Determined Business Specialist with 10 years of experience in business and management. Excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on goal setting and multitasking. Superior presentation and leadership abilities.
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Karen Ceppa-Hirko
Financial Controller
Hunlock Creek,PA
Summary
Overview
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Talen Energy
Sr. Business Operations Analyst
06.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Established and administered annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
- Wrote and realigned key financials, including functional specifications, feasibility analysis and requirements definitions to facilitate smooth and efficient improvement strategies.
- Applied performance data to evaluate and improve operations, target current business conditions and forecast needs.
- Ability to created projects in Power Plan and followed approval process for capital projects.
- Work with Managers of updates of projects on weekly basis to update financial spreadsheet to keep track and stay on budget.
- Worked with managers to update 5 year plans and upload new projects in PBCS.
- Run monthly forecast meetings to review current charges and forecast to stay within budget.
- Work with managers to help with variance explanations for O&M and Capital variances.
- Updated monthly Change Logs to keep track of changes by month, quarterly and year to date.
- Update forecast in PBCS based on O&M and Projects which moved to outer months or years.
BHI Energy (Talen Energy)
Cost Control Lead
02.2018 - 04.2019
Job overview
- Manage cost for outage and on-line work for capital and O&M projects and stayed within budget.
- Create load board for staffing and budgeting.
- Maintain WBS structure for billable work.
- Coordinate approvals for funding.
- Control cost impacts and approvals.
- Finalize and close out projects when completed.
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting
- Handled day-to-day running of projects, ensuring high levels of productivity and progression
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic
Day & Zimmermann (Talen Energy)
Project Controls Analyst
08.2017 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Remained within budget by managing cost reports for outage and O&M projects.
- Create load board for staffing and budgeting.
- Maintain WBS structure for billing.
- Generate and maintain purchase orders.
- Daily reports as requested by client.
Strong Industries
CFO/Controller
02.2016 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Supervised accounting, human resources and purchasing departments.
- Prepared budgets, financial statements, and managed cash flow.
- Reconciled Monthly Bank reports.
- Monthly insurance reports for exported products.
- Analysis of accounts.
- Analyzed, reviewed, updated policies and procedures.
- Worked directly with purchasing to maximize profits.
- Provide daily updates with President.
- Created reports for decision making.
- Analyze accounts for cost savings.
Core-Mark International
Assistant Controller
09.2013 - 05.2016
Job overview
- Daily sales analysis
- Sox compliance/testing
- Compute commissions
- Multiple state cigarette tax filings
- Inventory
- Weekly snapshot of financials
- Supervised accounts payable/receivable
- Monthly journal entries
- Assist in month end closing
DBI Services Corporation
SALT Accountant
05.2011 - 07.2013
Job overview
- Maintained and filed multiple state and local withholding taxes
- Auditing
- File state surveys
- Updated multiple state for taxable sales tax for four companies
- Filed all withholding, unemployment, in multiple states
- W-2 and 1099's for multiple states
- Reconciliations
Education
Misericordia UniversityDallas, PA
MBA from Business and Accounting
2011
University Overview
Misericordia UniversityDallas, PA
Bachelor of Science from Accounting
2008
University Overview
Skills
Microsoft office reports
Excel reports
- Self-motivated
- Extremely organized
- Process implementation
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Risk management processes and analysis
- Budgeting and finance
- Strong verbal communication
- Staff mentoring
- Project Management
- Business operations
Timeline
Sr. Business Operations Analyst
Talen Energy
06.2019 - Current
Cost Control Lead
BHI Energy (Talen Energy)
02.2018 - 04.2019
Project Controls Analyst
Day & Zimmermann (Talen Energy)
08.2017 - 01.2018
CFO/Controller
Strong Industries
02.2016 - 08.2017
Assistant Controller
Core-Mark International
09.2013 - 05.2016
SALT Accountant
DBI Services Corporation
05.2011 - 07.2013
Misericordia University
MBA from Business and Accounting
Misericordia University
Bachelor of Science from Accounting
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