LEONARD (LEN) LEGOTTE

Experienced, trustworthy, energetic, and collaborative corporate finance and accounting professional, seeking to continue my Senior Financial Analyst career path, consistent with my most recent positions. The combination of over 30 years of accounting, finance, budget preparation and forecasting, budget variance analysis, strategic planning, and KPI creation provides me with the solid tools necessary to succeed in my next role. My unique skill set includes six years of adjunct teaching experience as an adjunct professor, teaching finance, accounting, and statistics to both graduate and undergraduate students.

• 20 years - Financial statement analysis of balance sheets and income statements
• 20 years - Departmental budget to actual variance analysis, and cross-functional departmental meetings, collaborations, and presentations, to inform and apply better budget processes.
• 20 years - Annual, and multi-year budget preparation experience.
• 20 years - Financial statement analysis of balance sheets and income statements.
• 13 years - Assisted in the District earning the Excellence in Operating Budget awards from the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers (CSMFO) five times.
• 20 years - Evaluated daily, and weekly metrics for upper management; including general ledger account detail to ensure a successful month-end close.
• 20 years - Created weekly and monthly financial reports for upper management.
• 6 years - Adjunct faculty professor, taught Accounting, Finance, and Statistics
• Created a 5-year financial Excel model that tracked every G/L operating expense account for all cost centers and for all departments - budgets, actuals, and variances.
• Proficient with financial statement analysis and creating summary result packages for management.
• Collaborated with the Operations department to create the production report, due to corporate twice per month with corporate meetings monthly to discuss production unit results, production costs and inventory.
• Experience with overseeing and observing cycle counts, month-end, and year-end inventories.
• Participated in SIOP meeting participant for finance, provided forecast figures.
• Successful completion of 2019 operating and capital budgets – estimated $30M in US revenues.

• San Diego Blood Bank, San Diego, CA, 11 Gallon Donor Club, 1996-2020
• YMCA of East County San Diego, La Mesa, CA, Annual Campaign – Team Leader, 2011-2016
• Wheel of Fortune - NBC, Los Angeles, CA, Game show contestant, 2016
• Lake Murray Little League, La Mesa, CA, Former coach, scorekeeper, umpire and treasurer, 2002-2006