Team, Financial Planning and Analysis Team and Program Control Team. Monitored and tracked key performance metrics to ensure achievement of financial performance goals. Directed and analyzed PtW efforts on all Operation competitive proposals. Provided mentoring and training to members of the organization to ensure and promote compliance with internal policies, procedures, and best practices. Served as primary reviewer of indirect cost requests to ensure strategic compliance and optimal Return on Investment (ROI). Initiated and organized an Operations-level restructuring that targeted organizational strategy, optimized execution efficiency, and overhead investment savings estimated at $1.2M per year.

Alexandria, Va

Gathered, prepared and analyzed essential PtW data required by capture teams and management for strategic Bid/No Bid decisions. Provided key cost volume guidance, pricing analysis and oversight and strategic pricing recommendations to over 30 opportunities, four of those on the Business Unit’s Top Ten Strategic Capture list. Provided Basis of Estimate (BOE) guidance, mentoring and support to ensure accurate and complete pricing and ensure audit compliance. Provided both scheduled and ad-hoc on-demand analysis and reporting to the Operation for stream-lined efficiency and execution. * Provided PtW analysis, BOE support, Cost Volume Support and strategic pricing methodology on a successful $7B IDIQ award. Proposal response consisted of 43 files, with pricing consisting of 12,628 T&M rates and three Sample Task Orders. Out of 18 evaluation notices received by the proposal team, two were related to rates and BOE and minor in nature. * Developed a Microsoft Excel workbook tool that allowed the PM to analyze salary/fee across an 80 FTE award. Utilizing the tool, the PM was able to make on-the-spot offers to potential candidates during a job fair that resulted in the hiring of 52 applicants and improved fee by 1.3% in an extremely competitive environment.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Led financial and management activities for a $110M Operation. Provided PtW and strategic pricing analysis and recommendations, mentoring PMs in strategic and fiscal management, implementing reporting enhancements for contractual and financial components, and providing specialized analysis of financial components, both direct and indirect, to improve overall performance. * Successfully led PtW effort for a $30M, two year contract listed on the Business Unit’s Top 10 Strategic Capture List. * Developed a creative program spend approach that enabled uninterrupted support through the end of the Period of Performance on a key, six year program despite an acute funding shortfall. This allowed SAIC to demonstrate corporate commitment to this long term customer.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Led financial and management activities for a $90M Division. This included tracking and analyzing financials, reviewing and analyzing forecasts for accuracy, analyzing change impacts, recommending courses of action to ensure profitability, provide PtW and strategic pricing analysis and recommendations. * Created and maintained the Division’s workbook to track, analyze, and explore potential management scenarios on high profile, high risk $110M Firm Fixed Price Contract.* Developed and implemented the Division’s customized financial training to PMs in order to increase understanding of direct and indirect cost impacts to contracts and financial statements.* Led Business Unit’s Accounts Receivable support to include reporting, data compilation, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development and tracking in support of the transition to the Group Business Service. Mentored newly hired Accounts Receivable (AR) Performance and Analysis Manager.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

By name selection to lead $215M Operation proposal pricing efforts based on the demonstrated ability to ensure the organization operated in accordance with all corporate Cost Estimating System Manual and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). Interfaced with technical staff, support personnel, and all levels of management to ensure exceptional proposal support and to attain management goals and objectives. Responsible for proposal pricing strategy and contract negotiations approach.* Customized BOE template to improve documentation of key bid components. This same template has subsequently been adopted for use by all levels of the corporation. * Developed a standardized pricing template in Microsoft Excel that applied Cost Estimating System Manual processes and requirements to improve automation, efficiency and accuracy for all pricing deliverables. This template remains in use by the Business Unit pricing department.* Created and maintained the Business Unit’s first proposal tracking website to increase proposal effort awareness throughout geographically diverse department. * Continually praised for excellence in Excel usage, financial knowledge and responsiveness to management requests and proposal efforts. * Audited $13.1M contract, resulting in the cost transfer of approximately 260 lines of financial data valued at $1.7M, thus ensuring compliance of financial data with corporate policy, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and FAR.

Mclean, Va

Planned, tracked, analyzed, and reported on multiple contracts of varying types, sizes, complexity and level of risk, with annual revenues of approximately $12.5 Million. Interfaced across all levels of management on contract status, revenue schedules, risk mitigation and cost and schedule variances. Reliably produced accurate program financial deliverables in compliance with customer schedule and acceptance criteria. Established and maintained accurate and timely budgets and cost and schedule baselines. Provided cost and schedule support to management for new business proposals.

Bs, Accounting

Bs, Marine Biology

Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies