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Chukwudumebi Chiedu

Dallas, Texas, United States ******.******@*****.*** 908-***-****

SUMMARY

Finance professional skilled in translating complex information and data into concise comprehensive projects, presentations, and analyses. Experienced in all aspects of financial analysis, budget planning, project development and forecasting.

EXPERIENCE

Manager, Financial Analysis and Strategy

Zendesk December 2022 – Present, Remote

•Partnered with cross-functional teams to build a dynamic reporting tool for the Smart Global Footprint HC dashboard by developing a reporting template to ensure consistency and ease of analysis.

•Owned monthly close process for consolidation of Operational expense by analyzing financial results, distilling, and synthesizing key trends, and communicating risks & opportunities to influence business outcomes.

•Consolidated and prepared management decks for presentation to E-staff members.

•Reviewed, analyzed, and influenced the key personnel and headcount assumptions used in the company's budgets, forecasts, and other predictors of future results, resulting in more accurate and reliable predictions.

•Collaborated with Finance & Strategy functional teams to drive continuous improvement of monthly forecasts to ensure accuracy, reasonableness, feasibility, and credibility.

Finance Manager

Yellow Nose Investment August 2020 – November 2022, Remote

•Led restructuring project for Yellow Nose subsidiaries by streamlining different job functions which resulted in a 20% reduction in salary expense.

•Developed profit and loss (P&L) variance analysis to determine next steps in assisting with management initiatives.

•Drove financial planning processes related to headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.

•Improved the monthly intercompany accrual process by tracking team. expenditures to minimize errors in recharging costs to the correct cost centers.

•Created financial models using excel to determine the financial performance/feasibility of a project to expand the business.

Senior Financial Analyst

MUFG December 2019 - May 2020, New York, NY

•Created a weekly headcount report for all Compliance and Global Financial Crimes Division, reducing FTE variance to the budget by 10%.

•Achieved 90% cleanup and efficiency in the reporting of open Compliance positions in Workday, by ensuring management level and number of roles aligned to budget.

Senior Financial Analyst

Caspen Media LLC October 2018 - December 2019, New York, NY

•Produced monthly analysis of budget versus actuals for revenues and expenses, with key variances and trends, using historical data to explain drivers of change.

•Tracked project expenditures and activity for accuracy, including the capitalization of the projects and disposal of fully depreciated assets.

•Ran, analyzed, and prepared monthly analytical reports such as operating expense variance analysis, IT cost allocation, compliance expense analysis and headcount analysis reports for the CFO.

Financial Analyst

BNP Paribas February 2016 - August 2018, New York, NY

•Saved 20% in labor-hours by developing and maintaining a forecasting database for headcount-reporting.

•Automated reporting of client revenue which increased efficiency by 85%, reduced report production time by 2 days, and decreased costs by 10%.

•Developed annual budgets for headcount, revenues, and expenses in partnership with Territory Finance team members, management, and Control team.

•Generated management reporting packages detailing key performance drivers for monthly expenses and income compared to budget and forecast.

Financial Analyst

JP Morgan Chase November 2014 - December 2015, New York, NY

•Improved new and existing processes in user acceptance test (UAT) environment by analyzing unexplained differences between actual and expected test results to reduce complexity of user acceptance testing by 10%.

• Improved the accuracy of financial reports by completing monthly key reconciliations, performing necessary high-level checks, and analyzing variance impacts for Stress, LCR and 5G, leading to a reduction in errors by 30%.

•Investigated breaks and identified any risk reporting gaps between General Ledger and in house developed risk reporting tool across multiple securities products.

Financial Planning Business Associate

UBS October 2013 - August 2014, Weehawken, NJ

•Fielded questions from financial advisors and internal wealth planning sales desk staff regarding pricing of financial plans and Financial Advisors payments.

•Delivered monthly metrics reports for the unit and sorted, recorded, summarized, and entered numerical and financial data into databases to maintain financial records.

•Partnered cross-functionally with Project Managers and Directors to develop and test new financial planning tools prior to release.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Rutgers State University • Newark, NJ • 2013

Associate of Science in Accounting

Essex County College • Newark, NJ • 2010

CERTIFICATIONS

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) – In Progress

CFI Institute

SAFe Scrum Master

Scaled Agile • 2022

Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master

SKILLS

Adaptive, Workday, ADP, Lawson, Quick books, Hyperion/Oracle Essbase, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Advanced Excel-VLOOKUP, pivot tables, sum if statements etc., PowerPoint, Outlook, Access), SAP, SharePoint, Cognos, Concur, NetSuite, G Suite

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