Financial Specialist

KeithCooper

FinancialExecutive(mba)

*** ****** ***** ***** **** Worth, TX 76120

469-***-**** **************@*****.***

Experienced and Accurate Finance Professional

with excellent budgeting, accounting, forecasting and team building skills. Provide robust modeling and reporting to facilitate executive level decision making. Strong analytical skills; support business operations through analysis of key performance indicators and trends. Consensus-driven communicator; liaise across various business units and promote organizational success. Expertise with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point), SAP, and various database applications such as Hyperion, Oracle, SharePoint, Sequentra, Baan, and Business Objects.

Areas of Expertise

Strong Accounting / Compliance Background

Strategic Financial Forecasting

Project Cost Control

Process and Policy Improvement

Ability to Multi-Task and Meet Deadlines

Relationship Building with Financial Stakeholders and External Partners

Experience & Results

BELL HELICOPTER Hurst, TX 2017 to 2021

Senior financial Analyst

Responsible lead in cost reporting of $1.1B military program contracts to ensure compliance with the government.

Serviced finance: Worked with program managers to accurately reflect costs for each program.

Provided detailed analysis and explanations for monthly, quarterly, and annual variances.

Regularly assist management and program managers with ad hoc analysis to determine corrective action and improve internal processes.

Liaison between Corporate Finance and Accounting.

NOVARTIS Fort Worth, TX 2015 - 2016

Senior Accountant (Contractor)

Interacted proactively with functional areas in the Sandoz Division to ensure appropriate accounting and financial reporting is accomplished.

Completed account analysis and account reconciliations as related to Inventory & the Income Statement.

Executed the entire Month-End financial closing and reporting process for the Animal Health Division.

Collaborated with key stakeholders, including divisional business colleagues, both internal and external accounting authorities and ensured appropriate communication with these stakeholders when questions regarding accounting/reporting matters arise.

First line of support for users within Finance and provide initial diagnosis of monthly variances.

2013 - 2015

Sr. Financial Analyst (Contractor)

Provided financial support and variance analysis to Operational Business Units.

Partnered with Operations, providing timely and strategic recommendations to enable them to drive profitability and effectively manage the business.

Prepared weekly /monthly / quarterly P&L's with analysis comparing results to prior periods, forecast, and annual plan.

Provided weekly updates of changes in client projections through flash process.

Provided general application systems administration including making updates to beverage formulas.

Key contributor in support of the SAP production environment, responded to users’ needs and concerns.

Subject matter expert in identifying, developing, and implementing, techniques to improve productivity and increase efficiencies.

Key financial support for industry-specific outsourcing solutions in diverse industries such as

healthcare, financial services, technology, communications, and travel and hospitality.

JC Penney Plano, TX 2010-2012

Sr. Financial Analyst

Provided analysis, budgeting, and budgeting variance explanations for $15M annual preventative maintenance program on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

Implemented annual budget template in Excel for 1100+ stores by Store Number, City, State, & Region.

Led coordination of information gathering, presentation preparation of monthly financial package.

Updated monthly close checklist used by other analysts in the group.

Created, developed, and implemented Audit Process.Assisted in audit recovery of $150K from Vendors.

DEFENSE INDUSTRY (EFW and Northrop Grumman) Dallas / Fort Worth, TX 2003 - 2009

Sr. Financial Analyst

Prepared annual revenue budget for multiple lines of business and directed the preparation of monthly reports that evaluated budget to actual performance.

Conducted quarterly P&L reports for review with Program Managers.

Oversaw financial/ statistical modeling with ability to work with large amounts of data in Excel.

Developed and analyzed dashboard / metric performance reports.

Identified and coordinated year end accrual process for function overhead and commodity pool items in accordance to company procedure and internal ground rules.

Reduced business unit’s annual spending by 12%.

Led the development of more than 6 new financial reporting methods to measure productivity and efficiency.

Improved operational efficiency by 10% through implementation of streamlined financial data-management procedures.

DELPHI CORPORATION Warren, OH 2000 - 2003

Sr. Financial Analyst / Cost Estimator

Created special financial ad hoc reports for Business Line Manager as well as Product Line Managers to analyze the ROI on specified projects.

Coordinated and lead Global as well as North American capital meetings, assisting with all financial analysis and support associated with a specific program.

Conducted variable cost analysis to determine the profitability of a new program and to analyze whether the initial cost would adhere to the annual business line budget/target.

Conducted business case and cash flow analysis for $90M global Connection Systems Business Line.

Education & Development

Masters, Business Administration Finance Mercer University Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science Finance Jackson State University Jackson, MS

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