Consultant Resume

Dedicated business professional with 20 years of experience in project management, processes improvement, financial analysis, and accounting. Respected for bringing organization, analytic thinking and innovative problem solving to business processes. Persuasive and proactive troubleshooter with outstanding interpersonal skills to develop and maintain rapport with clients, vendors and management. Proven adaptability to ever-evolving technologies, corporate initiatives and shifting priorities. Hands-on employee who learns quickly, develops expertise, and produces immediate results. Critical thinker with the ability to bridge user requirements and the technical methods of delivering the end product on a compressed timeline.

KEY STRENGTHS

Data Warehousing
Data Integrity
Data Modeling
Data Mining
EDI
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Access
SDLC
Business Analyst
Process Development
Re-Engineering Expertise
Project Management
Financial Analyst
Budgets & Forecasts
Agile\\Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential., Leesburg, GA
Buy Here Pay Here finance company with a receivable portfolio of approximately $70 million.

Consultant 02/08 – 12/08
Oversaw the accounting, reporting, cash management, forecasting, A/P, A/R and payroll for a company in chapter 11 bankruptcy with four dealerships, over $20 million in annual sales and 85 employees. Analyzed financial results for reporting to management, creditors and Bankruptcy court. Developed Cash Collateral Budget Model and related variance reporting for Bankruptcy proceedings.

Financial & Operational Highlights:

Developed 36 month cash flow model for potential investors and creditors
Designed, developed and implemented an automated reporting process using MS Access to produce daily management reports saving approximately 3 FTE per day
Created a digital dash board that provided senior management with sales, delinquency and charge-off information at both the company and individual store levels
Designed, developed and implemented Metro II reporting process to create monthly feeds to the credit bureaus

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ
Largest Buy Here Pay Here finance company in America with over 100 stores and 2,500 employees.

Manager of Management Reporting 05/98 – 08/07
Managed a staff of five professionals who provided routine and adhoc reporting to numerous departments including Accounting, Collections, Cashiering, Loan Operations, Internet Sales and Treasury. Managed the design, development and implementation of multiple system solutions that not only added structure, and efficiencies to workflows but also enforced data integrity and collected data to measure operational performance. Responsible for taking disorganized sets of manual data (in multiple formats, with questionable data integrity), and creating systematic processes to scrub and organize data into a set of management reports and \\ or ad hoc information for decision making.

Financial & Operational Highlights:

Implemented and managed daily MS SQL reporting process that produced over 600 reports and improved report availability time by six hours
Instrumental role in six acquisitions and ten loan system conversions
Developed daily automated reconciliation process to reconcile loan documentation status between Trustee and DriveTime reducing time required to reconcile from months to minutes
Developed exception reporting to validate data integrity of both internal and external data feeds

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ
Financial Analysis 10/97 – 05/98
Consultant03/97 – 08/97
Provided analytical and technical support to the Asset and Liability Pricing Committee including preparation of Weekly Market Pricing Analysis.

Financial & Operational Highlights:

Preformed Deposit Profitability Analysis by state and product line to determine the effects of pricing changes on profitability, market share and capital requirements

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ
Senior Accountant 04/94 - 02/97
Managed the month end close for three banks including GAAP, SEC and RAP reporting and preparation of Monthly Board Reports

Financial & Operational Highlights:

Automated and standardized quarterly Call Report process for 14 banks using Excel and IBM DB2 queries

Early Career (details on request):
Financial Reporting Analyst III, Confidential 10/93 – 04/94
Financial Reporting Analyst II, Confidential 12/92 – 10/93
Financial Reporting Analyst I, Confidential 12/90 – 12/92
Accountant II, Confidential 04/90 - 12/90
Accountant I, Confidential 12/88 - 04/90

CREDENTIALS AND EDUCATION

Certified Public Accountant

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
(Accounting and Management)
Minor in Economics

Leadership Development Program
Center for Creative Leadership

We provide IT Staff Augmentation Services!

We'd love your feedback!

Resume Categories

Client Services

Job Seekers

Visa Sponsorship