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• Oversee month-end closing procedures, journal entries, and financial statement preparation, ensuring accuracy to GAAP.
• Responsible for onboarding subcontractor contracts, applying ASC 606 from identifying obligations to recognizing revenue.
• Lead the accounting team to foster internal relationships, enhance financial and operational performance, and drive business growth.
• Leverage Microsoft PowerBI to generate meaningful, actionable insights, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Greater Indianapolis

• Verify that accounting records are accurate, comply with GAAP, and adhere to defined company policies and procedures.
• Initiate closing, budgeting, and variance analyses, and develop financial forecasts for all operations in accordance with GAAP.
• Deliver monthly reports on consolidated financial results, forecasts, and variances, providing insights into the ~$900M business.
• Maintain accurate financial reports and projections, and suggest improvements to capture all revenue opportunities.

Greenfield, Indiana, United States

• Prepare month-end journal entries, account reconciliations, and contribute to monthly and quarterly financial reporting per GAAP.
• Implement the PowerBI system for the organization’s financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Formulate and recommend strategies for increasing financial performance to managers, driving informed decision-making.
• Oversee real-time financial performance, tracking key performance indicators and objectives to ensure they align with business goals.

Dayton, Ohio, United States (Remote)

• Develop and maintain Excel models to analyze project demand, optimizing resource allocation and project timelines.
• Initiate closing, budgeting, and variance analyses, and develop financial forecasts for all operations, ensuring GAAP compliance.
• Forecast staffing demand, considering onshore, offshore, FTE, and consulting factors, and develop project tracking models.
• Collaborate with teams to gather data, understand budgets and variances, and develop accurate financial forecasts.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Led onboarding of project contracts, applying ASC 606 from identifying obligations to recognizing revenue.
• Ensured financial records for managed projects were accurate and GAAP-compliant, maintaining integrity and reliability.
• Delivered monthly updates on budget against inflows, ensuring comprehensive financial transparency across the project lifecycle.
• Spent the first 3 years flying commercially as a pilot and ground instructing.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed weekly reconciliations of student receivables and Cost of Operations payables.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operation of facility and customer service, ensuring instructor/airplane ratio to the student body is compatible with the number of student enrollees – allowing for highest operating.
• At the higher level, this role included analysis of yearly financial results, monthly forecasting, budgeting, budget variance analysis, and data interpretation of business impact and results against local competition.

Master Of Science - Ms, Financial Management; Quantitative Analysis; Value Creation; Economics; Risk Management, Cum Laude 3.5 Gpa

Activities and Societies: CFA Institute

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Analytics And Accounting Fundamentals; Global, Experiential, And Professional Development+, Cum Laude 3.5 Gpa

Activities and Societies: CFA Institute

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance, Cum Laude 3.5 Gpa

Activities and Societies: • Member of Golden Key International Honor Society • Bloomberg Certified | Terminal Introduction and Portfolio.

Associate Of Science - As, Business Administration, Cum Laude 3.6 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, International Honor Society MemberTransfer to IU Kelley School of Business

Professional Pilot Program, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General

Activities and Societies: Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (AOPA)Pilot certificates: Private and Commercial Airplane Single Engine.

Mathematics | Information Community Technology | Physics

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