Experience

Verify, Inc.
• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Financial Systems Business Analyst

  • Oct 2022 - Present


Gilbarco Veeder-Root

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• ERP Project Lead\Global Business Partner - Finance

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2022

  -Designed and implemented functional solution in AX2012 for new corporate headquarters to include Accounts payable, Fixed assets, Sandler Kahne Treasury Automation, General ledger with 4 legal entities, multiple currencies, and a consolidation entity; -Selected vendor and negotiated Enterprise contract for a global AP Invoice automation solution and managed implementation at 4 operating companies and corporate using AX2012, AX2009 connectors and Jitterbit for integrating with a 28-year-old ERP; -Designed and implemented technical integration solution for AP credit card payment automation solution at 3 operating companies and corporate allowing conversion of 175 vendors to favorable terms and improving working capital;-Create functional and technical design documents for new finance solutions including effective test plans;-Review all new solutions to ensure SOX compliance and eliminate negative downstream impacts to Finance;-Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing solutions and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these solutions;-Responsible for completing yearly standard cost roll of raw material and WIP items to include a pre-production mock roll used to analyze impact on PPV, MUV, and margins for purposes of forecasting changes for the new year;-Perform finance application control testing for all finance applications, document control testing and complete walkthroughs with external auditors;-Collaborate with service systems team to establish a service revenue solution using Salesforce Quote to Cash that is SOX compliant and with the required controls in place;-Participated in onsite req gathering and completed Finance fit/gap analysis for ERP upgrade at Salzkotten, Germany manufacturing facility;-Responsible for POC for Robotic Process Automation using three complex finance use cases using AAI RPA;-Write adhoc sql reports from live db or create technical design document with mapping for data warehouse Show less

• ERP Implementation - Finance Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  -Selected and implemented a Revenue Recognition automation ISV solution to replace highly customized solution that required a heavy manual effort to calculate, track, and recognize deferred revenue;-Removed highly customized tax solution with manual maintenance and replaced with automated Cloud ISV solution;-Responsible for managing cutover tasks to include financial data migration with accurate ledger and subledger balances and details;-Eliminated customization and manual work for gross to net accruals and replaced with automated solution also used for the pricing engine;-Participated in cross functional workshops with pricing, service, manufacturing, and customer service to ensure process or system changes were compliant and did not cause a negative downstream impact to the financials;-Completed full review of all customizations from the initial implementation team and removed 70% by changing the process to work with standard functionality or replacing with an ISV Show less

• Senior Financial Analyst

  • Jun 2014 - Feb 2016

  -Responsible for sales and margin analysis for Payment and Point of Sale product lines to include forecasting, mid-month flash, and variance analysis;-Responsible for Export region sales and margin forecasting, mid-month flash, and variance analysis;-Created less complex deferred revenue model for tracking equipment installation, costs, and contract period to allow recognition of earned revenue aligning with recognition of deferred costs;-Worked with original AX implementation team to establish requirements for FP&A, participate in CRP and modeling sessions Show less

• Financial Analyst - Warranty & Returns

  • Apr 2010 - Jun 2014

  - Created and administer automated customer satisfaction and field modification approval process in Microsoft Sharepoint- Work with the Warranty Quality Engineer to create standard reporting for calculating external PPM and failure trends- Created and continually update new reporting tools, such as warranty reserve model and reserve balance analysis- Developed personal skill set to be an SQL report writer using SQL Management and Visual Studio 2008- Continually leverage skills in Excel, Hyperion, Sharepoint, and SQL to make reporting processes more automated- Perform accounting activities including journal entries and account reconciliations for warranty accounts- Participate in the budgeting, forecasting, and strategy processes for warranty to include uploading forecast to Hyperion- Provide financial support to the Director of NA Quality and collaborate with the warranty reduction team to drive down warranty costs and improve quality Show less

• Engineering Finance & Exec Asst.

  • Aug 2004 - Apr 2010

  Managed NA Engineering financials of $25M to include budget, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, mid-month flash, strategic planning and adhoc analysis for the Global VP and VP Finance. Implemented cost control policies for employee travel, acquisition of internal inventory and external part/prototype purchases.



Sealy

• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Administrative Assistant- Finance

  • Jun 2001 - Aug 2004

  Assisted in research and recovery of $150M Accounts Receivable project; updated bi-weekly presentations for executive staff; created monthly reports in Hyperion/Essbase of project lead expenses. Managed Capital budget and approval process of requests. Created Domestic Bedding Finance Business Plan on 12 ongoing projects. Assisted CFO and VP Finance with Board of Directors presentations using Mekko Graphics. Automated Daily Sales report from a manual process to an automated upload from a Metacube query. Assisted in variance explanations for the Corporate Marketing and IT departments. Show less