PAULETTE WASHINGTON

504-***-**** adt311@r.postjobfree.com

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To Whom It May Concern:

I am a strategic problem solver with a natural curiosity to drive performance through metrics. I would like the opportunity to have a huge impact on the financial outcomes of your business through my insights and recommendations. My experience is in analyzing internal control processes, and improving business practices. In addition, I have several years of Government Consulting experience in an Agile environment with an active Public Trust Clearance.

That's not all. There's a story amongst that mountain of data and I’m the person to find it! I absolutely love tweaking assumptions on my quest to optimize and improve. I’m collaborative by nature and love teaming up across the business to build a cohesive picture. After all, a great FP&A team, partners’ well with others across the business to drive results.

Currently, I’m at the forefront of the budgeting, forecasting and decision support. So if you’re looking for someone to create visibility and find opportunities for improvement, areas for growth, and potential risks throughout the business, say less. I look forward to meeting you!

Sincerely,

Paulette Washington, MBA, CAPM, SFC

Paulette Washington

New Orleans, LA 70119

adt311@r.postjobfree.com

504-***-****

EXPERIENCE

Senior Financial Analyst-Budget REMOTE 2020 to Present

Department of Veteran Affairs OIT.

Drive the development and execution of project plan by working with project team to define, sequence, and estimate duration of activities and determine schedules to meet project objectives.

Ensure consistency and adherence to standards, processes, and policies for all projects.

Manage all aspects of the project execution including: chartering, scope definition, requirements gathering, project planning, change control, risk management and reporting.

Facilitate and manage resource planning, cost estimation, budget development, and cost control.

Manages the identification, resolution and escalation of project risks and issues.

Tracks project budget and resource utilization against plan.

Plan and execute project communications ensuring timely and accurate distribution of information, documentation, and issue resolution to all appropriate team members.

Responsible for multiple Project Managers dedicated to a common project or fewer large/highly complex Projects/Deliverables

Perform financial analysis, financial reconciliation between plan and actuals, reporting and presenting recommendations to the portfolio manager

Produce high-quality deliverables and reports on time and in a fast-paced environment

Provide customer-focused support such as; knowledge of the portfolio and responses in a timely manner

Coordinate, facilitate, and consolidate one or more budget data calls, such as; out-year data calls and Program Objective Memorandum (POM)

Manage BSO level Unfunded Requirement Requests (UFR) calls

Format executive-level Status of Funds

Experience with business feeders

Advanced level skill and experience MS Office Suite applications such as; Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

Excellent verbal and written communications skills; ability to communicate with a wide range of personalities

Excellent organizational skills, and ability to multitask

Has attention to detail, and ensures to verify for accuracy

Direct client support experience

Federal consulting experience

Able to brief executive summaries

Knowledge of the transaction lifecycle

Weekly Executive view of Status of Funds reports

Weekly Project Execution Reports

Monitoring Execution and preparing recommended courses of action to meet performance metrics

Annual Planning Figure Change Requests

Fund Authorization Document (FAD) Requests

Spend Plan adjustments

Program Analyst REMOTE / New Orleans, LA 2017 to 2020

Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans.

Construction projects working along with the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works Project Delivery Unit.

Assist with GIS AutoCad design and construction administration to ensure proper consultant staffing and resource support, project quality, schedule and budget.

Monitor projects, manage programs and create standard operating procedures to ensure federal and state compliance with CFR, Federal Acquisition Regulations, the NHPA, the Stafford Act, and NEPA, LDEQ, and LDNR

Enhance interagency communication and coordination of city wide recovery projects by fostering relationships with the City of New Orleans, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP)

Determine grant eligibility of projects and make recommendation to SWBNO to maximize funding opportunities

Present, and report progress, make fiscal projections, and manage grants, using our Oracle-Apex Dashboard, with over $1 billion in FEMA PA grants, HMGP, and CDBG for city infrastructure maintained by the SWBNO and environmental improvement projects.

Controller

New Orleans East Hospital New Orleans, LA April 2017 to August 2017

Controller

Capella Healthcare Lawton, OK December 2015 to February 2017

Financial Analyst

Assurant Specialty Property Lawton, OK June 2008 to March 2015

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration in Finance – University of Arizona. San Diego, CA May 2017

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance-Cameron University Lawton, OK Dec 2014

Professional Credentials and Post-Nominals:

PRINCE2® PMP Registered Project Manager Practitioner - 2022

PRINCE2® CSM Certification; Advanced Scrum Master - 2022

PRINCE2® SA Certification; Advanced SaFe Agilist - 2022

DAWIA Level 1 for Acquisitions via DAU – 2022

PMI Registered Education Provider CAPM® Certification – 2022

Scrum Study SFC® Scrum Fundamental Certified - 2022

PMI Registered Education Provider PMI-ACP® Agile Certified Practitioner Certification – 2022

SKILLS

Provide day-to-day tracking of execution year funding. Prepare, submit and validate budget status reports and monthly “actuals” for inclusion in the monthly OMB IT Dashboard submission. Prepare and review, in coordination with the Management Analyst, program, budget and financial reports and budget execution schedules. Mid and End of year reviews Projected Spend Plans, Financial Management System (FMS), Reports and Reconciliation, Obligation Tracking in the Budget Tracking Tool (BTT), Monthly Program Reviews, Operational Management Review (OMR), Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Inspector General (IG) inquiries, Applied knowledge of: Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (GAO-14-704G), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO); U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-123; Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA); and Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act (FFMIA) Performance benchmarking and measurement; Communications, facilitation, and reporting techniques; Quantitative/qualitative analysis, including data analytics and cost-benefit analysis; Risk Management practices, including identification, analysis, tolerances, and responses; Development of documentation, guidance, and standard operating procedures; and Ad-hoc reports and Data Calls. Develop and update budget execution artifacts. Coordinate the integration of fiscal management support activities with overall program management activities and providing mapping and impact analysis to acquisition strategies. Coordinate and collaborate with the Management Team and their designees to identify and communicate budget risks and proposed risk responses. Identify and escalate issues to the PM and Management Analyst that cannot be resolved at the working group level while preparing accurate and ongoing status reports, conceptualize and develop solutions for project issue resolution, coordinate design quality control and assurance. Assist with production of design within-budget delivery of technically correct projects including associated congressional inputs. Support Program Managers with technical assistance. Provide management assistance for multi-disciplinary design teams to complete technical project delivery to program cost and quality requirements. Provide financial guidance to ensure financial situations are transparent. Target high risk project costs and balance sheet accounts for periodic testing and project specific tracking. Perform internal and external project audits, create cost estimation, determine hard and soft costs, percentages per invoice per vendor. Resolve funding issues to ensure congressional requirements have been satisfied. Obtain documentation readily available via SQL by the departments. Advise on funding-related and financial inquires. Manage, oversee and provide project development, ensure project quality, schedule, and budget. Provide administrative and technical support of design.

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