Raushana A. Behm
Ontario,USA
Summary
Detail oriented, efficient and organized professional with extensive experience in Navy accounting systems and Enterprise Resource Planning system
Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions
Highly trustworthy, discreet and ethical, resourceful in the completion of projects and effective at multi-tasking
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Team Lead
NSWC-CORONA
12.2017 - Current
- Certified Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Instructor for the following courses: Project Business Financial Manager (PBFM), Basic Instructor Training, Soft Skills, Funds Allocation, Funds Execution
- Program Financial Analyst (PFA) Boot Camp course developer and Instructor
- Currently serving as the Comptroller Financial Team Lead for the Range Systems (RS) Department
- Responsible for supporting the RS Department Head in leading a team of government and contractor personnel to support the financial operations of the technical department
- I am the Financial Competency Lead of the RS Program Financial Analyst team
- I am responsible for developing PFA knowledge, skills, and abilities
- I provide training, as a group and individually, in interpreting Financial Management Regulations (FMR) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) as it pertains to all aspects of budget formulation, budget execution, reporting, monitoring, tracking, and analyzing the execution of Reimbursable Work orders and Direct Cite funding for Contractual procurements
- I plan, schedule and prioritize PFA workloads and maintain oversight on work accomplishments, provide recommendations for process improvement, manage conflict, identify workload and training issues, coordinate with PFA supervisor to improve effectiveness and efficiency in meeting PFA expectations and requirements
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
- Considered the Business Line Subject Matter Expert (SME) in financial management analysis
- I develop, review, and perform critical evaluations of budgets, cost estimates, financial reporting, technical data, metrics, planning and execution of all Direct projects and Overhead projects
- Consolidating analytic findings into a recommendation to meet mission requirements
- Initiate and coordinate corrective action when actual costs do not correspond to level of effort planned
- Solicit and consider feedback from internal and external stakeholders or customers
- Coordinate with appropriate parties to maximize input from the widest range of appropriate stakeholders to facilitate an open exchange of opinion from diverse groups and strengthen internal and external support
- Explain, advocate, and express facts and ideas in a convincing manner, negotiates with individuals and groups internally and externally, as appropriate
- Serve as the Delegation of Authority to approve Accrual of expense for Contract services performed but the corresponding invoices are not received in the period of performance
- Utilize Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (NERP), Wide Area Work (WAWF), Electronic Data Access (EDA), Defense Cash Accountability System (DCAS) to reconcile contract acquisitions, contract modifications, in comparison to contract invoice payments, Contract Data Requirements List (CDRAL) financial status reports provided by the Contracting Officer Representatives (COR), documenting concurrence from Technical Points of Contact (TPOC) as key supporting documentation to ensure the basis and rational for the accrual amount recorded
Lead Department Budget Analyst
NSWC-CORONA
03.2010 - 01.2017
- In the Comptroller Department’s Budget Division, I serve as the Lead Department Budget Analyst (LDBA) supporting NSWC Corona’s Range Systems Department (RS)
- As the RS Departments Business Line SME in budgeting I am responsible for overseeing the department’s technical and financial staff in their development, training, and implementation of budget reporting, estimates, statistics, and other information useful to higher level managers in determining which goals and objectives to emphasize
- As the financial expert in the department, I may coordinate with other LDBA’s, Corporate Budget Analysts, HQ personnel, and sponsors in providing guidance on critical and complicated issues
- I‘m also the direct point of contact and liaison between Comptroller personnel, Range System’s Project Managers and Program Financial Analysts (PFA) in supporting the departments sponsor/customer
- Over the years I’ve Independently organized, planned, scheduled and prioritized workload to 4 Department Budget Analyst Assistants
- In addition to mentoring, training, and providing expert knowledge for compliance with Budgetary Policy and Guidelines, Public Law, Financial Management Regulations, DoD and DON policies
- As the LDBA I’m responsible for the financial operation of the department
- I lead a team of PFA’s made up of government and contractor personnel
- I monitor the financial activities within the financial group/program analysts and provide training and guidance to all grade level program analysts
- I provide advice and assistance on all areas including budget, manpower, management analysis, finance and accounting, information management, and business process reviews
- I communicate, interpret and help them to understand corporate business operations including understanding how prices are set, accepting sales orders from many types of customers, and application of revenue and costs, profit and loss
