Brenda Garner
************@*****.***
Oxford, PA 19363
SUMMARY
Program/Financial Analyst and Military Veteran with Top Secret Clearance; focused and highly motivated business professional with over 20 years of various experience in Business Administration, Business Operations, Policy and Financial Management and Budget Certification. An innovative and energetic team player, relationship builder, and highly effective communicator. Career supported by completion of two Master’s Degrees: Business Administration/Healthcare Management and Finance/Accounting.
SKILLS
•GFEBS (General Fund Enterprise Business Systems)
•Navy/ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
•Army CCaR (Comprehensive Cost and Requirement)/Auditing
•SOMARDS (Standard Operations and Maintenance Army Research & Development System)
•Share Point Records Management
•Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
•Proficient in various Accounting, Financial and Computer Systems
EXPERIENCE
Program/Budget Analyst
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Booz Allen Hamilton Mar 2020 to Current
Supervisor: Anne Mackin, o: 443-***-**** m: 443-***-****, 40hrs
•Utilizing financial and resource management techniques to manage and control budget and financial operations for Army PEO C3T programs.
•Analyze the creation of budget plans, program status briefings, and making recommendations for improvement to program leadership; through budget execution reviews, variance reporting, spend plans, and CCaR (Comprehensive Cost and Requirement) reports.
•Auditing monthly and yearly reports from SAP/ERP GFEBS (General Funds Enterprise Business System) system to assist the JRP (Joint Reconciliation Program) with validating IDOC (Intermediate Document) errors, UMTs (Un-Matched Transactions), Open Outstanding Invoices, and Obligations for Contracts.
•Government creation of MIPRs (Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request), Sales Orders, PWDs and agency WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for accounting systems through GFEBS.
•Applying quantitative and qualitative techniques to help identify issues to resolve and provide advice and guidance to program leads.
•Gathering reports from different financial systems for the current Fiscal Years POM to Congress.
•Tracking/editing funding in programs spend plan.
Business Process Officer/Financial Analyst
Alexandria, VA
Bowhead Business & Technical Solutions LLC Aug 2019 to Feb 2020
Supervisor: Kelly Roth, o:443-***-****, 40hrs
•Served as a subject matter expert in the Foreign Military Sales section as a financial investigative analyst for CECOM-SAMD-ILSC.
•Audited the CCOPEs (Case Close Out Process System) Report for outstanding financials.
•Financial Advisor to the Weapons System Managers, USASAC CENTCOM and USASAC Redstone Arsenal for identifying any financial discrepancies to be resolved.
•Preformed Case Development tasks; to include: reviewing Contracts, MIPRs, Amendments, Pricing and Availability.
•Established final pricing on FMS cases for closure.
Program Analyst/Budget Analyst
McLean, VA
Saic - Science Applications International Corporation May 2016 to Aug 2019
Supervisor: Steve O’Bannan, o:401-***-****, 40hrs
Contracted to various Government locations From Virginia Maryland and Washington DC:
Executive Agent to 3 Cyber Training Ranges (ARCYBER)
•Supervised and the functional point of contact over the agencies financial reports to provide timely information to supervisors and higher authorities.
•Performed quantitative, budget/program analyses to meet the objectives and requirements of the Army ‘s DoD Cyber Training Ranges portion of the Defense Planning Guidance, the Program Objective Memorandum (POM), the Budget Estimate Submission (BES) and the President's Budget Submission, which included writing/editing the ARCYBER Documentation Authorities Manual Budget.
•Performed a wide range of administrative and analytical duties in the presentation of the budget and program objective estimates to support the Short-and-Long range goals and objectives of the Army's mission, to include: effectively analyzing new or proposed legislative policies for the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Ranges to assess the impact on program policies, processes, goals and objectives.
•Developed, coordinated, and revised a wide variety of Government-wide procurement policies (SOPs), reviewing proposed changes to existing regulations and determining whether they should be addressed.
•Drafted, reviewed, staffed, and disseminated a variety of program management documents to include memorandums, briefings, reports, minutes of meetings, SCRUM reporting.
Strategic Systems Program for the Navy
•Lead Contractor for the Workforce Management (WFM) Team and Subject Matter Expert for creating organizational positions, providing customer support for Navy ERP end-users and the Lead Trainer for the ERP Supervisors (Military and Civilian) for Time and Attendance.
•Regulated the modifications to existing or proposed reports and reporting methods necessary to assure proper and adequate information is rendered.
•Performed detailed analysis to prepare comprehensive reports from SAP/ERP Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing infrastructure to support the Navy business operations.
•Maintained, updated, and tested business process workflows and training materials for the Navy ERP users.
•Maintained and updated agency documents to include Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Role Mapping Database (RMDs), Separation of Duties (SODs), Government Risk Compliance (GRC) and Access Enforcer (AE).
Programmer Analyst
Arlington, VA
360 Patriot Enterprises Sep 2015 to May 2016
Supervisor: Kate, o: 619-***-****, 40hrs
•Supported 15 contracting officers, 6 project managers, and over 100 projects (new and reoccurring leases) with thorough knowledge of contractor and vendor performance parameters, providing clear and concise performance-based statements and measurements.
•Performed Pre/post-award and termination activities such as: analyzing requirements, establishing milestones, revisions to statements of work/specifications and procurement planning.
•Managed the tracking/monitoring of contract actions to ensure compliance with Washington Headquarter Services, administrative procedures, and regulations.
•Organized/Arranged new lease files, maintained electronic documents and served as the technical point for new project requirements; facilitated through award letters to the contracting officer, the Lessor, the agency, and to the Washington Headquarters Services.
•Performed the current years funding contract requests through purchase orders, sales orders, Military Inter-Departmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs), financial databases: EBAS-D=Core Financials, Leased Facilities Database, Procurement Desktop Defense.
Business Office Director
Malvern, PA
Chester Valley Rehabilitation Center Apr 2011 to Sep 2015
Supervisor: Janet Macnamara, o: 610-***-****; 40hrs
•Supervised 5 Staffed Customer/Reception Department.
•Served as advisor and consultant in providing any recommendations to assist management with hiring qualified candidates.
•Conducted, managed and prepared the PA State Medicaid financial compliance audits with the agreed-upon procedures.
•Created/ recommended and drafted audit reports to management for review Pennsylvania Audit reviews.
•Supervised the day-to-day operations and maintenance of financial accounts to include: the facilities Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, the corporate purchase card program and reconciling the corporation's general ledger accounts.
•Advised and analyzed on programming and budgeting strategies and recommended technical solutions to department supervisors.
•Created, designed, and maintained performance measurements, tracking systems, and evaluation tools to track facility financial records and departmental inventory.
United States Navy Apr 1992 to Aug 1996
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Master of Science: Finance
Southern New Hampshire University Dec 2017
Hooksett, NH
MBA: Management
American InterContinental University Dec 2011
Schaumburg, IL
Bachelor of Arts: History
University of North Florida Jun 2005
Jacksonville, FL