Robert F. Niemi

Centerville, UT ***** 505-***-****

ac4jst@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/robert-niemi-7939bb158

Objective Financial Analyst, Business Analyst or equivalent position.

Career Summary 11 years experience in Finance, Budgets, Contracts, Management, and Accounting.

Experience

12/2015- American Red Cross

09/2017 Provo, UT & Ogden, UT

Development Assistant/Operations/Admin Assistant/Front Office Assistant Operations and office management, operations workflow, volunteer collaboration and direct client assistance. Contribute to regional chapter Executive Director success through donor Salesforce administration, contact solicitation, and donor data research management. Assist daily clients with direct and indirect services.

07/2003- Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc

03/2014 Albuquerque, NM

Space Test and Engineering Contract (2003 and 2009 contracts)

Finance Lead, Contracts, Budgets, Management & Analyst;

Portfolio ownership, capital account management, contracts, financial planning, execution forecasts, budgeting, controls, invoicing, audit, analysis, project and program management, accounts receivable/payable with on-contract and proposal teaming concentrations.

Directly responsible for controlling, collaborating, and statusing activities of internal/external project team stakeholder members to achieve cost, schedule, critical path, and performance goals. Team leader, mentor, and direct project contributor.

Execute portfolio financial plans, document results, and forecast/model future budgets/portfolios for revenue and operating income results. Produce monthly variance against baseline and Annual Operation Plan (AOP) for all stakeholders to include variances, cost benefit of business pursuits, feasibility, status internal and external customer kudos/needs, and administer contract actions.

Build up forecast costs per project to include direct and indirect overhead and projected savings.

Produce recommendations for improving current actual and future deviations within portfolio.

Develop, coordinate, revise, review and submit financial forecasts and budgets to customers weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, or ad-hoc. Submit forecast accuracy monthly with trending for improvement. Produce reports for cost, schedule, technical and funding amounts per project along with weekly project reviews using charts and graphs across the program.

Identify cost overruns, under runs, risks, and schedule slippage. Present Earned Value Management metrics, projections, and risks to program managers and government stakeholders. Train junior staff to fill in as backup role or assume another program/project lead role.

Present Program Management Review (PMR) financial results with recommendations for process improvement and dependencies to key stakeholder government senior customers, and corporate director/executives. Forecast month end close revenues and coordinate directly with technical engineering leads, project support staff and interagency points of contact.

Produced Basis of Estimate (BOE) financials used in proposal and task order award process substantiated by past years cost versus schedule and technical milestones. Created Estimate to Completion (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC) along with monthly expenditure forecasts supporting government customer obligations.

Resolve accounts receivable and accounts payable discrepancies.

Actively worked three contract bid proposals to include; Draft RFP and RFP qualification/bid writing, reviews, build up direct and indirect pricing, IMS using MS Project, team mate company qualifications solicitation/review, storyboards, Pink & Red reviews, rates qualification and post-award transition/start up execution.

Seek out new business opportunities to add to portfolio of sales comprising face to face, email, networking, and conferences. Partner with Business Development teams to drive new revenue sources and provide best customer solutions.

Assisted the small business prime contractor with contractual compliance and performance for 20 projects in a matrixed engineering/ops organization.

Previous experience in space systems engineering, project engineering, software development, fixed & mobile satellite operations and maintenance, command/control/telemetry mission control, mission lead, and on-call mission engineer fix the satellite roles

Education

2011-2012 ASHFORD UNIVERSITY

Masters of Business Administration/Finance Major

Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society

4.0 GPA, graduated Summa cum laude

2006-2011 UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

Bachelor of Science in Business/Concentration in Finance Major

Member of the Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society

3.97 GPA, graduated with honors

Skills

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel tables/formulas, Excel pivot tables, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Salesforce, setup MS-Project, People Soft and loading resources by WBS.

Cobra/Deltek labor/expense setup, reconciliation & reporting with EVMS expertise.

Salesforce donor and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) pursuit, organization, contacts, and administration experience.

Held Top Secret SCI eligible clearance as of 2014, able to pass background check.

Strong independent learner, self-motivated, detail focused, with get the job done habits.

Willing to travel, willing to relocate.

Learning Spanish.

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