SUMMARY:

• Supported the Confidential in performing tests of internal controls related to the Generally accepted accounting principles, OMB Circulars, Financial Improvement Audit Readiness compliance, and documenting the results.
• Experience also extends to analyzing obligations, expenditures, de - obligations and budgets of activities across various financial appropriations, such as the Navy, and Department of State. Experience in Working Capital Fund, Cost Estimation, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), as well as Reporting and Financial Statements. Monitor cost and schedule trends using Earned Value Management System, variance analyses, and risk assessments to develop plans or to recommend necessary changes.
• Capital Planning and Investment regulatory compliance, Exhibits 300 and Exhibits 53s. Governance, developing and monitoring Memoranda of Understanding while working at DOS and Service Level Agreements (SLA). My experience entailed budget planning, execution, and program developments support for Federal agencies for Confidential Programs.
• I was a supervisor for a team of 15 with USCG and a team of 4 with Fish and Wildlife.
• Proven track record of recognizing, and implementing improvements in workflow, increasing efficiencies and productivity, increasing accuracy of information, creating synergy within team management environments, flexible in adapting to changes or new systems and multi-tasking.
• Strong reconciliation skills using MS Excel/Pivot tables, Vlookup, Visio and PowerPoint skills for presentations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IBM Cognos TM1 web
• Delphi
• Lotus Notes
• ADI
• Oracle 10g & 11g Financials
• PL/SQL
• DiscovererPrism
• MS Visio
• Microsoft Suite
• Access
• Adobe Reader
• SharePoint
• Hyperion
• FPD
• Mark view
• Peachtree III
• ACS Windows
• CFMS
• FPD
• RMS
• UNIX
• EDA
• DJAS
• DDRS
• Navy STARS
• Remedy
• QuickBooks
• Momentum
• Fin-mart
• FFMS
• FMS
• GOALS II
• GL 161
• FACTS II
• Regis
• PDM

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Federal Budget/Financial Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Proficiency in gathering, documenting and analyzing business processes at the operational level for the OM Budget Offices.
• Highlighting the key similarities and differences across OM budget formulation and execution processes
• Preparing flowchart diagrams with descriptions utilizing Microsoft Visio.
• Preparing Analysis with remediation on streamlining the OM budget process.

Confidential

Budget Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed funding to identify possible trends which may result in surplus or shortage of funds.
• Evaluated relationships between major program changes and the financial status of regions.
• Ensured adequate funds for program coverage, and prepare reports, forms and schedules, while working with de-obligating, Document Level Adjustment, (DLA).
• Track unliquidated obligations (ULOs) and unobligated balances.
• Reconciled Dissemination spend plan with Commerce Business System, (CBS). While reconcile Unmatched Commitment (UMCs) more than 45 days old.
• Responsible for coordinating with region stakeholder participation and vetting decisions through the proper personnel as required.
• Prepared invoices, including review as budget analysts and invoice approval. Provide analyst support for short-term budget-related initiatives as assigned.
• Assisted in management of operating budget of $63.4 million dollars for Office of Dissemination

Confidential

Senior Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for all phases of budget services, including budget preparation, formulation, presentation and execution.
• Consolidated data for the presentation of budget and provide a viable overview of financial status of operations.
• Analyzed funding to identify possible trends which may result in surplus or shortfall of funds.
• Evaluated relationships between major program changes and financial status for regions.
• Ensure adequate funds for program coverage, and prepare reports, forms and schedules.
• Responsible for coordinating with region stakeholder participation and vetting decisions through the proper personnel as required.
• Provide analyst support for short-term budget-related initiatives as assigned. Support includes but is not limited to; developing and documenting of processes, validating consistency and accuracy of data, creating briefs and producing various reports.
• Provided identification and reconciliation for Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and budget requirements by program and Region in coordination.
• Prepared budget exhibits such as BOCS, CP23, CP24, OP-5, and OP-32 for Dept of Navy, ( Confidential ), and The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Certified Obligation, and President’s Budget submissions.
• Provided quantitative, analytical and communication skills to provide budget support that includes budget formulation, budget justification/presentation and budget execution.
• Supported the preparation of detailed analysis and budgetary estimates of funding requirements; gather, compare, and correlate information about projected costs of current and future program activities.
• Prepared the 1532 report for Confidential while determine the costs and benefits of program operations.
• Formatted budget for the desired level of program operations into a format consistent with regulatory guidance and acceptable to reviewing and approving authorities.
• Provided identification and reconciliation of POM to budget requirements by program and Region in coordination. Provide analytic and other required support for budget-related initiatives that support budget formulation execution and POM transitions.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing bank reconciliation statements on a weekly basis.
• Handled various tasks of preparing accurate details of weekly suppliers as well as inter-company accounts payable reconciliation and accounts receivable statements.
• Prepares schedules of external and external auditors as required; while Clear-up outstanding reconciliation items within one month if any.
• Performed other accounting tasks under the instructions of Finance Manager.
• Maintained accurate and high level of efficiency within the department.
• De-Obligate Unobligated Undelivered Orders (UDO’s)

Confidential

IT Budget Anaalyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with various members of IT and business organizations for forecast and analyze budget related information from a Project Accounting and Expense perspectives.
• Created staffing profiles in Managing IS, (MIS) as well as creating new project codes or updating older projects such as deleting or adding a new project manager.
• Created and extracted reports into excel spreadsheets utilizing IBM Cognos, TM1 web, while performing financial modeling and cost estimation. Prepared concise budgets with detailed analysis of budgets, monitors performance to budget and provides guidance to internal customers.
• Exported various reports into excel spreadsheet for the different Project Managers such as actual vs. planning.
• Compiled and analyzed statistical data for various reports while utilizing pivot tables.
• Prepared financial management reports for Travelers Insurance agency to include monthly annual and ad hoc reports for senior management, program staffs.

Confidential

Senior Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and assessed internal control processes and policies and procedures.
• Reviewed Program Support for business process reengineering while writing SOP’s, and develop internal checklist for employees. Served as the liaison between Office of Finance and Procurement Division.
• Monitored acquisition requests and tracked incoming invoices for the division. Liaise with appropriate Departmental and vendor contacts to resolve invoicing errors.
• Analyzed accounting obligations, while develop financial, and summarizes financial transactions with detail reports.
• Analyzed burn rate reports for program support and generated financial reports for different object class codes.
• Monitored and reviewed commitments, obligations, expenditures, and comments while utilizing the Federal Finance Systems (FFS) & Procurement Desktop (IDEAS) system.
• Prepared fiscal year forecast report for AIA Division and spending plan.
• Developed financial management and budgetary spreadsheets that contain fiscal year data for all four divisions along with maintaining confidentiality to sensitive issues pertaining to Fish and Wildlife.
• Provided assistance to management concerning fiscal issues and recommended courses of action to effectively resolution.
• Developed budget planning, formulation and preparation; budget tracking; expenditure analysis; budget execution; appropriations; business system requirements development; cost estimation/projections and business process re-engineering and implement and made sufficient changes to the office policies and procedures.
• Resolved problems on a daily basis within the accounting operations such as researching and resolving discrepancies in the reports of monthly obligations and disbursements. I.e. travel vouchers, grants disbursements, or procurement agreements.
• Performed duties as Supervisor/ Task Leader on government site, operating in accordance with DOI, Department of Interior federal regulations with a staff of three employees providing program support of Fish Wildlife Service is for Regional 9.

Confidential

Senior Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided resolution of billing errors and discrepancies Confidential.
• Prepared expense research and classification for Confidential .
• Prepared advanced spreadsheet analysis using MS Excel and SOP.
• Developed budget planning, formulation and preparation; budget tracking; expenditure analysis; budget execution; appropriations; business system requirements development; cost estimation/projections and business process re-engineering.
• Provided Information Technology applications in Financial Management processes and internal control.
• Reconciled cost obligations to actual charges while utilizing Oracle financial system.
• Provided financial tracking and reporting for the Director ( Confidential ), Special analyses and/or examinations of business processes and financial reviews.
• Provided supervision and/or guidance to less experienced/qualified Financial Analyst.
• Mapping Funding Identify, o Funding Assigned Number’s while utilizing data from FTI and Delphi to be expensed.
• Provided financial tracking and reporting for the Director ( Confidential ), along with tracking risks which arise during implementations time, cost, quality
• Performed post-implementation assessments to assist with the internal and external customer understanding of benefit implement of the Help Desk project.

Confidential

Senior Accountant - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to the Internal Audit department, traveled within the metro area and abroad to different sites.
• Performed scheduled audits on government accounts such as Confidential, policies and procedures and regulatory rules while preparing assertion package.
• Familiarized with Department of the Navy Financial Improvement Plan ( Confidential -FIP) and Defense Joint Accounting Automated Financial System (DJAS), while working with the internal control and substantive testing.
• Performed day-to-day audit functions including internal control and substantive testing over financial reporting, documentation of accounting cycles, variance analysis, and testing of compliance with Appendix A, OMB Circular A-123.
• Submitted the audit reviews with accurate documentation and applicable recommendations.
• Determine the effectiveness and adequacy of internal controls of federal IT systems.
• Reviewed and wrote policies and procedures and made necessary recommendations for improvements. While ensuing compliance with Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) as well as compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the CFO Act 1990.
• While familiarized with Deltek Financial systems.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Perform Trading Partner accounting analyses and recommend adjustments.
• Research on ICE Journal Voucher (JV) balances and related General Journal (GJ) transaction activity.
• Analyses of internal controls over GJ processing and documentation
• Recommend modifications and edits to policies and coordinate with process owners to support their revisions to Standard Operation Procedures (SOP's). While ensuring they are in complies with Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Identify root causes of transactions resulting in abnormal balances; distinguish between valid and non-valid balances.
• Abnormal balance research and documentation for the Trial Balances and Tier Reports.
• Identify alternative solutions and related costs and benefits.
• Perform budgetary accounting analyses and recommend adjustments.
• Perform Trading Partner accounting analyses and recommend adjustments.
• Consider whether existing internal controls over financial reporting, as they relate to abnormal balances, are properly reflected in Office of Financial Management (OFM), OMB A-123 documentation.
• I performed tests of controls related to the Financial Audit Manual (FAM), OMB Circulars, Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) compliance, and documented the results.