GLADYS VALERIE

**** ******* ***** • Lawrenceville, GA 30044

Cell 770-***-**** • Home 770-***-****

fchdy1@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Financial and Accounting Professional with extensive Fortune 100 company experience and a proven track record of accomplishments in accounting and finance, including:

• Budgeting • Financial Planning • Forecasting

• Business Cases • Cost Reduction • Variance Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

InterContinental Hotels Group (contractor) (July 2008 – Present)

Sr. Analyst, Reporting & Analysis

Provide analytical support to the management reporting process for the America-Finance, America & Asia Technology business areas.

• Drive monthly/quarterly reporting and analyses of regional financial results to senior management, business group management and IHG corporate finance.

• Prepare budgets, forecasts, long range plans that support the overall financial objectives of the business group; satisfying all requirements for monthly and quarterly management reporting and analysis.

• Facilitate the planning process through timely communication of all planning requirements, financial targets and coordination of financial reviews for all assigned functional areas.

AT&T (formerly BellSouth Corporation) Atlanta, GA 2001 – 2008

Lead Financial Analyst (Apr. 2007 – May 2008)

Supported Southeast Small Business sales channels ($2B rev., $407M exp. ‘07)

Financial Analyst (Nov. 2003 – Mar. 2007)

Supported Product Dev. /Management and Long Distance segments($2B LD rev., $1M exp. ‘07)

• Developed monthly and annual budgets/forecasts of operating expenses and headcount. Prepared journal entries for accruals and reclasses and ensured proper accounting of expenditures.

• Researched, interpreted and explained variances. Reviewed monthly expense details; pull backup and ensure proper coding of expenses. Support for critical decision making. Develop and trend profit and loss reports.

• Monitored, tracked and reported budget vs. actual results and YTD performance vs. targets on a monthly basis.

• Identified changes to the monthly forecast and potential opportunities and risks.

Financial Analyst (Sept. 2002 – Oct. 2003)

• Worked with each subsidiary monthly to load actual financial information to the Hyperion Essbase system.

• Reconciled subsidiary Hyperion system financial information to the general ledger.

• Mapped all Shared Services accounts to the Hyperion Essbase structure. Created reports for financial reporting.

• Prepared detailed analysis and reporting related to the development of the BellSouth Headquarters budget.

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Senior Accountant (Feb. 2001 - Aug. 2002)

• Completed BellSouth Managed Network Solutions (data network services) department’s GL activities including month-end closing, accruals, treasury, revenue and cogs entries and adjustments to books.

• Reconciled accounts, AP, Hyperion Essbase system feeds, handled all receipts of cash, AR aging analysis.

• Analyzed journal entries, affiliate billing, GL system interfaces; payments, financial statements and results by product and by customer monthly.

ACL AUTOMOTIVE AMERICA INC. , Norcross, GA 1998 - 2001

Distributor of Engine Parts, North American Headquarters Location ($12M annual rev.)

Accountant

AP, G/L analysis, journal preparation/postings, budget preparation, forecasting, cash management, account reconciliations, monthly accounting close and ad-hoc analysis.

ZAKI & ASSOCIATES, CPA , Atlanta, GA 1997- 1998

Accountant-non-profit org:

Prepared and Insured monthly journal entries were accurate; monthly billings to clients, bank reconciliations, budget projections; fixed asset inventory; Monitoring accounts receivable.

EDUCATION

MBA–Business Administration, Kennesaw State University

BS–Accounting Major, McNeese State University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word

• Management Reporting 2000 at AT&T

• Hyperion Essbase 7.1, Oracle11.i/Discoverer, and Peoplesoft at AT&T and IHG; Lotus 123 at ACL Automotive, Solomon and Fundware accounting systems at Zaki & Associates.

• Advanced Excel skills; V Lookups and Pivot tables.

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