American University

James Madison University - College of Business

Manager at KPMG US

Virginia, United States

KPMG US

Manager

Senior Associate

Herren Associates

Associate

Department of the Navy (DON), Surface Ship Modernization (PMS 407)
- Provides program management support to the program manager, deputy program manager, and director of planning & programming within PMS 407 (Surface Ship Modernization) organization
- Assists ship class managers in the development and sustainment of allocation plans, spend plans, obligation phasing plans, and financial benchmark tracking for all appropriations
- Performs financial analysis and scorecards on obligations and expenditures to provide leadership financial snapshots of the program; Leads financial program reviews with activities
- Develops financial metrics to track burn rates, return costs, and ship class performance
- Assists in the development of programmatic briefs to Senior Executives (SES), Resource Sponsors (OPNAV N95 and N96), Navy Office of Budget (FMB) and Congressional Representatives

DON, Office of Financial Operations (FMO): FIAR
- Analyzed and validated General Ledger (GL) postings of Navy STARS-FL Legacy system and Navy ERP system using a comprehensive GL matrix excel model to compare Business Process Improvement (BPI) documents against Navy source documentation and USSGL Transaction library
- Collaborated with Navy STARS-FL users/engineers, Navy ERP users/engineers, and Navy FMO GL SMEs to determine proper GL postings, execution codes, and document types are compliant and documented within the DON business process segments
- Performed root cause analysis on issues within the business process segments based on the financial execution process of commitments, obligations, accruals, and disbursements
- Reviewed and updated Data Dictionaries to assist the DON comptrollers and financial analysts in the areas of budget execution, financial management and financial analysis
- Produced and presented findings, recommendations, and status reports to FMO BPI leadership related to system deficiencies, GL posting inconsistencies, and financial processes

Senior Consultant

- Managed the DEA’s Registration Financial Department which receives and processes over $300 million annually in registration fees submitted by 1.4 million entities to legally distribute prescription drugs
-  Ensured proper oversight and use of program controls to meet requirements and federal regulations
-  Supervised and balanced workloads of seven financial and clerical examiners to ensure all business activities meet schedules and production standards; increased efficiency by designing and implementing automated strategies
-  Developed and distributed financial progress reports to accurately track department productivity, daily/monthly cash flows, and account receivables; employed processes that decreased the number of returned applications by 37%
-  Provided ongoing transactional support and cost verification, including the review of credit card invoices and registration applications
-  Conducted audits and statistical financial analyses to ensure compliance with DEA performance measures

ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS)

Financial Program Task-Manager (contractor for DEA)

- Provided qualitative and quantitative analysis for DTMO, which manages all commercial travel and lodging for the DoD (over $10 billion per year), to identify opportunities of improvement for customer support while reducing costs
-  Performed data analytics of DoD travel support, analyzing data from over 150K administrators and 30 in-depth interviews to present an As-Is model, developed recommendations and provided a To-Be structure.
-  Verified and validated data calculation processes through pivot tables, lookup applications and formulas to ensure overall consistency and repeatability of data analysis
-  Formulated information from IT modernization roadmap facilitated sessions into a detailed 10-year project plan

DRT Strategies

Associate II

- Calculated and developed comprehensive, enterprise-wide, detailed spend analyses of all DoD contract purchases made in fiscal years 2010 - 2012 for OUSD AT&L DPAP/PASS
-  Develops and produces descriptive comparative spend statistics – often involving long calculation chains – about customers, buyers, sellers, and their behaviors in response to ongoing inquiries from DoD
-  Tests numerous calculations involving if statements, lookup applications, pivot tables and other functions to identify most effective approach to utilize in spend analytics
-  Provides ongoing training for financial and research analysts in calculating and validating over 2,000 data intensive slides organized into reports submitted to DoD leadership
-  Designed, maintains and presents flow charts, strategic plans and project metrics to visually depict management and administrative processes for key decision makers; provided ongoing project metrics for resource allocation analysis
-  Confirms and tests internal validity of all completed reports to ensure accuracy for the customer

Patrona Corporation

Financial Analyst II

- Participated in a comprehensive, enterprise-wide and detailed spend analysis study for all DoD contract purchases made in FY 2009 for OUSD AT&L DPAP/PASS
-  Performed data standardization, data validation and verification, data processing, data analysis and reporting tasks involving the use of 3.8 million DoD certified contract records
-  Designed and implemented slide to slide validation process to ensure consistency and verifiable results throughout document production of 27 volumes
-  Assisted in redesigning chain calculations to increase speed, precision, and accuracy
-  Reviewed, proofed, and standardized production of over 5,000 color, data intensive, composite graphic slides, organized into 27 report volumes, which were presented to DoD Acquisition Community

Federal Resources Corporation

Research / Financial Analyst I

- Performed health care audits, billing, claim payments, regulatory research and follow up customer service activities
-  Facilitated Medicare revenue recovery and health care reimbursement solutions
-  Recovered over $600,000 of lost revenue for eight hospitals pertaining to Post Acute Transfer Medicare Regulation
-  Recovered over $1 million of lost revenue for 10 hospitals pertaining to the Three Day Payment Window Regulation
- Proficient in spreadsheet applications including pivot tables, filters, functions and data mining

Christopher Cooks