Marcus Hooks Resume 2016
- 1. Marcus Hooks P. O. BOX 77612 Atlanta, GA 30357 Phone: (404) 861-6178 hooksmdh@outlook.com __________________________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: BSA, BA, IT Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Revenue Accounting, Project Accounting, Cost Accounting, Inventory Accounting, Auditing, Accounts Receivable Analyst, Billing Industry Experience: IT, Banking, Aviation, Telecom, Healthcare,Manufacturing, Big 4 Knowledgeable of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the U. S. Systems utilized: SAP, Hyperion, Essbase,Hyperion Brio, Oracle 10.7 / 11i/ Oracle 11.0.3- Catalyst Lawson, PeopleSoft 9.2, Great Plains, JDEdwards,Intaact,Concur, Salesforce.com Advanced PC skills particularly Excel (pivot tables, charts/ graphs, VLOOKUP,logic statements),Word, Access (queries,tables), Financial/ Data Modeling and Reporting Outstanding Communication, Interpersonal and Professional Skills Possess Organizational, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills Ability to be flexible and work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment Technical experience: SQL, Visual Basics. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marcus-hooks/5/862/518 EXPERIENCE: Jan’15 – May’16 ATC Atlanta, GA Business Analyst Accomplishments: Lead initiatives to successfulcompletion, including the discovery, analysis and documentation of business case,business requirements, impacts, process flows, performance metrics and training impacts. Partner with internal business partners and external clients to evaluate existing and new business processes,services and systems to meet the company and client business objectives with an emphasis on process changes,improvements and reducing operating costs. Collaborated with internal business partners from order entry to completion, to ensure successfulproject delivery. Facilitate meetings with business owners to ensure the compliance of client business rules. Develop and propose alternative operational approaches, and/or problem resolutions. Site Manager for various center audits to ensure compliance. Develop and implement corrective actions plans to meet Quality standards. Performed extensive investigation and recovery of loss products and revenue. Communicate possible project risks. Directed the development and implementation of process and systems to improve efficiency in organizations activities. Feb’14 – Oct’14 Bank of America Charlotte, NC IT BusinessAnalyst (Consultant) Accomplishments: Successfully learned business in an efficient timely matter to interpret the data and offer recommendations, including proposal of solutions. Update team with my talent and skills with Hyperion Essbase,SAP,Oracle, including creative and advance levels with Excel. A short-term contract alleviating a consultant 18-month contract. A team of 6 consultants were established to streamline our process and continue to meet successfully the deliverable and completion of project’s go-live date July 2014. Documentation. Data mapping. Data Mining and Analysis. Research Analysis within various systems. Redirect misallocated funding. General ledger entry uploads. Communicate to management of extensive research analysis. Actuals to Scorecards,including virtual meeting. SQL queries and auditing research. Manipulate massive amounts of data to create reports.
- 2. Jun’13 – Dec’13 Wells Fargo Bank Charlotte, NC Business Systems Analyst (Consultant) Accomplishments: Successfully build reports for VPs and management continue to utilize. Improve process efficiency. Streamline processes,which included diagram workflow documentation. Reducing and eliminating time consuming projects by 10 hours. Financial and Data mining. Report analysis for severalsites, including, Business Partners such as Verint and NICE. Research analysis within SEAMS. Strategically work with MACDs. Provide analytical support, develops complex reporting, prepares and analyzes business performance reports, and assists with strategic projects. Forecasting, Budgeting, Actuals. Technical experience with SAP, Hyperion, Visio, PeopleSoft. Variances analysis, budget forecasting reporting presentation to management, program/ project managers and Engineers. Feb’13 – Apr’13 Hewlett Packard Alpharetta, GA Financial Analyst (Consultant) Accomplishments: Virtualoffice short-term contract to clean up several projects. Reduce Actuals vs. FC of 22M. Technical skills: Oracle, Hyperion, Essbase and Expert Excel. Trend and variance analysis, data modeling, bench marking with extremely large amount of data. Research analysis. Variances analysis, budgeting and forecasting reporting. Aug’12 – Dec’12 Delta Airlines Atlanta, GA Business Analyst (Consultant) Accomplishments:Successfully build reports for VPs and management continue to utilize. Assist the development, design and building Access databases/ queries. Improve process efficiency. Reduce Workflow reporting from 8 hrs. to 2 hrs. Eliminate manual and time consuming processes. Review test plan, cases and data for various levels of functional tests of table load programs. Documentation of severalprocesses. Tacticalprocesses. Provide technical expertise and solutions. Communicate user errors from Aeroxchange mailbox. Problem analysis and submit recommendations for solutions. Provided design and technical architecture. Trend