Financial Analyst Corporate Accountant

Solomon A. Brown **** Rogers Avenue Brooklyn, NY *1226 718-***-**** Home 917-***-**** Cell adrpbh@r.postjobfree.com & adrpbh@r.postjobfree.com E-Mail Address’s solomon.anthony.brown Skype ID

Professional Summary:

Dynamic and motivated Senior IT & Financial professional with a proven record of building and maintaining relationships. Have 15- years of experience working in Infrastructure Management, Governance/Policy and Procurement and Project Management. Extensive experience in strategizing and leading cross-functional teams to bring about fundamental change management, improvement and growth. Manger of Financial Reporting & Operations / Lead Financial Consultant / Project Manager with over 10- years of experience implementing complex functional and technical business solutions across multiple industries including the Federal Government, Insurance and Healthcare experience. Possess excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills and interact effectively with both executives and front-line staff. Proven ability to develop and deliver strategic initiatives on time and on budget. Quickly learned a variety of complex tools and apply analytical skills to meet expectations and requirements. Comfortable working independently or collaborating with teams. Experience working with Financial Reporting systems and Finance business processes. Lead projects through the entire Project Lifecycle in a wide range of technology areas, most notably as the Lead Analyst for “The A.I.G. $100 Million Dollar Hurricane Sandy CAPEX Project””

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Managed and tracked monthly Spend Across AWS Billing, Azure and GCP AZURE System / Microsoft-Cloud Watch, AMS360 / Applied EPIC Applications Reporting, JIRA, Ariba 8.22 & 9R1, Blackbaud Accounting, Data Mining & Analytics, EZ Fund Accounting, Created Financial Interactive Dashboards from Pivot Table Analysis Reports, Hyperion, PeopleSoft-Oracle Financial, Procurement, SAP S4 Hanna, MTS Payment Gateway, MS Project, GAAP, Analyzed Business Requirements & Prepared Necessary Schedules, Regulatory Reporting, Ach Operations, Wire Transfers, Risk Management, Sage – Timberline, Prepared & Analyzed Accruals & Fiscal Transactions, Financial Modeling and Forecasting, Statuary Accounting, Service Now, IBM -Cognos.

EXPERIENCE:

Match Point Solutions, Phoenix AZ (Fully Remote Position) Jan 2022 – Jun 2022

Project Financial Analyst

Business & Operations Division

Reported to Manager of Business Engagement

Bi weekly meeting with I.T. Project Managers & Engineers to give financial status of all projects.

Managed & Analyzed Project Managers Portfolio’s & risk opportunities, adjusted forecasting, requested additional funding

Prepared accruals, profit & loss reports, analyzed & resolved purchase orders & invoice issues

Prepared Short- & Long-Term forecasting for Opex & Capex Projects, balance sheet reconciliations, headcount tracking

Managed & prepared monthly SAP Budget, Treasury & Project Management Reconciliation Reports (manipulated raw data, tracked spending / project status & escalated issues to proper team / individual, using pivot table analysis reports, advanced Excel spreadsheets & v-lookups, prepared blanket payments, analyzed & addressed all variances) prepared by generated excel spreadsheets. Spend Analysis Data storage AWS Billing, analyze profitability and timeframe of all projects

Involved in evaluation criteria, Statements of Work (SOW) and Task Statements, Request for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Quotes (RFQ), Proposal Evaluations, monitored project timelines

Manage RFQs, RFPs, SLA, SOW and conduct vendor benchmark, compile results of overall performance, SLA tracking to ensure vendors’ compliance/performance meets expectations as defined in SLA's and contract agreements.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Technology, Princeton NJ Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

Financial Analyst III

Business Operations Division (Pharmaceutical Firm)

Reported to Companies Director Business Information Management

Bi weekly meeting with I.T. Project Managers & Engineers to give financial status of all projects

Reconciled & Managed all Business Partners Financial Portfolios & Budget Reports (Clinical Trials and R & D)

Created Purchase Requests, Prepared S.O.W., Journal Entries, Accruals and addressed all Variances

Prepared Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Treasury Reports, Used VBA Interactive Dashboards

Managed financial reporting, budgeting for all projects & managed all spend management vendor reports

Prepared P &L Reports, Financial Statements, Benefit Cost Analysis and Weekly Financial Presentations

Ariba / S.A.P. S 4 Hanna, escalated issues when necessary, Track spend & report monthly accruals

The Jonus Group, New York, NY Feb 2019 – Feb 2021

Lead Financial Business Analyst

Accounting, Finance & Operations

Reported to Companies President & Chief Executive Officer

Prepared financial statements, financial modeling & forecasting, client swift payment reporting, adjusted budgets, risk & addressed variances

A/P Ariba – S.A.P., reconciled claim payments against policy contracts & inputted financial data into SAP to satisfy 12 month rolling financial forecasts for operational budget, treasury, Capex & Opex Budget Reports

