Manager Management

Simon Buchard

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Portland, OR ***29

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Primary Phone: 503-***-****

SUMMARY

Senior Finance professional with extensive experience in financial reporting and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and profitability analysis. Bring an important financial systems knowledge with successful implementation works and extensive modeling experiences.

EXPERIENCE

12/2014 – Present Serverlogic, Portland OR

Senior Business Analyst at UTI (Contract)

Gather requirements for development of a Revenue Recognition software

Write BSR documents and work orders

Establish test plans and execute them

Data validation

09/2013 – 09/2014 Aequitas Capital Management, Portland OR

Senior Financial Analyst

Design and implement all budget template for 2014 Forecast & Budget

In charge of the financials for Care Payment subsidiary

Lead the holding budget consolidation for balance sheet and P&L.

03/2011 – 9/2013 HCG Software, Portland OR

Manager of Professional Services

Design and implement budget and reporting solutions

oAnalysis of clients' business requirements and objectives

oApplication configuration, implementation and data conversion

oValidate the data integrity, data flow and data storage of implemented systems

oOptimize customer’s reporting and budgeting process

oManage HCG Pro Services’ team

06/2008 – 02/2011 CEN - CENELEC, Brussels, Belgium

Finance Manager

Accounting and Financial management

oManage a team of four accountants

oDevelop the budget and reforecast for the 2 entities

oReport to the financial boards

oManage the cash situation and bank relations

Oversight of contracts funded by the European Commission

oReview, interpret, and negotiate contract and grant terms and conditions to determine compliance and conformity and/or conflict with EC and EFTA regulations

oReview and process various pre- and post-award activities, i.e., budget revisions, no-cost extensions, and/or requests for supplemental funding

oObtain sponsor approvals for major changes to project work scope

12/2001 – 06/2008 Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR

Senior Consultant Finance & Strategy 06/06 – 05/08

Responsible for all the financial aspect of the Inpatient Pharmacy department

Develop and install metrics and scoreboard for laboratories, imaging services and hospital pharmacy.

Analyze supply and demand to assure optimal use of resources.

Build and maintain the capital investment plan

Lead Budget and Reforecast

Lead and develop the necessary business cases to maintain the services’ quality and efficiency.

Financial Consultant 04/04 -05/06

Lead finance support for the Kaiser Northwest Primary Care Strategy. Created planning model with what-if scenarios helping manager in their decision-making process.

Lead business cases for various investment projects (Silent Monitoring, Status One

Responsible for all financial aspects of a delivery service area that represents 150.000 members and $400 millions, lead annual budgeting process and quarterly forecasts.

Defined and implemented performance indicators for the East Service area.

Prepared monthly financial summary and trend reporting package.

Finance System Administrator 12/01-04/04

Provided financial support and modeling to the hospital Strategy, NPV for new hospital and internalization of services.

Responsible for budget and finance operating support of HR, Medical Laboratories, Radiology Services, Food Services, Materials Management.

Helped to review, analyze and investigate significant fluctuations between financial statements of different time periods

Build and maintained Excel Models for monthly reforecast, ad hoc requests.

Optimized reports using BI Query, and create an Access Database to track all Mail Room activity.

Acted as back up for the maintenance of budgeting software (KPBS).

6/2000 - 9/2001 Levi Strauss, San Francisco, CA

Financial Analyst

Responsible for Human Resources budget and monthly forecast.

Created and updated Excel budget models and Essbase, Business Objects Reports for IT & HR finance team.

Consolidated IT & HR budgets and loaded budgets into Hyperion Pillar.

Performed a key role in installing a new timesheets tracking system (Innate).

Tracked project actual to budget for IT projects.

Created Journal Entries for month end close.

10/1999 - 5/2000 Computer Resources Group, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst

Implemented billing software linked to Peoplesoft.

Managed customer expectations and understand enterprise needs.

Confirmed business requirements and defined parameters.

Reviewed journal entries and profitability reports for data accuracy.

EDUCATION

5/1992 University Lyon II Lumiere Lyon, France

DESS (5th year degree, 30 more credits than a M.S)

Coursework includes Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Asset Valuation

6/1991 University Paris IX Dauphine Paris, France

MSG (comparable to B.A.) in Administration and Finance

Coursework included Business Administration, Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science and Business Law

Computer Knowledge: Excel & Access Expert.

BI Query User, Basic SAS.

Used of Business Object, PeopleSoft and JDEdwards in previous experiences

Language: Fluent in French, Intermediate Spanish.

AMA Classes: Financial Modeling, Project Management

PCC: Award in Project Management

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