- I’ve provided training in developing a variety of reports using Navy ERP and EDW, covering the status of funds, expenses and obligations and current funding levels by comparison to submitted budget and task requirements and identifies program and tasks problem areas
- Through coaching and mentoring I seek to develop their analytical skills, helping them identify problem areas and improve processes and services, motivating them to improve their work methods in response to new information, unexpected obstacles and communication with their customers and other internal and external stake holders
- I also provide training and knowledge of creating Navy ERP project Structures, seeking to improve their understanding of ERP custom reports and transactions, obtain required forms, and coordinating the acceptance of Sales Orders to Comptroller, applying principles of Appropriation Law, performing 1301 review and interpreting policies as they pertain to funds administration in a Navy Working Capital Fund
- I’m also responsible for resolving complaints and team conflicts
- Responsible for reviewing and approving all Acquisitions for services in ERP, to include ZSPS Service Contract Purchase requisition, MILSTIP Purchase Requisitions for procurement of Materials and Services, as well ZFD Outgoing Funding requisitions, ZLCL Purchase Card
- Delegation of Authority to approve Accrual of expense for Contract services performed but the corresponding invoices are not received in the period of performance
- Utilize Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (NERP), Wide Area Work (WAWF), Electronic Data Access (EDA), Defense Cash Accountability System (DCAS) to reconcile contract acquisitions, contract modifications, in comparison to contract invoice payments, CDRAL financial status reports provided by the Contracting Officer Representatives (COR), documenting concurrence from Technical Points of Contact (TPOC) as key supporting documentation to ensure the basis and rational for the accrual amount recorded
- Review FIAR samples for the quarterly Dormant Account Review (DARQ)
- To improve Management Internal Controls (MIC) I created the 'Justification of 51/49 expense' form to insure DOD compliance in funds execution as well as conducting the Purpose, Time and Amount review that is required of all appropriated funds that are submitted for acceptance or issuance
- Oversee the acceptance and close out of all incoming and outgoing funding
- This includes all aspects of billing including partial 2193s, final 2193s to provide status of funds information
- The research involved in making such determinations include analyzing the data from the ERP Encumbrance reports and DCAS billing history reports as well validating all open accounting invoices have been paid, and that outstanding obligations accurately accrue, posted or have been cleared for de-obligation by Coordinating with Accounting and Contracts Office personnel
- Responsible for responding to internal and external funding-related data calls regarding annual Reimbursable or Direct Cite receipts by Program Office and all appropriations such as OPN, RDTEN, FMS, SCN, OMN and WCF
- Other data calls have included determining the annual cost of Material Acquisition Fee’s based on the amount of PR line items and OM&S purchased
- I’m responsible for coordinating and compiling the direct workload and other budgetary data from Project Managers and incorporating it into the Direct Planning Tool and Overhead Planning Tool for the Department's workload and A-11 budget submissions
- I report all department projects and overhead funding at all levels of execution
- This includes development of phasing plans, analyzing workload trends and explaining variances during budget execution, translating past and proposed actions into meaningful and relevant information for use in the management process
- I support customer/sponsors by assisting in preparation and review of budgets, providing detailed cost reports regarding items such as over-runs/rejects, Sales Order receipts, carryover, and DLH’s
- I do management analysis with the internal overhead budget-to-actual cost report I developed by Template line Item, and Net Operating Results (NOR)
- Weekly I extract and analyze financial data regarding Sales Order receipts, funds balances and project financial execution from ERP and the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that is briefed to the Department Head, Division Heads, Branch Managers, Operations Manager and PFA’s in an Excel Pivot Table and Chart format
- During Command Execution Reviews I provide supporting documentation and data to assist the Department Head in defending cost projections, ideas and proposals to senior in management for Range System Department operating requirements
- I also assist with analyzing interpreting data to support technical capability Health Assessment (TCHA) competencies and alignment of the departments hiring plans
- I’ve served on ad-hoc task teams that recommend command wide policies or procedures
- I attended weekly SOS to ERP transition working meetings, providing my knowledge and expertise in Project development, Funds Management, identifying and examining error/problems in a financial accounting system and interfacing system
- I was also a part of the ERP Direct Planning development TIGER TEAM, taking complex financial situations and troubleshooting root causes and process improvement, develop recommendation for the purpose of establishing the new Direct Planning Tool (DPT) and processes for the FY17-FY20 A-11 Budget Cycle
