BARBARA TORRICO

Boeing Higher Education Relations Team

• Responsible for tracking multi million dollar budget in investments to Higher Education domestic and global institutions.
• Collaborate with in-country representatives to evaluate and authorize charitable investments across 35 countries. Ensure all charitable activities adhere to relevant laws and guidelines.
• Improve financial processes by coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Subject matter expert helping internal and external stakeholders with compliance and payment systems to avoid pitfalls that could prolong approval and payment process.
• Tasked with processing comp[any contributions to avoid duplicative funding by various internal teams.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement strategic initiatives aligned with organizational goals.
• Implemented process improvements that increased overall operational efficiency in the planning department.

• Reliable, trustworthy and capable of handling sensitive information as well as conflicting priorities.
• Always thrives in helping others and learning new skills to bring value to the team hence gaining exposure to different tasks and projects.
• Gained proficiency in Tableau for visualizing employee information by state, discipline, and zip code.
• Helping with data entry and analytics for Government Budget Tracking tool.
• Historically proven to have sound business relationships and get the job done.
• Streamlined office processes by implementing efficient administrative systems and procedures.
• Collaborated cross-functionally diverse departments within organization achieve common goals streamline workflow initiatives.
• Took on this role as a layoff avoidance measure.

• Finance lead for Missile Defense National Team part BMDNTB (where Boeing was Sub to Lockheed Martin), responsible for labor and rate reconciliation, customer billing, budget updates, cost report submission, and distributing charging guidance.
• Participated in 2011 Request for Proposal for Missile Defense National Team follow-on contract by assisting capture lead in quick and accurate labor rate category implementation and various estimates which allowed the proposal to be completed in a month versus 4-6 months.
• Enabled Cost Account Managers to accurately track accounts' status for addressing issues with government counterparts.
• Established and tracked budget for New Business Funds for entire program - Both MDNTB and MDSET.
• Developed strong relationships with stakeholders across various departments, fostering collaboration and open communication channels throughout projects'' lifecycles.
• Team relocated to HSV in January 2014.

• Generates Baseline Change Requests inside the financial system in order to track and manage the baseline which demonstrates the ability to coordinate, consolidate, analyze and maintain data coming from the financial information management systems.
• Skilled in extracting actuals for New Business Funds efforts using ICHS. Proficient in using these actuals in order to generate variance reports and help Management tell their story.
• Experienced in planning Accounts and working on a Task Order/Contract Line Item (CLIN) environment with conflicting priorities.
• Experienced in working with more than one task order at hand each of which had its own Cost Account Manager and challenges.
• Prepares financial charts for program visibility.
• Responsible for weekly chart creation and analysis to be presented by Management during Program Management Review and various customer meetings