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San Diego, California

Greater San Diego Area

 Manage all business functions, planning, and reporting for Finance, Accounting and Payroll groups.  Direct report to President of company, and member of the Executive management team for company financial and business decisions and direction. Manage company internal controls for financial policies. Provide direction to all divisions within company on compliance of business and financial matters. Work with company group executive management, domestically and internationally to execute monthly, quarterly, annually business plans. Providing direct direction on revenues, spend and operating profits.  Owner of all internal and external controls, working with company management, internal audit management, and PWC on a quarterly basis to ensure complete compliance.  Lead for all Financial Reporting to President for monthly, quarterly reporting to BOD, as well as corporate management groups in Japan.  Manage all cash flow related activities for the company. Working internally and externally with banking partners. Company representative for any legal litigation.

Greater San Diego Area

 Manage monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual budgets/reporting package for executive management/parent company executives.  Manager for Financial Analysts supporting all divisional functions of organization. Provide executive management with consolidated financial reporting variance analysis. Including monthly financial commentary, quarterly management reporting (including preparation of Board of Director reporting, and ad hoc business needed analysis. FP&A manager for all planning processes; Developing and implementing all schedules and reporting packages. Managing the input from all functional groups of the organization.  Manage Accounting group with month end close research, analysis and SOX related financial reporting.

Greater San Diego Area

Finance Manager Manage monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual budgets/reporting package for executive management/parent company executives.  Manager for Financial Analysts supporting several divisional functions of organization.  Provide executive management with consolidated financial reporting variance analysis. Including monthly financial commentary, quarterly management reporting (including preparation of Board of Director reporting), and ad hoc business needed analysis. FP&A manager for all planning processes; Developing and implementing all schedules and reporting packages. Managing the input from all functional groups of the organization.  Support Accounting group with month end close research, analysis and SOX related financial reporting.

Staff Financial Analyst  Finance lead and project manager for the design, implementation, and administration of company’s Financial Planning Applications. Liaison for Finance & Accounting departments for all SAP BPC related issues and projects.  Developed and provide consolidated financial reporting packages for CEO, CFO and entire executive management team. Financial Analyst for Corporate G&A groups; Monthly planning, analysis, and reporting for senior G&A management. SAP BPC Administrator and Power User; Daily interaction with Finance and SAP BPC IT teams to ensure continuing phases of implementation rollout.  Finance Power User for Cognos report writing (before becoming Project leader for Outlooksoft/SAP BPC 5.1applications). Oracle Budgets Administrator; Responsible for maintaining SAP BPC Planning data with “system of record” Oracle for external financial reporting.  Lead support for FP&A transition of company subsidiary transfer.

Greater San Diego Area

 Finance lead and project manager for the design, implementation, and administration of company’s Financial Planning Applications. Liaison for Finance & Accounting departments for all SAP BPC related issues and projects.  Developed and provide consolidated financial reporting packages for CEO, CFO and entire executive management team. Financial Analyst for Corporate G&A groups; Monthly planning, analysis, and reporting for senior G&A management. SAP BPC Administrator and Power User; Daily interaction with Finance and SAP BPC IT teams to ensure continuing phases of implementation rollout.  Finance Power User for Cognos report writing (before becoming Project leader for Outlooksoft/SAP BPC 5.1applications). Oracle Budgets Administrator; Responsible for maintaining SAP BPC Planning data with “system of record” Oracle for external financial reporting.  Lead support for FP&A transition of company subsidiary transfer.

Greater San Diego Area

 Prepared internal management reporting and external financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP. Interacted with and prepared schedules for external auditors as part of annual financial statement and SAS 70 audit. Developed the annual budgets. Preparing and distributing monthly budget and trend variance reports and preparing cash forecast.  Identifying/implementing improvements to internal control policies and procedures and assisting in formulating accounting policy. Developing/maintaining operational performance measurement tools/analyses.

 Prepare Weekly Financial Flash and Fill Rate Reports for executive management.  Responsible for monthly close reporting packages as follows: world wide DSO, average standard price, product-line detail reporting, world wide operating sales report, top customers, standard margins, bookings, backlog. Design monthly sales reporting package for senior management. Managed monthly commission processing and payment for internal and external commissions.  Owner of financial analysis for Corporate/Administration/Overhead, and Global Sales departments. Implemented the 2003-05 budgets. Team lead tester for the Sarbanes Oxley Act in San Diego, CA and Izmir, Turkey.

Greater Boston Area

 Team lead in development, testing, and implementation of many Oracle applications such as Discoverer, PRS, Self Service Time, Project Accounting, and ADI. Financial support leader for Customer Service, R&D, Sales, and Marketing Departments, developed annual budgets. Developed and streamlined financial reporting packages for budgets, forecasts, P/L expense analysis, headcount, and revenue/cogs analysis using interfacing software, Discoverer, with Oracle. Prepared monthly and quarterly report presentations for President of Americas Division and CFO of Comverse. Presented monthly financials to senior management staff.

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