Jonathan Baker
Moorhead,MN
Summary
Detail-oriented finance and accounting professional with extensive working experience in the manufacturing, healthcare, and retail industries. Possesses strong attention to detail with the ability to adapt in a variety of workplace environments, and utilizes methods to further the agenda of any organization.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Sales Support Specialist
Dakota Airparts
Fargo, ND
10.2025 - Current
- Processes shipments through the operations queue, ensuring all order details are accurate and complete
- Works closely with export compliance and sales team to ensure that all domestic and international shipments meet regulatory documentation requirements
- Coordinates with logistics partners to determine the best shipping options and timelines
- Improved quality and usability of existing spreadsheets in Google Docs by utilizing basic formula functions.
Sr. Financial Analyst
Brenton/Orion Engineering
Alexandria, MN
12.2024 - 05.2025
- Created financial dashboard using MS Excel to provide updates regarding revenues, EBITDA, gross profit, and other KPI’s
- Used Microsoft Excel formulas and spotlight to ensure automation of data from monthly and YTD perspectives
- Streamlined quartile analysis to identify customers that generated the largest revenues and orders for the company
- Monitored revenues, cost adjustments, and forecasts for all new and existing projects
- Performed regular analysis of running margins and costs for machines in WIP statuses
- Provided operations leaders and project managers with weekly forecast and labor reports
- Completed journal entries and account reconciliations pertaining to accruals, research and development, shipments, subcontract labor, and marketing
- Partnered with leaders to ensure that the manufacturing facility was operating efficiently from a headcount perspective
- Completed weekly revenue analysis to ensure that actuals aligned with forecast projections
- Assisted with R&D tax audit requests and other adhoc projects as needed
Management Trainee
Enterprise Holdings
Fargo, ND
07.2024 - 11.2024
- Assisted with tasks pertaining to strategic planning, financial management, and coordination of over two-hundred rental vehicles
- Performed revenue and expense analysis
- Partnered with other Enterprise locations to prevent inventory shortages
- Managed detailing staff and conducted clean car audits to ensure consistency of product and service
- Reviewed customer data and implemented strategies to minimize the frequency of poor customer service experiences
- Onboarded and trained new staff
- Performed financial reviews to improve cash collection and minimize the risk of bad debt expense
Automotive Detailer
Enterprise Holdings
Fargo, ND
01.2023 - 05.2024
- Maintained goal of cleaning at least four rental vehicles within an hour and adhered to the organization’s cleaning standards
- Assisted team with achieving a service quality index (SQI) that exceeded corporate standards on numerous occasions
- Provided excellent customer services pertaining to vehicle returns, rental vehicle locations, and maintenance inspections
- Completed pre-delivery inspections (PDI) for newly acquired vehicles
- Transported vehicles to dealerships and repair locations
- Inspected vehicles for damages, personal belongings, and dangerous objects
Sr. Financial Analyst
CNH Industrial
Fargo, ND
12.2020 - 06.2023
- Assisted with completion of the month-end close process
- Reported monthly expenditures and evaluated variances between actuals and budgeted expenses
- Performed monthly account reconciliations regarding intercompany inventory
- Prepared annual budget for plant expenditures
- Weekly productivity and KPI reporting
- Calculated and validated cost savings of various Kaizen events to improve organizational processes
- Performed cost tracking activities to identify Bill of Material (BOM) changes for agricultural units
Compensation Analyst II
Essentia Health
Fargo, ND
05.2018 - 05.2020
- Followed compensation guidelines to hire and retain employees across Minnesota and North Dakota
- Managed compensation activities of Revenue Services, Marketing, and Radiology
- Project manager for the annual market review which required creation of a project plan, designing and updating financial reporting methods, pricing of all positions across the organization, and presenting recommendations for compensation adjustments
- Responsible for compensation audits related to extra salary, employee annual increases, market pricing, and market adjustments
- Prepared job offers, created job descriptions for new positions, and participated in annual compensation surveys
Provider Compensation Analyst
Sanford Health
Fargo, ND
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Managed extra compensation for advanced practice providers and social workers in the Fargo and Bismarck regions
- Provided compensation reports regarding quarterly production incentives
- Provided recommendations to medical providers to ensure that they met their quarterly incentive goals
- Bi-monthly payroll preparation for additional medical duties such as teaching, directorships, and moonlighting
- Primary contact person for questions regarding compensation statements and production incentives
- Communicated with health care providers and the leave management team to plan medical leaves on a semi-monthly basis
Specialist 1, Trades Payable
Sports Authority Corporate
Englewood, CO
01.2013 - 02.2016
- Responsible for the management of 117 key vendor accounts
- Account statement audits, variance analysis and reporting, discrepancy resolution specialist
- Directly worked with vendor contacts in accounts receivable to monitor and resolve outstanding accounts
- Researched and analyzed inventory documents to resolve product shortages and pricing issues
- Resolved open invoices and payables in a timely manner
- Worked with inventory control to resolve issues pertaining to not received inventory
- Ordered office supplies and billed to correct accounting unit when needed
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration-Finance
Colorado State University
CO12.2012
Master of Business Administration - undefined
University of Phoenix
AZ03.2016
Skills
- Advanced Analytical Skills/Financial Statement Analysis
- SAP Accounting System
- Syteline Accounting System
- Salesforce
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Data Analysis
- Project Management
- Workday
- Floqast
- Spotlight
- Concur
- CMS
- AS400
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint)
- Google Docs
- CRM software proficiency
- Customer relationship management
- Microsoft office expertise
- Budgeting and planning
- Variance reporting
- Account reconciliation
- Annual budgets
- Financial modeling
- KPI management
- Financial statements expertise
- Forecasting techniques
- Revenue trend analysis
- Financial model creation
- Capital budgeting
- Bookkeeping and accounting
- Accounting principles understanding
- Cost accounting
- Accounting principles proficiency
Affiliations
- Delta Mu Delta Honorary Business Fraternity, University of Phoenix
- Membership awarded for superior academic achievement
Timeline
Sales Support Specialist
Dakota Airparts
10.2025 - Current
Sr. Financial Analyst
Brenton/Orion Engineering
12.2024 - 05.2025
Management Trainee
Enterprise Holdings
07.2024 - 11.2024
Automotive Detailer
Enterprise Holdings
01.2023 - 05.2024
Sr. Financial Analyst
CNH Industrial
12.2020 - 06.2023
Compensation Analyst II
Essentia Health
05.2018 - 05.2020
Provider Compensation Analyst
Sanford Health
03.2016 - 04.2018
Specialist 1, Trades Payable
Sports Authority Corporate
01.2013 - 02.2016
Master of Business Administration - undefined
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration-Finance
Colorado State University