Manager Management

Tarun Goel

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SUMMARY

Proven leader with strong experience in accounting and corporate and operational finance. Provided financial leadership for challenging issues to improve business efficiency, enhance productivity and profitability. Provide leadership on projects ranging from preparing complex financial models, to technology implementation to SOX implementation.

EXPERIENCE

Amtrak Washington DC Metro

Senior Director, Budget & Financial Planning 2009 – Present

• Responsible for directing all financial management activities of the department including financial planning, forecasting and reporting. Monitor spending versus annual budget, prepare complex financial models, isolate spending trends, and continually enhance reporting to incorporate new metrics.

• Team lead for implementation of data transfers from Amtrak to third party provider for accessing annual funds. Project involved following SDLC practices to ensure completion within the required timeframe and budget. Project included migration of data from GAAP accounting to USGL accounting, identifying the conversion mechanism and developing crossover relationship between various dimensions to enable reporting.

• Initiate implementation of obligation accounting in the group to ensure consistency with other agencies. Update financial processes to record obligations, prepare guidelines on the new process, change accounting methodology and incorporate reporting to include obligations.

• Develop and implement financial management policies, accounting practices, and internal controls. Engage with internal audit and Accounting groups to ensure compliance with applicable statutes. Resolve any audit issues and update financial policies if needed.

• Team lead for identifying performance and process improvements in the department. Prepared recommendations for process changes which are currently under implementation.

• Provide guidance, manage performance, and evaluate annual plans of staff resources. Seek opportunities for staff to increase expertise, efficiency and effectiveness in the job.

• Departmental lead for supporting the implementation of new Enterprise Resource System, SAP. Identify requirements for the group, work with the SAP team in implementing the requirements, solicit input on proposed changes, resolve transitional issues, and identify training needs for the department.

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Director, Financial Planning 2006 – 2009

• Directed financial planning, forecasting and rolling long range plans for various departments. Responsible for all elements of budgets from communicating timelines to management review to ensuring budgets are reconciled and loaded in the database. Maintained close rapport with budget owners, and worked with the owners in analyzing and reviewing actual expenditures and recommending forecast adjustments.

• Provided monthly, quarterly, year-to-date and ad-hoc financial reports, with appropriate variance analyses, for senior management to support business decisions and address issues. Reviewed reports and analyses for data integrity and isolate non-recurring adjustments.

• Management of Capital Projects - Worked with various project owners in tracking the financial outlay on approved capital project budgets. Developed and provided monthly and quarterly financial reports to senior management including funding sources and legal obligations. Tracked completion of milestones on capital projects and related impact on completion of the project.

• Monitored progress against strategic initiatives for cost reduction and revenue growth. Communicated risks and opportunities to senior management.

• Interviewed, hired, oriented, trained, assigned work and evaluated performance of team of analysts. Provided guidance, managed performance, and allocated staff resources to ensure adequate support for the departments.

America Online Dulles

Manager, Budgets & Finance (PFA) 2005- 2006

• Managed financial planning, forecasting and reporting for new business units. Led forecasting sessions with senior management team to review current state of business.

• Collaborated with marketing on developing optimal pricing analysis for new products. Evaluated product offering versus competitors to ensure successful product launch.

• Designed finance experiments for successful product launches. Analyzed new products for cash flow impact and NPV. Worked on multiple iterations with senior management for resolution of strategic issues.

• Supported implementation of new ERP system, SAP and resolved transition issues in cross-functional teams.

Awards

Rewarded for exemplary performance in annual planning.

Continued

Tarun Goel

L-3 Communications Washington DC Metro

Manager of Finance 2004 – 2005

• Directed annual planning, forecasting and reporting for organization with annual revenues of $500M. Worked with senior management in development of annual plans and measured performance versus key financial metrics.

• Involved in implementation of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) in the organization and provided strategic direction for internal audit controls. Implemented SOX controls in the finance organization.

• Integrated new acquisitions. Provided training, directed financial resources and assigned tools for smooth integration.

Gateway Sioux City

Senior Financial Analyst 1998 – 2004

• Led the creation of annual operating plan for the operations organization. Worked closely with budget owners on developing the plan, created budget preparation guidelines, prepared financial databases to include new benchmarks, and evaluated submissions for reasonableness and accuracy. Review existing operating budget and year to date spending to update monthly forecasts.

• Involved in implementation of SOX controls in various functions of the organization. Coordinated with internal audit and SOX control teams to review work practices for compliance with SOX, identified lacunae and developed work rule changes.

• Prepared complex financial models using financial systems to enable reporting in varied formats to support business decision making. Initiated inclusion of new accounting variables to ensure complete reporting on financial drivers in the financial database.

• Directed development of cost savings initiatives to reduce operational costs, resulted in total cost savings of $200MM. Measured performance versus strategic goals, with action plans for process improvements.

• Served as the corporate manager for plant operations involving annual expenditure of $50M. Worked with the operations group to ensure performance management targets were met.

• Provided leadership for outsourcing business initiative. Resulted in plant rationalization and outsourcing of plant operations.

• Created complete business plan for analyzing financial bids for current and new products coordinating efforts with logistics, plant operations and engineering groups. Resulted in pricing concessions from external vendors on launch of new products.

• Prepared capital budget in conjunction with the business owners and tracked capital spending versus approved financial outlay. Prepared post mortems on completed projects to identify projected versus actual savings.

Awards

Rewarded with Spotlight Award for diligent performance in preparation of annual budgets.

Recognized for development of financial reporting tools for management.

Time Warner Communications, Inc. Rochester, NY/Champaign, IL

Financial Analyst 1995 – 1998

• Created and managed financial modeling for launch of high speed Internet service. Performed market segment analysis and assisted in development of business plan.

• Conducted project viability analysis to develop project prioritization. Coordinated with project teams to ensure financial tracking during implementation.

• Developed annual operating plans, long term plans and forecasts for cable and telecommunication divisions.

• Prepared annual rate filings for FCC as part of cable regulation of basic and tiered services

Awards

Awarded Time Warner Cable’s Service Recognition Award for leadership in annual planning cycle.

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business Columbus, OHIO

Master of Business Administration, May 1995 - Major: Finance, Accounting

Panjab University Chandigarh, INDIA

Master of Arts, May 1993 - Major: Economics

COMPUTER SKILLS

SAP, MS Excel, Hyperion Essbase/Enterprise, Outlooksoft, Oracle Financials, JD Edwards, Visual Basic, COGNOS, Deltek Costpoint, MS Access, MS Word, MS PowerPoint

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