Financial Analyst Accounts Payable

Lauren Chow

Professional Summary

Skilled and dependable Finance professional with a strong background in automotive, financial services, and healthcare. Highly experienced user of SAP, SAC BI, Power BI Apptio, PSA and Peoplesoft systems. Tech savvy individual with proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel, including daily usage of pivot tables and V-LOOKUP for analysis. Experience in Forecasting and Budgets.

Professional Experience

Cooper Standard (Contract) Remote

SAP BUSINESS ANALYST 4/2023-Current

Act as the liaison between finance and IT for implementation of new Celonis software.

Review business requirements and provide recommendations and assistance on the various initiatives currently underway.

Created template in Excel to upload into a model to complete weekly stories for SAC BI. Complete the weekly process and present file.

Update weekly report on PO balances and unresolved telecom invoices.

Update and report Weekly and Monthly SAC BI Story results on Automation and Work flow issues.

Freudenberg e-Power Systems (Contract)

FINANCIAL ANALYST 06/2022-03/2023

Support all areas of accounting and reporting and provide analysis of financial data.

Support month end close by posting journal entries, account reconciliations and analysis.

Create, maintain, and track capital expenditure projects.

Support internal monthly reporting.

Perform loan tracking and interest calculations.

GM (Contract)

FINANCIAL ANALYST – GBS (Global Business Services) PVI (Process Validation and Improvement) 11/2021-03/2022

Provide financial analysis and / or support using GM Global systems to determine the cause of pricing errors on GM contracts with the supply base.

Analyze ad-hoc reports.

Interface with various levels within GM to review cases and key areas where differences are identified between the GM Purchasing system and the supplier contracts.

Drive closure of open cases and collection of over-payments within stipulated time frame.

Found over 9 million in supplier cost recoveries in the first 3 months.

IQVIA (Contract)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT ANALYST/SR. FINANCIAL ANALYST 09/2019 - 09/2021

Coordinate project schedules and ensure timely updates of all key milestones, as well as partnering with project lead on related calls.

Coordinate and support the risk and issue management process.

Led cross functional/clinical teams and acted as a liaison with the customer and third parties.

Prepare and distribute monthly financial analysis for billable inter-company projects.

Coordinate and manage the inter-company matching process.

Manage weekly time-card extract/load process for Real World employees.

Perform reconciliation controls to ensure data accuracy, including remediation of any identified data upload issues.

Assisted in creation of a bot to streamline manual process which uploaded data from PSA to PSFT on a weekly basis.

Creation of projects in PSA for coding of time and labor to programs.

Prepared and distributed global inter-company accounts payable and accounts receivable reconciliations and coordinated journal entries and financial reports.

Performed approval of payments to affiliates and third party to meet internal customer requirements.

Handled analysis of affiliate accounts to ensure compliance and data accuracy.

Complied data reports for forecasting analysis.

Robert Bosch LLC

ACCOUNTANT-INTERCOMPANY ACCOUNTS 10/2017-09/2019

Prepared and distributed global inter-company accounts payable and accounts receivable reconciliations and coordinated journal entries and financial reports.

Performed approval of payments to affiliates and third party to meet internal customer requirements.

Handled analysis of affiliate accounts to ensure compliance and data accuracy.

Worked with internal customers to determine the correct pricing and allocation and resolved outstanding discrepancies.

Conducted accounts payable account reconciliations with multiple internal divisions. Act as project team leader, involving multiple global locations to drive resolution.

Webasto-Edscha Cabrio

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST 08/2014-10/2017

Handled weekly reporting and calculation of forecast for production and labor hours.

Reported daily cash forecasting.

Resolved price and receiving discrepancies with suppliers.

Performed allocation of expenses to cost centers.

Maintained AP accrual list for month-end reporting and journal entries.

Worked with internal departments to determine the correct pricing and allocation.

Performed accounts payable, system entry, and account reconciliations with suppliers.

Grand Steel Products Wixom, MI

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 03/2013-08/2014

Performed accounts receivable, invoice processing, and reconciliations.

Handled accounts payable, system entry, and account reconciliations with suppliers.

Acted as customer liaison for invoice issue resolution and invoice discrepancy management.

Oversaw the transition from Enmark to ERP (SAP) system software.

Managed weekly timecards.

Comerica Bank West Bloomfield, MI

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE 11/2011-03/2013

Met sales and referral targets.

Held responsibility for maintaining cash levels/operations and balanced large cash reserves.

Verified large deposits and withdraws

Education

McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI

Accounting Computer Information Systems In Progress

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