Financial Analyst, Government Contracting, project control collaborate

Lori Klotz Cooper

703-***-**** ● *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE To obtain a challenging budget and/or finance position that will feed my passion for continuous improvement and provide opportunities for learning and career growth while capitalizing on prior work experience, educational background, and personal strengths such as sharp financial analytics, financial acumen, organizational skills, attention to detail, interpersonal and leadership skills. Open to all industries, and would like to continue my career in a position that does not require a security clearance.

GENERAL Strategically focused, highly motivated, results driven analyst with research and presentation skills fine-tuned within execution management. A quick learner known for streamlining complex processes and adding efficiencies to increase productivity through requirements, gap and cost analysis. Proficient at performing liaison duties with multi-disciplinary teams. Excellent financial analysis, reporting, forecasting and budget skills used to deliver projects that meet or exceed all benchmarks and requirements. Experience developing detailed and complex analysis of data using Excel, and other proprietary software programs.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Budget Officer / Financial Management Analyst, Varantec, LLC

Chantilly, VA; July 2021 – present

Supports the Government with managing the budget and finances of four multi-billion-dollar Major Systems Acquisitions, as well as several smaller contracts within an entire program office

Experience in analyzing performance on contract types such as Firm Fixed Price with Milestone Payments, Cost Plus contracts, Firm Fixed Price – Level of Effort

Regularly analyzes financial performance, focusing on key performance indicators, forecast, and annual planning

Provides monthly briefings to Program Office Leadership, Comptroller, and Directorate Director with concise, relevant, and understandable financial status of the programs and provide meaningful recommendations that optimize performance and intelligent decision-making

Facilitates collaboration across the enterprise and business to proactively prevent and mitigate risk amongst the programs

Work with members of the supporting functional organizations to collaboratively perform critical conversations to determine opportunities, risks, recommendations to the betterment of the programs

Budget Officer / Financial Management Analyst, ManTech, LLC

Chantilly, VA; August 2017 – July 2021

Lead programmatic analyst for the customer with planning, programming, budgeting, and execution analysis as it relates to multi-billion-dollar Major Systems Acquisitions

Integrates multiple quantitative analyses techniques into planning, execution, performance management and acquisition tasks

Reviews and analyzes contractor monthly CFSRs, and provides monthly cost and schedule execution briefing to the COTR and Project Officers

Works across the group (6 large contracts) to reduce the Fiscal Year carry-forward by 33% the first year, and an additional 33% the second year to allow us to achieve the metrics required

Works across the program office to create an improved, precise Government Estimate at Completes (GEAC), with accuracy across the FYDP for the entire portfolio (~15 contracts)

Implemented a quarterly budget summit with the Group Leadership and COTRs to facilitate discussions with regards to continued Fiscal Year (and FYDP) planning, which assures that prioritization and follow-up contract actions are in work - a proactive measure to meeting our Fiscal Year metrics for obligation and execution

Establishes fiscal year requirements used to formulate fiscal year baseline budget

Continued support to the IPBS/CBJB/CJB formulation process

Regularly analyzes the execution against spend plan in order to meet the customer’s metrics, and provides monthly briefings to management, for situational awareness.

Budget Officer / Financial Management Analyst, Leffler Consulting, LLC

Chantilly, VA; January 2017 – August 2017

Supports the NRO Customer with planning, budgeting, and execution analysis as it relates to multi-billion-dollar Major Systems Acquisitions

Regularly monitors and coordinates program resource allocations and, when necessary, analyzes and presents trade-off scenarios for governments consideration regarding risk and opportunities, and closing at the bottom-line budget

Reviews and analyzes contractor’s monthly CFSR, and provides monthly cost and schedule execution briefing to the Director, Comptroller, COTR and Project Officers

Establishes fiscal year requirements used to formulate fiscal year baseline budget

Supports the IPBS/CBJB/CJB formulation process

Regularly analyzes the execution against spend plan in order to meet the customer’s metrics

Budget Officer / Financial Management Analyst, BAE Systems

Reston, VA; October 2016 – December 2016

Supports the Intelligence Community Customer with budget management

Provides support in resource management, and assists the government in transitioning to a new tool (Primavera) to allow for more precise cost estimating and budget execution planning to the IT Organization, which allows for more accurate maximization and utilization of the budget

Senior Associate, Federal Advisory, KPMG, LLP

McLean, VA; October 2014 – October 2016

Supports the Intelligence Community Customer with Fiscal Year Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE), working as the KPMG Deputy in the Programs Controls Branch in support of a team of 9 within the cost and budget team

Validate program requirements for completeness and works with Government Program Managers to create Government Cost Estimates for new and existing investments/initiatives.

