CHERYL MASON-BROWN

Phone 845-***-****

E-mail: acrphd@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNOLOGY4U, Rye, NY 12/14 – Present

Lead Financial Contract Administrator

• Develop and maintain project plans, resource utilization schedules and budget materials for multiple simultaneous projects and operational activities

• Approve or reject requests for deviations from contract specifications and delivery schedules to assist with proposed agreements for conformity to company rates, rules, and regulations

• Ensured that the vendor is meeting the contractual objectives outline in the scope of work provided in an effective and efficient manner. Develop reports in conjunction with the vendor to monitor the operational efficiency of the project.

• Provide accountability for the financial management and budgeting process for projects and adjust issues when necessary using defined change control procedures

• Oversee financial administration of government contracts within vendor negotiations and manage vendor within defined contract parameters

• Review bids from other firms for conformity to contract requirements and determines acceptable bids

HERTZ, Park Ridge, NJ 7/08 – 12/14

Senior Pricing Analyst – Advantage Pricing

• Analyze and quantified the pricing structures within private and government entities which focus on pricing accuracy and profit maximization

• Responsible for providing technical guidance concerning the business implications of the use of BPC modules to monitor and report on the day to day actions of Hertz competitors in the marketplace

• Develop Value Plus reporting and “critical to success” metrics necessary to monitor pricing, invoicing, and value creating opportunities. Ensure accuracy of downstream gross margin reporting (Price Book), create internal orders (projects) and provide actual vs budget reports

• Work closely with the Pricing Analytics team to interpret any key finding or analysis to find applicable target regions and incorporate data into daily decision-making process for the knowledge on BW backend modeling, InfoCubes, planning functions/sequences and BW extractors

• Collaborated and interacted with Finance business partners to align with Marketing on co-innovation projects, solution design and program services

• Assist in the development of strategic Portfolio plan (adds/deletes/operating fleet) including all sources of vehicles, in conjunction with Region Fleet General Managers, Procurement, Remarketing, and Contribution Management, based on knowledge of all Financial Systems SAP R/3, BW, Product Costing, FI/CO which interface with Financial Systems

EISAI, Woodcliff Lakes, NJ 11/07 – 04/08

Financial Analyst to Senior Manager, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead Personnel for the Sr. Manager of Budgeting & Forecasting with annual Business Planning, reported actual results and periodic forecast submissions for the Sales Operations and Marketing G&A cost centers

• Recommended configuration changes in the SAP to facilitate and support consolidation and reporting requirements

• Applied in-depth knowledge and proficiency of SAP and engage business partners in evaluating opportunities for process integration and refinement

• Oversee Hyperion Financial Management and transition to BPC documentation (reports, templates, etc)

• Lead the consolidation process of monthly operating results from the major business units, across the division to maintain and reconcile a specific list of corporate accounts

• Present to Senior Management recommendations on project and programmatic budgets as well as status updates on ad-hoc projects

• Ensure adherence to accounting policy as it related to confidentiality agreements and release of financial information, including governance and approval of published financial statements and working with Legal department to adhere to Government Pricing

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, New York, NY 6/98 – 9/07

Financial Analyst to Area Manager

• Processed multi-million dollar contracts within the configuration of SAP, FI, CO and SAP BPC on small to large-scale projects with multiple implementations regarding legal step consolidations

• Collaborated with the Finance Department to assist in budget formulation, execution and ensured a strong linkage between planning and performance measurement

• Build and maintain complex excel models with source data for reporting and analysis

• Utilizing complex financial modeling & quantitative analysis to prepares reports identifying budget changes compared to prior years actual results and confer with Management staff to identify/correct inconsistencies in a prompt manner

• Responsible for coordination and consolidation of monthly current estimates, annual business plans, long-range strategic plans and quarterly capital plans information utilizing in-house computer programs

• Demonstrated comfort level in extracting, consolidating and analyzing large sets of data as well as compiling and preparing key performance metric reports

EDUCATION: ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY

B.S. - Marketing and Business Administration

LICENSE: Notary Public and Commissioner of Deeds (N.Y.S.)

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