Reviewed all financial transaction activity

Uploaded weekly reconciliation & presentation reports into Microsoft-Cloud Watch program for regulatory & compliance reports

Analyzed and reconciled daily domestic & international revenue activity reports. Prepared short & long- term forecasting, balance sheet analysis, reconciliations, headcount tracking & monitoring, master order change order analysis, support of business partners in operations, reported generation and data analysis

Trained incoming Chief Financial Officer on all daily cash reporting, quarterly & annual / budgeting / revenue / variance reporting activities

Analyzed all monthly transferred reinsurance transactions, researched risk potential & diversified client financial exposure

Full service domestic & international insurance brokerage firm (retail property, casualty, life, auto, employee health benefits and specialty programs)

Prepared regulatory monthly 605 reports & quarterly 606 reports (securities & equities clients)

Oversaw financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting across Payment Processing divisions

Prepared Corporate Tax Filing, Paid Use Tax fees for all states operated in

Prepared Financial Modeling for Daily AMS 360 Cash / Revenue Reports, Financial Forecasting for Capital & Operational Budgets

Tyree Environmental Protection Corporation Moorestown, NJ June 2013 – Dec 2018

Sr. Financial Analyst / Project Manager

Business Operations & Procurement Division (Environmental Protection Firm)

Reported to Companies Chief Executive Officer

80% of our infrastructure contracts were DNA Government contracts & OSHA Regulations

Managed all aspects of projects (analyzed budget, sourced for materials, project planning, timing, prepared project plans & road maps, execution, cost and identified potential issues)

Involved in evaluation criteria, Statements of Work (SOW) and Task Statements, Request for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Quotes (RFQ), Proposal Evaluations

Manage RFQs, RFPs, SLA, SOW and conduct vendor benchmark, compile results of overall performance, SLA tracking to ensure vendors’ compliance/performance meets expectations as defined in SLA's and contract agreements.

Analyzed all transaction contract activities, Supply chain, Spend Analysis Data storage AWS Billing

Prepared Project Management development implementations with Jira & Microsoft Project Management Tools

Prepared & analyzed licensing agreements, SLA – SOW – RFP – CBA - RFI – DDQ’s and amended expiring contract agreements, and confirmed headcount, created purchase orders & assigned invoice numbers. Sourced for heavy duty equipment

Prepared & managed daily A/P, A/R activities: wire transfers, check disbursements, booked accruals, balance sheet analysis, journal entries, statement reconciliation, monthly closing, year-end close & audits, fixed assets and profit & loss reports

Used the Ariba System to source for all equipment & heavy-duty machines for all projects, present bids to vendors

A.I.G. New York, NY April 2010 – April 2013

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst / P.M.O. Coordinator

I.T. Operations & Global Sourcing Procurement Unit (Insurance Firm)

Reported to the Director of Aribia System & Operations

Bi weekly meeting with I.T. Project Managers to give financial status of all projects

Managed all aspect of the procurement process for mobile devices, network, telecommunications, software, hardware and licensing agreements for AIG’s 80,000 employees / business end users worldwide operating in 103-countries

Involved in evaluation criteria, Statements of Work (SOW) and Task Statements, Request for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Quotes (RFQ), Proposal Evaluations

Manage RFQs, RFPs, SLA, SOW and conduct vendor benchmark, compile results of overall performance, SLA tracking to ensure vendors’ compliance/performance meets expectations as defined in SLA's and contract agreements.

Analyzed Purchase Order Requisitions & confirmed approvals & departmental budgets

Prepared Data Mining / Manipulated Raw Data & Mapped to G/L within SQL Excel Software Program

Richard Friedman & Associates, C.P.A. - P.C. New York, NY May 2004 – March 2010

Accounting Manager (Initial Position: Staff Accountant - 2004)

Accounting, Financial Management, Compliance & Audit Prep. Services (Public Accounting Firm)

Worked with ESPN, JPMorgan Chase, Blue Cross Blue Shield & NYC Board of Education

Managed client’s financials, forensic accounting, business valuations, corporate payrolls & audit prep services

Assisted in operations for JPMorgan Chase Unit Investment Trust Division & Controllers Group-SDR Reporting / OTC Derivatives

Managed the financials for the following industries: financial service, utility, telecommunications, not-for-profit, technology, education, retail, media, legal, publishing, energy and a long list of high-end net worth clients.

Captured all interstates rates from Bloomberg credit rating services for our investments clients

GAAP/STAT accounting knowledge of Investments and/ Derivatives products - CFD’s (FAS 133, FAS 157 )

GAAP/STAT accounting knowledge of Investments and/ Equities products - CFD’s (SSAP 86)

Reconciled trades for domestic & international investment clients from all sources

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree –Accounting, Long Island University, Brooklyn NY Campus

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