Budget Analysis:* Conduct thorough budget analyses by reconciling actual expenses with federal project budgets, ensuring compliance with donor requirements and regulations.* Prepare comprehensive budgets for new proposals, leveraging strong analytical skills and attention to detail.Operations:* Manage finance backoffice operations, including payroll, vendor payments, bank reconciliations, and analysis.* Facilitate seamless communication with third-party accountants to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance.

Finance:* Reporting and forecasting on: Revenue, OPEX, Sales* Monthly sales results and commission calculation for our Account Executives * Finding innovative and efficient ways of improving reporting processesOperations * Supporting the VP of Finance and Operations with project accounting* Providing payroll, preparatory bookkeeping and administrative support* Regularly communicating with our tax advisers, insurance providers, and lawyers* Conducting research related to tax and accounting practices in our subsidiaries’ geographies

Finance:* Executed accounts payable/receivable transactions in SAP* Oversaw billing and invoicing processes* Managed accounts receivable and collections

Finance:* Oversaw all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements* Executed the month, quarter, and year-end closing procedures in line with performance target* Constantly sought opportunities to improve on policies, processes, and procedures* Recommend and implemented enhancements to existing approaches* Managed and executed the annual budgeting and planning processes in coordination with department leaders* Maintained internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures* Consistently analyzed financial data in order to monitor progress and changes, and with a view towards identifying, explaining, and addressing variancesAchievements:* Developed a budget model that allowed to account for growing and fast changing complexity of organizational cost structure. Facilitated budget culture change by actively involving and coordinating department leads* Introduced an online time tracking system that facilitated more accurate financial reporting and cost tracking. Saved multiple hours of man-labor spent on collecting and summarizing of paper timesheets* Facilitated introduction of online expense reporting and reimbursement system, that brought more time and cost-savings for the organization

Budgeting:* Created budget models and various reports in MS Excel* Managed annual forecast process for programs, and administrative revenues and expenses * Worked with CFO, CEO, senior management, and field offices to populate and monitor departmental and whole-entity budgets* Presented annual budget to the Board of Directors* Provided ad hoc analysis and reports to different departments and senior managementAchievements: * Developed and implemented departmental budget control system on an entity level, which allowed opportunity to monitor and rationalize administrative expenses by department. * Increased agency’s performance and competitiveness on market and prevented over/under spending by setting up monthly program expenses reporting system to monitor/control budget vs. actual expenses* Slashed time of booking allocation of payroll expenses by facilitating implementation of ADP Payroll System, which resulted in savings of $24K per year.

Management:Supervision of Finance Department at company headquarters:* Supervised 4 employees responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and cash. * Facilitated preparation of monthly financial statements for agencies and analytic reports for senior management using MS Excel and Quickbooks. Achievements:* I was promoted to Budget/Financial Analyst in January 2010 for considerable breakthrough in company’s financial analytics preparations and reporting process.* Helped to successfully transition Finance Department from QuickBooks to Sun Systems software by utilizing strong organization and leadership skills, and drawing on ability to learn new skills quickly.

Accounting:* Handled main accounting functions in Finance Department* Managed Accounts payable/receivable, travel expenses * Processed deposits, prepared bank reconciliations* Developed various reports for senior management

Served in department charged with evaluating and reviewing SFS initiatives in Russia.• Analyzed investment projects and construct financial models using Microsoft Excel. • Performed ad hoc financial analysis including ROI, NPV, and trend and sensitivity analysis• Evaluated credibility of potential Siemens customers by preparing credit analysis and offering solutions for possible credit from company. • Prepared market reviews and reports for management and business units.• Chosen to participate in evaluation of important Siemens Investment Projects in Russia as a result of demonstrating strong work ethic, financial acumen, and excellent analytical skills.• Served as instrumental member of international management team by sharing insight on the country and providing Russian market research and analysis.

Researched and analyzed market to identify strong investment opportunities for company in transport engineering industry. Developed and sustained financial models for project and company evaluations using DDM, NPV, and ROC methods. Prepared investment memorandum and presented findings to senior management. Provided post-implementation assurance and analysis after project implementation. Contributed to preparation of paperwork for M&A transactions, due diligence, analysis of bank credit terms, and risk evaluation.• Contributed to aggressive growth of company from 1 railway machinery factory to 5 plants within 1 year.• Learned how to labor on ambitious, time-demanding projects, which required the ability to work long hours, remain calm under constant pressure of multiple deadlines, and collaborate efficiently as team.• Innovatively determined reasonable adjustments and patterns in order to conduct professional analysis in developing Russian market, where weak railway industry lacked any proven market data.

Administrative support of investment process implementationDevelopment and maintenance of investment projects database