Faina Shenfeld
**** **** **** ******, **** #*A Brooklyn, NY, 11235 917-***-****
*********@*****.***
Objective
Highly motivated professional seeks challenging position within your
progressive organization. Offering combination of analytical,
troubleshooting and technical skills with solid leadership and team-
building skills; committed to bottom-line objectives and professional
achievement.
Experience
Creative team player who works well with both business and technical staff.
Goal-oriented and committed to pursuing a long-term career, with solid
track record of strong accounting and problem-solving skills, computer
proficiency and ability to follow-through with projects from inception to
completion.
Citibank, N.A
06/2009- present
Senior Procurement Spend Analyst
Intensive Financial and Business Analysis-
. Calculate spend on monthly, quarterly and year-end reports, expense
forecasting, allocations, metrics.
. Develop and maintain reports using Excel, Access, and Oracle. Working
with large data sets.
. Create excel macros to modify data and present to group managers.
. Create monthly reports for management review.
. Participate in Ad-hoc projects (e.g. budget analysis, market data
management).
. Expense Management Reporting for all commodities.
. Calculate monthly balances for all 346 CITI commodities for all
countries.
. Prepare commodity reports based on invoice classifications.
. Interact with the production team, as well as QA Team to update the
correct classifications for current business models
. Assist with any inquires regarding particular mappings/invoices.
. Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on current data models to ensure
data accuracy.
. Mapping of current transactions to correct commodities according to
business requirements.
. Working with Zycus on new model, testing current models for invoice
classifications.
Merrill Lynch &Co., Inc
05/2005-05/2009
Senior Analyst
Intensive Financial Analysis-
. Prepared all monthly, quarterly, yearly-end closings, responsible for
reconciliation on all General Ledger accounts, calculated variances.
. Monthly budgeting and budget vs. actual as well as Profit and Loss
Analysis.
. Handled budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and planning.
. Responsible for monthly bank reconciliations performed within the
Oracle general ledger.
. Assisted Department Controller with the maintenance & balancing of all
General Leger Accounts.
. Prepared monthly balance sheet, account analysis and reconciliation of
accruals.
. Prepared yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily estimate and
actual dollar amounts.
. Pair off all open items on the General Ledger account and sub-ledgers;
made GL entries.
. Submit write-offs, recoveries and dividend adjustments on weekly,
monthly and yearly basis using Excel (v-look ups, filters, pivot
tables wrote macros).
. Performed ad hoc analysis to identify fraud patterns and recover
loses.
. Processed all department invoices, Pcard statements and submitted to
Accounts Payable
. Prepared and deliver specific time period business reviews for the
Group Manager.
. Performed qualitative review of risk and control evidence and provide
feedback.
. Created charts using data analysis for presentations and reports.
. Followed up on outstanding invoices; processed expenses.
. Reviewed trends and analytics to identify and implement remediation
strategies.
. Perpetually looked over reporting structures to identify opportunities
for enhancements and improvements to current methods; use of Real Time
fraud patterns.
. Corresponded with Financial Advisors and Client Associates regarding
client's accounts validations. Followed up on requests (i.e. Social
Security mismatch and residential address verifications).
MF Corporation
09/2000-05/2005
Accountant
. Handled all Accounts Payable/Receivable functions (i.e. match, batch,
coding)
. Managed Customer Database, Interface with vendors. Submit purchase
orders.
. Prepared invoices and processed wire transfers using QuickBooks.
. Reconciled assets and worked with custodial bank to review monthly
income statements and trial balances
. Responsible for maintenance, accrual, and amortization income
information for fixed income mortgage backed securities.
. Provided phone support, authorized correspondence and scheduled
appointments.
Education:
BBA - Computer Information Systems, 2003
Bernard Baruch College - New York, NY
Technical Inventory: MS Access, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Word, MS
Outlook, Adobe
Photoshop, SAS, QuickBooks, SQL, VBA,
HTML, Java Script