Taisha Wright Email & Phone Number

Yorba Linda, CA, US

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provide leadership to the budget, procurement, and reimbursement teams to ensure excellent customer service through accurate and timely processing of financial transactions for over 95 academic and administrative units
• Perform analysis as needed; including impact of PhD stipend increases for the Provost’s Office
• Coordinated FY18 budget for over 20 administrative units and central funding pools such as cost of education, faculty development awards, minimum wage increase allotment, etc.
• Developed a reimbursement (DV/DVQE) queue functionality to allow visibility into team operations, provide backup capability and never before seen metrics
• Serve on university wide committees including Travel Advisory and Corporate Card Services Advisory and attend other vital project and leadership meetings as the Dornsife liaison to provide valuable feedback
• Complete all approvals for SBO level financial and payroll transactions within 48 hours

Cypress, CA

Cypress, CA

• Partner with the IT Department to improve reporting and efficiencies for the Financial Aid and Financial Planning and Analysis Departments
• Provide coaching to in order to develop a highly motivated and compliant financial aid staff, allowing for more opportunity to advance other areas of the university
• Oversee the university budgeting process
• Complete ad-hoc reporting as requested by the President, CFO and Board in order to make informed data driven decisions
• Co-managed university communication project to improve student communication for the Registrar’s Office, Financial Aid Department, Bursar’s Office, and Academic Advising Department by reviewing over 300 templates and.

Cypress, CA

• Manage a team of over 15 responsible for settlement of student accounts and processing of Title IV financial aid, Veteran's Affairs benefits and military tuition assistance
• Provide Title IV training the Financial Aid, Finance, Enrollment/Recruitment, and Advisement Departments to ensure understanding of requirements for processing and administering aid
• Coordinated the transition from FFEL to Direct Lending to ensure students and staff are well informed and processing guidelines are followed
• Calculate Return to Title IV for students who withdrawal from the university to ensure timely and accurate returns
• Increased department awarding efficiency through training and setting higher expectations, which in-turn decreased student complaints
• Prepare for annual compliance audits through implementation of internal checks and balances and coordination with external auditors

Cypress, CA

• Manage the accounting functions of the Financial Aid Department at TUI University
• Serve as the liaison between the University and compliance auditors
• Assisted in preparing reports and recommendations for upper management regarding Title IV policies and procedures
• Performed Return to Title IV calculations for using both non-standard term and non-term methodologies for two prior years totaling $1M
• Reconciled Accounts Receivable and two years of Pell Grant accounts to prepare for compliance audits
• Worked with the Finance Department to improve processes of the Bursar’s Office and create a student ledger card

• Assisted planning of all digital media plans for Sony PlayStation
• Developed PowerPoint presentations for internal and external media plan presentations
• Negotiated media buy prices with sales representatives
• Researched Sony PlayStation's target demographic and past campaign performance in order to make efficient media and marketing recommendations using ComScore, @Plan, and tracking metrics
• Organized campaign budgets and billing spreadsheets on a campaign, quarter, and fiscal year basis to ensure budgets were maintained and invoices were correct.
• Scheduled meetings for the Sony PlayStation media team.

• Entered company bills, printed checks, and entered payroll using QuickBooks
• Verified and recorded employee expense sheets and time-off request forms for Human Resources records for 50 employees
• Billed advertising agencies for commercial spots ran during the television shows
• Reviewed commercial traffic to make sure the proper commercials were being aired in the correct shows
• Monitored sales representatives by updating clearance lists to ensure all shows were cleared nationwide
• Prepared weekly profit and loss statements and monthly forecasts using Excel to inform the executives of monetary movements

Executive Mba

B.S.B.A., Finance & Marketing

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi, Joint Educational Project