Sales Management
Resume:
PATTY DIVITO, CPA/MBA
CHICAGO, IL 60634
*******@*******.***
CAREER SUMMARY
Resourceful business professional with multifaceted experience.
Key competencies include:
* Building the structure necessary to meet financial requirements in newly
created or evolving settings.
* Completing planning cycles as well as accounting cycles at both the
corporate and business unit levels.
* Evaluating financial results and projections across numerous operating
units.
* Accomplishing business objectives from remote locations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT / IMPROVEMENT
. Instituted and documented financial processes and procedures for new
client account.
. Guided the design and tested the implementation of web-based electronic
invoice processing.
. Advised IT team on development of new financial system for retrieval and
analysis of transaction level data.
. Prepared procedure manual for newly organized Financial Planning &
Analysis department.
. Provided financial support on new service development team.
. Initiated search for financial software package to replace manual
accounting system for trust funds.
PLANNING & ANALYSIS
. Created analytical framework to identify opportunities for cost
containment across 80 business units.
. Produced budget and forecast templates used across multiple business
units or cost centers.
. Generated system reports to derive variances to budget, forecast, and
prior year.
. Interpreted client contract financial targets and developed methodology
for measurement against targets.
. Defined performance metrics and contributed toward design of Value Report
presented to client in monthly Customer Business Review meetings.
. Developed the methodology to identify cost of filling a prescription
across 38 retail markets. Cost data was used to develop strategies that
subsequently yielded higher gross profit.
. Refined and expanded monthly reporting package for analyzing sales
performance.
ACCOUNTING
. Identified flaw in corporate allocation methodology which led to a 12-
month restatement of selected allocation items.
. Presented valid exclusions to contract penalty calculation leading to
$20,000 reduction in penalty.
. Recouped $38,000 in duplicate payments made by A/P supplier.
. Recovered $100,000 in overpayments made to a single landlord over the
course of multiple years.
. Standardized monthly closing procedures and documentation across all
departments to provide clearer audit trail.
. Created spreadsheets to replace trust fund accounting documents prepared
manually thereby compressing the annual closing cycle by 4 weeks.
AUDIT
. Discovered lack of control features in A/P supplier software and tested
the subsequent system update.
. Sampled Medicaid prescription sales transactions for compliance with
contracted reimbursement rates.
. Validated prescription sales processing accuracy after each system
upgrade.
. Performed online scoring of standardized tests administered by the
various state educational systems.
TRAINING
. Selected, trained, coached various types of financial support staff
located both on-site and remotely.
. Instructed new departments on how to review their monthly financial
results and identify misstatements.
. Trained departments on proper preparation of accruals and other journal
entries to improve accounting accuracy.
PATTY DIVITO
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Temporary Projects ~ Illinois ~ 7/05 to present
Assisted with test scoring or financial planning, analysis, and accounting
duties.
Finance Manager ~ Johnson Controls Inc. ~ Milwaukee, WI ~ 10/03
to 6/05
Member of team delivering facilities management services to new client
account. Responsible for contract compliance, operating and capital
budgets, forecasts, variance and performance analysis, cash management, and
supervision of A/P.
Sr. Financial Analyst ~ Pfizer Inc./Pharmacia Corp. ~ Skokie, IL
~ 4/02 to 10/03 (site closure)
Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and month end closing cycles of 8
departments managing Chicago region operations.
Graduate Assistant ~ DePaul University ~ Chicago, IL ~ 9/98 to
8/00
While MBA student, performed research for finance studies published in
professional journals.
Sr. Rotation Accountant ~ Walgreen Co. ~ Deerfield, IL ~ 10/91
to 3/99
Completed four rotations. Responsible for:
> Financial analysis of prescription activity through monthly management
reporting package and special projects.
> Consolidated budgets/forecasts, variance analysis, consolidated income
statements, month end closings.
> Lease management, landlord relations/negotiations, and quarterly
management reporting package.
> General accounting, financial statements, tax preparation for 12 trust
funds, a private foundation, and 2 oil companies.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration
Concentrations in Finance and HR Management
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
CPA Certification
State of Illinois
Bachelor of Science
Major in Accounting
Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, Illinois
SKILLS
MS Office Applications SAP ~ Oracle ~ JD Edwards ~
Hyperion Fluency in Italian
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