Professional Summary
Finance Manager with over 8 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting for multinational companies. Specialises in SAP-based analytics, stakeholder communication, and maintaining SOX-compliant controls. Delivered cost savings of $1.7M while improving forecasting accuracy by 15%.
Skills
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Communication
- Leadership
- Excel
- Financial Modeling
- SAP
- Stakeholder Management
- Logistics
- Variance Analysis
- Process Improvement
Experience
Finance Manager — Robert Half
- Prepared financial statements and dashboards for $250M regional P&L, ensuring SOX compliance.
- Identified cost savings of $1.7M through zero-based budgeting workshops with department heads.
- Improved forecasting accuracy by 15% via integrated driver-based models in SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Led three successful external audits with no findings, reinforcing internal controls and documentation.
- Coached a team of four analysts on variance analysis and stakeholder reporting best practices.
Financial Analyst — Marvin
- Developed monthly close cadence that reduced cycle time by 5 days and improved leadership visibility.
- Automated reporting for 12 business units using Power BI, cutting manual preparation time by 40%.
- Identified $300K in annualised savings by benchmarking vendor contracts against industry standards.
- Supported $15M capital allocation decisions with ROI analyses and post-implementation monitoring.
- Mentored interns on financial modelling principles and data integrity standards.
Finance Manager — Trial Balance Consulting
- Managed budgets of $100M+ across consumer goods clients, ensuring timely variance reporting.
- Led cost transformation workshops that uncovered $2.5M in savings opportunities for portfolio companies.
- Standardised financial modelling templates adopted by nine client engagements for scenario planning.
- Partnered with audit teams to resolve findings quickly and maintain trusted advisor status.
- Facilitated quarterly strategy reviews that connected financial performance to operational KPIs.
Education
B.S. Finance
Penn State University
Certifications
- CMA
- CFA Level I