and variance analysis, data modeling, benchmarking with extremely large amount of data consisting of airplane parts and pricing, while maintaining data integrity. Analysis and research analysis utilizing SAP,Materials Management and Finance Modules. Analysis Fixed/Non Fixed pricing. Analyzing and manipulating high volume of data. Utilizing Hyperion and SQL. Advance Access Skills. PeopleSoft. Provide analytical support, develops complex reporting, prepares and analyzes business performance reports, and assists with strategic projects. Severalexecutive presentations. Feb’11 – May’12 ATT (Mobility Capital Management) Atlanta, GA Financial Analyst (Consultant) Accomplishments: Continued success of assisting VPs,Project Managers and Engineers ensuring projects capitalize. RFL: Workforce reduction due to opposition from the federal government of deal with T-Mobile. Resulting in a $4 billion pretax accounting charges. Responsible for developing and comparing forecasts to operating budgets on a monthly basis to identify and analyze trends affecting budget needs and to make recommendations for actions to be taken to ensure conformance to budgetary limits. Lead meetings to gather data regarding budget status,produce daily, weekly and monthly reports on budget status for clients and supervisory chain of command. Utilize SQL, COGNOS. Advance Financial Analysis skill, Expert Excel skills. Analysis & reporting, development of related tools used in performing analyses and improving existing processes as they relate to reporting & data mining. Expertise in report development, data warehousing, data mining and data analysis. Proactively evaluate, analyze and design solutions for improving existing reporting and related processes. Variance analysis, resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
- 3. Develop and distribute monthly reporting to include trend analysis and detailed variance assessments for operational & key metric results. Create ad hoc queries and retrieve data from various data repositories in order to perform various operational analysis. Deliver data in the form required for business use (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.). Financial reviews with senior managers. Network Support Specialist Technician support and resolution, problem tickets. Resolve issues and problems through resolution/completion. Creation and maintenance of customer service request documentation through resolution. Provision of customer updates and status reports with regards to open customer issues as appropriate; Ensure problem resolution via the maintenance of appropriate action plan and/or project plan. Apr’08 – Nov’10 Internap, Inc. (Technology) Atlanta, GA Revenue Accountant Accomplishments: Successfully met deadlines and goals as primary source of internal created database systems as Database Administrator. Process improvement and efficiency, including working with IT. Improve efficiency of role. Problem analysis and submit recommendations for solutions RFL: Internap reduced workforce to generate $5M in annualized operating expense savings. Sales reserve calculation of sales credits, EBIT, write-offs, AR aging, SLA’s, Deferreds, payments and manual adjustments. Utilize Oracle Financials, IAT, Salesforce.com,Database,Dispute Tracking systems. Analytical thinking, problem solving, developing and gathering statistical data for analysis, and financial reporting. Complex calculations. Responsible for the maintenance and administration of DTT. Maintain data validity. Extract data from DTT (primary independent user of database). Data Analysis. Generate reports to upper management, sales management and multiple business units, also, ad hoc reporting. Provide user training; maintain training material, documentation, policies and procedures. Being detailed, well organized, and communication skills were successfultools. Analyze and facilitate processes for process improvement and efficiency. Assist in implementation of new Financial Systems or new modules for existing systems. Work directly with IT for process improvement, interface,and efficiency modifications. Review SO orders. Contract review. Assist auditors with quarterly and year-end audit. Month-end close processes,Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Journal entries. Cash for Reserve Recoveries,GL Write Offs by BU,Collectability, Sales Reserve Aging. Nov’06 – Aug’08 Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Technology) Alpharetta, GA Financial Analyst Accomplishments: Continued success of assisting VPs, Project Managers and Engineers ensuring projects capitalize. Trained new contractors. RFL: Siemens downsize 4200 employees in the IT division. Preparing to spin off SIS as a Siemens subsidiary. Diligently work an essential integrated part of the SIS PRO finance team. Project controlling and Commercial support for Applications Management Center (AMC) for North America (NA). Utilize Lawson,Hyperion 11, SQL, Excel and Access. Manage Global Procurement Services (GPS) LOB. Develop monthly revenue,costs, forecasts as well as monthly/ annual budgets. Establish consultant contractual agreements,initiate monthly billings (for recurring charges, change requests and projects) as well as controlling incoming charges from AMC business partners. Process SIS costs and sales/ cross charges to Siemens Operating Companies.
