Yassmin Mansy, MBA

U.S. Citizen

Alexandria, VA *2312 703-***-**** adkin5@r.postjobfree.com

Driven finance leader with an extensive experience in strategic planning, budgeting, and corporate finance. Proven track record of maximizing business opportunities and achieving corporate financial performance goals. Recognized as a hands-on, expert problem solver who can rapidly formulate strategic plans, and implement change, with benefit to the company’s bottom line.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LeaseAccelerator, Reston, VA December 2019 – February 2021

Sr. Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Worked for the CFO on corporate development initiatives, M&A, financial and operational metrics reporting and analysis, cash flow analysis, and other ad hoc analysis.

Developed an annual budget and a quarterly forecast for each business unit. Performed a monthly variance analysis and identified trends to make recommendations for improvements.

Prepared Board of Directors meeting presentations and identified business risks and opportunities.

Produced and developed complex financial and operational modeling to predict outcomes and improve business workflow.

Collaborated with business partners in Sales, Technology, Product Management and Customer Success to drive ongoing process refinement to improve the accuracy and efficiency of forecasting and reporting.

Worked with the COO to evaluate revenue budget assumptions related to new bookings, churn, product penetration, recurring revenues (e.g., monthly subscriptions), and non-recurring revenues (e.g., professional services fees).

Prepared valuation analyses, including model building and scenario testing, to support company growth initiatives.

Led the effort of implementing a new financial software and set measurable objectives to establish standard Sales business performance reports.

Challenger, Arlington, VA January 2019 – November 2019

Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Led the company's FP&A function to develop and implement financial analysis methodologies and extend finance-based decision-making throughout the company.

Managed an efficient and comprehensive process for developing driver-based financial budgets including developing, communicating, and driving the budget process including the timeline, budget templates and preparing budget deliverables.

Established and managed the revenue recognition process by converting 2018 and 2019 revenue into 606 after evaluating contract values and calculating fair values for each selling product.

Developed models around financial strategies, budgeting, and forecasts to track and project business performance. Provided insights into what creates the most value for the Company.

Created and built reporting mechanisms and business modeling to effectively scale with growth.

Supported the business groups in managing their spending budgets, including monthly budget vs actual analysis, headcount reporting, and annual budgeting.

Developed financial forecasts for revenues and expenses based on trends in key operating metrics, promotional activities and new initiatives planned by the business.

Worked with others to develop the tools and systems that provided critical financial and operational information and KPI’s to the Officers.

Rosetta Stone, Arlington, VA July 2015 – January 2019

Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsible for the development and preparation of financial plans, analyzing and reporting results.

Provided financial leadership, decision support and strategic input to various functional groups within the company to achieve profitable growth for North America and Europe.

Analyzed sales activities (over $75K million annually) and recommended the optimal use of funding for marketing activities, staffing and new initiatives.

Established and managed the process for revenue recognition based on 606.

Reported and analyzed key operational metrics across the North America and Europe Consumer business and maintained an in-depth knowledge of channel strategies for operational improvements. Special focus on SaaS subscription metrics.

Developed financial forecasts for revenues and expenses based on trends in key operating metrics, promotional activities and new initiatives planned by the business.

Managed the operating budget for the Direct to Consumer segment and associated headcount.

Analyzed and communicated monthly and quarterly financial results to leaders in the Sales & Marketing organization as well as to executive management to provide insights and assist in improving results.

Examined the P&L behind each of the consumer sales channels and understood the key drivers of cost, scale, productivity, efficiency, and profitability for North America and Europe.

Defined and established robust reporting and best practices for the marketing team to provide transparency, report effectiveness of spending and drive healthy growth.

Proactively identified and analyzed business issues and opportunities to recommend future actions.

Produced other specialized reports and presentations for senior leadership and board members.

Special Olympics, Washington, DC February 2014 – June 2015

Director of Financial Analysis

Led and established the Financial Planning & Analysis function.

Managed the annual budgeting process across the organization and the analysis of financial performances.

Coordinated the annual operating expenses with budget officers to help manage their financial needs.

Collaborated with other operating committee members on establishing the organization’s five-year strategy implementation.

Conducted highly complex trend analysis, forecasting, and financial modeling on monthly basis.

Developed analytical frameworks to evaluate performance by program, department, and region. Tracked and interpreted key performance metrics.

Managed reporting & consolidations for Special Olympics’ three global entities P&L.

Managed balance sheet exposure (ensuring liquidity, identifying surplus cash, identifying financing needs and determining best options).

Supported the CFO in leading the monthly financial performance review and variance analysis.

Created and delivered presentations for monthly financial results to CFO, Board of Directors, and Finance Committee.

Led the effort of developing and executing a new system, Prophix, by acting as a liaison between departmental reporting needs and system capabilities.

Served as the system administrator for all the financial needs of the organization.

Acted as the bank administrator and the point of contact for all the active banking and investment accounts.

Prepared RFP requirements to seek prospect vendors to implement new financial systems and planning models.

