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Am Trust Financial Jersey City, New Jersey May2015 –Current

IT Financial Billing Analyst

Key Deliverables: Financial Analytics, Metrics and Trend Reporting

•Provide financial analysis support on budgeting, invoicing, vendor contracts and financial reports for technology spending on services and products.

•Collect, synthesize, organize, and manage financial data captured in support of IT business units.

•Assist IT management Project Managers and Budget Line Managers in the analysis of respective expenditures, by compiling and analyzing financial information for the organization. Develop integrated budget to actual analyses, projections, reports and presentations.

•Create and analyzes monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensures financial information has been recorded accurately. Identifies trends and developments in alignment with stakeholder expectations and presents findings to senior management.

•Ensure the storing, archiving, and log layout of information resources is consistent.

•Understand the IT budget planning processes, cost allocation processes, and associated financial management standards in order to support effective billing processes coding costs to appropriate funding sources, follows required approval processes and posts to the correct financial accounts.

•Create dashboard reports as required for project costing and budget analysis.

•Review projects, budgets, invoices and contracts for reasonability and accuracy and make any necessary recommendations to senior management.

•Identifying, investigating, resolving budgeting and billing discrepancies related to improper project accounting of costs, discrepancy in trends, incorrect coding or account setup.

•Focus upon the consistency of information captured across various systems within the IT financial management domain, e.g. budgeting, invoicing, project portfolio system, time tracking system(s), procurement, Finance systems.

•Responsible for supporting the maintenance and maturity of various models and systems that manage and administer financial data analytics that include granularity on vendors, projects, technology components and stacks, time-tracking, cost allocation metrics, etc.

•Provide backup support to IT Accounting/Purchasing for processing Invoice payments, updating corresponding project and budget worksheets; this includes preparing batches of invoices for data entry, submit invoices for payment, preparing purchase orders, verifying senior management approvals, maintaining inventory files.

•Provide support on various projects within IT Administration and Budget Line Managers.

•Ensure that IT financial planning continues to support the organization’s business strategy.

•IT Financial Planning Analyst supporting the IT Expense Model, IT Budget Planning, IT Chargeback Reporting and other Financial Analysis and reports

•Compiles and analyzes financial information for the IT organization.

•Develops integrated revenue/expense analyses, projections, reports, and presentations.

•Creates and analyzes monthly, quarterly, and annual reports while ensuring integrity of data.

•Identifies trends/developments with ability to articulate findings in presentations to management.

•Performs financial forecasting and reconciliation of internal accounts.

Cinegidm Digital /New Video Distribution New York, New York August 2010 – May2015

Staff Account Accounts Receivables / Billing -Finance Department

•Full cycle accounts receivable, cash receipts, cash applications and exposure to collections. Analyze business transactions in the four special journals prove cash.

•Create invoices, prepare inter-company billing and generate sales reports for A&E Networks and Universal portals

•Contract/rebate/chargeback and related processing functions.

•Analyzing distribution chargeback’s usually involve billing errors. Allocating the cost of subscription regarding client and department cost related to placeholder charges and advertising rebates and co-op advertisement.

•Allocation funds / return of funds to a clients, mainly used in the rebates, advertisement, forcibly initiated by the issuing bank checks of the instrument used by a client to settle a rebate debts

•Assist on end of month closing procedures, trail balance, and drill journal to assure cash and revenue secures to General Journal prior to closing (EOM) Identifying Increase and decreasing accounts.

•Creating and processing adjustments memos for various reasons; returned checks and excess unapplied cash

•Billing mailing of invoices and Credit memos.

•Cash application process applying payments/credits to debits/invoices,

•Compile and analyze the monthly chargeback’s and contract rebate accrual account reconciliations.

•Maintain and analyze Wholesaler Sales and chargeback trending.

•Compile and analyze monthly account reconciliations for invoice mailing

•Wholesaler Fees, Cash Discounts & Sales Returns.

•Compile and issue chargeback related financial analytics to internal customers.

•Develop and maintain strong relationships with the Wholesaler/Distributor chargeback partners

•Receive and verify invoices and requisitions for goods and service

•Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures

•Prepare, verify, and process invoices and coding payment documents

•Process backup reports after data entry

•Manage the weekly check run

•Record all check

•Prepare vendor check for mailing

•Prepare manual check as and when required

•Maintain listing of accounts receivable and payable

•Maintain updated vendor files and file numbers

•Print and distribute monthly financial reports

•Data enter invoices for payment

•Process backup reports after data entry

Direct Edge Stock Exchange/ ISE Stock Exchange, Jersey City, NJ January2010 - August2010

Staff Account- Billing -Finance Department

•Review and analyze financial reports and other relevant data to ensure compliance with FINRA and SEC rules and regulations.

