Nakisha Pinkney
Catonsville,MD
Summary
Finance professional with history of providing critical financial insights and supporting strategic initiatives. Known for strong focus on team collaboration and delivering reliable results in dynamic environments. Skilled in financial modeling and data analysis, with reputation for adaptability and reliability.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst
American Cancer Society
01.2023 - Current
- Provide strategic and analytical support to enterprise business leaders across the organization to guide key business decisions with analytical outputs that will allow for informed decision making.
- Ensure appropriate Financial / Income / Mission key performance indicators are identified and measured against.
- Support the budgeting and forecasting process for assigned business area(s) through development of detailed revenue/expense budgets and forecasts.
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of variances to financial targets and metrics against actual results on a monthly and quarterly basis; provide timely monthly and quarterly analytical reporting and financial insights to assigned business and finance leaders.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis as requested by FP-A leadership and continually strive to identify opportunities to provide financial leadership aimed at reducing costs, increasing revenue and driving more dollars towards mission.
- Train budget owners on financial control, key performance indicators and budgeting/forecasting processes - techniques. This includes reviewing revenue, expenses - monitoring compliance, journal entries for invoicing/funding and reclasses.
- Provide valuable insights by leading monthly variance analysis reviews between actual results and budget/forecast expectations.
- Enabled informed decision-making by presenting key findings from complex data sets in clear, concise formats for senior leadership team members.
Financial Analyst
Baltimore City Public Schools
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Provides primary accounting function for all grant monitoring administration, compliance, grant accounting, and financial reports of awarded grants through their final closing.
- Maintains and verifies financial, statistical, or other fiscal records in connection with various local, regional, state, and federal grants.
- Performs complex, specialized grant accounting functions; complies with periodic financial reporting and reimbursement submittal requirements.
- Researches and prepares budget expenditure projections; monitors and reports on budget expenditures; processes requests for budget adjustments and institutes fund transfers; reviews and verifies budget accounts, purchase orders, and bidding documentation; verifies and makes budget and expense adjustments.
Financial Analyst
Sage, NA
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Provide consolidated internal and external headcount reporting for North America.
- Provide timely and accurate monthly and quarterly financial reports and variance analysis for assigned business groups.
- Conserves general data integrity and compliance by protecting confidential employee information.
- Profitability and expense trends and other metrics for departments/business unit and report results.
- Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement.
- Facilitated smooth month-end close processes by efficiently reconciling accounts and addressing discrepancies promptly.
Financial Analyst
American Forest Products, LLC
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Assist in organization-wide forecasting and planning; reviews and develops internal management reporting and traditional analysis of business results.
- Analyzing, preparing and summarizing recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, and financial trends and operating forecasts.
- Reviews fiscal operations to ensure integrity, accuracy and control of data.
- Creating, analyzing, and distributing internal financial reports to senior management.
- Played a key role in annual audits by preparing detailed schedules, supporting documentation, and assisting auditors throughout the process.
- Prepare presentations on PowerPoint and various documents affecting cost on Word and Excel.
- Facilitate creation of the annual operating budgets and rolling twelve-month forecasts for multiple entities.
- Assist with various tax and insurance filings including personal property, corporate, state.
- Classifies and summarizes data for the preparation and submission of reports on a recurring basis.
- Analyze financial data and identifying trends and patterns; synthesizing financial and volume data and making recommendations based on analysis.
Business Analyst
Severstal, NA
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Project, confirm, advise Management of Cost containment.
- Responsible for creation of monthly Cost of Materials forecast for two mills contributing to $162.0 million in annual costs.
- Interpret data affecting cost, such as price, yield, stability, and economic influences.
- Produced, analyzed and distributed monthly report of operating expenses (including Direct/Indirect expenses) for each business unit.
- In addition to monthly trend of ‘Actuals’, the report included variance analysis of ‘Actuals’ to Business Plan with corresponding narrative.
- Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Strayer University
Washington, DC01.2006
Undergraduate Certificate - Advanced Accounting
Strayer University
Washington, DC01.2006
Diploma - Accounting
Strayer University
Washington, DC01.2006
Skills
- MS Excel
- H/v/x lookups
- Pivot tables
- Data simulation
- Complex formula calculation
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- SAP
- SharePoint
- Oracle
- Salesforce
- Adaptive
- NetSuite
- Workday
Timeline
Senior Financial Analyst
American Cancer Society
01.2023 - Current
Financial Analyst
Baltimore City Public Schools
01.2021 - 01.2023
Financial Analyst
Sage, NA
01.2015 - 01.2019
Financial Analyst
American Forest Products, LLC
01.2008 - 01.2014
Business Analyst
Severstal, NA
01.2008 - 01.2010
Undergraduate Certificate - Advanced Accounting
Strayer University
Diploma - Accounting
Strayer University
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Strayer University
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