Neringa Sereicike
Seattle,WA
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Commercial Finance Business Partner
The Creative Engagement Group
10.2023 - Current
- Analyzing financial position, investigated and reported budgetary variances and identified adjustments to support month and year-end processes.
- Training new and existing staff members in various financial procedures as well as new system integrations to prepare for the expanded role needs.
- Reviewing documentation and identified financial discrepancies where applicable.
- Monitoring budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
- Preparation and sharing of weekly financial updates across the business and to SLTs
- Monitoring performance of newly integrated financial system and ensure interfaces work as intended
- Resolving and supporting the end users with system queries
- Reviewing and providing oversight and guidance at a project level to support delivery teams to ensure delivery and commercial processes are applied throughout the project life-cycle.
- Supporting project teams with understanding economic targets, and the commercial smarts tactics to maximise project margin outputs. Providing support and guidance to budget owners to improve the economic health of projects.
- Providing support and guidance to finance teams to ensure highest level of support is maintained to project teams.
- Reviewing and supporting teams at the project reconciliation stage to ensure projects are closed out in accordance with internal and external processes and that costs and time are recovered.
- Working with external vendors to identify system issues and resolving them in timely manner, coordinating support needed to internal teams.
Commercial Finance Business Partner - Temp PM Role
The Creative Engagement Group
03.2023 - 10.2023
- Led and assisted technical integration as a business representative for the financial accounting system change by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
- Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines as part of project delivery.
- Proposed and implemented system enhancements to improve performance and reliability of integration.
- Organized internal audits and led efforts to determine and remedy deficiencies.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete integration.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
- Trained personnel on use of tools and applications.
- Devised test plans to validate accuracy of integration.
- Wrote, updated and led UAT sessions within focus groups.
- Conducted quality assurance to verify accuracy of data.
- Redistributed workloads where appropriate to alleviate pressure on team members and maintain equitable working environment.
- Identified delays in project completion and devised targeted solutions to complete goals on schedule.
- Recommended short-term steps to achieve larger strategic goals.
- Evaluated project applications and verified with outline specifications to approve, reject and recommend adjustments.
- Led hyper care workstream to ensure business is supported by internal and external vendors.
- Completed audit requests in accordance with regulations and procedures.
Commercial Finance Partner
The Creative Engagement Group
01.2020 - 03.2023
- Collaborated with colleagues and support staff to maximize team efficiency when using project management system (Procim).
- Reviewed and approved client budgets at the key milestones of the budget lifecycle
- Supported project teams with understanding economic targets, and the commercial smarts tactics to maximise project margin outputs
- Provided support and guidance to budget owners to improve the economic health of projects.
- Reviewed of systems and data to ensure projects are started, and maintained, correctly and that the data is accurate and timely for the financial reporting cycle.
- Periodically reviewed systems and data to identify any areas of improvement whilst in production
- Reviewed and support teams at the project reconciliation stage to ensure projects are closed out in accordance with internal and external processes and that costs and time are recovered.
- Supported the business with all elements of training. Including new starter onboarding to tools/processes. Worked with AR and AP Finance Teams to ensure there is a joined up financial process between project delivery and finance.
- Identified themes, problem areas, opportunities to optimise process or tools – sharing back information and recommendations to all relevant teams across the business.
- Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
- Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
- Participated in requirements meetings to understand business needs.
- Used statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful business reports.
- Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
- Extracted and interpreted data patterns to translate findings into actionable outcomes.
- Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
Digital Project Manager
The Creative Engagement Group
03.2017 - 12.2019
- Workshopped solutions to negative outcomes in user acceptance testing results.
- Oversaw Alpha and Beta test scheduling and engineering, coordinating feedback responses to ameliorate customer pain points.
- Liaised between research and production departments, coordinating iterative development efforts based on collected feedback.
- Managed on-site development efforts for Respiratory Brand in ERS Congress project, adapting to unique challenges presented in AR projects. (https://xd.inizioengage.com/work/ar-exhibition-experience)
- Designed project workflows based on desired product requirements, accounting for available time and resources.
- Led weekly code reviews to quickly detect and eliminate bugs and solicit suggestions on possible development paths.
- Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
- Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
- Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
- Devised test plans to validate accuracy of digital projects.
- Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete digital print, website, Augmented Reality (AR) projects.
- Coordinated with external vendors to deliver project components.
- Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.
- Project Managed delivery of award winning Augmented Reality application (Corteva Agriscience - Ogilvy collaboration: https://xd.inizioengage.com/work/brand-launch)
Account Manager
Optimus Performance Marketing
01.2016 - 03.2017
- Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.
- Oversaw preparation of marketing copy, images, videos, emails, and other collateral.
- Established, initiated and optimized business development strategies based on company targets, product specifications, market data, and budget factors.
- Devised content strategy to effectively engage target audiences.
- Coordinated with design and media teams to develop high-quality creative assets.
- Launched successful digital marketing campaigns that achieved goals for increased website traffic.
- Executed comprehensive marketing plans that consistently achieved targets for increased revenue.
- Captured new customers by optimizing business strategies and launching products to diversify offerings.
- Analyzed and reported on KPIs to validate and demonstrate success of marketing campaigns.
- Managed budget allocation and resource utilization to maximize marketing ROI.
- Optimized email campaigns to increase open and click-through rates.
- Generated sponsorships with related and partnering entities to enhance marketing objectives.
- Secured long-term accounts by recommending strategies to promote brand effectiveness and highlight product benefits.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering
University of Plymouth
Plymouth, UK09.2013
Skills
- Decision Support
- Performance Measurement
- Data Visualization
- Project Management
- Variance Analysis
- Profitability Analysis
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Cost Management
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Performance Analysis
- Written and Interpersonal Communication
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Staff Training
- Improvement Recommendations
- KPI Management
- Employee Training Oversight
- Data Analysis
- Relationship Building
- Quality Assurance
- Proactive and Focused
Timeline
Commercial Finance Business Partner
The Creative Engagement Group
10.2023 - Current
Commercial Finance Business Partner - Temp PM Role
The Creative Engagement Group
03.2023 - 10.2023
Commercial Finance Partner
The Creative Engagement Group
01.2020 - 03.2023
Digital Project Manager
The Creative Engagement Group
03.2017 - 12.2019
Account Manager
Optimus Performance Marketing
01.2016 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering
University of Plymouth
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