Senior Financial Analyst Resume
Chicago, IL
SUMMARY:
Detail orientated Finance Manager w/ MBA and 15+ years of Finance & Accounting experience. Experience includes over 12 years of hands on SAP budgeting/forecasting and 10 years of Hyperion HFM within Confidential 500 companies.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Computer Skills: Excel (v - lookups & pivot tables) & Word for Windows, Policy IQ, SAP Software, Hyperion, PowerPoint, NetSuite, Adaptive Planning, BPCS, Qlikview and Sharepoint
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Update and analyze monthly actual & forecast sales and costs by location. Assist in analysing/explaining monthly financial results, with explanations focusing on variances to annual plan, forecast and prior year.
- Prepare detailed reports to show profitability by several different data viewpoints (sales location, region and customer type) for review by Sales, Supply, and Management.
- Support the business in the monthly review of financials giving insight as to performance drivers.
- Compare forecast to annual and strategic objectives and provide variance analysis.
- Support ad hoc requests from the business in relation to the financials and performance.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Distribute SOX Narratives & Test Scripts to Process Owners quarterly and request process change updates to both.
- Established Share point Site as a repository for all SOX related documentation.
- Conduct quarterly SOX testing and document findings in the areas of Managed Accounts, Check Disbursements, IT Financial Applications Maintenance & Program Management.
- Analyze Intercompany Payables & Receivables and research suspicious entries.
Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Position reports directly to CFO.
- Responsible for quarterly SOX testing.
- Compile & load annual plan in SAP & Hyperion.
- Create weekly revenue forecast and monthly Sales/Margin analysis.
- Generate monthly & quarterly financial reports to corporate with variance explanations vs plan, forecast and prior year.
- Distribute monthly departmental financials with variance causals to Genfare senior management.
Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL
Manager Financial Planning & Analysis
Responsibilities:
- Compile, analyze and load annual corporate plan. We utilize NetSuite General Ledger Software.
- Found a reporting software (Adaptive Planning) and was co - project lead during its implementation.
- Distribute monthly departmental expense financials & quarterly Regional P&L’s to SLT (senior leadership team).
- Received CEO Excellence award for discovering an overcharge of $ 440K in freight from our US Distribution provider.
- Also discovered a 160K USD overcharge (VAT) from our European Distributor, which we later received full credit for.
Confidential, Lake Forest, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyze Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCE) for financial feasibility and completeness and approve or rewrite.
- Prepare monthly departmental performance reports with causals for budget variances (Excel vlookups & pivot tables).
- Upload actual project expenses into Clarity (program management software) and run spending reports for management.
Confidential, DesPlaines, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Tracked Confidential to Net savings programs (pricing increases, rebate decreases) to insure savings targets were achieved.
- Worked with Sterno Regional Sales reps on customer contract pricing and programs.
- Prepared monthly profitability models, by customer, and compared to prior year and budget for Senior Leadership Team.
- Sarbanes Oxley Captain responsible for writing Narratives, Benchmarks and Test Scripts as well as quarterly testing.
- Annual P&L budget compilation and monthly variance analysis.
Confidential, Lisle, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Collaborated with Sales, Marketing and Engineering management to forecast revenues and expenses.
- Created key monthly financial metrics and compiled a financial reporting package thru financial modeling.
- Responsible for reconciling Balance Sheet accounts including Intercompany payables/receivables.
- Fin’l Rep for DMT Marketing Dept., tracking variances vs. its 4.8 million annual budget (Advertising/Trade Show expenses).
Confidential, Rosemont, IL
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- As a Senior Financial Analyst, in the Financial Planning & Analysis area, responsible for tracking monthly progress against the Balance Sheet and P&L targets in an SAP environment.
- Analyzed monthly Departmental budget performance for HQ & Plants. Tracked key financial metrics on a monthly scorecard.
- Coordinated the annual budget compilation for 2001 & 2002 Balance Sheet and P&L (SAP).