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Michael PoLen

Dunwoody,GA

Summary

Dedicated and Analytical Finance professional with extensive experience and a proven record of bringing trust and technical analysis to all levels of the organization.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Financial Analyst

NCR VOYIX Corporation
06.2011 - 07.2024
  • Managed Global Hospitality SWM Forecast of 75M+ annually.
  • Supported both Billing and Sales to ensure revenue was flowing correctly and new business was reported accurately and timely.
  • Coordinated and created yearly plan file by working with sales and Sr Management.
  • Created additional ad hoc reporting on revenue as required for Sr Management.

Financial Analyst

NCR Corporation
06.2011 - 09.2018
  • Responsible for reporting and maintaining the Hardware Maintenance forecast for our North America Financial and Hospitality Line of Business
  • Worked with both Billing and Sales to ensure revenue was flowing correctly and new business was reported accurately and timely
  • Worked with sales on commission discrepancies
  • Created yearly global headcount reports for our customer engineering group
  • Helped create 12-month Revenue actuals tracking file for forecasting purposes.

Financial Analyst

Oracle America, inc. (Formerly sun Microsystems)
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Responsible for quarterly North America Hardware operating expenses and headcount forecasting
  • Maintained Hardware cost centers hierarchy and worked with field sales finance to provide input on organizational structure
  • Worked directly with sales to provide revenue and headcount forecasting and analysis and reported quarterly financial results to senior sales management.

Financial Analyst

sun Microsystems (FORMERLY STORAGTEK)
01.2005 - 01.2010
  • Prepared quarterly balance sheet review and revenue reports for senior management
  • Monitored Fixed Assets for forecasting and reporting purposes as wee as created monthly accrual
  • Created standardized headcount and operating expense reports for senior management and field sales teams.

Sr. Financial Analyst

Storagetek
01.2003 - 01.2005
  • Worked with Sales Management on the reporting of revenue and operating expense forecasting and reconciliation
  • Assisted in the creation of annual sales management quotas
  • Provided quarterly sales performance report and financial analysis
  • Reviewed sales commission calculations for accuracy.

Sr. Revenue Recognition accountant

Storagetek
01.2001 - 01.2003
  • Responsible for booking regional revenue as defined by Sarbanes Oxley
  • Instrumental in designing MS Access database for tracking sales orders, customer contracts and revenue within the accounting department
  • Worked closely with sales management to ensure all sales related documents met accounting standards
  • Performed quarterly review of customer contracts with respect to corporate guidelines.

Education

Skills

  • Report Analysis
  • FP&A Reporting
  • Problem Resolution
  • Forecasting/Budgeting
  • Process Improvement
  • Business Partnering
  • Customer Service
  • Financial Reporting
  • MS Office- Excel
  • MS Access
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
  • SAP Business Objects
  • Oracle ERP
  • Hyperion Essbase
  • Salesforce

Timeline

Sr. Financial Analyst

NCR VOYIX Corporation
06.2011 - 07.2024

Financial Analyst

NCR Corporation
06.2011 - 09.2018

Financial Analyst

Oracle America, inc. (Formerly sun Microsystems)
01.2010 - 01.2011

Financial Analyst

sun Microsystems (FORMERLY STORAGTEK)
01.2005 - 01.2010

Sr. Financial Analyst

Storagetek
01.2003 - 01.2005

Sr. Revenue Recognition accountant

Storagetek
01.2001 - 01.2003

Michael PoLen