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**** ***** ******* ** *********, Tennessee 37931 423-***-**** ad3qwo@r.postjobfree.com SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 10 years of experience in accounting & finance including: financial system administration & integration, SOX control compliance & monitoring, consolidation, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, financial reporting

• Excellent customer service and communication skills, with the ability to convey information in appropriate manner to individuals at all organizational levels

• Accounting experience in both GAAP & IFRS. Heavily involved in SOX controls, external audits

• Technical: SAP ECC, BlackLine, SAP BPC/EPM, Hyperion, Peoplesoft, Wave (McKinsey), Anaplan, CXO, Trintech EXPERIENCE

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Chattanooga, TN

Assistant Manager, Accounting May 2023 – Present

• Responsible for activity of: A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets & Inventory management in coordination with GBS organization

• Advise on treatment of accounting topics for plant (projects, government grants/incentives, etc.)

• Evaluate and address risks to balance sheet and processes

• Prepare, present month-end, ad-hoc, and annual presentations to internal, external stakeholders (auditors, board, etc.)

• Manage budget for shared services and internal departmental needs Warner Bros, Discovery Inc. Knoxville, TN

Sr. Analyst, Financial Solutions Nov. 2020 – May 2023

• SME & Main Admin for BlackLine park & post journal entry, account reconciliations, tasks (~400 users). Train users on policy, controls. Coordinate with Compliance and Internal, External Audit teams on quarterly and semi-annual tasks

• Ensure BlackLine availability and accuracy of data inflows, postings, and maintain user accesses. Escalate when necessary to BlackLine and internally with SAP team

• Master data, hierarchy maintenance in SAP, BlackLine, EPM - mainly GL accounts, cost centers, geography, brands

• Coordinate job steps, controls between consolidation system and planning tools, from several ERPs to FP&A tools

• Test system changes, integration of new entities. Support evaluations of additional functions, modules in BlackLine

• Support PMO regularly on long-term projects, i.e. SAP S4 integration on legacy systems, and BlackLine implementations. Implemented Tasks & several JE initiatives without external support. Present in all-hands meetings to communicate expectations

Sr. Accountant, Corporate Accounting Sept. 2019 – Nov. 2020

• Corp. Accounting representative and administrator for journal entry & account reconciliation compliance

• Drive continuous improvement in close cycle and reduced workload of back-end controls

• Posted material accruals related to long-term debt, stock comp., restructuring, common stock, certain IBNR Sr. Analyst, Consolidation Oct 2018 – Sept. 2019

• Coordinate and perform consolidation for Discovery, Inc., Scripps Networks systems

• Maintain tie-out, intercompany out-of-balance, other SOX required reporting for each period

• Provide flash reports from SAP (Discovery) and Peoplesoft (Scripps) per close calendar Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations Chattanooga, TN Coordinator Financial Planning & Analysis March 2016 – Oct. 2018

• Plan, forecast, and report the financial statements of VW Chattanooga. Maintain knowledge of all business areas.

• Properly summarize impacts to financial statements (actual vs. budget, intra-year forecasts, multi-year planning round) including changes to FX rates, volumes, margin effects, interest rates, plant costs, and market/product changes.

• Revamp financial presentations continuously to improve decision making and executives’ understanding.

• Develop annual budgets through collaboration with managers and planning specialists for various business areas.

• Prepare ad-hoc financial reports for business partners and management at local, regional and global levels.

• Work with business partners including management to improve forecast accuracy, monthly process schedules and transparency between the many stakeholder groups. Improve processes via workshops and continuous improvement.

• Improve efficiency of reporting continuously. Key user while implementing IBM TM1 solution to satisfy IFRS and management reporting needs, to achieve future reporting needs without adding headcount or excess work. Logistics Cost & Supplier Claims Controller May 2015 – February 2016

• Evaluated and summarized variances to budget for Inbound & Outbound Logistics costs. Responsible for reporting figures in detail to Finance & Logistics departments, external customers at regional/corporate offices.

• Prepared monthly journal entries, managing multi-million dollars in accruals for liabilities and risk provisions.

• Developed forecast on monthly and ad-hoc basis using obtained expertise in response to business changes.

• Reported status and developments for all supplier claims/recoveries, working with claims specialists to resolve

• Developed and appropriated annual bottom-up budget for Logistics costs and five-year planning.

• Supported Logistics as liaison for achieving cost savings through workshops, evaluated re-negotiations of contracts. Overhead Cost Controller April 2014 – May 2015

• Developed bottom-up budgets for several departments aligning business needs with corporate targets.

• Cooperated with departments’ procurement requests to achieve budgets/forecasts, comply with Accounting & Purchasing policies, and continue optimizing service level agreements.

• Managed large, detailed accruals for liabilities and receivables with accompanying audit support. Cost Controlling Intern January 2014 – March 2014

• Support month-end close procedures with various mentors for accrual entries, procurement approvals and monthly budget variance analysis. Support preliminary budgeting efforts. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN Cum Laude: Accounting, B.S.; Finance, B.S. May 2014 Licensed CPA (Active), Tennessee: License #25355 December 2016

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