Sr. Financial Analyst
tags:
budgeting
• month-end & year-end close
• forecasting
• variance analysis
• cost analysis
How would you describe your time at hollywood entertainment?
Senior Financial Analyst - Finance Dept.
* Managed $5M+ in annual G&A expense budgets and $2.5M+ in capital project budgets while serving as interim-Business Partner / Budget Manager for New Business Development.
* Maintained and updated corporate forecast package on a regular basis.
* Prepared timely/insightful financial analysis of corporate trends.
* Assisted dept. expense manager's in month-end close process and variance explanations.
* Improved the relevance and reliability of the company's capital expenditures budget/forecast by developing a web-based tracking system that integrated purchase order information with GL data to provide real-time project expense figures.
Financial Analyst - IT Dept.
* Responsible for department's month-end close, weekly forecast and close adjustments, as well as tracking department's spending of $8M annual budget in both capital and G&A expenses while acting as business partner.
* Conducted and evaluated the IRR, NPV, ROI and Cost/Benefit analyses of proposed cost saving IT projects, valued at $100K to $5M.
* Negotiated prices/benefits of new equipment to be deployed to stores with vendors.... 
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