KATHERINE S. KIM
********@*****.***
Williston Park, NY 11596
Home: (516) 414 – 5279
Cell: (516) 317 – 5251
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Self-motivated Accounting and Business professional with 9+ years experience seeks opportunities in a challenging role. Passionate, adaptable and respected team member with strong analytical and problem solving skills in Accounting / Financial Analysis.
EDUCATION:
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE January 2014 – May 2016
SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
Major: Accounting
Academic Dean’s List: Fall 2014 – Spring 2016
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE August 2003 – May 2007
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Major: Financial Economics
Academic Dean’s List: Fall 2004 – Fall 2006
EXPERIENCE:
SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST (Engineering & Technology) – Altice USA, Bethpage, NY May 2015 – Current
Measure the financial impact on changes in headcount, capital spending, and operational expenses
Publish reports that track consultants’ work by projects, hours, and labor rates and send to respective internal users
Monitor over 200+ external consultants’ labor times and rates to ensure costs are kept at planned levels
Meet with operations managers to discuss effective cost control programs and ways to implement them
Analyze and evaluate consultants Statement of Work (SOW) for document language and to identify labor as revenue related or operating costs
Prepare monthly departmental capital and operating accruals
Produce a comprehensive training manual for new and existing team members and update processes
Oversee, approve, and coordinate the payments of high volume invoices for the department BUSINESS PLANNING ANALYST (Logistics) – Cablevision, Bethpage, NY March 2013 – May 2015
Researched spending variances between actual operating expenses vs. budgeted expenses for operations & capital
Created and maintained detailed analyses for use in the monthly close for various departments
Prepared and reviewed monthly accrual journal entries for Fleet and Consumer Device operations
Reviewed monthly AP Distribution report for account integrity and submit re-classes when needed
Created, reviewed and analyzed a yearly budget and quarterly forecasts for Fleet & Consumer Device
Processed and tracked weekly invoicing for all Fleet and Consumer Device operations
Determined purchasing needs by analyzing monthly activity related to Consumer Device parts & repairs
Communicated with Fleet regional teams for changes in business plans that may affect the financials
Acted as a liaison between Operations Management and Business Planning to gather information, identify concerns or areas of improvement
Assisted in the compilation of monthly & quarterly financial schedules to senior management STAFF ACCOUNTANT (Capital Accounting) – Cablevision, Bethpage, NY June 2011 – March 2013
Compiled and recorded monthly capital entries related to inventory and customer equipment to the general ledger
Generated, analyzed, and distributed monthly Inventory reports utilized by various departments
Analyzed and recorded monthly taxes related to the company's customer equipment and peripherals devices
Input tax rates to Inventory reports based on state & entity for review by the Tax Department
Generated and Distributed capital spending reports with information related to budgets and forecasts
Reconciled the monthly Inventory reports to the general ledger
Reviewed a high volume of invoices for accurate coding and determine cost relations
Provided ad-hoc reporting, support, and analysis to management
Differentiated expense and capital projects based on comprehensive review of Statement of Work (SOW) ASSOCIATE ACCOUNTANT – Cablevision, Bethpage, NY June 2008 – June 2011
Updated and distributed monthly subscriber trend files to various departments
Reviewed and analyzed various statistics schedules used by the programming group for payments
Ran and interpreted various sensitive revenue trend reports for review by in-house auditors
Communicated with other departments to ensure supplemental reports are sent to expedite monthly close
Performed monthly revenue analysis of Leased Access revenue activity
Assisted with yearly Cable Media audit by reviewing rate cards and programming service changes COMPUTER SKILLS:
Experienced with Microsoft Office Applications, Hyperion Planning & Smart View, Oracle Applications, Oracle Discoverer, Datawatch/Monarch, Key Operating Metrics Systems, DST Customer Portal, Onbase, PeopleSoft, Clarity CA
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Available upon request