MATTHEW HICKS
Financial Planning And Analysis Professional
Keedysville,MD
Summary
Goal-oriented, hands-on FINANCE SME with over 25 years experience in government and private industry. Adept at effectively establishing financial planning tools, processes and reporting. Excellent project financial management and Earned Value implementation demonstrated by career history of working in aggressive and newly established environments. Particular experience in Financial Planning, Forecasting, Customized Financial Tools and Earned Value Management.
Overview
2
2
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Financial Planning and Control
Ology Bioservices
Frederick, MD
11.2015 - Current
- Implemented customized financial reporting platform, tools and processes for government and commercial portfolio of $1.5B+.
- Ensure competitive and successful proposals with cross-functional support.
- Provide financial metrics to stake holders for strategic planning.
- Resolve all finance programmatic related matters with client.
- Identify weaknesses in organization / implement improvements.
- Liaison between all the different functional organizations.
- Developed databases for effective resource planning, contracts management, and forecasting.
- Earned Value Management SME on Earned Value programs.
- Improve success of programs through proactive analysis.
- Interact with stakeholders / identify needs and requirements.
- Manage all project related documents for compliance.
Earned Value SME
QSSI
Baltimore, MD
12.2012 - 11.2015
- EVMS compliance with QSSI system and ANSI/EIA 748-B standards.
- Lead all audits on 32 guidelines and external audits/ IBRs with customer.
- Implemented Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
- Cost/schedule integration and Earned Value deliverables for CDRLs.
- Earned value training for all technical and management levels.
- Continual evaluation of all contract/program status and compliance stake holder compliance.
- Variance Reporting including root cause analysis.
- Risk and rolling Wave Planning.
- Managed, mentored, trained and provided leadership to Earned Value staff.
- Technical reports, studies and related documentation.
- Corporate-wide initiatives to help guide enterprise and business level goals.
Earned Value Manager
CSC
Frederick, MD
08.2004 - 12.2012
- EVMS compliance with CSC Earned Value Management and ANSI/EIA 748-B standards.
- Conduct audits on 32 guidelines and external audits/ IBRs.
- Maintain fully approved Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
- Cost/schedule integration and Earned Value deliverables.
- Training on cost/schedule integration, budgeting, milestone selection, schedule development, variance analysis, baseline change control, and other topics as needed.
- Cost Performance Report (CPR), Cost/Fund Status Report (CFSR), Variance Analysis Report (VAR), and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Conduct Business Management Reviews.
- Variance Reporting with root-cause analysis.
- Risk and rolling Wave Planning analyses.
- Detailed Estimates to Completes (ETC) management.
- Competitive pricing on all efforts for new and add-on work.
- Management Reserve (MR) and Undistributed Budgets (UB).
- Cross-functional capacity planning by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
- Cost control via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
Supervisor Financial Reporting and Analysis
Cendant Mortgage
Mount Laurel, NJ
04.2001 - 08.2004
- Financial reporting for Correspondent and Broker channels.
- Expense Variance Analysis, Budget / Forecast, Profit-Loss, Cost Per Loan, Volume Trending, Daily Ad-Hoc.
- Monthly headcount forecast/capacity analysis.
- Developed/implemented custom Access application to to pull accounting reports.
- Established monthly dashboard for metrics on wholesale business.
- Maintained Pricing Concession Model: Routine and ad-hoc development and testing for Access Front End and Excel back end.
- Worked with Secondary Marketing to establish daily pricing.
- Close communication with Trading and Hedge group to determine current MBS levels and ARM Indices, Profitability group to ensure target ROE, processing of over 20 pricing models, Rate Sheet Generation Group for smooth daily operations, and transfer of data to Pricing Systems Support Team.
- Major Accomplishments: Designed and developed Cendant's Mark-It-Watch application to allow users ability to monitor the market real time. Built user form and database for storing and extracting current and historical rates. Designed and developed test plan application for pricing initiatives.
05.1997 - 04.2001
- Experience Prior to 2001 Available Upon Request.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Finance
Rowan University
09.1993 - 05.1997
Skills
Financial Management
Certification
Program Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
Director Financial Planning and Control
Ology Bioservices
11.2015 - Current
Earned Value SME
QSSI
12.2012 - 11.2015
Earned Value Manager
CSC
08.2004 - 12.2012
Supervisor Financial Reporting and Analysis
Cendant Mortgage
04.2001 - 08.2004
05.1997 - 04.2001
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Finance
Rowan University
09.1993 - 05.1997
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