DOUGLAS A. WATERS
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Lakewood, Colorado 80226 Email: ac4dyc@r.postjobfree.com
FINANCIAL ANALYST
Built Budget Models for Depreciation/ Prepared Budget to Actual Variances
Prepared Monthly Reconciliation of Fixed Asset Accounts
Created Major Database to Analysis Large Sets of Data
Created many Ad-Hoc reports / Customer Service / Team Leadership/Prepared Hyperion reports both inputting into and extracting/Experience in Oracle Project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCED
Denver Water
Contractor 1/2018-2/2018
Reconciled Capital Projects to bring the actual to date. Conducted research on actual to insure projects were charged correctly. In addition copied cost supporting documentation to be included in project workpapers.
Nagra
Contractor 6/2017-12/2017
Created IT and Security projects in Oracle and Dynamics. Conducted ad hoc analysis of project status, status of unprocessed timesheets and prepared migrated project reports for migration from Oracle to Dynamics.
DISH Network 12/2016-3/2017
Contractor
Created process tool in Access. This tool is analysis subscriber information to generate the cost of service at the subscriber level based on contract rates. In addition, it was determining new connects for a month.
XCEL Energy – Contract Position 2/2016-8/2016
Project Control Specialist
Created Cost Analyst Report (CAR) for Capital project over 10M. This involved reporting ETC and EAC with variance explanation. Consulted with the Project Manager in developing the Monthly Forecasts and provided financial guidance when required.
KINDER MORGAN, Lakewood, Colorado 9/2004-7/2015
Largest independent Natural Gas and Petroleum pipeline transport company in the United States.
Senior Financial Analysis
Created and developed reporting tools for Project Managers; created standard reports for the Project Manager to determine if project is in budget; developed summary reports for management to see over all status by budget code to determine if budgets are on spend schedules
Create the prototype of a project management financial tool to monitor individual projects; provided guidance to the IT department in creating a deployed version on a corporate-wide basis; maintained guidance on enhancement and improvements on the deployed tool.
Maintained Fixed Assets including projecting Depreciation, FERC Form 2, and FERC 3 reporting on specific Pipeline companies.
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Had responsibility to maintain in the Lawson Ledger application the Activities module. This included set-up of activity groups, adding account categories, and establishing general ledger accounts to activity groups.
Built complex Access Databases to perform calculation on monthly Capital Interest on Projects, resulting in the journal entry being generating and supporting documentation.
Developed Ad-Hoc databases to generate reports of balanced Project Costs to the General Ledger, Fixed Asset module to the General Ledger, and various others requiring the ability to handle large volumes of data to generate these type of analysis and reports.
Created reports out of hyperon as the source. This involved extracting the data and using features within hyperon to summarize and export the results.
CD TELECOM, Englewood, Colorado 1/2002-8/2004
A division of Cendant Corporation that has responsibilities for all telecommunication for the entire corporation.
Financial Analyst II
Created Capital Project Access database to improve all aspect of processing and reporting of status of projects
oPurchase Requisitions processing, reducing the time of 1 hour to 15 minutes per requisition
oCreated and established standard management reports ranging from the amount of the Project requisition to the overall view of all Capital Projects currently underway.
LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Broomfield, Colorado 4/1999-12/2001
Global communications networking company that is the first network to be completely optimized for advanced Internet Protocol (IP) technology.
Sr. Analyst
Created major Access databases to capture Cost Savings Initiatives and Ad hoc analysis of over 32,000 leased circuits; created management reports to summarize actual to budget;
lead and coordinated the Cost Saving Initiatives to identify circuit savings of over $8 million of reduced lease expenses.
Prepared monthly forecasts using marketing forecast units and current run rate to determine the year-end leased costs.
Developed the monthly close process involving all journal preparation, internal management reports, and Liability Account Reconciliation with a value of over $45 million
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Proficient Software Experience:
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint,
WordPerfect, Oracle, Lawson, Dynamics, Quicken, Essbase, Hyperion, SAP, Oracle and Business Objects
EDUCATION
B.S., B.A., Accounting (emphasis in Financial Accounting), Metropolitan State College, Denver
Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado