Jermaine Scott, ACCA, MSIS, CHFP, CSAF
Marietta,GA
Summary
Professional Chartered Certified Accountant with 20 years of Finance experience who is enthusiastic about making data driven decisions to drive business transformations. Analytical professional with strong background in financial modeling and risk management. Skilled in providing financial consultations and solutions for businesses of all sizes. Astute candidate develops new strategies and processes to optimize financial operations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Finanial Planning Analyst
Wellstar Heath System
03.2024 - Current
- Increased cost savings with a focus on expense reduction initiatives and negotiations with vendors.
- Played an instrumental role in annual budgeting processes, collaborating closely with department heads to ensure alignment of resources with strategic goals.
- Enhanced financial strategy by conducting in-depth revenue forecasting and analysis.
- Improved financial transparency, producing detailed monthly reports for senior management.
- Conducted ad hoc analyses to address specific business questions and support strategic decisionmaking.
Sr Financial Analyst
HD Supply
10.2022 - 04.2023
- Budgeting/Forecasting in Anaplan managing over 100 categories in Wholesale Maintenance Repair Industry
- Update weekly forecasting in Anaplan and link to Tableau Dashboard for reporting to SLT
- Creating and building Forecasting Dashboards in Tableau for Merchants
- Running SQL queries in Snowflake to extract data and create charts to explain trends
- Support Merchandising Team with ad hoc reports to help them make better decisions
- Outstanding presentation, reporting and communication skills.
Sr Accountant -Inventory
HD Supply
05.2022 - 10.2022
- Record and analyze financial transactions in the JD Edwards general ledger in accordance with US GAAP
- Posts prepaids, inventory, and accruals at month end
- Ensures timely and accurate completion of monthly financial statements for management review and assists with the budget development in Anaplan
- Analyzes financial reports and records, making recommendations relative to the accounting reserves, assets and expenditures
- Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records
- Performs ad hoc analysis and develops and recommends improvements to accounting methods and procedures
- Coordinates accounting matters with other departments, locations, and divisions
- Identifies key barriers/core problems and applies critical thinking skills to deal creatively with complex situations.
Sr Accountant -Global Consolidation & Intercompany
FLEXPORT
07.2020 - 02.2022
- Perform transfer pricing, intercompany transactions, eliminations, and consolidation using NetSuite ERP system
- Record intercompany transactions and cash settlement and reconcile intercompany balances for international and US based subsidiaries
- Monthly P&L Variance Analysis and commentary for APAC and EMEA
- Prepare foreign exchange gain/loss and translation adjustment reasonableness analyses in NetSuite
- Collaborate with the Tax team on preparation of tax structuring and transfer pricing journal entries
- Work In Partnership with international GMs on Treasury needs
- Management and settlement of intercompany loans and outstanding balances, including coordination with Legal and Treasury on documentation, terms and appropriate interest rates
- Prepare supporting documentation for external audits, including non-US subsidiary statutory financial statements.
Finance Accountant / Analyst
TRAVELPORT
01.2016 - 06.2020
- Work collaboratively in an Agile environment with Travel Agents Sales Incentives/Commissions and Financial Reporting Teams to ensure Incentives Payments are reflected accurately in the Monthly Financials
- Produce monthly GDS Reporting packs in Hyperion providing Balance Sheet and P & L insights and supporting commentary for variances for the Finance Leadership Team
- Handle and interpret Large Data Sets for Accruals, Prepayments and any other adjusting entries are recorded as necessary as well as analyze Revenue and Cost of Revenue
- Good working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle methodology having led extensively in the testing and Implementation phases for finance projects
- Works closely with external auditors providing Travel Agents Sales Commissions supporting documents requested in Prepared by Client schedules; and any other accounting documentation to satisfy company policies and SOX audits
- Utilize Cognos to research financial and management accounting information and Travel Segment Analytics to other interested parties including decision support, controllership, tax and senior management
- Advanced skills in Oracle R12 eBusiness Suite with specialization in G/L and Fixed Asset modules
- Project Lead for Oracle Discoverer replacement with Orbit Analytics application with A/P and G/L focus
- Perform contract review in Contract Management Application for Techfunds and Customer Loyalty Payments to ensure proper accounting for Cost of Revenue on Income Statement.
