Lisa Patel
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Qualification Summary
Detail-oriented Financial Officer with background leveraging financial education and hands on experience in quantitative/strategic analysis, budgeting, accounting and forecasting.
Knowledgeable in accounting principles, business strategies. Advanced excel skills with professional work experience.
Strong analytical skills; support operations through analysis of key performance indicators and trends
Rapidly adapt to new technologies and possess expertise with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and broad range of accounting software
Core Competencies
Strategy Development
Cost Accounting
Financial Accounting
Concept Implementation
Effective Communication
Documentation & Reporting
Project Planning
Relationship Management
Professional Experience
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 5/2016- Present
Financial Officer I 9/2017- Present
Department of Pathology
Provide human resource and financial service to Department of Pathology. Utilize the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures to make sound decision. Consolidate and analyze monthly payroll results and budgets. Create and deliver analysis reports, providing month-end results and yearly cost projection. Develop compensation reports, abstracts, and charts to present data and propose equity adjustment.
Process $1.5-million in payroll for Health Service Foundation (HSF) and UAB. Analyze clinical and research institution personal cost.
Perform month-end- duties such as reconciliation, Journal entries, AR/AP.
Leading the implementation of internal database (FileMaker Pro) reporting structure, reporting system
Lead intern program to achieve project goals
Financial Assistant 9/2016-9/2017
Facilities Division
Responsible for collecting all revenue for Small Public Works projects. Consulted with vendors regarding UAB bid policy and procedures. Reconcile expense reports from software to internal database for accurateness. Ensured, the capital construction projects were within proposed budget and track expenses. Performed Journal entries, data entry, account payable duties.
Worked with three directors and 20 project managers in financial management in $2 million of small construction projects annually
Identified $39,000 in lost revenue, via account reconciliation. Proposed method of tracking time efficiently
Created guidelines and supporting documents as a business process
Finance Intern 5/2016- 8/2016
Worked with finance team on yearly/monthly forecasting and cost allocation. Support the team with the following projects:
Capital Construction Project- Financial Closeout
Building management reporting for business and financial operation purposes
Green and Gold Fund (Student Investment Fund) 8/2015- 4/2017
Collat School of Business
Portfolio manager for industrial and material sector. Complied with policies and procedures to meet targeted % allocation for industrials (10.2%) and materials (2.80%).
Conducted financial analysis, forecasting, and risk assessment for the sector. Collaborated with the team on executing buy-sell presentation.
Conducted equity research, industrial research, SWOT analysis
Created financial modeling in excel for Weighted Average Cost of Capital, Dividend Discount model, and Capital Asset Pricing Model
Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bachelor of Science 4/2017
Major: Finance w/ focus on investment and institution
GPA: 3.40/4.00
Collat Scholar Scholarship 2015-2017
Technical Skills
Bloomberg Terminal
QuickBooks Pro
MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, Outlook)
BA4
Oracle
Lawson
PeopleAdmin
Taleo Recruiting