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Auburn, Wa, Us

Kent, Washington, United States

Auburn, Wa

Responsible for managing the Financial Planning team to include training and development, assigning workload and projects while ensuring all work projects are accurate, meaningful and delivered on time. Responsibilities include the preparation and oversight of the Biennial Budget for the City of Auburn, which is a budget of $600M+.Managed the City's Capital Facility Plan, including oversight of the state and federal grant funding.Managed the Accounting Team to include Payroll and Accounts Receivables, to training, develop, assign workload and level-loading of job functions. Duties included year-end close process oversight, accounting entries, preparing the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) as well as W-2 preparation, benefit administration oversight and full research of new employment laws and benefits implemented by the State Legislation.Created the General Fund forecasting model that is used for the City of Auburn's 6 year Long-Term forecast arming Executive Leadership with valuable data to prepare for the future.Created predictive models which are used to forecast revenue streams and expenditures in order to ensure funds remain solvent. Full cycle fund reporting, monitoring, and budgeting for the General Fund, Enterprise Funds and Special Revenue Funds. Provide valuable information and recommendations to determine capital project viability, cost of service analysis, insight into best practices, policies and procedures.Responsible for preparing the Quarterly Financial Reporting Package while using understandable metrics and ensuring 100% accuracy. Ability to deep dive into the GL to understand root cause of variances in the financials.

Federal Way, Wa

Reported directly to the Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for preparing the quarterly and annual statutory financial reporting for the company.Responsible to reconcile the general ledger. Posted monthly journal entries for all claim and pharmacy expenses, revenue and accruals in accordance with GAAP guidelines. Responsible to approve accounts payable payments which exceeded $4M per month. Worked closely with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) during their 5-month audit of Soundpath Health and was involved in the annual actuarial opinion, as well as the annual bid process.

Kingston, Wa

Responsibilities included long-range financial planning and capital project development and implementation.Responsibilities included contract negotiation and contract management. Sucessfully implemented numerous capital projects. Was responsible for the monthly general ledger reconciliation, monthly reporting, annual budgeting, accounts payable, accounts receivables and payroll. Responsible for creating, documenting and implementing management procedures and protocols, pricing policies, cost analysis and maintenance schedules.

Redmond, Wa

Reported directly to the Vice President of Customer Services where I was responsible to present business and system issues to senior management on a regular basis. Identified and facilitated enhancements to several system issues resulting in over $12M annual reduction of bad debt expense and $3M annual reduction of operating expenses. Was instrumental in reducing flow time of accounts sitting in manual work states by 20% (or 6 days).Responsible for ad-hoc analysis supporting bad debt and involuntary churn initiatives and reductions.

Redmond, Wa

Worked in Financial Planning & Analysis and was responsible for developing the budget for two business units that had over $700M in annualized expenses. Forecasted expenses on a monthly and quarterly basis, provided variance analysis and root cause analysis. Was instrumental in facilitating the Customer Services hiring plans based upon company growth projections.Perform Net Present Value (NPV) analysis and performed cost benefit analysis of programs proposed and implemented in order to identify profitable vs. unprofitable strategies and provided recommendations to senior management.

Renton, Wa

Analyzed, evaluated and presented key performance metrics to Chief Project Engineer and senior management weekly. Managed workflow, delegated workload, and was responsible for employee training and development. Duties also included the creation and maintenance of databases and spreadsheets in order to provide visibility reports and charts to senior management.

Everett, Wa

Provided manpower forecasts, capacity analysis, production reports and metrics on shop performance. Implemented Lean Manufacturing workcells and designed the layout of the shop floor for economies in flow reduction, increased productivity, and reduction of defects. Reduced work in process (WIP) by 60%, reduced manpower requirements by 20%, implemented ‘point of use’, Kanban’s, and JIT (Just-In-Time) delivery of products to the factory.

Ba In Bussiness, Finance, Accounting, Management And Psychology

Activities and Societies: Was on the Intramural Volleyball Team Was a member of the College of Business & Economics

Associate Of Arts, Concentration In Business