Financial Analysis Analyst
Resume:
Aida Connors
Duluth, GA *****
**********@*****.***
Creative, multi-tasking Senior Hyperion skills utilizing Hyperion products, Financial/Functional Analyst Expert in Hyperion products, Hyperion Financial Management, FDM, Essbase and HFR Financial Reporting Studio. Adept at leveraging solid technical Accounting and Reporting. Work Experience
Project Cost Analyst
Faithful & Gould - Atlanta, GA
May 2023 to Present
Project Management and cost analysis, tracking the progress of the project and maintaining forecasts. Develop the monthly Dashboard using power BI and smart sheet. Technical Lead Consultant
Wipro Ltd - Atlanta, GA
October 2018 to Present
Lead Hyperion HFM implementation
Hyperion Financial Analyst
HE Parts - Atlanta, GA
July 2016 to October 2017
• Solved problems related to HFM/ Essbase and planning implementations.
• Lead the production month end and users' support.
• Restructured Hyperion FDM mapping and metadata.
Senior Hyperion Financial Management Analyst - BI/HFM Implementation Team FAST project
TFS - Toyota Financial Services Corporation - Torrance, CA August 2014 to February 2016
Torrance, CA Aug 2014 - Feb 2016
Senior Hyperion Financial Management Analyst - BI/HFM Implementation Team FAST project Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Vehicle manufacturing company, which has overall responsibility for the global financial services subsidiaries.
TFS offers its customers financial services that include auto sales financing, credit cards, retail sales of corporate bonds and investment trusts, and insurance.
• Contributed to a successful redesign of HFM Implementation as a team member of FAST project.
• Built over 50 reports from database for Financial, Cash Flow and Roll forward reports, Tie Stat, Management and Legal reporting using Hyperion Studio and Smartview.
• As HFM Analyst, handled company's worldwide Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and Hyperion Financial Reporting, and developed a process of data validation and analysis.
• Assisted Corporate Consolidations team and various regional and national users with the monthly close process.
Senior Financial Analyst
SunTrust Bank - Atlanta, GA
July 2014 to July 2014
1. Operating 1,400 bank branches across 11
southeastern states and Washington, D.C. Primary businesses include deposits, lending, credit cards, and trust and investment services.
• Prepared data validations modules, build management reports, using HCP, Essbase and Smartview. Robert Half Consultant
Milacron - Cincinnati, OH
April 2014 to July 2014
Hyperion Consultant Project: HFM/FDM Hyperion Implementation Milacron is an American limited liability company that manufactures and distributes plastic processing equipment for fields such as for example injection, extrusion molding, and metal injection molding.
• Created FDM mapping and transferred all data from Enterprise to HFM.
• Developed a reconciliation process for data validations using the Smart View function. Robert Half Consultant
AGCO Corporation - Duluth, GA
August 2013 to November 2013
Senior Financial Analyst / Hyperion Essbase Administrator
• Redesigned and optimized Hyperion Essbase applications for Purchasing/Finance.
• Reduced process time five hours after modifying the outline, the scripts generating all budget reporting, end-user support, development, and ongoing maintenance, data loads and building new ports. Hyperion Essbase and Planning Administrator
Siemens Industries, Sii. ACC - Alpharetta, GA
March 2012 to June 2013
• Administrated Hyperion Planning / Essbase applications.
• Responsible for all reporting, end-user support, and development.
• Serve as liaison between Corporate/Regional Finance and IT, assisting in the development, design, and implementation of the Hyperion Financial Reporting Applications.
• Ongoing maintenance and application assistance to end-users.
• Efficiently support customers at month end process, helping customer seize new opportunities of process improvement and deploying new application in a timely fashion.
• Work with end-users and IT to resolve systems issues and correct processing errors. Senior Accounting Specialist
Graphic Packaging International - Marietta, GA
November 2008 to November 2011
HFM/FDM & SAP System Specialist)
Graphic Packaging International is a global leader in the packaging industry, serving hundreds of the world's most recognized brands. They are one of the world's largest manufacturer of folding cartons, unbleached paperboard, coated recycled board, microwave packaging and machinery. Project involved an HFM implementation, taking solo FDM ownership by implementing mapping structure and executing successful implementation. Implemented mapping structure serves the intercompany elimination process, prompt delivery and reduced of month end closing.
• Extract the Budget data from Tm1 system, reconcile GPI entities.
• Reduced month end close by 10% through developing new reconciliation process.
• Build a complex template used for data analysis during the merger or acquisitions for the executives.
• Took solo FDM ownership during HFM implementation, executing successful HFM implementation. Revamped and launched training programs and tools resulting in more efficient process.
• In charge of complex data analysis for merger or acquisitions, interact with internal and external auditors producing explanations and supporting documents of month-end and year-end close.
• Implemented Inventory Mach process, saving the team more than 400 hours of labor in reserve reduction.
Financial Consultant
NexCen Franchise Management - Norcross, GA
November 2007 to September 2008
NexGen is brand acquisition and management firm specializing in franchising.
