Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Federal Advisory F&A Manager

Mclean, Virginia, United States

- Supported Bentley Motors US and Canada by leading budget planning, forecasting, and financial planning.•	Responsible for annual budget and monthly forecast of 4,000 vehicles sold in the US and 500 vehicles sold in Canada. •	Responsible for developing, producing, and analyzing financial accounts, month-end reporting, and forecast inputs.•	Responsible for verifying all new model year pricing for new vehicle sales via collaboration with UK teams and provide finalized pricing for system input, ensuring the maintenance and accuracy of such pricing throughout the model year and capturing changes accordingly, on a timely- and proactive basis.•	Verified all new model year pricing for new vehicle sales via collaboration with UK teams and provide finalized pricing to Vehicle Accounting for input.•	Conducted financial review of spend approval requests and complete any necessary analysis, including benchmarking and challenging of the business cases•	Administered cost reduction exercises including key collaboration with business leaders in order to identify savings areas, with least impact to the business goals.•	Compiled three-month Cash flow forecast for Bentley Motors, Inc., gathering inputs from various teams and datasets which reflect the planned outlook for the brand.•	Supported the planning round process for the brand by working with UK Finance to understand requested targets and activating within the region.•	Collaborated with leadership to understand and help prioritize business needs and how to obtain the most value given the set of resources allowed.

Bentley Motors Ltd

Senior Financial Planning and Accounting Analyst

- Support the Federal practice with various financial reporting and analysis•	Responsible for monthly financial reporting, quarterly forecast, and annual budget for Federal Advisory projects over $250M in engagement revenues•	Coordinated and worked closely with Engagement teams and leadership to develop annual plans and quarterly forecast updates for over +200 federal advisory and federal audit projects•	Implemented various reporting improvement to help F&A Controller, Assistant Controller, and Advisory Partners manage their projects effectively and efficiently•	Transitioned over 1000 federal engagements from a legacy system to Deltek Costpoint working closely with the engagement team, Billing team, A/P, and G/L team.•	Responsible for recreating federal projects design structure, account org, and billing detail during SAP to Deltek transition.•	Provided my team with the appropriate training to learn Cognos quickly and prepared financial and engagement reports for federal use within months.•	Oversaw upgrade to Cognos10, liaising with Consultants on Cognos administration, security setup, data connections, reports and package migration and validation, including troubleshooting.•	Developed both ad hoc and advanced reports for all levels of the organization, pulling largely from Costpoint and T&E databases.•	Provided assistance to Finance and Compliance staff regarding data collection, reconciliation and analysis.•	Provided reporting support for Deltek Costpoint and T&E.•	Solely responsible for ensuring 500+ fed employees had appropriate training and access in Cognos BI.•	Ability to manage, organize and schedule a large variety of different projects and meet concurrent multiple deadlines

KPMG US

Responsible for budgeting, forecating, & planning and providing monthly financial packages for over 28 properties to the business leaders monthly.	Responsible for Monthly Outlook, Budget, and Forecast for over 30 AOL properties and brands.	Provided Monthly close packages to Finance leaders and Business owners.	Extenstive experience in digging dip into data processes with minimal supervision.	Worked closely with Business leaders to enhance forecast accuracy.	Helped Business leaders pay vendors and collect outstanding payments as efficiently as possible.	Provided Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Essbase Ad Hoc as needed.

Principal Financial Analyst

Sr. Financial and Planning Analysis for the Aerospace businesses including Air Transport & Regional, Business and General and Aviation, and Defense and Space.	Prepared monthly and quarterly flash reporting and analysis to provide accurate sales, margin, and operating income forecast by site and region for all of Honeywell Aerospace businesses and customers.	Performed and provided weekly Short Range Outlook forecast on sales, margin, and all other FP&A accounts to Aerospace finance leaders and management team.  	Supported Annual Operating Planning, Short Range Outlook, and STRAP forecasting processes. 	Performed variance analysis to interpret and explain impact of results against monthly, quarterly and annual plan/forecast. 	Worked closely with the STRAP project manager, SBUs, and functions to load data to STRAP data base, prepare financials and forecast 2010-2014 STRAP.	Understood key business expense drivers, identified risks and opportunities and drive actions to achieve expense plans and forecasts. 	Worked closely with SAP system trainers to provide adequate and relevant SAP training to FP&A analysts.

Honeywell Aerospace

Sr. Financial Analyst

- Supervised a total of 5 employees in 3 departments including Accounting reporting, Expense reporting, and Lease reporting departments.	Solely responsible for all GM Revenue and Cost recognition reporting to General Motors.	Worked closely with senior accountants and analysts to meet departmental deadlines and perform duties efficiently and accurately.	Analyzed the Financial Reporting and Accounting Team work capacity, and re-assigned responsibilities to perform effectively and proficiently. 	Responsible for implementation and completion of new quarterly and monthly processes such as Vehicles in Bailment and Reject status, Mexico Revenue Recognition, and Mexico Revenue Reversals on units with no pricing in Billing Accounting Receivables system. 	Provided and analyzed monthly variance analysis reports for revenue and cost accounts to ACS and General Motors Quality Assurance Management.

Xerox (ACS, Inc)

Strategic Business Unit Manager

- Responsible for a variety of accounting, operational, and project-related tasks in the Treasury department.  	Analyzed and summarized financial data to upper management for monthly and quarterly forecasting and budgeting. 	Administered the Conservancy’s domestic and foreign cash and banking management functions including approval of monthly imprest balance. 	Managed all domestic and international outgoing wire transfers.	Responsible for reviewing all of the bank reconciliations, G/L postings and bank account administration for domestic and foreign bank accounts.	Provided support for the department’s cash management/money transfer responsibilities

Fariba Berdick