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Alexandria, Va, Us

Washington, D.C., Us

 Lead analysts’ team that produced quarterly and monthly financial reports for the $3B Air Transportation Services of US Postal Services. Extended land routes and approved funding for air routes in other places. Installed Tableau at finance department for analytical projects. Published key factors for the Air Transportation department that reported various monitored internal and external data. Participated in preparing monthly Business Review packages and provided insights and trends to the VP Air Transportation for discussion in the Executive Management Board. • Partnered with the VP Network Operations and produced 6 quarters of forecasts for Network Operations group. This included 3-year forecasts based on historical data and future trends. Ensuring Network Op’s VP were in sync with the significant changes highlighting key risks and opportunities.• Led financial decision making for special projects teams by creating budgets, releasing project funds like extending land routes from Phoenix to Yuma. This cost the postal service approx. $18M annually. Also funded project to extend air transportation from Nashville to Louisville. The project was approved at the annual rate of $10M. • Ensured seamless Network Operations by continuously reviewing and approving operations and projects ensuring they are in line with the commitments by the VP and releasing funds when necessary. • Supported Network Operations with SG&A, properly planning and releasing capital expenditures, identify and communicate key cost drivers.• Recommended means to maintain the budgetary guidelines for the CFO who presented those recommendations in CEO’s executive committee meetings. This included details where the actuals were exceeding or lagging the budgets and suggested ways to get back on track.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Finance Director, 2011 – 2015Senior Manager, 2007 – 2010Managed FP&A process and all program finance implementations for the company including support for the SEC filings, managing software selections and installations, overseeing process developments, driving operational audits, like CFPB, BOA, and Chase. • Led team to produce the quarterly budgets, forecasts, and earnings analysis for the CFO, SEC filings, and board presentations. This included producing detailed variance analysis of the financials, CFO’s talking points and operational analysis.• Designed, developed and implemented corporate sales tax (Vertex O series) collection process and remit taxes to the state boards. The entire project was completed in 10 months.• Reviewed billing and G/L various softwares (Oracle, People Soft, SAP and Microsoft G/L) for consideration to replace the legacy applications. • Mapped entire finance process from customer installment to billing and collection of revenue to entry in the G/L. Identified areas of improvement, including upgrading to a new G/L system and billing system, redesigning several invoices, implement a standard GL system in all the acquired businesses. Senior FP&A Manager• Led team to produce the budgets and financial forecasts of the corporation which were produced at the end of the year and after every quarter end respectively. • Revised forecasting methodology from quarter to quarter to a model to reflect new business, products and emerging inputs.• Reconciled BOA invoices to the operational reports which did not match previously raising concerns by the client of exaggerated invoicing. The process enabled Intersections to recover almost $425K unbilled revenues.• Consolidated acquired business financial platforms from Lawson and Quickbooks to Great Plains.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Managed planning, budgeting and forecasting process for the Mortgage Business. This included the Single Family Business, Multi-Family Business and e-Business. Led a team to produce quarterly reports, supported SEC reporting, produce monthly closing statements. • Prepared financial plan to implement the 2001 Nemacolin expansion plan to lend $1T in mortgage loans in the next 5 years to the most distressed areas of the country.• Provided all the financial analysis in the $10B debt restructuring program for the mortgage business.• Streamline the mortgage industry data entry in the budgeting system. This was done by system to system relevant data transfer.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed finance and accounting teams of the $250M switchgear business for GE Electrical Distributions and Control. Produced monthly and quarterly financial results and reported to corporate. Managed the export offerings during the Southeast Asia currency crisis and the dot com bubble burst crisis.• Produced successful financial results for 8 quarters including double digit growth in two different quarters.• Developed multi-year budgeting model that incorporated both the long cycle products as well as the short cycle products. This was later incorporated to the Selmar TN plant. • Developed proposals for the Chinese Electricity Board to supply all the switchgears for FY 1997-1998.

Dublin 2, Ie

Masters Of Science, Business Analytics

Master Of Business Administrations, Corporate Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering