Connor Lilley
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Experienced Financial Professional driven to optimize processes and analyze data efficiently. Decisive leader with an analytical and flexible approach to solving problems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Analyst, FP&A
L3Harris Technologies
08.2021 - 03.2025
- Overhauled creation and integration of budgets, work breakdown structures, and work package plans, accelerating month-end process significantly.
- Conducted in-depth analysis of expenditure trends, revenue projections, and addressed ad-hoc report requests, resulting in 8% average expense reduction and enhanced overall return.
- Delivered monthly cost reports for internal leadership, providing comprehensive insights into financial performance.
- Streamlined operational efficiency by identifying areas for improvement and proposing actionable solutions for the 10 projects that I manage totaling 150M.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
Senior Financial Analyst
Extra Space Storage
02.2018 - 08.2021
- Efficiently coordinate Off Budget Requests, reducing project completion time frames from an average of 60 days to an impressive 27 days upon joining the team.
- Skillfully prepare value-add analyses for sites by reviewing local micro markets, resulting on average revenue increase of 21%.
- Develop customized reports in Excel to highlight outlying items, identifying and correcting issues for multiple sites each month that would have been missed with previous reporting.
- Streamlined financial reporting for better decision-making with clear, concise analysis and presentation.
- Achieved significant cost savings by identifying financial inefficiencies and implementing improved processes.
Store Manager
World Class Pawn
05.2014 - 05.2016
- Established customer service standards and monitored staff compliance.
- Prepared monthly reports on sales figures, expenses, profits.
- Recruited, trained and supervised new employees.
- Implemented efficient systems for tracking stock movement.
- Developed strategies to maximize sales and profitability.
Education
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
Western Governors University
04-2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Southern Utah University
04-2016
Skills
- Advanced Excel
- Performance monitoring
- Analysis of change
- Financial management
- Forecast
- Budgeting
- Process enhancement
- Project management
- Salesforce
- Microsoft Power BI
- SAP
- Financial analysis
- Strategic planning
- Budget management
Certification
Harvard University
Resilient Leadership
May 2025
Timeline
Lead Analyst, FP&A
L3Harris Technologies
08.2021 - 03.2025
Senior Financial Analyst
Extra Space Storage
02.2018 - 08.2021
Store Manager
World Class Pawn
05.2014 - 05.2016
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
Western Governors University
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Southern Utah University