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KRISTINA FALCONE

Financial Analyst
Seattle,WA

Summary

Versatile Senior Finance Manager adept in financial budgets and headcount management. Deep analysis, expense reconciliations and proficient in preparing weekly and monthly reporting, quarterly forecasts, and new year budget process, along with headcount and project management. Knowledgeable about Microsoft Finance processes and procedures. Initiative-taking with well-developed written and oral communication skills, result-oriented track record, positive, driven work ethic with high customer service levels. Over 15 years of success in budget analysis and financial management.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Finance Manager, MAICPP

Slate Group Consulting contract at Microsoft Corp
Redmond, WA
03.2018 - 10.2023
  • Budget Tracking and Analysis: Track and analyze $100M budget MAICPP (Partner Program)
  • Track expenses vs budgets for main finance areas: Opex, COGs and Discretionary spend
  • Submit and maintain quarterly Forecasts, and yearly Budgets
  • Submit and maintain budgets and forecasts in the PET tool
  • Daily deep analysis of financial health of department
  • Group liaison with the Finance teams
  • Strategic Projects as assigned
  • Management of the PowerBI reports for teams: assist with creation, troubleshooting, validation, refreshing
  • Month End Processes
  • Process month end journal entries: accruals, reclasses and cross charges, as needed
  • Scrub expenses to ensure accurate posting
  • Update weekly budget summaries for team leads
  • Complete management budget review reporting and presentations
  • Purchase Order creation and management
  • Assist the PPO PO Desk with inquiries and submissions
  • Create purchase orders for vendor projects as needed
  • Tracking and cleanup of open purchase orders to maintain clean PO reporting
  • Vendor Resource/Headcount Management
  • Add new vendor resources in CSD tool and Headtrax
  • Manage vendor resources with regards to end dates, troubleshooting access and managed services
  • Consult with and train budget owners on numerous MSFT budget related activities including: MSFT Financial Tools, budget forecasting and management, purchasing and MSFT budget processes
  • Create and maintain Teams sites for management team
  • Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.

Financial Analyst, GHI

Tata Consulting Services contract at Microsoft
Redmond, WA
12.2011 - 06.2017
  • Budget Tracking and Analysis: Track and analyze $220M budget for GHI: Core ($160M), Labs ($15M), Secure ($45M)
  • Track budgets for main finance buckets: Hardware Capex and Opex, Maintenance & Repair, Cross Charges, Hosting, Vendor and Depreciation budgets
  • Submit and maintain monthly/quarterly Forecasts, quarterly LRP and yearly Budgets for the GHI group
  • Consolidated Hosting Reporting and Analysis: Azure, GFS, MLS/Agile
  • Create and maintain consolidated BPU hosting reporting
  • Monthly deep analysis of hosting trends for forecasting
  • Hardware Supply Plan updates
  • Update group hardware plan with open purchase orders, invoicing details, reconciling capitalized hardware purchases
  • Excellent cross departmental relationship with planning and procurement
  • Month end processes
  • Process month end accruals
  • Reconciling capitalized hardware purchases
  • Complete management budget review reporting and presentations
  • SharePoint Site Management – create and maintain Capacity SharePoint sites
  • Asset management
  • In year hardware purchases, ensure hardware is purchased under correct internal orders, and move assets at year end to legacy internal orders for future tracking
  • Legacy hardware purchases, track and manage assets to ensure depreciation is being billed correctly
  • Purchase Order creation and management
  • Create purchase orders for maintenance & repair and vendor projects as needed
  • Tracking and cleanup of open purchase orders to maintain clean PO reporting

Business Analyst, System Center Group

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
01.2008 - 12.2010
  • Headcount Management for seven individual product lines
  • Tracking and management – work with management, finance, and HR on headcount, offers, hiring to ensure quality hiring and management of headcount numbers
  • Reporting – intensive weekly headcount reporting for management
  • Excellent cross departmental relationships with Finance and HR
  • Product Scorecards:
  • Product Group:
  • Monthly scorecards completed for each product line – includes information such as Product Revenues, Installed Base, Product Build status, Product Support, Operating Expenses and Headcount information
  • Excellent cross-departmental relationships with product group, marketing, and finance
  • Company Acquisition:
  • Monthly scorecards completed as required in the Final Go/No Go documents as part of the acquisition
  • Excellent cross-departmental relationships with product group, marketing, finance, and acquisitions
  • Budget and Forecast processing – assisted with completing Budget and Forecasts each quarter for seven individual product lines, including working with Product Groups and Finance to complete the necessary processes.