Managed the year-end-audit Footnotes and the filing of the 990.

Deloitte Consulting, Arlington, VA July 2012 – February 2014

Project Controller – Federal Healthcare Segment

Performed and managed project management office (“PMO”) functional tasks and performed day-to-day contract management activities.

Monitored project financial performance through trend analysis and profitability metrics.

Managed budget and forecast for various projects for over $15M.

Interacted periodically with project directors and external clients to present various analyses, discuss recommendations and provide project financial advice.

Provided up-to-date Estimates to Complete (ETC) and Estimates at Completion (EAC) on a biweekly basis.

Oversaw billing and collection process by working with the Federal Centralized Billing group.

Implemented and executed internal controls and Project Controller processes.

Ensured compliance with applicable policies and procedures, Federal regulations and guidelines and contractual requirements.

Utilized standard processes for project management, quality management, and risk management.

XO Communications, Herndon, VA November 2007 – July 2012

Financial Analyst, Lead

Assisted in planning, reporting and analysis of $950M in annual budgeted Cost of Services. Calculated and reported annual COS plan for board approval. Performed a quarterly forecasting and monitoring of actual performance vs. board approved plan for each line of business as well as in total.

Analyzed and recognized over $40M of the company’s annual savings, by reconciling monthly circuits’ activities to billing.

Calculated and established a fiscal year plan for savings projects proposed by engineers and monitored achievement of bonus objectives for savings initiatives.

Managed and produced a monthly balanced scorecard and summary presentations for executive review by consolidating financial performance inputs from the accounting team, business units and revenue groups.

Helped guide management's financial decision-making by analyzing and evaluating existing vendor contracts and the impacts of new proposals for negotiating purposes.

Served as a project manager between External Affairs and IT, to establish requirements for new reporting based on complex financial analyses and data management.

Created and implemented best practices for process improvement.

Performed ad-hoc analyses as required to include: summarization of historical activity; analysis and/or interpretation of trends; assessment of risks; opportunities; defining or uncovering economies of scale; review and development of budgets; strategies; root cause analysis of issues; etc.

Provided guidance, training and support to lower level financial analysts on specific financial analysis tasks.

Senior Financial Analyst

Completed monthly accrual and analysis for over $5M cost of services to include: collocation expense; interconnection expense; usage cost; installation cost; variance to plan and variance to forecast analyses.

Maintained collocation inventory, month-over-month cause of change analysis, quarterly inventory to bill reconciliation and metrics reporting.

Conducted monthly reconciliation of expense and liability accounts to ensure that no improper entries have been charged.

Tied out balance sheet activities to ending balances and created an aging of the liability.

Ensured that financial accounting procedures and controls are adequate and financial transactions are accounted for in accordance with GAAP.

Uploaded monthly Cost of Services journal entries, while communicating and monitoring compliance of XO Communications approval policy for journal entries.

Participated in IT program working groups that analyzed the company’s billing system and assisted in implementing a new system for coding cost of services.

Supported Lead Financial Analyst with various monthly financial operations.

Summarized analyses and conclusions and prepared monthly presentation of the cost of services for review with senior management.

Washington Mortgage Group, Annandale, VA

Sr. Mortgage Consultant/Assistant Office Manager August 2005 – November 2007

Received, evaluated, and reviewed loan applications, income information, employment records and asset verification.

Performed credit checks on loan applicants and contacted various companies on appraisals, title work and hazard insurance.

Input information in the assigned lender’s system to obtain loan approval and served as a liaison between applicants and mortgage bankers.

Executed daily tasks related to the mortgage and loan processes on Encompass software.

Assisted HR to advertise for vacant positions, gather job descriptions and create job flyers; Received and evaluated resumes to qualify applicants on positions related to processing.

Created timesheets, flyers and checklists using Microsoft Professional Suite and Excel.

Managed time effectively and productively to meet critical deadlines.

Delivered exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills.

EDUCATION

Marymount University, Arlington, VA, August 2010.

MBA with Concentration in Finance

GPA: 3.70

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 2006.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology

CERTIFICATES & TRAINING

Finance Essentials Micro-Certification Program; Harvard Business School.

Excel Certification; Deloitte Consulting.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite Skills – Certified Excel User

Salesforce – Strong Experience

Hyperion – Strong Experience

NetSuite – Strong Experience

Jedox – Strong Experience

Prophix – Strong Experience

Adaptive Insight – Moderate Experience

Navision Accounting System – Moderate Experience

Project experience with Jet Reports, Oracle, SQL, SAP, and Cognos TM1

OTHER SKILLS

Extensive experience in a fast-paced, high-growth company, mostly in tech/software/SaaS companies.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; detail oriented, with strong interpersonal skills.

Effective partnership with cross functional teams across an organization.

Excellent leadership and management skills.

Work well independently, under pressure and enjoy camaraderie of working within a team.

Fluent in English and Arabic.

Intermediate in French.

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