Human Resources Financial Analyst
Resume:
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Sammamish, WA
FLORIANA IONESCU
EXPERIENCE
Dynamic finance professional with experience in financial operations and budget optimization. Skilled in data analysis, I develop innovative tools and automate financial processes to enhance efficiency, reduce cycle times, and achieve significant cost savings. As a strategic leader, I collaborate with cross-functional and multicultural teams to manage all aspects of financial functions, including short- and long-term planning, reporting, risk assessment, and business analysis.
Blue Origin Kent, WA 06/2020 – 10/2024
Corporate Finance Manager (09/2021 – 10/2024)
■ Oversee up to three people and as a team, we provided financial support for up 9 different functions including Strategy, Marketing & Sales, Human Resources, Enterprise Technology, Finance, Accounting & Executive Office, Safety Mission Assurance, Enterprise Health & Safety, and Engineering Program Management: working directly with 6 out of 11 level 1 leaders
■ Develop and manage the company-wide Capex review – $8B in value
■ Manage company Headcount execution against the plan – developed reporting tools, and established processes to leverage existing information to improve forecast accuracy
■ Built processes and automation to help the company transition the existing entrepreneurial infrastructure into a more mature corporate infrastructure
■ Deliver the content for the Monthly Finance Memo and support the Mergers and Acquisitions team, for FP&A activities.
■ Results: By 2024, the corporate team had a forecast accuracy of 98% against the plan; successfully lead 5 Capex reviews; Delivered multiple processes and automated dashboards
■Extracurricular activities:
Acting Bar Raiser – a company-wide initiative designed to assure an end-to-end qualitative recruiting process.
Acting Club for The Future Ambassador – company’s non-profit organization
Active PAC member – company’s lobbying platform
Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A (06/ 2021 - 09/2021)
■ Corporate Finance team supporting Strategy, Marketing, Sales, and Human Resources.
■ Responsibilities included month-end close support, multi-year planning, and on-request support.
■ Results: Restructuring the existing financial reports around the business and moving away from non-intuitive reports built on the accounting structure. Establish and deliver 24h SLA for any business inquiry.
Financial Analyst III (06/2020 -05/2021)
■ Served as Financial Analyst supporting the Engines’ business unit.
■ Responsibilities included: multi-year planning, quarterly estimate at completion reviews for the research and
development portion, and ad-hoc support for two engines (the Engines team develops and produces 4 engines in total).
■ Delivered one multi-year plan, 3 EAC reviews, and a new pricing estimate for one of the engines.
■ Results: Increased forecast accuracy from +50% monthly variance to 10%-15% monthly variance, by incorporating the
percentage of delayed POs observed in a 3-month interval. New price estimates had 90% accuracy against the actual
realized price, the old estimate was three times lower.
Terex Corporation Redmond, WA 02/2018 - 04/2020
Senior Financial Analyst FP&A
■ Empowered the company’s Leadership Team (HR, IT, Engineering, Finance) to plan and monitor spending, owned the
finance communication with the business, providing guidance, and created clarity through monthly reports as well as improvement suggestions. Helped achieve the forecast accuracy requirements for all and contributed to three major cross-department projects.
■ Played a key role in the month-end process and budgeting processes (Annual Production Plan & Mid-year review).
Designed and delivered successful financial models and analysis with broad usage inside the company that helped the
finance team save a total of 20-50h for each official forecast, respected all month-end SLAs, and implemented changes
that helped the finance team save in total 7-12h during each month-end.
■ Replaced the existing Prophix & Hyperion with the OneStream program, designed to increase productivity. As a result, we made available to finance users more relevant details from 75% in Prophix to 100% in OS.
■ Oracle R12 implementation – as part of the team I made sure all the reports are functional and rebuilt 2 critical ones that needed significant updates after the transition - as a result, there were no disruptions in the activity, and increased team efficiency by completing the information presented in one report from 60% to 100%.
Lesev Mix Ltd. Bucharest, Romania 10/2012 - 09/2017
Senior Finance Manager FP&A
■ Created clarity around the company’s financial objectives by maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset, building and
managing the overall budget and maintaining the company’s financial stability by implementing a realistic and balanced
cash flow.
■ Helped to increase market share from 0% to 50%-60% for some products by handling various financing tools like
factoring, long and short-term loans, and direct compensation.
■ In 2012 I started as a single worker and grew the scope to a team of 4 Analysts, who helped businesses visualize results by implementing the ERP NEXT and the QlikView reporting tool.
■ Experienced various levels of data management, data governance, and data mapping, together with establishing
processes and procedures designed to increase productivity using QuickView (2012-2015) and Power BI (2015-2017).
Additional Professional experience
SabMiller Inc. Bucharest, Romania
Senior Financial Analyst
■ Was a part of the Margin Minder program implementation empowering users with instant reports of actual vs budget,
multi-level, and multi-periods in line with IFRS and with group reporting systems. The team was able to deliver a very useful and complex model in less than 8 months, the reporting tool was Oracle-based and was transitioned from Hyperion.
■ Created multi-regional budgets; split the overall budget into 5 regional models through strong communication skills both verbal and written, the model was used as a target starting point for the sales team, made the financial objectives
assigned to each regional director clear and was a very useful tool in performance measurements.
Vodafone Inc. Bucharest, Romania
Financial Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis
■ Started when Vodafone was just entering the Romanian market, and stayed through a period of high growth to 20% of
market share.
■ Delivered more than 10 successful budget exercises, contributing to top financial results delivered by Vodafone.
■ As part of the Business Planning team, I was involved in constructing a new complex revenue forecast model from scratch that was more up-to-date than the existing one creating clarity and having an impact within all business areas.
EDUCATION
Oxford Brookes University Oxford, UK
■ Certification – ACCA - The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Affiliate Diploma
High Economics Studies Academy Bucharest, Romania
■ Bachelor of Science in Economics
SOFTWARE Summary: Oracle R12, CostPoint, ERP Next, Prophix, OneStream, Planful, Apptio, Tableau, QlikView, SAP, Microsoft Office Solutions (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Workday, Alteryx, SQL
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