DAVID YAP, MBA
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Southbury, CT 06488 E-mail: *********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Finance Manager - FP&A March 2010 - Present
Cartus Corporation
. Hold full P&L oversight responsibilities over the International US,
EMEA, and APAC regions with combined revenue of $140M annually and
over $100M in expenses.
. Supervise an experienced team of 1-3 Senior Financial Analysts,
responsible for training, mentoring, and issue
escalation/resolution.
. Fostered relationships with company business unit leaders to assist
in headcount/expense planning, as well as volume and revenue
forecasting.
. Interface regularly with senior management to report monthly,
quarterly and annual/budget closing results against forecast,
involving explanation of variances and identification of risks and
opportunities.
. Key player in process re-engineering of EMEA region finance
department involving automation of revenue forecast process,
resulting in time savings of 10-15 hours each month-end, as well as
updating reporting requirements to seamlessly handle the onboarding
of an acquired company.
. Key contributor in numerous revenue recognition policy changes,
including task force for handling new revenue recognition guidance
(ASC 606).
Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A September 2006 - February 2010
Cartus Corporation
. Managed the financial reporting oversight of the International US
Services book of business - totaling over $55 million in revenue
annually.
. Managed the planning and analysis of operational expenses totaling
nearly $30M annually, involving work effort modeling and
coordinating headcount and expense planning with business leaders.
. Fostered relationships with company business unit leaders to assist
in headcount/expense planning, as well as volume and revenue
forecasting.
. Assist with internal and external audit requests and analysis of
client profit & loss statements - including projects identifying
over $200,000 in revenue opportunity and recovery on key corporate
clients.
. Work extensively in Excel and Access for financial modeling and
planning, query development and data mining, as well as ad-hoc
reporting for variance analyses.
. Perform reconciling journal entries and international revenue
transfers on a monthly basis.
Accounting Specialist - Audit Team May 2006 - August 2006
Leader
CIGNA Corporation
. Supervised a team of three auditors within the Accounts Payable
department involving day-to-day monitoring, as well as mid-year
reviews.
. Streamlined the framework of new audit standards and procedures in
tandem with A/P management, Purchasing, and IT.
. Performed self-testing audit procedures in compliance with Sarbanes-
Oxley 302 requirements.
July 2004 - May 2006
Senior Financial Controls Analyst
Cartus Corporation
. Responsible for compliance procedures involved with Sarbanes-Oxley
404 - including test design, data sampling, audit testing, test
documentation, and review with senior management.
. Worked extensively on the issuance of the 2005 SAS70 Type 2 report
- including electronic data collection, audit testing and serving
as liaison between Deloitte & Touche auditors and internal
departments.
Accountant / Senior Accountant July 2001 - July 2004
Cartus Corporation
. Managed the accurate and timely invoicing of over $100 million
annually for critical corporate clients.
. Coordinated daily with Account Management, Operations, Financial
Reporting and Collections to validate invoice integrity as well as
to resolve client billing issues.
EDUCATION
MBA - Finance May 2014
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
B.S. Accounting December 2000
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
COMPUTER SKILLS / PROFICIENCY
Excel (Vlookups, Pivots, Macros, etc), Access (database development), Word,
Cognos, Oracle Discoverer, Smartview.