Program Manager

Synaxis contract at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
09.2007 - 11.2007
  • Execute Windows Server Marketing Group Datacenter worldwide survey

Vendor Account Manager

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
01.2006 - 02.2007
  • Finance contact, Duties Include:
    o Purchase Order creation and maintenance
    o Budget Accounting
    o Reporting – Daily, weekly and monthly, manual and online reports to maintain budgets, funding, regional allocations, internal orders and scorecards.
    • Invoice Process and Tracking – approve, track and ensure payments are made to all vendors in a timely manner
  • Group O Direct Vendor Management – Direct fulfillment vendor of all rebate payments, Duties Include:
  • Customer Service and Support
  • Budget Accounting
  • Check approvals – online rebate check approvals for internal programs
  • Program creation and management

Operations Support

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
01.2005 - 06.2005
  • Assisted ISA Operations with all aspects of product releases
  • Includes liaison with vendors, internal departments and international development teams
  • Reporting: PO Maintenance, maintained financial reporting for department
  • Developed reporting format for department to distinguish charges by project, event or timeframe as requested
  • Marketing Support
  • Web Reporting: Assisted with reporting metrics for internal and external ISA Server websites
  • Provided metrics such as download, page views and click though statistics downloaded from WebMetrix monthly for departmental review.

Account Representative

Corbis Corporation, Collections
Seattle, WA
01.2001 - 12.2004
  • Collector for the Southwest Region and Top 10 Parent Companies with a portfolio of approximately $5 million total
  • Duties include:
  • Reconciliation of customer accounts
  • Assist customers in keeping their accounts current and problem free
  • Assist in technical writing of collection procedures and staff training
  • Provide superior customer service; acting as a liaison between sales/customer service, credit and collections and the customer base
  • Super User Technical Representative for the Credit & Collections Department – includes troubleshooting systems issues, escalating problems as required and training employees on proper use of all systems.

Program Manager, USOC WWVLO New Programs

Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
01.2000 - 08.2000
  • In-training – program developed to train new PMs in program development at each Licensing Operations Center
  • Included meeting with personnel to learn and train on the operations center from Credit and Collections to Worldwide Fulfillment; training on all tools under in the operations center to handle, process and complete orders, adjustments, credits, agreements and problem solving

Microsoft Licensing Specialist

Sunrise Computer Systems Pty Ltd (Australia)
Brisbane, Queensland
06.1998 - 10.1999
  • Responsible for assisting and training Sunrise Sales Staff on the Microsoft Licensing Programs; including: training on the Select, Open and EA Licensing programs, product information, Direct Access Program, ordering processes, problem solving and general Microsoft information
  • During my term at Sunrise, Sunrise has secured:
  • Direct Large Account Reseller Status
  • Certified Technical Education Centre Accreditation
  • Microsoft Certified Solution Provider Partner
  • Increased Select Licensing Accounts from six accounts to 60
  • Sunrise went from 0 to 5th in the nation of Australia in revenue (out of 21 Direct Large Account Resellers)
  • Won the Operations Excellence Award at the 2001 Reseller Conference in Singapore.

Intl Account Specialist, Worldwide Operations

Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
01.1995 - 03.1998
  • Service and Order Management for Australian and Southeast Asia Channel Partners with regard to Full Packaged Product and Licensing fulfillment
  • Export Coordination with duties that include releasing products, coordination with manufacturing and distribution warehouses in the US, Singapore and Australia, processing customs paperwork, strong forwarder contact.

Skills

  • Microsoft Finance tools: MyOrder, MSInvoice, Informa, GSR, PET, Employee Central, PowerBI
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • SharePoint
  • Teams
  • Finance systems: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, AS400, SAP
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Reporting and Analysis
  • Financial Budgeting
  • Budgeting and Variance Analysis
  • Project Maintenance

Personal

I love to bake - I am known for my chocolate chip cookies! I love to share my baking with co-workers and neighbors. I attend baking and cooking classes every couple of months.

I love art - to draw, paint and pottery. I try to attend art classes a few times a year.

I love music and strive to see concerts every year. Past concerts: U2, Paul McCartney, Adele, Styx, Karla Bonoff, Little River Band, The Fray, Bruno Mars, Lewis Capaldi. Future goals: Adele in Las Vegas, Cher in Las Vegas, Foo Fighters (next August!).

I spent 20 months in Australia working for a Microsoft Direct Large Account Reseller. I had a great time learning about the country and its people (they are nuts). It was an opportunity of a lifetime and I would go back in an instant.

I have a small old shih tzu named Waldo. He is almost 16 and my little love bug.

I am an avid reader.

I love to travel and my next trip will be a driving trip from Main to Florida.

Timeline

Senior Finance Manager, MAICPP

Slate Group Consulting contract at Microsoft Corp
03.2018 - 10.2023

Financial Analyst, GHI

Tata Consulting Services contract at Microsoft
12.2011 - 06.2017

Business Analyst, System Center Group

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
01.2008 - 12.2010

Program Manager

Synaxis contract at Microsoft Corporation
09.2007 - 11.2007

Vendor Account Manager

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
01.2006 - 02.2007

Operations Support

Kelly Services contract at Microsoft Corporation
01.2005 - 06.2005

Account Representative

Corbis Corporation, Collections
01.2001 - 12.2004

Program Manager, USOC WWVLO New Programs

Microsoft Corporation
01.2000 - 08.2000

Microsoft Licensing Specialist

Sunrise Computer Systems Pty Ltd (Australia)
06.1998 - 10.1999

Intl Account Specialist, Worldwide Operations

Microsoft Corporation
01.1995 - 03.1998

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