Marjan Mansour, MBA – Finance & Accounting

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Irvine, CA 92606

Cell: 949-***-****

ac2i1a@r.postjobfree.com

Achievements

Partner up with Operation to identify and develop KPIs and trends for each business unit.

Create and lead strategic budget for a new business unit including headcount, operating expenses and key operational drivers to help the senior management with decision making process.

Successfully build annual plan & rolling forecasts that provided visibility, efficiency, control, & cost savings, and identify the most profitable vertical through insightful analysis and present findings and recommendations with supporting data.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with business partners and collaborate to achieve strong business results that drove the company to profitability. Supporting Sales & Marketing group to increase profitability and control cost. Creating IT budget and supporting IT group on IT expenses and Capex.

Automate & improve processes to reduce the manual hours spent on producing financials.

Demonstrate exceptional standard of quality, attention to detail, & thoughtful analysis through not only quantitative analysis, but strategic partner through qualitative analysis.

Knowledge of GAAP & SEC. Reduced Month End Close to 5 business days from four weeks into the month.

HireRight Inc.

($400 Million Revenue – Global Technology on background check and screening

Lead Senior Financial Analyst (February 2016 – Present)

Build comprehensive annual plan and rolling forecasts as part of the global FP&A team. Lead the two other analysts in distribution of responsibilities, and review for accuracy and consolidation.

Develop a detailed and scalable commission model to help the organization with compensation plan.

Build a monthly budget vs actual cost center reports on headcount and operating expenses in Management Reporter to help functional teams reach their goals and objectives. Regularly improve the look & feel of reporting packages.

Meet with the functional leaders regularly to go over their cost center P&L, headcount, and vendors.

Take over Ops Staffing Model to keep track of staffing needs by product line.

Drive ongoing process and content improvement to increase overall quality and efficiency of analysis, which includes proactive modeling and analysis tools. Provide analytical support to various business partners.

Partner up with Director of FP&A to integrate Budget Maestro, a budgeting and reporting software.

Universal Services of America – (Company Acquired)

(Largest security provider for commercial office and retail properties in the U.S. with $3B in Rev)

Lead Senior Financial Analyst (December 2014 – February 2016)

Partner up with Systems group to integrate Host Analytics, cloud-based financial applications including planning, consolidation, reporting & analytics tool to automate many manual budget and reporting processes, as well as take the lead in uploads and validations.

Develop financial model for the Corporate, propose and reformat the P&L for all the Regional and Corporate business units to improve the look and feel, & help the business leaders with timely decision-making process.

Acquisition Heavy firm, as well as pre-IPO that requires a lot of interaction with various auditing firms such as Deloitte, KPMG, Earnest & Young. Goodwill projections on various acquisitions supporting M&A transactions. Keep track of organic vs non-organic progress.

Continuous development and designing of reports in Host to automate ad hoc reporting, and training new staff.

Lead the Regional and Corporate annual plan, as well as quarterly forecasts. Track progress of actual company performance results against plan & participate in review process with VP of FP&A and accounting team.

Develop, design and manage a rolling forecast and quarterly bonus plan. Consolidation of various business units. Prepare weekly revenue and hours report for all divisions, various ad hoc forensic analysis. Balance sheet & cash flow trend, budget.

CardFlex, Inc.

($50 Million Revenue - Merchant & Payment Processing)

Finance Manager/Director (May 2013 - December 2014)

Senior Financial Analyst (Dec 2012 - May 2013)

Build an annual plan through both financial and non-financial data sources to provide a comprehensive presentation of business performance and trends including various business units.

Provide analytical support to various business partners, supporting strategy, and efficiencies. Analytics such as ratio analysis, ROI, liquidity, and Breakeven.

Develop, design and manage a rolling forecast. Regularly monitor and assess various departments’ performance across key metrics & ensure accurate and measurable tracking of key items.

Partner with the business team to fully understand the business and support the financial goals and objectives. Develop and implement controls to support these goals/objectives as needed.

Prepare and reconcile financial reports, P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow, and perform variance analysis of actual vs. budget for revenue and expense categories, in accordance to GAAP. Determine causes behind improved or lagging metrics and advise management accordingly.

Manage the month-end close procedures, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis, preparation of journal entries including revenue, cogs, payroll, fixed assets and review of budget-to-actual reports. Interface with outside auditors to support quarterly and annual review.

Financial Consulting (July 2011 - Dec 2012)

Squar Milner CPA Firm Assist with balance sheet accounts, including Capex.

ISC8, Inc. Aerospace Assist with third quarter 10-Q, & 10-K, review the XBRL Tags & taxonomy,SOX audit, testing. Cisco Systems Support Irvine Linksys division

Local.com

(NASDAQ (LOCM) – $100 Million Revenue - Online Marketing & Advertising)

Assistant Controller (May 2009 - June 2011)

Senior Financial Analyst (January 2008 - May 2009)

Financial Analyst (April 2007- January 2008)

Assist with Quarterly Business Review Presentation and preparation for the Earnings release, assisted with SEC filings, 10Qs and 10K.

Coordinate with senior executives of various business units to gain insight of our overall operations and serve as adviser to executive management in providing financial planning and analysis through a clear understanding of the financial risks and opportunities associated with various actions.

Partner up with Sales & Marketing to build financial models to support existing and new revenue opportunities and develop control for marketing expenditure.

Create an in-depth IT budget for new site development based on various contracts. Search Serving Cogs, capitalized software, computer equipment including servers, cables, communications and various phases of projects, capitalized web development, employee and consultant’s hours and cost on design, development, implementation, and testing. Updated SOX policies and procedures supported SOX Advisers testing plan. Supported and assisted quarterly audits.

Direct and oversee the Company’s accounting functions, including general ledger, financial reporting, execution of operational accounting policy, revenue recognition, month-end close, and miscellaneous financial projects, analysis, trends.

Manag staff of accounting professionals. Determine work procedures, lead, motivate and cross-train staff. Oversee journal entries, G/L account reconciliations, bank reconciliations, as well as cash management, AP, AR, payroll. Improve and automate revenue and commission process, and AP accruals. Manage FRX, the drill down accounting software. Implement imports to reduce the time spent on manual entries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Winteam, Createam, Host Analytics, Budget Maestro, Sage (MAS 500, 200, 100), FRX, Great Plains, Epicore, Elite, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office-Advanced Excel, Access and Word

EDUCATION

MBA – Master of Business Administration, University of Concordia, Irvine, CA

B.S. Information System Management

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA - Graduated magna cum laude

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