Terrence Gray Email & Phone Number

College Station, Texas, United States

As a Business Analyst, I managed a budget of $25.9 million, overseeing the entire spectrum of budgeting, analysis, consolidation, and interpretation of sales data. I proactively identified and addressed data discrepancies in Eclipse and Salesforce, collaborating closely with IT Systems Administrators to ensure prompt issue resolution. Additionally, I played a key role in responding to inquiries regarding errors, problems, or questions related to system data. Throughout these responsibilities, I maintained a commitment to delivering high-quality, timely, and accurate work.· Provide comprehensive support for financial planning, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting in the Western regions.· Cultivate robust working relationships with key business stakeholders, gaining an intimate understanding of products and fi-nancial processes.· Prepare and maintain weekly and monthly reports for external vendors AT&T and DirecTV, aligning with business objectives.· Deliver weekly performance and sales team goals to the Senior Director for in-depth analysis. Provide valuable support to the West Sales team in addressing budgeting issues and ensuring the accurate assignment of sales accounts and orders to the appropriate Account Executives and Local Sales Managers.· Directly support Local Sales Managers (LSMs) and the sales team, demonstrating a strong understanding of their operational goals to enhance forecasting and budgeting processes.· Drive annual financial planning modeling within Sales departments, contributing to the development of annual operating plans and rolling forecast processes that align with strategic business initiatives.· Enhance monthly and quarterly reporting processes through the implementation of revised solutions.· Manage technical requirements, identify and resolve issues, prioritize problem resolution, and maintain resolutions for Eclipse and Salesforce system issues, collaborating with support team staff.

Rollingwood, Texas

Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for collecting, analyzing, consolidating and interpreting financial data. This role also conducts special studies related to the business and financial statements, uses independence and sound judgment and works within set policies and procedures to solve problems. Identify data discrepancies in Hyperion and work with IT Systems Administrators to resolve issues. Provide assistance by responding to inquires regarding errors, problems, or questions with Hyperion Essbase pulls. As Senior Financial Analyst was also accountable for the quality; timeliness and accuracy of own work.

Coppell,Tx

Responsible for assisting in the preparation of various complex financial activities including data gathering, trending, modeling, forecasting, planning, and reporting for the following areas: Financial Planning and Analysis, Accounting, Revenue Management, and Internal Controls. Collects information from various areas across the company and to assist in the building of models to provide insight to underlying business dynamics. Contribute to the annual budgeting process, the monthly forecast process, and other initiatives as they arise. Has the capabilities to own and contribute to processes and/or portions of processes.• Building and recreating reports in Oracle Essbase Smartview application due to company integrating from PeopleSoft to Oracle accounting system.• Developing and analyzing revenue analytics to determine trends and report more efficient metrics around revenue streams.• Support the HR and IT departments in analyzing actuals versus plan (budget) on a monthly basis. Meeting with the VP of departments and working with staff to ensure department is meeting goals and explaining variance results.• Variance analysis for Controller on a monthly basis by account that is reported to external audit group.• Monthly prepare accounting JE’s for HR allocations and IT accruals for the organization as well as any ad-hoc JE’s that come up during the month end process.

Irving, Tx

Assisted in managing budgeting and forecasting of over $300,000,000 in SGA costs across entire organization as needed. Liaised between accounting, supply chain, finance and planning, and accounts payable, providing insight, research, and analysis to meet business needs. Worked on any special projects and ad hoc requests. Performed month-end accounting close task, including accruals and re-class journal entry submission. Ensured delegation of authority, SOX, and operation control compliance with accounts payable processes. Aided in research of fixed, variable cost, and cost-per-acquisition drivers in data analysis for departmental budgets and business decisions. Provided training instructions for PeopleSoft My Expense portal and Maximo.• Gained experience in introductory-level SAS.• Wrote testing, training, and policies and procedures for Maximo system implementation process.• Worked with various departments to manage Maximo purchase requisition and purchase-order processes and assisted with AP invoice processing for Maximo system.• Recognized as 2013 fourth quarter Finance and Accounting Employee of the Quarter.• Provided invoice processing to help business close gaps on potential risk during 2014 EFH Energy bankruptcy.• Won 2015 second quarter TXU Star Award for assisting in training and testing of Maximo AP system.• Partnered with third broker team to streamline payment processing function from seven to ten to one to two by using Access and working with AP team to change process procedures for payment process.• Caught mistakes on two occasions to save company $100,000.

Coppell, Tx

Managed accounting for 20 operating units (cost centers). Worked with full cycle of fixed assets, including acquisitions, capitalization, transfers, disposals, and roll forward reports. Prepared month-end close calculations and post-journal entries for capitalization of in-house labor, CPE deployment, installation, and end-of-month accruals for capitalization. Reconciled physical count to general ledger of high value and high volume of customer premise equipment and research variances. Reconciled sub-ledger to general ledger of inventory materials from ten warehouses located around Texas.• Ensured compliance with all procedures according to Sarbanes-Oxley.• Coordinated across all 20 operation units so same products had same name functions, allowing for better B2B transfers.

Carrollton, Tx

Maintained daily integrity of financial system information. Ran JDE system’s month-end closing and reviewed for errors. Monitored domestic fixed- asset classification and ensured entry in assets-tracking program. Calculated and prepared month-end journal entries according to assignment schedule. Researched and explained domestic gross-margin variances and operating expenses. Reconciled monthly bank statements to general ledger. Maintained integrity of financial system information, such as inventory costing, receiver costing, and general ledger classifications. Updated all cycle counts and investigated variances over $1,500 with appropriate approvals.

Plano, Tx

Maintained inventory value of company-owned paper, envelopes, printing supplies, ink, equipment, parts, and work-in-process inventory. Tracked receiving, issuing, and return of inventory to warehouse on daily basis. Ensured receipt of all company-owned material into PeopleSoft system daily, allowing A/P to perform three-way match for all material. Researched any variances with buyers and project managers to process payments in a timely manner. Analyzed levels of material through inventory valuation work sheet. Accompanied warehouse group on physical count of all warehouse material as on-hand witness to inventory count.

Dallas, Tx

Performed month-end close process, including real estate, personal property tax, and utility accruals. Maintained straight-line rent accruals. Performed functions in occupancy accounting as directed, dealing with budget review, operating results, and variance analysis and reporting. Completed monthly reconciliation of various balance-sheet accounts in accordance with company policies. Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, including analysis and discussion of results with management. Also served as Account Analyst for Finance and Accounting and Staff Accountant I for General Accounting.