Peter Gobat
Suamico, WI *4173
Home: 920-***-**** or Cell: 920-***-****
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Professional Summary: I would like to contribute to a Company by
utilizing my skills and past and present experiences. I have acquired vast
experience during my last 15 years of employment to assist the company in
achieving the goals as set forth by senior management. I have gained a wide
array of knowledge regarding accounting, banking, financial modeling,
budgeting, leadership, and personal growth. Most of all I am passionate
about my work and strive to improve all aspects of my job functions and
those that surround me.
EDUCATION: University of Colorado at Denver Denver, CO
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance
EXPERIENCE:
Humana, Inc. - Green Bay, WI
Business Analyst (06/08-Present)
. Responsible for gathering user requirements, writing test plans and
validating production fixes.
. Currently integrating a new acquisition requiring system integration
testing on all aspects of the Humana system agency payment platform.
. Responsible for building test files in order to test production fixes.
. Responsible for performing the testing for a mass sync of agent
information with State Farm.
. Started process of maintaining updates to various code files and code
tables.
. Prepared ad hoc reports for director of the department, ranging from
cost analysis for appointing agents to gathering contract status on
various market segments.
. Worked closely with other analysts to determine weak points in current
commission process and recommend system fixes to shore up the weak
points identified.
B-Line, LLC - Seattle, WA
Financial Analyst (10/05-06/08)
. Completed 7 month project involving the aggregation method of revenue
recognition, reducing total impairment losses for the 2007 fiscal
year.
. Managed the revenue recognition process to ensure the company was in
compliance with accounting guideline SOP-03-3.
. Streamlined the revenue recognition process by working with the
Information Systems department that reduced the processing time from
the usual 4-5 days to 2-3 days.
. Worked with the accounting team to determine causes for discrepancies
between reported revenue between the general ledger and the revenue
recognition process.
. Implemented dismissal sale process that saved the company $3.0M
annually.
. Managed relationships with multiple lender banks and ensured company
was in compliance with debt covenants and collateral pacts as set
forth in the agreement with those banks
. Supervised collateral audits performed by lender banks.
. Monitored performance of portfolios and measured variances within
modeled cash flows and actual cash flows.
. Prepared waterfall analysis for various lending partners to track loan
balances, management fee and overall performance of pools that were
purchased.
. Worked with the Chief Legal Officer to ensure UCC filings were updated
in a timely manner.
. Prepared various tax schedules and worked closely with our external
auditors to resolve the complexity of our tax filings.
. Involved in the interim audit work and year-end audit work that was
performed by external auditors.
B-Line, LLC - Seattle, WA
Manager of Accounting (12/02-10/05)
. Supervised staff of 3 analysts.
. Designed new reporting process for attorney remittances which allowed
me to streamline the process from an average of 25 days to 15 days.
. Recovered approximately $60K plus from various clients for accounts
that were purchased twice.
. Coordinated the clean up of various put back portfolios and assisted
the accounting team in the clean up of the general ledger accounts
associated with those portfolios.
. Managed investor reporting, remittance tracking, and account
reconciliations for two facilities of privately placed long term debt.
. Worked with the operations team to coordinate the implementation of
new procedures for client reporting related to company's third largest
bankruptcy servicing client resulting in efficiencies in reporting and
payment.
. Actively worked with client to clean up back log of past due invoices
and monthly remittances.
. Managed client relationship regarding remittance processing.
. Process and approve monthly purchases of accounts in excess of $100K.
. Implemented process for remitting funds received on put back or
recalled accounts to the various clients.
. Reconciled an iolta bank account, with an average balance of $750K and
cleaned up outstanding items relating to the account.
APL Limited - Oakland, CA
Business Systems Analyst (08/00-12/02)
. Developed Functional Specifications for various reporting tools and
web interfaces, including receivables reporting.
. Key member in the Accounts Receivable securitization project with the
potential to acquire 1.15 million in funding.
. Identified various reconciliation issues when integrating various
applications.
. Prepared complex pricing models for various regions.
. Developed key performance indicators for regional management.
. Supported users and provided troubleshooting for three mainframe
applications.
. Analyzed various revenue accounts by utilizing my knowledge of Excel,
Access GQL, and mainframe applications
. Key member in the e-payment solutions team for company web site.
. Prepared the monthly per diem accrual and monthly status report on
billings, collections, write offs, adjustments using Excel, GQL, and
mainframe reports.
APL Limited - Oakland, CA
Special Project Analyst (11/98-8/00)
. Implemented two mainframe applications worldwide, contributed $1.1
million to
the bottom line.
. Developed spreadsheet to track collections, adjustments, and
cancellations in relation to monthly detention and demurrage billings.
. Provided primary system support for end users for the two mainframe
applications.
. Provided primary system functional contact during the rewrite of the
two mainframe applications.
. Prepared training documentation for systems and trained multiple users
in Asia and Europe.
. Developed and programmed Excel visual basic macro to assist location
in the calculation of storage charges.
APL Limited - Oakland, CA
Treasury Analyst (8/95-11/98)
. Prepared cash actual analysis on a weekly basis.
. Approved and insured wire transfers are in compliance with the
accepted principles.
. Assisted Asia location in the resolution of fund remittance to Oakland
and subsequent general ledger entry analysis
. Bought and sold currencies based on instructions from overseas.
. Uploaded banking activity and inter-company entries to the general
ledger by using a Lotus spreadsheet with several complex macros.
Software Skills: Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, Visio, Jet Reports, Great
Plains
References: Available upon request