Category: FINANCE

         SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER           Summary    Highly driven finance professional with over 8 years of progressive experience in the advertising and entertainment industry.  Extremely proficient with managing month-end, quarter-end, and year-end deadlines.      Highlights          Staff management/development  Balance sheet reconciliations  Process improvement  Managing audit requests  Financial reporting  Cash flow analysis  Budget development  Excellent research and financial analysis abilities Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Experience with SAP R3/BW, Maconomy, Business Objects, JD Edwards                Experience      Senior Finance Manager    January 2015   to   January 2016     Company Name          Supervise the media finance, production, client finance, accounts payable and accounts receivable departments.  Manage the monthly accounting close and consolidation of monthly reports.  Manage the monthly accounting close efficiently and accurately.  Prepare monthly financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow) & variance analysis for the company.  Analyze intercompany transactions and oversee monthly reconciliations.  Provide weekly cash flow projections to CFO and manage cash balances with Dir.  of Treasury.  Manage internal and external audits, ensure good and effective internal controls are in place.  Assist in establishing accounting and operational policies/procedures as well as consistent reporting for each department.  Assist in leading the implementation of Maconomy system across the office which includes training and streamlining policies.  Review and post all entities' journal entries ensuring completeness and accuracy.  Ensure that all monthly balance sheet reconciliations are completed and any reconciling items are addressed and resolved.  Coordinate and serve as primary contact with Company's external auditors, ensuring that accounting transactions are complete and accurate prior to external audits.  Manage internal and external audits, ensure good and effective internal controls are in place.  Provide timely reporting to department heads and upper management.          Ogilvy Public Relations- Client Finance Manager    January 2015   to   January 2015       Manage the billing function for the West region.  Prepare and provide weekly revenue trending analysis to account teams.  Prepare monthly staff utilization/projections reports to senior account leads.  Assist account teams with new vendor set-up, vendor invoice processing, and purchase order set-up.  Primary point of contact for all A/P inquiries.  Conduct timesheet audits and follow up with staff on the submitting and approving of weekly timesheets.  Provide ad hoc reports and analysis to account and finance teams.          Senior Financial Analyst    January 2012   to   January 2015     Company Name          Validated and approved forecast rate assumptions provided by global procurement team.  Prepared weekly market commodity report.  Validated market rates used by manufacturing plants.  Prepared and analyzed monthly zinc actuals report.  Analyzed month-end results against quarterly and yearly forecasts.  Prepared presentation decks for forecast meetings.  Prepared ad hoc reports as requested by senior managers and executive teams.          Senior Financial Analyst    January 2008   to   January 2012     Company Name          Performed revenue analysis, cost analysis, and utilization analysis on a monthly basis and provide reports to Finance Director and CFO.  Analyzed financial results against the forecast and prior year results to measure current performance.  Reported monthly and year to date figures to the corporate office.  Prepared journal entries and schedules for monthly close.  Processed invoices, expense reports, and review purchase orders to ensure that all are in line with corporate policies.  Processed and manage inter-company invoices and billings.  Prepared and reconciled accrual and deferral schedules on a monthly basis.  Managed and implemented internal controls within the different departments of the agency.  Supported annual audit process by preparing necessary schedules.          Education      Masters of Business Administration   :   Auditing & Fraud Examination  ,   December 2011    Argosy University   －   City  ,   State      Auditing & Fraud Examination        Fraud Examination: Theories and Methods, Fraud Auditing and Financial Analysis, Internal Auditing and Control Management,     Legal Aspects of Fraud, Investigation, and Expert Testimony                Bachelor of Science   :   Corporate Finance & Advertising and Promotion Strategy  ,   May 2006    University of Southern California   －   City  ,   State      Corporate Finance & Advertising and Promotion Strategy          Skills    accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accrual, ad, A/P, agency, Auditing, Balance sheet, billing, billings, Budget development, Business Objects, Cash flow analysis, Cash Flow, cash flow projections, cost analysis, client, expense reports, external audits, Finance, financial, Financial Analysis, Financial reporting, financial statements, Internal Auditing, invoice processing, JD Edwards, Legal, Director, Managing, market, meetings, Microsoft Excel, office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, policies, Process improvement, procurement, reconciling, reporting, research, SAP R3, Staff management/development, Treasury, variance analysis