Program Financial Analyst
NSWC-Corona
08.2007 - 03.2010
- Branch Budget Analyst for FT32 Branch; provided financial management for engineering tasks by applying the principles of appropriation law and interpreting both internal and external policies as they pertain to funding in the Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF)
- Extracted, analyzed, tracked, maintained budgets, documented expenses, presented data, and provided weekly Network Activity (NWA) balances that included Charge Order Number (CON) and Job Order Number (JON) cost breakouts that tracked expenditures; information provided to Branch management, technical personnel, and internal/external customers
- Assisted in the process of Incoming Funding Documents (IFD) by providing support to technical personnel for the required forms along with the creation of project structures in Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (NERP/ERP); coordinated the acceptance flow through FT’s Department Budget Analysts and Comptroller
- I accurately provided knowledge and guidance to FT to ensure compliance with Budgetary Policy and Guidelines, public law, DoD Financial Management Regulations, and Acquisition Regulations with an emphasis on DON Policies
- Knowledgeable of Navy, Air Force, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program office reporting requirements as well as NSWC Corona business rules used to procure, install, track, and report instrumentation system projects
- Created Purchase Requisitions (PR) in the Industrial Logistics Support Management Information System (ILSMIS) using technical data package requests
- Financial reviewer for Contract Mods
- Reconciled branch NWA’s and researched discrepancies; proposed solutions and corrections were coordinated with both internal and external customers
- Precisely organized, tracked, and monitored the procurement, delivery, and acceptability of hardware and software
- Worked with project leads to ensure required procurements were made, while carrying knowledge of FT32’s current instrumentation/scoring system installs at various ranges
- Reviewed sponsor’s Statement of Work (SOW), Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M), notes to contracting officer, justifications, contract approvals, and other contracting documentation
- I supported strategic plans, which included technical processes, systems, and work flow to improve existing processes with the addition of developing new ones for emerging business and marketing areas
- Practiced oral/written communication at all levels; developed written program schedules, acquisition requirements, and program budget schedules and monitored reports/program status and reported results to Branch leadership
- Sole proprietor for the recording of business transactions by accounting for all Labor, Temporary Duty Assignments (TDY,) Training, Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) costs, Material, Services, CSC and Communication expenditures in an Access database that I assisted in the creation of that allowed me to organize, track, report and monitor actual expenditure amounts
- Researched and reconciled budget discrepancies and other problems/issues to ensure proper use of appropriated funds
- All costs were reconciled using the following business systems; Navy ERP, Industrial Logistics Support Management Information System (ILSMIS), Interactive Checkbook Balance (ICB) & Work in Process (WIP), Defense Industrial Financial Management System (DIFMS,) Online Computer Information Exchange (OCIE,) Defense Travel System (DTS) and Standard Labor Data Collection and Distribution Application (SLDCADA)
- Requested form DD 448-2 when all funds had been obligated on an expired Incoming Funding Document and once sponsor provided the signed acceptance, I then requested signed final billing 2193’s
- I verified availability of funds for Sponsor Incoming Funding Document amendment pullbacks
- I provided COBRA financial status reports to funding sponsors upon requests
- Reviewed and recorded business transactions from the SOS printouts provided from the FT DBA
- Created Labor Cost Transfers and Non-Labor Cost Transfers
- Conducted reviews of accounting and financial documents and provided assistance with the process of Incoming Funding Documents from Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Sponsors by performing appropriations review
- Coordinated financial tasks with government, military, and contractor personnel and provided Excel Expenditure Spreadsheets to financial sponsors that I created and updated with current financial data
- I developed procedures to expedite the process of reporting financial data in Navy ERP that assisted with tracking funds, costs, and expenditures, by creating an internal log
- The internal log saved time from having to research multiple reports in Navy ERP, by consolidating all available balances for FT32
- Responsible for the accuracy of reviewing and completing the Tri-Annual Module Review for all funds that had been committed but not obligated; ensured compliance with end of Fiscal Year deadlines
- Provided the Personnel Maximum Overtime breakouts for all FT30 personnel; utilized by Division Head to control overtime
- This data was not only highly crucial to each Civil Servant but also to the weekly detailed labor reports created by the Division Head Secretary
Assistant Department Budget Analyst
