Montville, New Jersey, United States
Detailed oriented Finance and Client Services professional with corporate and division experience obtained in both the private and governmental sectors. Key areas of experience include variance analysis, cost accounting and analysis, budget preparation and control, development and delivery of financial controls, and forecasting. Collaborative team member willing to assist all levels of employees and management. Effective and efficient communicator ensuring that information and details are received and understood in a timely manner.
Cultivated relationships with client and vendors as well as ensures quality and timeliness of deliverables. Provided critical support and management of client’s fixed and wireline carrier invoices via troubleshooting and resolving client issues and errors via communicating directly with vendors and client. Research and analyze major telecom expense variances for major international bank. Run special queries and reports as needed from database to support client management and vendors. Prepare and present quarterly and monthly spend reports for client. Manage, coordinate, research, and validate all telecom related invoices; ensure prompt, efficient, and accurate reconciliation of past due balances as well as reporting for client monthly expenses. Resolve misapplied payments and perform regular audits of monthly telecom expenditures, monitoring invoices, and daily client communication. Allocate complex allocation of charges to client cost centers; reconcile inventory/service orders and accounts to ensure accountability for new orders/changes.
Various contract positions in which duties included reconciling and analyzing labor usage reports to allocate products manufactured; evaluated and interpreted managed care contracts. Used JD Edwards to analyze costs supporting manufacturing logistics and prepared weekly purchase price variance analysis and investigate significant variances. Costed new items (components and finished goods) in JD Edwards based on information received from planners and buyers. Supported month-end process via preparing journal entries, monthly accruals, and prepared monthly trial balance reconciliation. Worked for the US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-CENSUS BUREAU as a Census enumerator-collected NRFU census data and information from the public. Additional seasonal positional position included LIBERTY TAX SERVICE as a certified level 1 tax preparer.
Cost Analyst/Accountant Used Oracle to determine and analyze cost of operations; prepared, maintained, and reconciled cost accounting reports of standard vs. actual