MARK BROWN
Atlanta
Summary
Highly analytical and results-driven Senior Financial Analyst with experience in financial data analysis, strategic planning, and process improvement. Proven track record in developing and maintaining key reports, streamlining processes, and driving financial performance across multiple industries. Adept at leveraging advanced tools to enhance decision-making and achieve business goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst
MedQuest Associates
04.2023 - Current
- Created custom financial reports in ERP system used for monthly operating reviews by senior leadership, center managers, financial partners lenders and Board members
- Developed and maintained key reports for reviewing performance against the budget and other KPIs
- Implemented weekly and monthly processes that streamlined expense, cash, and headcount reporting
- Prepared statistical and financial reports as needed for internal and external key stakeholders
- Identified process and presentation improvements that resulted in better interpretation, and management of financial data
- Served as primary contact for ad hoc financial and data analyses.
Senior Financial Data Analyst
First Advantage Corporation
08.2021 - 12.2022
- Owned and maintained global customer revenue database that houses all customer related data used in reporting and forecasting
- Managed monthly database loads, customer attribute updates, and database troubleshooting process
- Developed executive level monthly revenue reports that provided insights into company portfolio performance by product, region and size
- Analyzed revenue trends on a weekly basis to forecast monthly revenue projections for all business units as well as for key customer accounts
- Assisted with month end financial close; reviewed and tracked credit calculations, as well as revenue trends
- Interfaced with technology development team to drive improvements in financial reporting capabilities and ensure financial data integrity.
Financial Effectiveness Consultant
Guidehouse (Center for Disease Control Sub-Contractor)
03.2021 - 07.2021
- Leveraged financial data to conduct trend and scenario analysis used to forecast variance between budget ceiling and obligations
- Developed PowerBI Data Analytics dashboards that summarized financial data used by leadership to track budget status, which informed key business decisions
- Created comprehensive User Guide, Planning Document, and Standard Operating Procedures presentations in PowerPoint used by process owners and stakeholders to improve business performance.
Financial Analyst
Center for Disease Control Foundation COVID Response Team (Contractor)
04.2020 - 02.2021
- Used tools in excel to validate fund/program gifts and bill payments in NetSuite & SalesForce, which resulted in 1000% increase in revenue compared to previous year
- Reconciled Fund/Program Income Statement detail to Cash Balance Sheet to ensure accurate reporting to donors and provided a clear budget snapshot to FP&A team
- Managed process for completing journal entries that reclassed funds between expense and balance sheet accounts
- Created detailed documentation used daily to process program gifts and credit card administrative fees.
Investment and Capital Planning Analyst
Mercedes-Benz USA (Contractor)
10.2019 - 04.2020
- Reviewed Purchase Requisitions that impacted overhead, sales, and capital cost to ensure accurate accounting at the G/L, Internal Order, and Cost Center level
- Served on planning committee for quarterly evaluations of IT projects and used Waterfall Charts to show impact of planned spend on current budget, as well as assisted in providing financial overview of total project portfolio
- Worked with management to understand changes to business plan and provide update of Capital Budget for all business units
- Served as primary finance contact for Project Managers and worked collaboratively to conduct analysis, evaluate feasibility, and provide recommendation to department manager
- Performed ad hoc task that included forecasting depreciation, cost re-allocation, miscellaneous billing, and updating service level agreements based on shared services.
Forensic Associate
GlassRatner (B. Riley Financial)
05.2018 - 08.2019
- Consolidated electronic bank statements, reconciled monthly cash flows to accounting records housed in QuickBooks, completed monthly reconciliations and operating reports as part of client’s restructuring team
- Completed analysis as part of inventory valuation for multi-national industry leader with $270 million in revenue in efforts to secure short-term financing, via revolving credit facility, from private equity investors
- Managed and completed store demographic research that helped client better understand profitability expansion opportunities and contraction risk that would result from purchase of approximately 4,000 stores
- Created PowerPoint presentation disclosing company background, financial analysis, and recommendations used to market deal to potential investors
- Reviewed bankruptcy documents to extract court orders, financial claim transfers, and court filing withdraws that resulted in the appropriate distribution of funds to client vendors and debtors
- Provided litigation support research that resulted in a review of 5-years of news publications and an extraction of data points and commentary which spoke to key economic drivers and its impact on the commercial real estate market for a specific region at a specific point in time
- Managed team of 15 individuals located throughout the U.S
- As part of a multi-phase project, that resulted in key data points used to analyze client’s daily revenues over a 4-year period
- Managed communication with client’s customers that resulted in the successful disbursement of recovered cash as part of bankruptcy liquidation efforts
- Utilized Lookups, Pivot Tables, and Formulae in excel to complete analysis of leading informational services firm’s multi-billion-dollar business, that resulted in damage calculations produced as part of litigation support and settlement efforts
- Managed database of client & counsel communications, kept records of status update calls to help case teams keep track of outstanding task and upcoming deliverables
- Created support binders for comprehensive expert reports and rebuttals, that housed thousands of documents, which served as a reference tool for all documents cited, schedules produced, and publications used to draft the report and for expert testimony.
