DOUGLAS WILLIAMS
Houston,TX
Summary
Financial Analyst/Material Planner offering over 20 years of experience in budget analysis and project management. Develops robust policies, procedures and internal controls to advise leadership on business improvement strategies. Builds cross-departmental relationships to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Has the keen ability to seek production efficiencies and cost reductions where most applicable. Desired goal to extend professional passion, skills and expertise to a highly valued organization.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
RESEARCH FINANCIAL ANALSVT
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
01.2016 - Current
- Provides Senior Management with monthly cost/expenditure analysis
- Provides budget and regulation requirements to 14 internal colleges
- Coordinates responses to external/internal financial and regulatory audit findings
- Oversees multiple monthly financial accounts reconciliations
- Primary outside vendor support liaison
- Contribute to the improved strategic design and database migration
MATERIAL PLANNER
Daikin
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Communicate effectively with suppliers to ensure on time deliveries
- Work with management and functional area leaders to ensure uninterrupted supply of material to required area
- Manages daily CSR reports to 100% resolution
- Oversees management of min/max levels for multiple product lines
- Resolve all logged invoice variance issues
- Successfully redesigned highly utilized daily inventory database to reduce active overall shortages by > 25%
- Work with engineering team to facilitate completion of all change orders
Financial Analyst
BRITISH PETROLEUM
01.2009 - 01.2015
- Provide FP&A support and financial analysis to senior management
- Management of financial project portfolio to ensure maximized results
- Successfully managed organizational operating annual budget (18M) to within 3% on annual plan
- Researched and identified over $5OOK in ongoing aged dept disputes
- Masterfully implemented project tracking metrics adopted by senior management
- Designed standardized financial reports utilized by senior management to drive efficiencies and improved transparency
- Work intimately with key business drivers to accurately advance budgeting and planning process
- Selected as lead Financial Analyst overseeing budgetary management of $2OOM for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Used MS Office to create reports and recommended courses of action to upper management.
- Collected data and developed detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and create revenue, profitability and expense forecasts.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY oF HOUSTON
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY oF HOUSTON
Skills
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Cost Recovery
- Project Management
- Planning and Procurement
- Business Liaison
- Audit Preparation
- Process Improvements
- Ad Hoc Reporting
- SAP, GAAP, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, ERP, MS Office
ACTIVITIES
Reading, Learning, Adventure Traveling, Exercise
Timeline
MATERIAL PLANNER
Daikin
01.2019 - 01.2021
RESEARCH FINANCIAL ANALSVT
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
01.2016 - Current
Financial Analyst
BRITISH PETROLEUM
01.2009 - 01.2015
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY oF HOUSTON
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY oF HOUSTON
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