Senior Financial Analyst
CERTIFICATION
Certified Public Accountant
EDUCATION
Big Ten University
BS – Accounting – GPA 3.9 Class of 2014
Masters of Accountancy, B.S. Finance with High Honors
Undergraduate GPA: 3.90/4.00 Graduate GPA: 3.70/4.00
WORK EXPERIENCE
Manufacturing Company Greater Philadelphia Area
Senior Financial Analyst March 2022 – Present
- Manage financial forecasting and analytical decision-making for company with combined annual revenues of $550MM
- Present monthly results and forecasts to Global Finance leaders
- Coordinate with functional leaders to maintain a rolling 24-month P&L forecast
- Monitor regional KPIs, identify and implement improvement opportunities
- Develop financial models on an ad-hoc basis to optimize profitability
- Utilize SAP to investigate variances and anomalies
- Maintain relationships with regional leaders to stay current on challenges and successes
- Review New Product Development assumptions to understand viability of capital investment opportunities
- Led collaboration of regional finance leads to develop global off-cycle forecasting templates
- Collaborated with regional business director and manufacturing leaders to analyze profitability
Senior Internal Auditor June 2018-February 2022
- Led internal audit teams of 2 to 4 individuals to execute audit, advisory, and SOX engagements
- Coordinated with co-sourcing partners to execute internal audits and SOX testing
- Worked directly with Chief Audit Executive to report audit issue status to the Audit Committee
- Tracked status of audit findings and worked closely with business contacts to resolve
- Executed audit and advisory engagements related to insourced cloud hosting and pre-implementation
- Led annual control matrix rationalization with IT Compliance and external auditors
- Performed audit and advisory projects, new SOX processes, and policy/regulatory compliance
- Served as financial IA contact for global SOX functions with external auditors and internal controls team
- Led adoption, implementation, and training for audit software for department of 10+ individuals
- Managed Policy IQ SOX testing database to ensure completeness of testing documentation
Public Accounting Firm Greater Philadelphia Area
Senior Associate – Audit October 2014 – June 2018
- Led audit team of 5 staff/seniors on an SEC reporting $3B market cap manufacturer with $900M net sales
- Performed control and substantive procedures over revenue recognition, inventory, and legal contingencies
- Facilitated inventory observations over interim cycle counts and annual full physical counts
- Developed annual and quarterly project plans for engagement team to manage workload with team turnover