•Implementing regulatory risks of the products offered by and business activities of assigned member firms.

•Invoice verification, cash disbursement, posting and Applying unapplied cash to respected accounts.

•Act as a liaison with assigned member firms; provide interpretations of SEC rules and other applicable regulations, and assist member firms in conducting business within regulatory guidelines.

•Creating and processing adjustments credit memos for various reasons; including returned checks and excess unapplied cash

•Cash application process applying payments/credits to debits/invoices,

•Coordinate with Client Finance Analyst on billing initiation and monitoring, generating invoice and sending invoice with Client.

•Take the lead when invoices require documentation from accounts payable files.

•Liaise with Accounts Payable to provide accurate vendor invoice copies and expense report receipts in a timely manner.

•Provide accurate time & out of pocket and work in process reports to client account teams.

•Assist Client Finance Analyst in preparation of revenue accruals & deferred revenue schedules.

•Assist with account analysis for monthly financial review.

•Effectively manage & track project status.

•Update & maintain client database other duties as requested in support of client or company reporting and forecasting requirements.

Broadridge Financial Investor Communications/ADP, Edgewood, NY September 2007 - December2010

A/R Billing, Cash Application Analyst - Finance Department

•Cash Applications, Daily check scan onto selected company bank accounts•

•Identify payments received and apply to clients billed Invoices, timely management of COA, (cash on account) research unapplied cash est. invoices up for payment through purchases orders, request checks for payment through accounts payables data entry•

•Prepare Accounts Receivables disbursements prints checks, prints disbursements reports and update payables.

•Obtain two signatures on each check over Ten Thousand dollars to Senior Executive staff and Controller.

•Enter void checks, type manual checks as requested by authorizes officers.

•Assist department personnel and vendors with questions invoicing purchase orders and payments.

•Conduct Sox 404 (Sarbanes Oxley) Internal Audit Testing•

•Cash application process applying payments/credits to debits/invoices.

•Generating and maintaining monthly closing of member firm reports.

•Reconciliations, analyses, supporting documentation.

Salviati and Santori Import and Exporting (Corporate Office) Valley Stream, NY May 2005 - March 2007

A/R Credit Collection - Accounting Department

•Transfer invoice billing to containers Shipping System onto Microsoft Navision

•Applying credits to clients shipment (containers)

•Handle non collectable s funds, corresponding with liquidating firms regarding Bankruptcies clients outside collections agencies•

•Running month end reports for Sr. Credit Analyst and Month entries Daily,Weekly, Month reporting•

•Credit Holds follow

•Collection efforts via phone, email letters on assigned receivables, investigating client disputes, ensure they are being addressed.

•Communicating with sales, clients services, and billing to help facilitate client satisfaction and appropriate payment.

Education

•NYU New York University - Information Systems Management 2017 Graduation GPA 3.125

•NYU New York University - Accounting Concepts and Bookkeeping Certificate 2012

•CUNY- Kings-borough Bookkeeping Certificate 2011

•York College Paralegal Certificate 2009

•NYU New York University Paralegal Certificate- Intellectual Properties, Copyright-Trademark 2007

•Nassau Community College A.A. Business Administration, 2004

•Public Notary

•Design Essentials: Needs Analysis License number Lynda.com, License 1C6699

•Statistics with Excel Part One License number Lynda.com, License F4E7B0

•Excel 2013: Managing Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks License number Lynda.com, License 86B80A

•Data Science and Analytics Career Paths and Certifications License number Lynda.com, License E56A46

•Up and Running with VBA in Excel License number Lynda.com, License AB2BB6

•Java Essential Training for Students License number Lynda.com, License 2C0477

•Budgeting IT Projects License number Lynda.com, License 411312

•R for Excel Users License number Lynda.com, License 09E1C1

Accounting Software and Programs

•Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics 9.0

•PeopleSoft

•QuickBooks Intuit

•Microsoft Office 2003-2007 –Skills included VLook Up, HLook Up, Pivot reporting Advance Excel Calculations

•Oracle, (Accounting)

•ServiceNow Rapid Deployment for platform delivers

•SAP

•Citrix

•Java programmer

Skills

•Excellent interpersonal skills

•Analytical and problem solving skills

•Decision making skills

•Effective verbal and listening

•Communications skills

•Attention to detail and high level of accuracy

•Very effective organizational skills

•Effective written communications skills

•Computer skills including the ability to operate computerized accounting, spreadsheet and Microsoft programs, and email at a highly proficient level

•Stress management skills

•Time management skills

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