• Created products analysis reports for the marketing team and establish the budget and planning documentation.
Senior Financial System Analyst
Stiefel Laboratories - Duluth, GA
October 2006 to October 2007
Stiefel Laboratories is a global dermatological pharmaceutical healthcare company, with its global headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC. It makes products such as Duac and Ultimatum.
• During Essbase implementation, responsible for administration of new features within the Hyperion system, including Essbase outlines, financial reports, system security, and user support.
• Managed Budget data load and obtained data of various financial systems using extensive analyses.
• Extracted ERP's data onto Hyperion implementation. Managed Budget data load and obtained data of various financial systems using extensive analyses
• Generated the daily flash report, detailed sales analysis focused on revenue generating potential.
• Led the creation of reports and analysis of daily sales database,
• Established a new process of high level of integrity that ensured accurate financial reporting led the consolidation process, reconciliation all enteritis, Accounts in Hyperion Financial Systems. Senior Financial Analyst
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield - Pittsburgh, PA
September 2005 to October 2006
• Led Hyperion Planning system implementation
• Created financial statistics detailed reports such as Dash report and sales incentive reports. Introduced revenue analysis, membership and expenses, maintained the value of the company market share.
• Identified new opportunities that streamlined processes in financial reporting, enhanced efficiency.
• Automated claim processing system that reduced turnaround time from two weeks to two days.
• Ensured fair evaluation of new product through creating new financial modules incorporating Part D. • Created narrative reports of the business performance and variances analysis available for Board of Directors.
Senior Cost Accountant
ZOLL Pharmaceuticals - Pittsburgh, PA
February 2004 to December 2005
ZOLL is a medical manufacturing company that develops and markets medical devices and software solutions that help advance emergency care and save lives, while increasing clinical and operational efficiencies. ZOLL develops products for defibrillation and monitoring, circulation and CPR feedback, data management, therapeutic temperature management, and ventilation.
• Established standard cost procedure that ensured the most accurate COGS calculation.
• Made recommendations regarding cost savings and created efficient month end process that resulted in monthly financial reporting in a timely manner.
• Integrated the Budget process data gathering, and revised forecasts analysis.
• Accurately priced and provided stable procedure for launching of product LifeVest ®.
• Established monthly procedure, handling accumulated six-month end close, saving 50% of timeline.
• Developed high-level operational cash flow and analysis, which resulted in a smooth merger.
• Developed a training program that contributed to a 35% reduction in errors. Senior Functional Analyst, Promoted to Team Leader Functional Analyst Lockheed Martin Corp - Research Triangle Park, NC
1997 to 2003
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company. • Project managed various projects and system implementation such as budget planning and forecast process using SQL and Visual FoxPro.
• Developed billing reports during the billing system implementation.
• Adopted process improvement project by reducing month end close by 50%.
• Provided support to Finance team in financial related questions, helping develop peer performance.
Previous Employment Details Available Upon Request of 10 years' experience of Cost Accounting and Software Implementation serve the Manufacturing sector. Education
Bachelor in Accounting and Finance
Cairo University - Cairo, EG
December 2008
Skills
• HYPERION (8 years)
• ESSBASE (3 years)
• SAP (5 years)
• FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (1 year)
• Tech Support
• GAAP
• SAP Finance & Controlling
• Financial Analysis (9 years)
• Oracle (2 years)
• Financial Report Writing (7 years)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Business Analysis
• SQL (5 years)
• General Ledger Accounting (10+ years)
• Data management
• Power BI
• Microsoft Office (10+ years)
• Analysis skills (10+ years)
• TFS
• Requirements Gathering
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Data Warehouse
• Business Requirements
• Agile
• Business Requirements
• Agile
• Supervising experience (10+ years)
• Microsoft Access
• Cognos (3 years)
• Corporate finance (10+ years)
• Microsoft Excel (10+ years)
• Leadership (5 years)
• Accounting (10+ years)
• Tableau
• Business intelligence
• Root cause analysis
• Project management
• Forecasting
• Balance sheet reconciliation
• Pivot tables
• Financial accounting
• Smartsheet
• SAP BusinessObjects
• Cost Accounting Standards
• Account reconciliation
• Relational databases
• NetSuite
• Documentation review
• Continuous improvement
• Communication skills
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Financial planning
• PeopleSoft
• Financial concepts
• Budgeting
• P&L Management
• Financial statement preparation
• Hyperion applications
• Hyperion
• Oracle
Certifications and Licenses
Sql
October 1999 to Present
Awl at NC state university
Assessments
Analyzing data — Completed
January 2022
Interpreting and producing graphs, identifying trends, and drawing justifiable conclusions from data Full results: Completed
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Additional Information
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM/FDM) •Essbase •Hyperion Planning •Hyperion SmartView
• Hyperion Shared Services (Security) •Hyperion Studio Reporting (HFR) • SAP FI/CO and Reporting
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