Intercompany Accountant/Financial Analyst
JAS FORWARDING WORLDWIDE
01.2013 - 01.2016
- Built a Dashboard for budget processes to ensure reasonable assumptions and projections for Top 10 Shipping Trade Lanes
- Successfully streamline the global intercompany transfer pricing reconciliation; billing from 6 regional management companies to over 50 subsidiaries in more than 40 currencies; resolved complex several forex issues
- Analyze and interpret monthly variances and trends on Gross Profit and Overheads between budgets, actual and prior year results in developing strategic projections and forecast for senior executives
- Lead SG&A budgets for three-year plan and processes for Global HQ; work closely with executives and department heads to maintain improved process & user-friendly reports; implementation of annual budget templates
- Prepare monthly forecast and flash reporting with variance analysis and commentary
- Consolidated and analyze global financials using IFRS and US GAAP for internal and external reporting
- Utilized Data Analysis skills to present Intercompany annual budget reporting for Senior Leadership Team
- Assist manager on global audit and consolidated financial statement review and footnotes
- Liaised with Cognos Technical Planning team for implementation and improvements of budget reporting process
- Software testing of Cargowise Intercompany AR/AP Reconciliations to ensure the new system passed the Global Audit test
- Analyze Shipment in Transit reports from international subsidiaries for report formatting and accuracy of the transactional data
- Statistical Testing by tracking selections from origin to destination to ensure accuracy in revenue recognition policies
- Prepare audit journal entries in Peoplesoft and Footnotes for Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement
- Work closely with IT Department to ensure necessary updates to ICOR Application and shipment in transit reporting.
GL Staff Accountant
SERVICE EXPERTS INC
05.2009 - 01.2013
- Post Intercompany Transactions, A/R, CR/DR memos & write-offs and Bank Reconciliation
- Analyze Monthly Income Statement and Balance Sheet for 4 geographic locations in IBM AS400 and STARS
- Generate variance analysis Inventory for Parts and Material statistics
- Account Reconciliation and Data Analytics for Petty Cash, Bonus, Prepaid, Vacation, Payroll Liabilities and Property Tax
- Review expense report for T&E and raised JE entries and Sales Tax for New York, Texas, South Carolina and Canada
- Utilize Pivot Tables in MS Excel to check for reasonableness and accuracy, research and post open Payroll journal tries.
Education
Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) -
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor’s of Accounting and Finance -
AT-EMILE WOOLF COLLEGES
Skills
- Workday
- StrataJazz
- Anaplan
- Snowflake
- Tableau
- Alteryx
- Netsuite Oneworld
- Oracle Cloud
- Hyperion
- Orbit Analytics
- Cadency
- Cargowise
- Cognos 10 Controller & Planning / TM1
- JD Edwards
- SAP ECC
- FloQast
- Escalate
- SQL
- Sage FAS Depreciation Software
- Advanced/Expert MS Excel; Macros, Pivot Tables, V/H and XLookups, Formulas, VBA
- Microsoft Office Suite
Websites
Affiliations
ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS (ACCA) London, England
Timeline
Sr. Finanial Planning Analyst
Wellstar Heath System
03.2024 - Current
Sr Financial Analyst
HD Supply
10.2022 - 04.2023
Sr Accountant -Inventory
HD Supply
05.2022 - 10.2022
Sr Accountant -Global Consolidation & Intercompany
FLEXPORT
07.2020 - 02.2022
Finance Accountant / Analyst
TRAVELPORT
01.2016 - 06.2020
Intercompany Accountant/Financial Analyst
JAS FORWARDING WORLDWIDE
01.2013 - 01.2016
GL Staff Accountant
SERVICE EXPERTS INC
05.2009 - 01.2013
Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) -
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor’s of Accounting and Finance -
AT-EMILE WOOLF COLLEGES