Barry Dawkins
Senior FP&A Analyst
The Woodlands,TX
Summary
A highly disciplined professional with expertise in a broad range of accounting and financial procedures and practices. Demonstrates proficiency in managing multiple tasks efficiently and accurately, adhering to tight deadlines. Possesses solid analytical, planning, and organizational skills, enabling effective coordination of diverse duties. Adopts a hands-on approach, excelling in complex problem-solving. Skilled in the use of major computer software applications and has robust ERP skills. Committed to continuously enhancing and streamlining processes to achieve maximum efficiency.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst II (FP&A/BI)
Huntsman Building Solutions
09.2022 - 11.2024
- Develop, manage, and refine financial models and forecasts, including P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet projections, to drive strategic initiatives and operational efficiency.
- Perform sales performance analytics and forecasting
- Partner with sales leadership to provide insights for process improvements and tracking KPIs
- Maintain business intelligence systems/dashboard creation in SQL, Tableau, PowerBI & Salesforce from SAP HANA data
- Support FP&A and sales teams with ad-hoc requirements
- Analyze revenue changes and channel/product/pricing trends
- Prepare budgets, forecasts, and quarterly analysis
- Improved Sales & Cost Forecast accuracy by developing a dynamic Channel/Product/Price/Volume Mix Model
- Build and analyze cost/revenue data reports to identify outliers or trends to be addressed to leadership team
- Developed reporting automation for all aspects of the business
- Enhanced profitability by identifying opportunities to reduce costs and optimize resource allocation
Senior FP&A Analyst
Hometown Services
06.2022 - 09.2022
- Assist in management of the monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A processes for all operations, including management and bank reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, and scenario planning
- Provide management with consistent reporting and insights into company results on a timely basis
- Perform deep-dive analysis and collaborate with leadership to drive efficiency
- Consume metrics and analyze business results to drive full understanding of organization, industry, and regional performance
- Assist in utilization and adoption of BI tool and effective utilization of data across organization
- Partner and collaborate with Accounting team to provide support and guidance on financial reporting, along with aligning data structures for efficient period reporting
- Create and maintain / improve existing reporting decks and dashboards
FP&A Analyst
Arcxis (Formerly DPIS Builder Services)
08.2020 - 06.2022
- Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision support
- Perform financial forecasting, reporting, budgeting and operational metrics tracking
- Assist in coordinating and preparing the Board Reporting package for Senior Management and Board of Directors which includes consolidated financial statements, regional, state & entity financials, cash forecast, OPEX breakdown, COGS Breakdown and variance explanations against the budget, forecast, and prior year results.
- Implemented an automated & mapped Board Report through Extract, Transform & Load of accounting data from multiple accounting software's into Vena (Excel based FP&A Software)
- Work closely with the accounting team & IT to continuously improve monthly processes and data integrity
- Continuously improve FP&A processes and files to ensure information is timely, organized, accurate, and easy to follow
- Generate data visualizations for Senior Management and Board of Directors to help identify trends and variances
- Assist in tracking & reconciling fixed assets in ledgers and Bloomberg BNA Software
- Assist in bank reconciliations
- Assist in reconciling intercompany accounts
- Assist the accounting team with external and internal audits
- Assist with ad hoc reporting and other special projects as assigned
Project Accounting Coordinator
MBA Energy & Industrial
03.2020 - 06.2020
- Work with Project Managers to ensure back-end paperwork for general contractors or subcontractors is properly executed
- Manage project documents in ComputerEase
- Distribute resale certificates for POs or to subcontractors
- Prepare and submit closeout documents
- Bill subcontractors & general contractors for each project utilizing AIA billing standards in ComputerEase, Excel, Textura etc.
- Review COIs to ensure that it meets the standards of the specific project
- Secure all warranties, lien waivers and compile them and file them as project records
- Full Cycle Accounts Payable for each project
- Perform A/R Collection activities
Venue & Festival Accountant
Spectrum Catering & Concessions
01.2018 - 03.2020
- Review and process Concur accounts payable invoices
- Review, analyze, and record month ending inventories
- Record monthly closing entries
- Prepare daily sales recaps, sales maps, and other reports specific to the festival or golf tournament
- Prepare a daily product mix report for the operations team
- Reconcile cash and credit by location to ensure AR is cleared in full for shows
- Ensure post event accounting entries are posted
- Collect A/R on invoices that are billed to clients or to the promoters in a timely manner
- Responsible for posting cash and credit from the companies bank into the accounting system
- Reconcile the companies bank statement during month end
- Oversees accounts payable in Concur on Canadian books
- Served as the Accounting Lead for several musical festivals and golf tournaments all over the US
- Provided remote support to troubleshoot problems teammates were having with reports while at events
- Responsible for the P&L's of several venues/stadiums to ensure profitability is maximized each month and prevent costs from exceeding budgets
- Other duties and projects
Accounts Payable Specialist
Environmental Allies
06.2017 - 01.2018
- Full Cycle Accounts Payable. Process over 1000 invoices/month
- Process invoices, purchase orders, credit memos and payment transactions.
- Ensured payments(invoices, expense reports, subcontractor bills and check requests) for each department and both divisions of the company were processed in a timely and accurate manner
- Reconciled credit card purchases for each company credit card holder for month end within a strict deadline
- Instituted thorough cross-checking of packing-lists, receivers and invoices
- Performed month-end closing tasks, prepared aging reports, researched discrepancies/price changes and prepared various account analysis and reports
- Process 2-Way and 3-Way matching invoices, packing slips and purchase orders utilizing QuickBooks
- Responsible for entering and coding the company's monthly credit card expenses for each account holder within the company
- Prepared check runs, ensuring all necessary documentation is attached and obtaining the VP's approval
- Other duties and projects
Project Accounting Coordinator
Environmental Allies
01.2017 - 06.2017
- Create pay applications utilizing AIA billing standards and internal invoice creation with QuickBooks
- Perform A/R collection activities daily
- Ensure timely processing of A/R and maintain accurate records
- Process lien waivers to release checks in a timely manner on a daily basis
- Review subcontract agreements to confirm accounting information, customer billing preferences, required documents and verify bid proposals
- Create Certified Payroll documents for projects that require this information when work is performed
- Utilize teamwork to help the department complete tasks in a timely manner
- Work closely with the Project Manager to ensure that the projects stay within what was proposed on the bid and to make sure that any additions needed are brought to the customers attention for approval
- Other duties as assigned
Education
BBA -
Sam Houston State University, General Business, Bachelors of Business Administration
Huntsville, TX 01.2012 - 8 2015
Certification
Texas Notary Public
Timeline
Texas Notary Public
06-2025
Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional
06-2023
Senior Financial Analyst II (FP&A/BI)
Huntsman Building Solutions
09.2022 - 11.2024
Senior FP&A Analyst
Hometown Services
06.2022 - 09.2022
Google Data Analytics Professional
03-2022
FP&A Analyst
Arcxis (Formerly DPIS Builder Services)
08.2020 - 06.2022
Project Accounting Coordinator
MBA Energy & Industrial
03.2020 - 06.2020
Venue & Festival Accountant
Spectrum Catering & Concessions
01.2018 - 03.2020
Accounts Payable Specialist
Environmental Allies
06.2017 - 01.2018
Project Accounting Coordinator
Environmental Allies
01.2017 - 06.2017
BBA -
Sam Houston State University, General Business, Bachelors of Business Administration
01.2012 - 8 2015
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