Project Sales

MARGARET LEAHY, MBA

C: 623-***-****

*********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Management professional with hands-on experience in finance and accounting

looking for an opportunity to apply my entrepreneurial spirit to a small to

medium sized company or non-profit organization. Outstanding leadership

skills in fostering teamwork and continuous improvement.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Forecasting/Budgeting Project Management MS Excel

Financial Analysis Process re-engineering MS Access

Staff Development Presentations MS Word

Team Building Communications MS PPT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KELLY FINANCIAL RESOURCES, Phoenix, AZ

2009-Present

Financial Analyst (Position with Accountemps from Sep 2009 to Mar 2010)

Provide database and financial support for the capital planning department

of a national waste management company.

. Provide individual advice and consulting on the capital management

process and tools to division and regional finance contacts.

. Coordinate the approval of capital purchases across multiple systems.

Process 50 to 100 requests per day.

AMERICAN EXPRESS, Phoenix, AZ

1991-2009

Director - Finance 2004-2009

Provided financial planning, forecasting and decision support for the

Technologies Infrastructure organization.

. Established process to manage internal billing across multiple legal

entities. New process resulted in correction of over $4 million

dollars in invalid billing.

. Led cross-functional team that implemented changes to internal billing

methodology to more accurate reflect cost of providing technology

services. Changes were made to over 10,000 products or services to

support new billing in nine months.

. Implemented processes to invoice outside companies for IT services.

Invoices for new services started at $100,000 per month.

. Streamlined annual planning process reducing the amount of data and

the total time to produce the plan by 4 weeks.

. Designed training package to educate Finance users on Technology

products and services. Presented three part training series to

multiple audiences. Final document was used as the basis for training

when department was out-sourced.

. Led project team that moved global reporting functions to shared

utility. Consolidated from five locations to one.

Manager - Finance

2001-2004

Managed team that produced internal billing of IT products and services.

. Designed control package that ensured that financial reporting and

data consolidation was accurate. New control package was used as the

basis of quarterly SOX tests for the department.

. Core team member in global project to integrate IT reporting to common

Internet based platform. New on-line reporting system resulted in

decommission of legacy systems saving one week of processing time per

month.

. Integrated billing and data consolidation teams. New team provided

greater flexibility and functionality without increase in staff.

. Led project to streamline internal billing costs. Project resulted

reduction in monthly journal entry lines from 12,000 to 1,000.

. Led project team that designed new billing engine. The new system

saved one FTE in processing time.

. Staffing, coaching and development of exempt level staff.

Senior Financial Analyst

1998-2001

Monitored compliance with the Finance policies and standard internal

control practices related to the capitalization of internally

developed software.

. Reduced number of project hours rejecting in the system from over

30,000 hours per month to less than 1,000 hours per month saving

$500,000 in the first year of operation.

. Educated project owners on how to set-up project plans to accurately

capture capitalizable costs and meet project management requirements.

. Developed and prepared monthly and ad hoc reports on the compliance of

software capitalizable projects.

. Prepared monthly forecasts and annual budget for global department.

Developed and maintained department capital budget.

. Acted as a resource for leadership team on financial policies and

procedures.

Operations Analyst

1996-1998

Provided monthly and ad hoc reporting on sales productivity for 500+

phone center travel agents.

. Re-engineered process for producing monthly productivity reporting

reducing cycle time from 3 months to 3 weeks.

. Produced handbook and trained leadership team on sales reporting

process.

. Acted as delegate in supervisor's absence. Led team of six

professional providing accounting support to phone center staff.

Financial Analyst II/Accounting Clerk

1991-1996

Maintained Fixed Asset sub-ledger for 10+ business units. Reviewed

all capital purchases and appropriation requests for each unit.

Prepared monthly, quarterly and year-end reports and tax schedules for

each unit. Led project to revise format of sub-ledger to allow for

automation of future property tax reporting.

EDUCATION

Masters in Business Administration

Arizona State University, Glendale, Arizona

Bachelor of Science, Public Administration

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

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