Experience

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  The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

  • Mount Vernon, Baltimore MD

  • Associate Director of Finance

    • May 2008 - Present
    • Mount Vernon, Baltimore MD

    • Responsible for development, management, reporting, modeling and analysis of the Institute’s $80m+ annual budget with a $154M endowment MV. Includes reporting to Peabody Advisory Board, University VP of Finance, Provost as well as other internal executive team Deans and external reviewers.• Principal audit officer for division for internal JHU audits and reviews• Responsible for establishing divisional financial policies & procedures to ensure compliance with internal and external agencies. • Responsible for divisional year-end close, cost studies, reporting & analysis to internal and external entities.• Management of grants in excess of $1M annually from proposal, budget creation, management to close-out & reporting of financial results to agencies.• Participation in annual enrollment management process to award scholarship funds to recruit new students for 800+ full-time degree base, 3,000 non-degree base. • Leadership, supervision and development of Business Operations team comprised of 7 (2 Sr. Financial Mgrs, 1 Accountant, 2 Sr. Budget Analysts, 1 Tech Coord and 1 Admin Spec) supporting 500+ faculty, 300+ staff and the executive team.• SAP finance system lead for division to include role set-up, security & verification, training, organization and reporting. This also includes support to internal departments in resolving issues, researching issues and in establishing new accounts or changes to account structure.• Manage meal plans, stored value accounts, reporting and financial management of cafeteria operations (240+ residential students). Related analysis and cost studies for this, housing of 240+ beds and other auxiliary operations to include a garage, cafe and space rentals.• Multiple projects, financial modeling and analysis as needed or required with proficiency in SAP, JHU student management system, CONCUR expense mgmt, Oracle Budgeting, MS SmartView, MS Excel, MS Word, BlackBoard Transact & Reporting, PowerPoint and other JHU software.

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  JHU Center for Talented Youth

  • Mgr of Grants & Sponsored Funds

    • Aug 2004 - Apr 2008

    Responsible for building and managing all sponsored activity from proposal to management to closeout/reporting in the amount of $30m+ annually, included an endowment of $100m+ MV. My role was responsible for negotiations of University/College site contracts and sponsored agreements for off-site operations of summer programs hosted there, some responsibility for divisional non-sponsored operating accounts (another $10m+) and assist with budget build & management.

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  Johns Hopkins University Budget Office

  • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Senior Budget Analyst

    • Aug 2000 - Jul 2004
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Reporting, analysis and central University budget guidance, analysis & support for JHU divisions of; School of Medicine, Public Health, School of Business & Education and the School of International Studies. Unique projects as needed for leadership on various aspects of operations, enrollment trends, tuition and net-tuition results, peer comparisons, personnel growth and compensation studies, days of cash, viability, capital planning and others.Analysis of periodic performance, reporting to central, preparation of materials for Board of Trustee presentations. Modeling and distribution of MD State Sellinger award funds to divisions along with assessment of the use in divisions in line with program requirements.

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  University of Maryland School of Medicine

  • Accounting Manager

    • Mar 1994 - Jul 2000

    all business operations, sponsored funding from federal & private sources as well as a small amount of clinical operations and a state sponsored administrative budget in the amount of about $25m