Proposes resource realignments and recommends prioritization changes to the Chief of Program Control Board (PCB) and Senior Leadership Team to maintain program execution and respond to unplanned circumstances

Assist in the design, implementation, and use of corporate resource information repositories, databases, strategies, processes, procedures and reports to ensure accurate financial reporting and management oversight in support of program initiatives

Supports the creation and monitoring of the annual Fiscal Year Spend Plan (+$100M) while providing senior leadership trade-off analysis to ensure maximum spending of budget.

Provides direct support to the major development COTR with regular, monthly cost, schedule and risk analysis of a ~$100M contract, and about 40 projects within the contract.

Supports government in cost evaluations of multi-million-dollar Engineering Change Proposals

Integrates multiple quantitative analyses techniques into planning, execution, performance management and acquisition tasks

Contracts and Finance Manager, Scitor Corporation

Reston, VA; May 2002 – October 2014

Provides strategic contractual and financial guidance throughout the acquisition lifecycle from inception through contract execution and closeout activities

Assists the Intelligence Community customer with acquisition planning and procurement methods to find efficiencies and forecast resources which meet budget objectives

Oversees the Contracts and Cost Volumes proposal submissions for competitive and sole source solicitations and negotiates the resultant terms and conditions on Government contracts, subcontracts and consulting agreements

Supervises and administers the execution of Government contracts, subcontracts and consulting agreements of varying contract types and various complexities (OCONUS Travel, DBA Insurance, Multiple CLINs with different contract types, etc.) with values over $25 million

Analyzes monthly costs/revenue, and compares contract performance against the plans/budgets

Tracks contract funding and open commitments to develop accurate projections, while monitoring the funding needs of the subcontractors to provide them subcontract modifications

Forecasts cost scenarios to include estimate at completion and estimate to completion projections and presents findings to internal and external customers as needed

Develops revenue planning, profit analysis and variance explanations to coincide with company financial objectives

Manages accounts receivable and payment activities to ensure compliance with CAS and GAAP

Collaborates effectively with management, subcontractor representatives and Government

Contracting Officers to help simultaneously manage multiple contracts and programs

Prepares monthly reports for the Government customer to include Monthly Contract Status reports and invoice submission, as well as reporting for internal customers to demonstrate contract performance and identify actions for program improvements

Senior Pricing Analyst, Raytheon

Reston, VA; February 2001 – May 2002

Plan and schedule cost proposal development efforts

Compile cost, schedule, and technical elements in the development of proposals in accordance with Request for Proposal (RFP) specifications

Coordinate the collection and accumulation of cost, scheduling and performance elements from functional departments and create PC Pricing cost proposal files

Research and analyze historical data, perform profit analysis, and develop cost models to support proposal efforts

Coordinate all proposal financial activities and participate in fact-finding meetings, as well as all pricing reviews with management

Senior Implementation Account Executive, Automatic Data Processing

Rockville, MD; October 1998 – December 2000

Received Certification as Certified Payroll Professional

Obtained knowledge of state and federal payroll and tax laws and the implementation of compliance requirements as it pertains to payroll processing

Obtained knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures in payroll processing

Served as lead on payroll implementations for large companies, developed project plans and oversaw and directed the work of departments pertinent to implementation

Conducted thorough analyses of client’s payroll/human resources needs to determine appropriate product needs and service requirements, and demonstrated the ability to identify alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

Analyzed client specifications ensuring the accurate mapping and standardization of data

Established and monitored the implementation schedule to ensure that the target completion dates were met

Demonstrated the ability to effectively manage time and projects, while working under pressure with time constraints

Determined the appropriate method and conversion of data files, and assisted clients with data manipulations for importing data into ADP’s payroll/human resources software

Programmed client company control information on ADP’s mainframe to accommodate unique client requirements and established specific calculations, scheduled events, and routines

Performed pre-installation testing on unusual and complex features

Actively followed up with clients to ensure satisfaction and retention

Earned a 100% on all client quality surveys for 3rd quarter 2000

Provided technical support, leadership, and mentoring for the junior implementation team

EDUCATION York College of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science in Business Management

Minor: Entrepreneurial Studies

Magna Cum Laude

TRAINING/ Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

CERTIFICATION George Mason University – World of Government Contracting

George Mason University – Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Federal Publications Seminar - The Government Contracts Negotiations Workshop

SYSTEM USE Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Deltek Costpoint, Cognos, JIRA, Confluence

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