Sr. Manager, Finance
Promoted to Senior Finance Manager and partnered with the global head of Financial Services Ratings to achieve the business unit’s profit goal with responsibility for all aspects of financial management:• Developed annual budget for U.S. Financial Services Ratings and consolidated it for the global business unit, inclusive of revenue, expense, capital expenditure, and headcount, with assessment of business environment and risk/opportunity factors that would impact the financials;• Managed the monthly close, estimate, and quarterly business review process and provided financial reports and forecasts with variance analysis;• Performed in-depth revenue analysis to measure drivers of revenue growth and to interpret revenue results in relation to market volume;• Acted on the insights of deal trending and assessment of market conditions to prepare revenue flashes and develop risk-based revenue forecasts;• Worked with sales team using scenario analysis on fee strategies for frequent issuers that would maximize revenue potential;• Improved financial process efficiency by facilitating the implementations of new financial analysis tool TM1 and new general ledger system Oracle EBS, and developing various value-added analysis reports using TM1 and data warehouse tools BusinessObjects/Microstrategy;• Oversaw the work of three individuals on fee management, expense control, and balanced sheet reconciliation and trained staff members to use system tools efficiently;• Implemented internal controls pertaining to the business unit with quarterly review of the control effectiveness.