Sales Management
Resume:
CAROLINE BARNETT
**** **** **** *****, ******, CA 94561
abnpls@r.postjobfree.com
Contact Number 925-***-****
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Business Planning & Financial Analyst (Mar 2008 – May 2009)
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics – Emeryville, CA USA
Review all Capital Authorization Requests for Facilities projects and Latest Estimates
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Prepare profitability analysis per capital request for approval to the Executive Committee
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Identify risks and opportunities quarterly and make recommendations to Senior Directors
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Develop, manage budget and quarterly forecast process for Corporate Facilities Management
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Heavy use of cost allocation methodologies to charge various Business Units for occupancy
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Allocate project costs by cost center/business unit using LOE and percent methodology
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Use SAP FICO & Business Warehouse modules to analyze monthly actual to budget to
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forecast for multiple cost centers and make cost savings recommendations to Senior Facilities
Prepare ad hoc, monthly customized timely and accurate financial reporting using multiple
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SAP FICO transaction codes & BW P&L reports in response to customer needs
Manage capital and expense budget in excess of $50Million for Corporate Facilities
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Manage and control business processes and recommend corrective measures
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Organize bi-weekly meetings with Directors, Senior Directors to review all monthly activity
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Develop and maintain a monthly capital projects database to track projects by priority & spend
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Managed all leases and subleases for the Emeryville Campus
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Work with Corporate Tax Director on yearly property tax assessments
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Prepare, consolidate and verify all monthly accruals for Corporate Facilities Management
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Prepare re-classes on any misposted items related to subleases and other shared services
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Senior Financial Analyst (Contractor Feb 2006- Mar 2008)
American President Lines - Oakland, CA USA
Prepare and distribute monthly P&L Reports to Regional Controllers/VPs
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Develop annual budget and periodic forecast, prepare budget templates and refine models
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Lead preparation of monthly management reporting package and communicate to team
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Prepare variance analysis (Budget vs. Actual, Current Month/Year vs. Prior Month/Year) and
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for each Line of Business, detail explanations to account for variances at cost center level.
Develop Sales and Marketing analysis to provide insight to customer purchasing patterns
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Heavy use of Cognos BI & EP for planning, forecasting and generating various reports
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Communicate findings regularly to all levels of management and team
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Ongoing use of Hyperion Essbase & Access for data query, validation and reporting
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Produce budget presentations for submission to Corporate
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Work closely with Corporate finance teams to ensure sales analysis is consistent for reporting
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Coordinate processes for budgeting & planning activities for the sales & finance organizations
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Verizon Business (formerly MCI Jun 1997- Feb 2006)
(Began career in Atlanta GA, promoted & relocated to Walnut Creek, CA)
Contract Implementation Analyst (MCI) Jun 1997-Jun 2000
• Contract Analysis, Pricing and Sales Support for global customers
Product Development Manager (MCI/WorldCom) Jun 2000 –Jul 2002
• Project manage full-cycle and launch of EDI invoice medium
Senior Financial Analyst (MCI/Verizon Business) Jul 2002- Feb 2006
Maintain models, running actual and forecast by product line
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Gather input from various managers on expenditures, both operating and capital
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Develop a model to accurately project sales, including promotions and new programs
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Prepare the input templates for the budget process to be used by the cost center managers
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Refine and/or redesign financial models currently used to create budget
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Produce Budget presentation for review with Senior Management
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Prepare requested reports including P&L, sales and operating expenses
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Provide analytical insight into variances from budget and prior year
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Revenue and expense reporting, cost allocation, batch runs through use of Hyperion Essbase
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Use of various Essbase cubes to track & report/expense revenue by customer by region
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Use of SAP (WBS) to track capital projects at cost center with revenue over $300M
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KEY COMPETENCIES
Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact effectively
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Strong cost accounting experience
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Strong project management skills through effective coordination and meeting deliverables
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Ability to develop and meet strict deadlines
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Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and ability to support multiple audiences
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Builds solid and lasting relationship with business partners
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Analytical, problem solver and ability to work in ambiguity
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KEY STRENGTHS
Budget Management (Capital versus Expense)
Revenue Recognition Cost Savings Analysis
Project Management Product Implementation
Financial Analysis Financial Reporting
Process Improvement System Implementation
Product Development Trouble-shooting
FINANCE and ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS USED
Cognos BI & EP SAP (FICO & BW) People soft
MOLAP (Hyperion Essbase v7) Microsoft Office Ariba
Business Objects Oracle G/L OLAP (Data Warehouse)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science (Accounting)
Paine College, Augusta GA
Graduated Cum Laude
CURRENT GOAL
Project Management Professional Certification 3Q09 completion
SAP Certification (FICO, BW Modules) 3Q09 completion
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