Manager Management

Gary M. Grinnell

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Wilmington, MA 01887

781-***-**** - ****.********@*****.***

Financial Services Manager

A highly talented, dedicated, and detail oriented Financial Services

Manager with extensive high level experience in various phases of financial

management, forecasting, planning and reporting in fast paced, high energy

environments, eager to apply strategies and initiatives to improve

organizational performance. Exceptional analytical, organizational,

technical, presentation and customer service skills and ability to develop

and lead strong and highly effective teams to improve the integrity of

business operations/financial goals.

Professional Skills

Financial Research/Analysis/Reporting Leadership/Team Development

Business Financial Operations

Budget Planning/Monitoring/Forecasting Strategic Business Planning

Process Improvements

Project Management Account Reconciliation

Collaborative Business Partnerships

Employment Background

Pearson Education - Boston, MA

2009 - Present

Pearson Education is an educational publishing and technology company

providing textbooks and other educational material.

Finance Manager

. Key contributor to the profitability and success of business by

providing critical financial information and support to executive

leadership and collaborating on both day-to-day and major project

strategic decisions.

. Professionally and effectively meet all financial management needs of

the Science and Curriculum business unit, serving as their key

financial advisor, preparing detailed program budgets, forecasts and

recommendations for cost effective operations.

. Utilize strong analytic and reporting skills to expertly meet the

planning needs of senior management by preparing monthly, quarterly,

and strategic plan headcount analysis and reports.

. Ensure financial integrity of operations by tracking and forecasting

plant spend and conducting operational reviews with managers to

identify risks and opportunities associated with life of program and

year-to-date spend.

. Provide insight to corporate leaders regarding financial operations by

preparing comprehensive monthly reports that accurately track

financial and operational performance.

. Identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings by

conscientiously maintaining, evaluating, and recommending sound

business solutions on metrics/benchmarks, dashboards and performance

scorecards.

Copyright Clearance Center - Danvers, MA

2007 - 2009

CCC is a company that provides collective copyright licensing services for

corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials.

Senior Financial Analyst

. Apply exceptional financial planning and management capabilities to

collaborate on the development and execution of the annual budget

process, providing quarterly forecasts and detailed analysis to

support the effort.

. Improved operational efficiency/effectiveness by partnering with

Manager of Planning and Analysis to implement a new budget and

forecast software tool (Cognos). Successfully managed project from

user requirement through user acceptance.

. Met critical management information need for decision on new business

opportunities by developing business analysis utilizing financial

models which assessed prospective revenue and expenses via sensitivity

analysis and critical driver review.

. Took initiative to keep business leaders current on important

financial information by conducting monthly meetings allowing a

complete review and discussion of financial results. Provided in-

depth, bottoms-up analysis to senior management.

. Ability and strong project management skills led to being selected for

leadership roles to drive business critical financial projects.

Successfully completed all assigned projects, accomplishing all

objectives with quality and on time.

Harvard University - Cambridge, MA

1996 - 2007

Harvard is a prestigious Ivy League university and is the oldest

institution of higher learning in the U.S.

Assistant Manager, Cash Management

. Carefully and accurately reviewed and controlled daily funds positions

and requirements for University bank accounts.

. Met the critical need for accurate cash forecasting by building strong

collaborative relationships with the Harvard Central Bank and Harvard

Management Corporation Manage to optimize monthly forecasting

capabilities.

. Hired talent, trained, mentored and motivated a productive team of

five (three accountants and two accounting assistants) to efficiently

accomplish all cash management functions with a high degree of

accuracy.

. Successfully served as liaison between Harvard and banks regarding

banking services, problems, policies and procedures to ensure quality

services and develop win-win solutions to problems.

Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Operations & Analysis - Harvard Medical

School

. Demonstrated strong financial analytic and reporting abilities by

preparing, analyzing and reporting on business group profit and loss

statements, and regular forecasts and trend analysis to support of

business decisions.

. Developed, ran, and analyzed monthly, quarterly, and annual reports,

including general ledger reconciliation, of federal and non-federal

sponsored expenditures and related recovery of facilities and

administrative (F&A) costs.

. Improved tracking, protection and reporting of key assets by

developing an equipment asset management software program.

Business Analyst, Office of Financial Services

. Processed Chart of Accounts (CoA) and Cross Validation Rule

maintenance requests in Oracle Financial applications.

. Applied strong financial management IT skills to meet user needs for

ad hoc security maintenance requests in Oracle Financial applications,

including General Ledger, Budget Tool, Accounts Payable and Data

Warehouse.

. Selected to participate in testing in Oracle applications as part of

the Release Management schedule, performing research and analysis to

identify and resolve data integrity issues.

Financial Partner, University Information System

. Improved the effectiveness of strategic and financial planning and

operations for IT business groups by professionally developing and

tracking budgets, reviewing/approving expense activity, preparing

regular forecasts and trend analysis.

. Developed strong experience in preparing and maintaining capital

budgets for IT equipment.

. Played key role in implementation of Oracle's Chart of Accounts,

General Ledger, Budget Tool and Data Warehouse.

T.J. Maxx Corporation - Framingham, MA

1995 - 1996

T.J. Maxx is a major clothes retailer and department store chain with over

900 stores throughout the U.S.

Senior Accountant

. Met critical gross profit and inventory reporting and analysis

requirements for T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, accurately and proficiently

performing all necessary functions to ensure quality and timely

results.

Hoyts Cinemas Corporation - Boston, MA

1993 - 1995

Hoyts operates a chain of cinemas and entertainment centers.

Senior Financial Analyst

. Successfully met all financial management and reporting goals serving

as controller for 14 theatre locations.

Motorola Codex Corporation - Mansfield, MA

1990 - 1993

Codex was a high-tech company that was instrumental in the development of

modems.

Financial Analyst

. Met all quality and accuracy standards preparing business critical

financial management analyses and reports on company revenues,

bookings and maintaining international subsidiaries general ledger

accounts.

Other Experience

Town of Arlington Police Department - Arlington, MA

2001 - 2004

Police Officer

. Developed strong relationship skills, interacting with people from all

backgrounds and walks of life, on the streets and in their residences

or places of work during times of duress, loss and emergency.

. Utilized analytic capability to evaluate City proposal for financial

package during labor negotiations and made recommendations to Police

Officers Association for counter proposals.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Member, Double Falcon Society - Bentley

College - Waltham, MA

Master Degree in Criminal Justice - Western New England College -

Springfield, MA

Bachelor of Science in Finance, Graduated Cum Laude - Member, Bentley Honor

Society -Bentley College - Waltham, MA

Professional Associations

Member, Financial Management Association

Specialized Computer Skills

Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Oracle Financial Systems/ Analyzer, Cognos Budget Tool, Hyperion, Business

Objects, SAP, ERP Systems Implementations

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