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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Performance driven in Finance with extensive experience in product and
billing, sales management, provisioning and sales. Experienced in building
relationships with internal and external customers to provide outstanding
results. Excellence in defining critical problem areas/weaknesses, gaining
buy-in to creative solutions, and improving processes for maximum
efficiency.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Dun & Bradstreet 2006 to
Present
Billing Control & Compliance Analyst
Possess extensive experience and outstanding accomplishments within the
Finance Operations SOX compliance organization delivering customer service
excellence to drive revenue and overall bottom-line performance. Perform
detailed reviews/analysis of contracts to ensure that revenue is properly
recorded and documentation is in compliance with policy.
. Contract Management - Audit approximately 150 project billings for
proper documentation (i.e. Master Agreement, Statement of Work,
Contract and Amendments) and pertinent product details to ensure it
matches the billing and revenue recognition recorded per Sarbanes-
Oxley regulatory compliance. Maintains a high level of accuracy and
productivity rates month-over-month (Productivity Metrics 2010: Post
Close Reviews = 98.15%, Productivity Results = 169
. Reconciliation - Reconcile contract balances for discrepancies within
allotted time frame at the end of month. Responsible for researching
system issues (BOLT, BRS & OASIS) to determine corrective action and
follow-up if necessary.
. Assist with the preparation of financial reports, reconciliations and
logs for tracking purposes. Worked on the Fair Market Value, Cut-off
Testing and other miscellaneous projects while still maintaining high
productivity metrics.
AT&T TeleConference Services 1997 to 2006
Custom Complex Billing Services - Senior Associate
. Contract Management - Managed a high volume/highly visible position
that implemented over 1,000 plus new/re-filed custom deals annually
generating approximately an additional $5 million a year to an already
very successful business organization.
. Procedural Design & Execution - Created and implemented three new
processes (Shortfall, Left Turn, and Evergreen) related to reducing
the amount of contra revenue booked monthly to Teleconference services
and to be more in alignment with the rest of AT&T.
. Develop & Execute Billing Training - Designed billing training
material and trained the entire Teleconference sales force and sales
managers to ensure accurate communication regarding billing
requirements for Teleconference audio/video and data services to the
corporate client.
. Implement new Products & Offers - Responsible for implementation of
new offerings and products into the ATBS billing system. This
benefited the customer conferencing needs of new clients, retained
existing customer usage and increased minutes by 20%.
. Unbilled Message Investigation Unit (UMIU) - Identified and developed
processes for the investigation and removal of unbilled calls in MIU,
this would mitigate calls too old to bill. Engaged the Customer
Account Managers (CAMs) and Account Executives buy-in to bill as many
MIU calls as possible on a monthly basis. This generated an
additional $1 million annually to the organization that would
otherwise have been too old to bill.
. Fraud and Loss Prevention - Extensive expertise in fraud and loss
prevention. Engaged with Network Securities and Product management to
identify potential weakness and institute improved processes or
investigate new fraud rings and provide a new working solution.
. Guideline and Protocol Compliance - Partnered with Pricing and
Contract Management to ensure and support proper contract language,
Legal approval and Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance.
AT&T Solutions 1995 to
1997
Proposal Editor
Promoted into position to participate on a five-member team that would
respond to Request For Proposals (RFP's). This team consisted of a
Proposal Manager, Technical Writer, Editor and a few members from the
Engagement Team. Developed a proposal process and designed intricate
templates to help shorten the RFP process. This process had been accepted
throughout the entire proposal teams. Coordinate and supervised every
aspect of the RFP until it was released to the account team to present to
the customer. Created and maintained the RFP/RFI library.
Designed & Implemented new templates. Edited Technical Documents.
Established & Managed RFP/RFI Library. Time Management on RFP process.
AT&T 1988 to
1995
Administrative Assistant
Provided administrative support using excellent organizational and
prioritizing skills by assuming responsibilities such as; prepare
correspondence and attractive graphics presentations, greeted and directed
customers and guests to meetings, ordered and maintained supplies and
sorted and distributed mail as appropriate.
Initiated and implemented a new filing Processed payments and assisted in the
system which allowed critical documents resolution of Corporate AMEX billing
to be retrieved quickly, cutting in problems.
half the amount of time spent searching
for documents.
Coordinate travel arrangements for the Excellent Analytical Skills.
entire Division as needed.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION:
Raritan Valley College - North Branch, NJ
Associates Degree in Applied Science of Business Management.
Katherine Gibbs Business School - Piscataway, NJ
Business Administration Certificate.
AWARDS:
Leading Legend Award honored in March, 2000. This prestigious award was
presented to the top 3% outstanding rated performers throughout the AT&T
Business Service organization.
Pat on the Back Award for proactively stepping up to the challenge of
resolving a customer pre-bill issue before bill pull so this did not become
a customer impacting.
Kudos awards - Received numerous Kudo awards for various Finance projects
i.e. Rolling out the new Canadian process and supporting the sales team
transition to the new process; Dedication and support to the Fair Market
Value Project and Cut-off testing through PWC; Roll out of the Order
Automation System throughout the Sales and Finance teams.
PC SKILLS:
(Microsoft Office ( Word ( Excel ( PowerPoint ( Nero ( Bolt Billing System
( Order Automation System ( Work Flow Tool ( ATBS Billing System (ATBS) (
On-line Customer Provisioning (OCP) ( Microsoft Mail ( Contract Management
Data Base.