San Jose State University

Sr. Business Systems Analyst at Xilinx

San Jose, California, United States

Xilinx

Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Sales Incentive / Sales Operations

- Prepare monthly and quarterly company consolidated revenue schedules for leadership and business stakeholders. • Audit and maintain daily Business Intelligence (BI) and Financial Flash Reports within 99% accuracy for all key finance users and business partners.• Interface with Sales, Channel Planning, Business Operations and IT to align financial needs with business needs.• Drive essential quantitative analytics in Quarterly Financial Review (QFR) to inform leadership of key performance indicators (KPI) among different Geography, Business Units (BU) and Markets segments.• Research industry benchmark metrics to evaluate company’s comparative financial and strategic performance in key Markets segments.• Streamline new documentation and implementation plans to deliver accelerated user training for newly develop applications, increasing employee engagement and acumen by 50%. • End-to-end management of company-wide Sales Incentive Plan (SIP) with annual budget of $19M+.• Analyze and audit sales incentives compensation data to support Sales Incentive Board with decision making and providing annual savings of $200K+ in over payments.• Partner with IT to define requirements, test and implement new revenue recognition ASC 606 tools and reporting systems resulting in company-wide operational improvements by 50%.• Prepare 1-year forward-looking P&L by Market segments to drive actionable business decisions.

Financial Analyst II - Sales Finance & Revenue Recognition

- Monitored & Controlled $1B+ capital and $30M operating budgets to construct the new Stanford children’s hospital.• Led cost control measures ensuring contractor spend was within allocated budget and approved company guidelines resulting in cost savings of $10M+.• Prepared ad hoc management reports to assist with control measures of capital and operational expenses.• Reconciled financial data across multiple platforms to provide variance analysis of forecast vs actuals costs, schedule completion, and cash flow projections for annual capital spending.• Streamlined payment processes across two different workflow systems to effectively reduce payment delays by 70%.• Led team meetings to determine commitment forecast against funding needs and committed deadline schedules.• Conducted monthly analysis of exceptions report to prevent schedule impact on construction project.• Provided on-boarding training of company guidelines for new construction contractors. Including items such as reimbursement schedules, T&E guidelines, proper spend itemization documentations, etc.

Stanford Children's Health  -  Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

Financial Analyst - Project Finance

- Prepared monthly management reports for business end cycle and ACH payment.• Audited processed invoices for accuracy to ensure proper payment in timely manner.• Resolved credit hold issues impacting regular hospital operations and resolved potential patient care impacts. • Led weekly meeting with purchasing to resolve discrepant invoice issues to reduce the number of aging unpaid invoices and directly contribute to minimalizing potential company-wide credit holds.  • Trained and provided on-boarding to new AP Analysts and AP Processors. • Prepared annual 1099 tax forms and patient refunds. • Assisted AP Supervisors with month end close actives and weekly check run.

Stanford Health Care

Financial Analyst

- Facilitate communication with vendors, customers, and departments regarding business transactions to ensure smooth day-to-day accounts payable operations.• Assist Senior Buyers with monitoring budget expenditures to ensure funds are within forecasted estimate to prevent late payments.• Monitor and perform daily audits to ensure accuracies and to identify possible transactional issues.• Perform monthly statement reconciliation from vendor to guarantee competence in workflow and prevent possible credit holds.• Assist different departments to fulfill operational requests and financial reports to provide information and resolve problems concerning budgets.• Assist in maintaining workflow approval and disapproval invoice queue to ensure flawless end of month business cycle close.• Reconciles financial transactions and assists in issue resolution between department and vendors.

Accounts Payable Analyst

- Manage customer portfolios and develop detail spreadsheets identifying monthly budget needs resulting in cost savings of $175 annually per customer.•	Analyze financial statements to effectively forecast and build roadmaps to achieve desired investment goals and viability.•	Responsible for building long term business relationships with high value clients resulting in $200,000 annual store profits.

Wells Fargo

Personal Banker

- Responsible for customer service inquiries, and mediating and solving customer complaints before situation is escalated to management.  •	Assisted Wells Fargo Partners to develop and maintain high value client relationships resulting in an increase in same store profit growth.•	Trained new team members effective sales and service methods, resulting in an overall increase of 25% in the team’s sales and customer service satisfaction scores.

Customer Service and Sales Representative

- Conducted customer transactions within established guidelines, effectively reducing store losses by 15%.•	Responsible for safe deposits, merchant transactions, ATM processing, bonds, and foreign currency.•	Ensured due diligence involving daily banking operations in dual control and loss prevention.

Teller

- Devoted time to make certain the store was running at optimum level by strategically delegating jobs to employees to ensure deadlines were met in a timely, organized manner.•	Responsible for achieving daily sales goals and keeping the store up to company standards through motivation and coaching. •	Developed management tools to quantify, measure, and monitor work processes.

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