Asm Rahman
Auburn Hills
Summary
Dynamic fiscal manager with extensive experience at the City of Detroit, excelling in financial analysis and risk management. Proven track record in policy compliance and employee collaboration, successfully overseeing a $30 million budget and implementing training programs that enhanced team performance. Adept at leveraging accounting principles to drive strategic decision-making.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Departmental Fiscal Manager
City of Detroit
08.2018 - Current
- Oversee the finance division of the Building, Safety, Engineering, and Environmental Department (BSEED), which has over 300 employees and a $30 million budget, as well as planning, organizing, and reviewing work, administering human resources matters, and dealing effectively with employees and union representatives about employee-management concerns.
- Coordinate the budget, year-end activities, and enforce departmental policies.
- Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and the requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
- Evaluate the performance of subordinates.
- Advise, counsel, or give instructions to individual employees on both work and administrative matters, and interview candidates for positions.
- Make recommendations for appointments, promotions, or reassignments involving such positions; listen and resolve complaints from employees.
- Address and resolve group grievances and complaints.
- Issue disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, as needed.
- As needed, consults with specialists on training needs and decides on training problems related to the department.
- Identify the developmental and training needs of employees.
- Make provisions for such development and training.
- Managed fiscal budgets for city departments ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Analyzed financial reports to identify trends and inform decision-making processes.
- Used hedging to mitigate financial risks related to interest rates on company's borrowings.
Application Analyst
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Coordinate projects, monitor Oracle server, manage support team.
Manager I
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2006 - 01.2015
- System Administrator for Customer Information Systems (CIS) including enQuesta billing system, iNovah cashiering system, the WebConnect online payment system, and IBM Cognos 10 reporting application.
- Work with M&R and Meter Operations to develop, configure, and end-to-end testing of the billing system work orders.
- Develop strategies for system security with IT and software vendors, maintain and audit security groups and configure the system to meet business requirements, and ensure PCI compliance.
- Meet with customers to interpret and define business requirements, applications, and system goals, troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
- Analyze the existing applications, related systems, and processes, make recommendations, identify risks and dependencies, and take preventive measures when needed.
- Coordinate maintenance release updates, and product upgrades and perform tests for current and new applications, including user acceptance tests.
- Worked with WAM project team to represent the business unit for the replacement of the legacy asset management system EMPAC and received training and certification on the WAM system administration.
- (Work Order and Asset) WAM Governance Committee member.
- AMR CM-2007 project core team member and represented the business sections.
Commercial Operations Specialist II
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Supervised the billing group and administered the billing system.
- Partially automated the Suburban billing process using Excel, resulting in minimized manual billing time from a 10-day process to a 2-day process.
Senior Accountant
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.1997 - 01.2002
- Analyzed and corrected Detroit Resource Management System (DRMS/Oracle) data to assist in Month End and Year End closings.
- Certified Trainer for the DRMS Purchasing Module.
- Represented the department for the DRMS SWAT team to solve Oracle-related problems, which resulted in systematic and regular payment to contractors.
- Generate reports, make journal entries, and completing tasks in accounts payable.
Junior Accountant
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.1996 - 01.1997
- Coding and classifying accounting items, vendor invoices, make journal entries.
Education
Master of Science - Finance, Financial Economics
Walsh College
Troy, MI01.2004
Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance
Walsh College
Troy, MI01.1994
Skills
- Financial analysis and budgeting
- Risk management
- Collaboration with HR
- Policy compliance and enforcement
- Accounting principles
Boards Commissions Community Activism
- Board of Trustees, Wayne County Community College (WCCCD)
- Commissioner, Hamtramck Housing Commission
- Board President, Frontier International Academy
- Worked with local organizations on youth engagement
- President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Hamtramck Branch
- Member of the Board of Directors, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR)
- Board Member, Lakeshore Economic Coalition (LEC)
- Member of the board, Bangladeshi American Public Affairs Committee (BAPAC)
- Assist the City of Hamtramck Clerk’s office, with translation and election matters
Training Certification Awards
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training, City of Detroit
- Oracle WAM admin fundamentals certification
- MS Project 2010 level 1 & 2
- Cognos 10 ReportNet
- MS Office: Excel, Word, Visio, Access
- Accela digital government service delivery application training
- Knowledge of Java 101
- Tax Law and Ethics training, Michigan State University
- Trainings on government financial matters, Michigan Government Finance Officers Association (MGFOA)
- Changemaker award recipient, SAALT, 2009
- Cultural Change training, DWSD, 1997
- Certificate of appreciation, Finance and Administration Job Design Team, 2013
- Presenter at the first Non-Resident Bangladeshi Conference (NRB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
Project Management Experience
- Project Manager for AssetWorks M5 fleet management application, Managed application for over 750 DWSD and Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) vehicles., 2017-2018
- Project Manager for the Storm Water Phase I Project, Created a framework to remove storm water charges from customer bills to redistribute amongst all property owners based on imperviousness and acreage., 10/01/11 - 07/31/12
- Finance and Administration Job Design Team member for the DWSD Optimization Project, Reviewed, consolidated, and modernized over 200 job titles.
- Project Manager for the billing system upgrade contract CS-1465, Identified project requirements, project schedule planning, coordinating related hardware purchases, training arrangements, and mock pre-go-live testing.
- Assisted in planning and implementing the Detroit Water Affordability Donation Program, Developed upon a thorough analysis of the requirements, resulting in savings of over $49,000 from the original vendor proposal.
- Managed the implementation of the Detroit Residential Water Assistance Program (DRWAP), In-house development and implementation saved the city close to $250,000 in quoted implementation costs by the vendor.
- Evaluation and Negotiation Committee member for the 'Consolidated Critical Systems (CCS)' contract CS-1491, To find out the best possible integrated software solution for DWSD.
Timeline
Departmental Fiscal Manager
City of Detroit
08.2018 - Current
Application Analyst
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2016 - 01.2018
Manager I
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2006 - 01.2015
Commercial Operations Specialist II
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.2002 - 01.2006
Senior Accountant
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.1997 - 01.2002
Junior Accountant
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
01.1996 - 01.1997
Master of Science - Finance, Financial Economics
Walsh College
Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance
Walsh College