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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

Interim and recurring support in budgeting/forecasting, cost accounting, internal reporting and systems development and testing. Projects included:• Siemens: Month-end production costing and reporting, project accounting. Plan, manage and reconcile annual physical inventory.• New Seasons Market: Develop store-level income statement budget for two regions. Create and update reports in new reporting system.• Columbia Sportswear: Provide financial and project management support to the I.T. organization. Month-end review, quarterly forecasting, project costing and initiative planning/tracking. • Portland Community College: Support Financial Services with the Biennial Budget process. Create multi-department budget models. Develop comparative course costing. Work with external vendor on budgeting/reporting software implementation.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Consolidated financial analysis and internal reporting. Responsibilities included:• Coordinated the weekly consolidated flash forecast process and related reporting.• Migrated several complex reports from Hyperion to BPC.• Assisted with month-end reporting package, including report development, publishing and distribution.• Assisted with annual consolidated budget process and associated analysis and reporting.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Interim FP&A support for a 575-unit retailer. Projects included:• Developed top-down and bottom-up, metrics-driven budget and forecast models.• Established department-level G&A structure, with budget/forecast models and reporting.• Upgraded BPC software from version 7.0 to 10.0. Implemented budget/forecast process and created new internal reports.• Assisted with recruiting new Finance Director, Finance Manager and 2 Sr Financial Analysts.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manage the financials for three multi-million dollar airport baggage and commercial package handling systems integration projects. Partner with the Project Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary team (Engineering, Supply Chain Manufacturing, Installation, Procurement and Contract Management) in project execution. Responsible for project forecasting and analysis, billing and collections, and month-end closing.

Dallas, Tx

• Established the Decision Support function to assist with ad-hoc analysis and special initiatives.• Managed the US, Brazil and consolidated budgeting process.• Created, from scratch, the multi-currency budget model, store metrics reports and marketing initiative evaluation tool.• Collaborated with I.T. on data cleansing, consolidation and reporting.• Streamlined the payroll process, reducing processing time and increasing controls.• Developed a model for operations management bonuses.

Austin, Tx

• Supported the highest volume groups on the demand and supply side with operational reporting and analysis.• Served as the primary intermediary between Business Intelligence and the groups on the development of automated planning solutions.• Provided ad-hoc reporting to various levels of sales and operations management.• Created monthly and quarterly Reseller metrics reports, tracking trends and forecast accuracy.• Developed the quarterly multi-channel iPod returns forecast model with 2% accuracy.• Overhauled the Reseller returns eligibility process.

Austin, Tx

• Provided Central and Regional accounting with operational/financial reporting and analysis.• Coordinated the annual multi-country budget process, including reporting, process management and tool development.• Participated in cross-functional initiatives incorporating human resources, I.T., risk management, marketing and regional operations.• Established the standard period-end reporting package for national, regional, local and G&A, including report selection, modification, automation and publishing on the company intranet.• Created the executive reporting package for regional leadership review.• Administered the national Flash Sales and Labor Tool, including database development, maintenance and report management. This tool provided a previously unavailable level of detail in a more timely manner.• Developed the key report set used for analyzing general and administrative budget across the company.

Portland, Or And Bellevue, Wa

• Provided key financial support for a division with annual sales in excess of $1.1 billion and $55 million in inventory.• Reviewed periodic financial statements for accuracy and analyzed variances to budget and forecast.• Acted as liaison between operations, merchandising and two accounting centers.• Developed a shared Access database to track weekly purchases. This enhanced the accuracy of department-level margins and inventories.

Los Altos, Ca

Duties included financial management of three service centers, project tracking and variance reporting, preparation of period allocations, reconciling A/P, A/R and payroll discrepancies, as well as procurement support for three locations.

Mba, Accounting

Ba, Economics