Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Volunteerinterests
Skills - Computersystemskills
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Diana Liz Morel

Hawthorne,NJ

Summary

Finance professional with a track record of success at Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Skilled in utilizing business knowledge and data extraction from diverse information systems to generate valuable analyses. Deliver insightful trends on key performance drivers for proactive business management. Experienced in multiple roles in Finance and Accounting with a strong ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of management.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Asst Director

SeaCube Container Leasing
Woodcliff Lake, NJ
03.2021 - Current

Manager, Reporting and Analysis - 2021

Develop and maintain SG&A budget modeling tools to measure and report monthly expenditures to executive management.

Effectively collaborate with regional teams, ensuring assumption reasonability.

Enhance operational efficiencies related to fleet activity, utilization, inventory equipment age, weighted average contract terms, average daily income, as well as exposure. Recommend immediate action to correct performance.

Lead Team member who identifies, validates, and helps create reporting in Qlik Sense dashboard for business intelligence. Suggest improvements for KPI, financial, and operational performance for power users.

Create critical analyses and advanced Access queries/macros to identify issues and trends for the business portfolio, including utilization, renewal rate, exposure, rate/volume, and revenue by Top Customer and location.

Perform data mining utilizing multiple systems, while ensuring accurate reporting across departments.

Improve processes via database development for Billing, Accounting, FP&A, and YTD reporting. Development of a shadow database for month-end reporting stats.

Transition from Essbase cube specs to Qlik Sense for month-end fleet statistic reporting.

Manage companywide MS Access upgrade: in-depth testing and launch for 20+ critical databases.

Manage development of financial/operational reports, identifying key drivers for business results.

Revenue: $200M, actual versus budget and prior periods.

Fleet Composition: NBV of $2B - owned/managed fleet by lease type for bank reporting.

Customer Book: fleet stats for 175+ customers providing terms, age, exposure, NBV.

Trend Analysis/Flash/Dashboard: highlights driving factors of inventory, activity, deals.

Ad hoc reporting: Executives, Treasury, Contracts, Marketing, Legal, Tax, Credit, and Operations.

Manager, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
Woodcliff Lake, USA
02.2016 - Current
  • Responsible for SG&A budget, forecasts, data integrity, key indicator analyses and reporting
  • Develop and maintain SG&A budget modeling tools to measure and report monthly expenditures to management and VPs
  • Enhance operational efficiencies related to fleet activity, utilization, inventory equipment age, weighted average contract terms, average daily income, as well as exposure.
  • Recommend immediate action to correct performance
  • Construct SG&A budget and forecast models, collaborating with regional teams, ensuring assumption reasonability
  • Suggest improvements for KPI, financial and operational performance
  • Identify, validate and create analytics dashboard for business intelligence reporting facility
  • Team member of collaboration to develop tools for power users leveraging Qlik Sense
  • Create critical analyses and advanced Access queries/macros to identify issues and trends for business portfolio including utilization, renewal rate, exposure, rate/volume and revenue by Top Customer and location
  • Perform data mining utilizing multiple systems while ensuring accurate reporting across departments
  • Improve processes via database development for Billing, Accounting, FP&A, and YTD reporting
  • Development of shadow database for month end reporting stats
  • Transition from Essbase cube specs to Qlik Sense for month end fleet statistic reporting
  • Manage companywide MS Access upgrade: in depth testing and launch for 20+ critical databases

Sr. Financial Analyst, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
Woodcliff Lake, USA
02.2015 - 01.2017
  • Responsible for SG&A budget, forecasts, data integrity, key indicator analyses and reporting
  • Develop and maintain SG&A budget modeling tools to measure and report monthly expenditures to management and VPs
  • Enhance operational efficiencies related to fleet activity, Utilization, inventory equipment age, weighted average contract terms, Avg Daily income, as well as exposure
  • Recommend immediate action to correct performance
  • Construct SG&A budget and forecast models, collaborating with regional teams, ensuring assumption reasonability
  • Suggest improvements for KPI, financial and operational performance
  • Perform data mining utilizing multiple systems while ensuring accurate reporting across departments
  • Development of shadow database for month end reporting stats

Business Analyst, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
Woodcliff Lake, USA
02.2010 - 01.2012
  • Responsible for SG&A budget, forecasts, data integrity, key indicator analyses and reporting
  • Develop and maintain SG&A budget modeling tools to measure and report monthly expenditures to management and VPs
  • Prepare, analyze, and distribute managed investor reports on monthly basis
  • Construct SG&A budget and forecast models, collaborating with regional teams, ensuring assumption reasonability
  • Suggest improvements for KPI, financial and operational performance
  • Perform data mining utilizing multiple systems while ensuring accurate reporting across departments
  • Development of shadow database for month end reporting stats

Sr. Accountant, Finance

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
Woodcliff Lake, USA
06.2008 - 01.2010
  • Responsible for SG&A budget, forecasts, data integrity, key indicator analyses and reporting
  • Develop and maintain SG&A budget modeling tools to measure and report monthly expenditures to management and VPs
  • Enhance operational efficiencies related to fleet activity, Utilization, inventory equipment age, weighted average contract terms, Avg Daily income, as well as exposure
  • Recommend immediate action to correct performance
  • Construct SG&A budget and forecast models, collaborating with regional teams, ensuring assumption reasonability
  • Suggest improvements for KPI, financial and operational performance
  • Perform data mining utilizing multiple systems while ensuring accurate reporting across departments
  • Development of shadow database for month end reporting stats

Education

Human Resources Essentials Program -

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
11.2024

BA - Social Work

Rutgers University
Newark, NJ

Skills

  • Advanced Excel Skills
  • Excel Power BI
  • Microsoft Access Database Management
  • MS Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Mistral Operating System
  • Lawson/FSM
  • Qlik Sense
  • ADP (Payroll System)
  • Hyperion Essbase
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Stakeholder engagement

Volunteerinterests

  • Spanish Language - advanced, served as CFO and Controller translator for business trips to various locations in Mexico, 1998-2004
  • Develop and mentor friends for career advancement, review their resumes and provide insightful feedback
  • Participate in Employee give back programs (races and cycle classes for charitable events)

Skills - Computersystemskills

  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel pivots, & VLOOKUP’s
  • Knowledge of Excel Power BI
  • Proficient in Access-advanced queries, macros
  • Strong MS Word & PowerPoint skills
  • Proficient in Hyperion Essbase
  • Adept in Mistral Operating System
  • Skillful in Lawson and Qlik Sense
  • Knowledge of ADP for payroll and Performance Reviews

Timeline

Asst Director

SeaCube Container Leasing
03.2021 - Current

Manager, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
02.2016 - Current

Sr. Financial Analyst, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
02.2015 - 01.2017

Business Analyst, Financial Reporting and Analysis

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
02.2010 - 01.2012

Sr. Accountant, Finance

SEACUBE CONTAINER LEASING
06.2008 - 01.2010

Human Resources Essentials Program -

Cornell University

BA - Social Work

Rutgers University
Diana Liz Morel