Financial Business Analyst

John Dyer

**** ******* ******, *** ****, CA *****

Mobile 408-***-****

CAREER PROFILE

Reputation for level headed decision making with effective, collaborative communication style. An Operations, Budget, Finance and Marketing Analyst with 13 years of experience as a Project Manager who has a record of delivering innovative, accurate, on time, project solutions with budget constraints in mind. Acknowledged for excellence in producing reports for all corporate levels.

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

• Prepared Project Expenditure Requests in support of IT totaling more than $75,000,000. Collaborated with all levels of management and stake holders to get project financing approved 100% of the time.

• Performed competitive analysis and researched competitor’s patents by compiling data from websites and marketing materials that in-turn created list of strategic corporate objectives.

• Working closely with Finance, Sales, Product Management and Engineering, designed advanced excel models to develop project cost estimation, manufacturing analysis and company-wide reporting for all major Operation’s initiatives including annual shareholder reports and company mergers. Maintained extremely confidential information.

• As program manager, designed aggressive ramp-up of field data capture collection and production for in-vehicle car navigation maps. Directly managed 18 Field Data Capture technicians and dozens of other support personnel distributed around key San Francisco and Detroit metropolitan areas. Primary hiring manager for over 50 employees. Through meticulous planning and tireless leadership, met coverage, quality and content specifications. Owing to the on-time successful delivery, a partnership with Bosch was created that was instrumental in continuing the financial viability of the company.

• Developed and managed custom projects that had the largest impact toward creating and expanding new markets. Performed beta testing on software. In the role of Custom Mapping Manager in support of Sales, created over 100 project cost estimates supporting 56 customers and balancing engineering, mapping and management resources, delivering an average of two certified products per week. Prior to my leadership, an average of two certified products per quarter were delivered.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Marketing Analyst - Contractor

Incline Productions, Los Gatos, CA Jan 2008 - May 2008

Responsible for importing, merging, analyzing and reporting on marketing data.

• Imported, merged and edited vast amounts of customer marketing data in Excel 2007.

• Performed market analysis and created PowerPoint 2007 presentations targeting eight countries and thousands of companies.

Budget/Financial Analyst - Contractor

Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco, CA Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

Responsible for departmental PERs, reporting, budgeting and cost analysis activities within IT.

• As a member of the Business Analysis & Forecasting department under Finance, performed cost analysis on the Three Year Strategic Business Plan. Worked in SharePoint and manipulated Pivot Tables to reach financial objectives within reporting deadline.

• Assisted Finance in month and year end accruals, monthly close and journal entries.

• Edit and approve IT equipment spending in Ariba ordering system and manual POs.

• Rolled up monthly, quarterly and annual spending & head count figures for IT departments. Maintained Cost Center sheets and staffing plans.

Senior Project Analyst

Etak and Tele Atlas North America, Inc., Menlo Park, CA 1987– 2005

Responsible for all departmental reporting, budgeting and cost analysis activities in Operations.

• As a member of the senior staff directly reporting to the Senior Vice President of Operations and Technology, maintained budgets for 15 divisions totaling 290 individuals in the USA and 550 overseas contract workers located in India. Successfully managed Operations budget where 40 of 42 months did not exceed forecast spending.

• Implemented SAP PS to track production hours by creating project codes, adjusting project plans and running reports. Prepared detailed financial and manufacturing reporting statistics, project overviews, created and maintained Key Performance Indicators and dashboard charts for corporate accounting in Belgium.

• Created project specific map production processes to compliment database investment improvements made by then owner News Corporation. As member of Engineering collaborated with Operations to increase production efficiencies by 25% and introduce new attributes.

CAREER SKILLS

Advanced Excel Strategic Planning Advanced PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat Staff Supervision/training Hyperion Essbase

MS Project Project Cost Accounting Microsoft Office Applications

MS Forecaster Pivot Tables Project Expenditure Requests

SAP PS Cost Analysis Performance Reporting

MS Sharepoint Return on Investment Net Present Value

MS Access Competitive Analysis Forecasting

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree, San Jose State University, CA

SkillPath – Successful Project Management

American Production and Inventory Control Society, Accounting, Bills of Materials/Engineering Change Order Concepts and Fundamentals, Master Production Scheduling Fundamentals, Materials Requirements Planning Fundamentals, Fundamentals of Inventory Management, Manufacturing Fundamentals Overview

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