Badeeh McDuffie

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Austin, TX • 609-***-****

Summary

Director

Innovative thinker with broad based expertise in strategic, operational, and technical delivery of Financial Services.

Seasoned, highly analytical, and performance driven professional with more than 15 years of successful experience in financial management, business development, and process improvement. Well-rounded track record as a strategic thinker and process champion implementing initiatives that improve financial operations, driving value-based solutions, and streamlining procedures in order to achieve reduced processing time and increased productivity. Demonstrated ability to pinpoint any discrepancies and outlining unnecessary cost expenditures. A people leader, ensured the professional development of team members in a positive company culture.

Areas of Expertise

•Financial Management

•Business Planning

•Financial Analysis & Reporting

•Budgeting & Forecasting

•P&L Management

•Cash Flow Control / Projections

•Strategic Management

•Contract Negotiations

•Team Leadership & Mentoring

•Relationship Building

•AP / AR

•Policies & Procedures Compliance

Career Experience

Finance Manager/Business Planning Manager

Charter Communications (Formerly Time Warner Cable); Austin, TX 2012 – Present

Provide executive-level leadership with full accountability for overseeing all financial and business aspects of Charter’s Field Operations of the Central Texas division.. Direct full cycle Purchase Order and Capital Project Request processes in order to understand the various risks involved in an investment opportunity. Liaise with the accounting department to ensure proper accounting treatment for capital vs expense coding of initiatives. Create accurate and timely financial/ costs reports, reimbursement-related entries, and pro-forma for new business development projects to increase bottom line performance. Deploy effective control systems to identify and investigate significant financial fluctuations month-to-month.

●Saved an average of 8.5 hours per month of financial data review time by designing a departmental forecasting and headcount model, which rapidly went company-wide and later enterprise-wide.

●Successfully managed regional budget of $150M for the Central Texas technical operations group.

●Built and maintained strategic partnerships with local vendors during the merger between Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications.

●Recruited, mentored, and evaluated performance of one financial analyst, two capital coordinators, and one accounts payable specialist.

Senior Financial Analyst

Charter Communications (Formerly Time Warner Cable); Austin, TX 2008 – 2012

Performed a variety of financial activities including budgeting, forecasting, building financial models, assisting senior management with financial planning, and preparing/delivering reports to executive team for informed decision making. Held responsibility to maintain accounts, oversee expenditure of funds, and administer the conversation of P&L reporting. Reviewed, updated, and uploaded financial forecasts and projections for monthly/annual budgets on to the company system database.

●Achieved promotion for exceptional work performance and handled operating expense of the Central Texas region, including oversight of a $80M annual budget.

●Optimized financial reporting methods by improving processes.

●Established solid working relations with team cross-functionally by communicating through touch-base conversations regarding operating expense.

Financial Analyst

Level 3 Communications (Broadwing Communications); Austin, TX 2006 – 2008

Supported senior management in making tactical and strategic decisions by providing periodic financial reports. Examined business performance, studied market conditions, and utilized real-time analysis along with industry databases to create forecasts of future gross margin. Evaluated historical network expense data and detected revenue stream trends, which helped the firm to target and secure specific goals.

●Redesigned core processes and enforced stringent quality control standards, which resulted in enhancing efficiency.

●Improved several reporting and tracking programs essential to the network expense decision-making process.

Prior experience as Assistant Buyer Macy’s (Hechts-Strawbridges Co.); Arlington, Virginia 2004 - 2006

Education

Master of Business Administration – Concentration in Information Systems & Business Analytics, 2020

University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland

Bachelor of Science in Finance, 2004

University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland

Computer Skills

Windows, Office, Access, PeopleSoft, MicroStrategy, Ariba Spend Management, JDE, Oracle Financials and Hyperion Intelligence, Salesforce, Tableau, SAP

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