Research Analyst
Proudfoot
08.2015 - 06.2017
- Reported directly to the Chief Marketing Officer and provided research on new market opportunities based on industry trends & developments from tracking key financial data, product offering, market segments, and market share
- Served as the primary point of contact for global marketing research support
- Developed research model that extracted key data points and business metrics
- Created and implemented process that automated regular and ad hoc research requests
- Provided comprehensive competitive and industry vertical research as part of successful brand overhaul efforts
- Provided Senior Management with comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data on the capital markets to optimize business development in the industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, automobile, aviation, natural resources, and energy sectors.
Financial Analyst
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
08.2014 - 07.2015
- Reported total asset-liability position’s quantitative and qualitative data, used by Sr
- Funding Manager (Chief Investment Officer) to determine risk exposure, risk management strategy, funding needs, and hedging activities
- Utilized Reval Treasury and Risk Management System to manage interest rate swaps, track changes in Mark-to-Market valuations, terminations, maturities, and release schedules
- Created hypothetical derivatives, links, and generated effectiveness tests to successfully receive hedge accounting treatment on fair-value hedges, cash-flow hedges, commercial paper hedges, forward-starting swaps, medium term note issuances and Medium-Term Note taps
- Used Bloomberg, bank data, excel and excel macros to model firm’s clean cost of funds for the subsequent week, and for all business booked in North America and South America
- Participated in successful debt transactions valued at $3 billion resulting in adequate liquidity and sufficient exposure to balance sheet risk
- Provided over $100 million worth of custom cost of funds quotes for atypical structured floating and fixed rate deals
- Decreased process time by 20% by developing global critical process manuals for all treasury processes related to derivative transactions and hedge accounting treatment.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, GA08.2014
Master of Financial Management - undefined
Hult International Business School
London, England08.2013
Master of Financial Management - undefined
Hult International Business School
Shanghai, China08.2013
Bachelor of Business Administration - undefined
University of Georgia
Athens, GA06.2011
Skills
- Financial Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Operations Analysis
- Growth projections
- Strategic Planning
- Cash Flow Management
- Financial statement analysis
- Account Reconciliation
- KPI Monitoring
- Variance Analysis
- Revenue trend analysis
- Investment Analysis
Leadershipexperienceandactivities
University of Georgia, Football Player: Wide Receiver, Co-SEC East Champions, All-SEC Academic Team, Clark Atlanta University Scholar Athlete, All-SIAC, Most Improved Offensive Player, Offensive Player of the Year
Timeline
Senior Financial Analyst
MedQuest Associates
04.2023 - Current
Senior Financial Data Analyst
First Advantage Corporation
08.2021 - 12.2022
Financial Effectiveness Consultant
Guidehouse (Center for Disease Control Sub-Contractor)
03.2021 - 07.2021
Financial Analyst
Center for Disease Control Foundation COVID Response Team (Contractor)
04.2020 - 02.2021
Investment and Capital Planning Analyst
Mercedes-Benz USA (Contractor)
10.2019 - 04.2020
Forensic Associate
GlassRatner (B. Riley Financial)
05.2018 - 08.2019
Research Analyst
Proudfoot
08.2015 - 06.2017
Financial Analyst
Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
08.2014 - 07.2015
Master of Business Administration -
Clark Atlanta University
Master of Financial Management - undefined
Hult International Business School
Master of Financial Management - undefined
Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Business Administration - undefined
University of Georgia
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