Project Management

CYNTHIA L. MANSFIELD, MSBA

San Diego, CA

858-***-**** (Hm) or 858-***-**** (cell)

Email: ********@***.***

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Professional with MSBA in Finance and experience in financial management, at leading Fortune 500 Technology and Research & Development firms; skilled in providing key

financial information to management for decision-making and cost control. Responsibilities have included: conducting extensive Revenue/Sales and profitability

analysis; preparing cost status reports for commercial and DOD contracts; pricing analysis; and EVMS/ program control. In addition, I am a proven team member in strategic

business operating plan/forecast development and implementation.

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Program Control Analyst 4/ Business Reporting 2008 - 2012

Northrop Grumman – Information Systems, San Diego, CA

* Provide senior level project control support/management to an Integrated Product Team supporting the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS)

Program with $87.1 million in revenue.

* Establish Work Breakdown Stuctures (WBS) and Resource Loaded Networks (RLNs) to track Cost, Schedule and Performance via MPM software.

* Financial program control including the planning, statusing, and reporting of control accounts.

* Budget planning, earned value management (EVMS), EACs, Funding Profiles, Management Reserve Liens log, Undistributed budget log, and external reporting of Contract Performance Report

(CPR) A004 and Contract Funds Status Report (CFSR) A003.

* Provide variance/trend analysis, work authorization documentation, and change control management.

* Prepare weekly A313 cost reports and invoicing to external customer, as well as monthly reconciliation of A313 cost reports to invoices and DCAA audits.

* Prepare/track AMF Capital Asset requests to ASP Business operating Unit.

* Provide training of Cost Account Mgrs (CAMs) and junior level project control personnel.

Senior Financial Analyst 2005 - 2008

L-3 Communications, San Diego, CA

* Financial program control including, planning tracking & reporting for an operation with approximately $100.0 million in revenue.

* Financial analysis of cost & schedule variances, trends, manpower requirements, and budgets for approximately $15.9 million in funded T&M, CPFF, and FFP contracts.

* Estimates at completion analysis, preparation of percentage-of completion (POCs) and unit-of-delivery (UODs) for revenue recognition, and billing.

* Prepared Cost Performance Reports (CPR) and variance analysis reports using earned value methodology, via MPM software for CPFF and FFP projects.

* Assisted Internal Auditor with Sarbanes-Oxley audit preparation and Controller with CASB form updates.

Contracts Administrator 2004 – 2005

Trex Enterprises Corporation, San Diego CA

* Contract administration of CPFF & Firm Fixed Price contracts for an operation of $31.0 million in revenue.

* Proposal pricing and preparation to include Air Force SBIRs.(e.g. Small Business Innovation Research proposals), negotiation, subcontracts, teaming agreements and non-disclosure agreements.

* Monitor contract performance and deliverables, prepare cost/funding metrics for awarded contracts, modifications for funding, POP extensions and 60 day notifications.

* Preparation of Project Award Status reports (PAS) for distribution to Program Management, Finance and Accounting.

Program Control Analyst 2 2002 – 2004

Northrop Grumman - Information Technology, San Diego CA

* Financial program control including, planning tracking & reporting for an operation with approximately $18.5 million in revenue.

* Estimates at completion analysis, sales forecasts, revenue analysis and forward pricing of provisional (indirect) rates.

* Financial analysis of cost & schedule variances, trends, budgets and funding for T&M, CPFF, CPAF and FFP contracts.

* Preparation of C/SSR’s, earned value charts for program reviews, cost estimating and pricing.

Science Applications International Corporation 5/28/91 – 07/30/02

Various positions in the area of finance, experience is described below:

Financial Administrator - Bache Grp (1998 – 2002)

Financial Analyst - SE&ISO, Krammes Grp (1996 – 1998)

Financial Analyst – CHCS (1994 - 1996)

Corporate Receivables Analyst (1991 – 1994)

* Revenue and performance analysis (operational Profit & Loss analysis), financial reserve schedule analysis in accordance with FASB.

* Development of bi-annual business operating plan (annual & semi- annual budget forecasts) with period end financial closing targets, as well as month/year end close of financial statements.

* Bi-weekly project status summary reports, bi-weekly timesold report (direct vs.overhead charging), and tracking of costs for T&M, CPFF, CPAF, and FFP contracts per period.

* Preparation of billing invoices for PricewaterhouseCoopers Int'l, and period end closings, payroll tax, and overhead expense for international division in Austria.

* Maintenance of budgets, funding levels, estimate to-complete, and estimate at completion, tracked cost & schedule performances and provided variance reporting for CPFF delivery orders on the

CHCS contract.

* Analyzed collection status for approximately $24.4 million in accounts receivable and prepared total receivables report monthly for 63 groups.

* Preparation, analysis and review of the revenue day and A/R status summary reports, and monthly impact analysis of four significant divisions to determine the value added to group revenue days.

TECHNICAL

* Extensive experience with PCs and Microsoft applications including Windows v7, MS Office 2010: MS-Word, MS-Powerpoint ; MS-Excel and MS-Project.

* Proficient with financial business models and the following MS- Excel applications: writing/editing of Macros, linking of spreadsheets, using V-lookup functions,

and creating pivot table and graphical representations of statistical data. Proficient in downloading cost data with Desktop Data Access (DDA) and SEAGATE Analysis.

* Experienced in the use of MPM earned value methodology software (i.e. similar to COBRA), Winsight, Business Warehouse (BW), SIMIS, Project Scheduler 7, BRIO, LAWSON and QuickBooks

business/accounting software applications.

* Experienced in the use of ERP Systems SAP and BAAN.

EDUCATION

* Master of Science in Business Administration – Finance

San Diego State University, San Diego, California, May 2008

* Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration

San Diego State University, San Diego, California

Major: Finance, Minor: Psychology, Emphasis in Personality and Social Psychology

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