- 4. Review, identify, analyze and evaluate complex financial solutions. Analysis and research utilizing Hyperion with what-if scenarios, build dimensions, metrics and scenarios. Build and produce Forecasts. Utilizing tables and reports with Excel. Reviewing of Financial and transactional data. Support SAP LOB. Obtained costs,revenue recognition, T/E for invoicing, account reconciliation, journal entries and monthly accruals. Including, A/R functions. Invoicing Purchase Orders and time reporting. Budget reporting, also financial metrics. Perform month end closing functions, which also included preparation of recurring and non- recurring journal entries and booking. Develop P&L forecast on a monthly basis, as well as long term financial planning. Budgeting, Forecasting, reporting and monthly analysis Variances analysis, budget forecasting reporting presentation to management, project managers and operational units Maintain hard copy files of receipts and invoices. Prepare invoices for customer clients. Process improvement to increase efficiency. Germany reporting: KPI reporting. Monthly reporting of Utilization/ Billability, also Headcount Analyst reporting. Siemens Energy & Automation (Manufacturing) Alpharetta, GA Financial Analyst (Consultant) Started SEA as contractor proceeded to SIS on a permanent basis. RFL: Controller referralto Director of Finance acknowledging my outstanding work efforts and accomplishments. Accomplishments: Save SEA over $150K indirect material by performing audits, utilizing variances,research and analysis skills. Received acknowledgements and high recommendations from managers and commodity managers. Also, train new interns. Revenue recognition, cost controlling and inventory management. Utilize SAP. Assisted and reported directly to Controller. Cost Analysis and Job cost reports, Forecasting, Forecast versus Actuals, Review Cost budgets, Costing of Material items, Multiple Variances,Actuals versus Budget, Audits, Inventory Reconciliation and Inventory Adjustments, Indirect Material Analysis, Audit Indirect Material, Movement type Analysis, Weekly Utilization reports, Exception reports and analysis. Recovery vs. Headcount recovery,Recovery Cross Reference,Business Unit recovery, Material consumption and material analysis reports, Absorption analysis, and Productivity reports / Production cost control. Reconciliations and reconcile various databases. Complex calculations, Inventory Reserve calculations. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly reports. Month-end Closing processes,Preparation of Journal entries and Payroll Accruals. Nov’01 – Nov’06 Habif, Arogeti & Wynne Atlanta, GA Finance/ Accounting Consultant HA&W (Big 4, one of the largest independent certified public accounting and business advisory firm in Georgia). Worked with the following clients: BellSouth (Telecom), Verizon Wireless (Telecom), Motorola (Telecom), CardioMEMS, Inc. (Medical Technology), NBIS (Insurance Industry), EMC² (Technology Industry). Accomplishments: Successfully obtained over 10 years diverse background in Accounting/ Finance. Advancing skillset levels with Excel and multiple Accounting Systems. Advance Excel: V-Lookup commands, also reference logic statements with V-Lookup. Utilize IF/ Then statements,queries, checkboxes,graphs, command boxes and accounting functions. Utilize Radio Buttons. Brought in as a consultant to analyze and produce complex financial reports. Successfully met deadlines and results. Recognized as exceeding goals. Accounting functions with month-end processes. Report directly to Controllers and Auditors. Year-end analysis and closing.
- 5. Analyze revenue impacting projects that sales make deals on hardware,software,or services. Utilize Oracle 11i and Oracle 11.0.3. Revenue recognition. Multiple reports to management, ad hoc reporting. Cost budget analysis. Calculate cost budgets for financial statements. Baseline funding. Point of contact for several resources (Project teams,Sales, Finance, Information Technology, Engineering) in respective territories. EDUCATION: Business Administration concentration Finance Database Management DeVry University