NSWC-Corona
11.2002 - 08.2007
- Provide Professional assistance to the Senior Department Budget Analysts (DBA) in the day-to-day maintenance of the Departments expenditures, and the overall preparation and execution of the Departments financial functions
- Assist in coordinating and compiling the Direct Workload and other budgetary data from the Project Managers, and with incorporating data into the Departments Workload Information System (WIS) – as well as the A-11 Overhead Budget Submissions, while identifying and discussing questionable areas with the DBA
- Update the Automated Budget Module (ABM) with direct workload WIS data, and verify the accuracy to the ABM field coding received from the Project Managers
- I assisted with the development of the Cost Center phasing plans, which uses historical and current data for month to month budgets
- Provide weekly Cost Overrun reports downloaded to excel for the Departments and Divisions
- Update weekly Direct/Indirect Labor Hour Charts in Department files/folders
- Assist the Project Managers in establishing Letters of Intent (LOI) so they can begin working at beginning of fiscal year before funds are received
- Review all funding documents awaiting acceptance, and retrieve all awaiting PA acceptance from the NAVSEA AUTODOC System
- Verify that funding is in the Workload Assignment Website (WAW)
- Perform an appropriation review on each document, and alert the DBA where data is questionable
- Review Incoming Funds Approval Forms provided by Project Managers to assure accuracy of Technical Coding provided
- Establish Customer Order Numbers (CON), and Job Order Numbers (JON), in the Sponsor Order System (SOS)
- Assist Project Managers with tracking costs in DIFMS, utilizing the Interactive Check Book (ICB) data base, reconciling budget discrepancies, contracting issues, funding issues, clearing cost overruns, reviewing Statements of Work (SOW) to insure they meet the criteria of a valid SOW by verifying dates to task
- Review Accounting Rejects for the Department, while coordinating solutions with the Accounting Team
- Interface with sponsors in solving STARS billing problems/issues
- Answer data calls and Adhoc requests
Financial Analyst
DynCorp
03.2001 - 11.2002
- Company Overview: NSWC-Corona Contractor Support
- Allocated PMS422 Sponsor, now IWS3A, Standard Missile (SM) Funding received to all Departments based upon the SEATASK of Budget plan and execution
- Submit monthly financial reports to sponsor through the Integrated Project Management System (IPMS)
- Monitored and tracked SM Program costs, utilizing ICB and Excel Spreadsheets and Charts
- Maintained and updated a Fund Log
- Created PowerPoint Presentations for Midyear reviews by collecting, downloading, and inputting data into presentations
- Prepared SM and RAM Business Plans in the IPMS Access Database
- As the financial analyst to the Standard Missile Matrix Manager, I assisted with project data calls to meet deadlines
- I interacted with managers on a daily basis, and had a good rapport with sponsor financial representatives
- I worked with little or no supervision, and I was depended upon to provide accurate and up-to-date reports
- NSWC-Corona Contractor Support
Education
Accounting
Chaffey College
01.2005
Accounting
Mount San Antonio College
01.2002
Beginning Accounting and Excel
Pomona Vocational Center
Pomona, CA01.2000
Diploma -
Montclair High School
01.1997
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Excel
- Power BI
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Microsoft Teams
- OneNote
- Outlook
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- 10-key
- Data Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Pivot Tables
- Charts
- Graphs
Trainingcertificates
- DOD Financial Management Certification Level II, 12/01/19
- Critical Thinking for Problem Solving, 03/01/17
- DOD Financial Management Certification Level I, 06/01/16
- Goal Setting, 12/01/15
- Microsoft Office Excel Level 2, 12/01/14
- Budget Execution, 11/01/13
- Proper Use of Funds, 08/01/11
- Managing Multiple Priorities, 02/01/11
- Appropriations Law, 02/01/09
- Beginning Microsoft ACCESS, 09/01/08
- Practical Comptrollership Course (PCC), 07/01/05
- Enhance Defense Financial Management (EDFM), 04/01/05
- Process Management Training, 08/01/01
Work
(951) 393-4555
References
- Melissa Huyck, Department Contracts Portfolio Manager, melissa.r.huyck.civ@us.navy.mil, 951-393-5157
- Ashleigh Lizarraga, Comptroller Employee Services Supervisor, ashleigh.m.lizarraga.civ@us.navy.mil, 951-393-3972
- Consuelo Zepeda, Technical Project Manager, consuelo.m.zepeda-flowers.civ@us.navy.mil, 951-393-4752
Work Availability
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Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balanceFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsPaid time offPaid sick leave401k match4-day work weekCompany CultureWork from home optionCertification
- DOD Financial Management Certification Level II
Timeline
Financial Team Lead
NSWC-CORONA
12.2017 - Current
Lead Department Budget Analyst
NSWC-CORONA
03.2010 - 01.2017
Program Financial Analyst
NSWC-Corona
08.2007 - 03.2010
Assistant Department Budget Analyst
NSWC-Corona
11.2002 - 08.2007
Financial Analyst
DynCorp
03.2001 - 11.2002
Accounting
Chaffey College
Accounting
Mount San Antonio College
Beginning Accounting and Excel
Pomona Vocational Center
Diploma -
Montclair High School
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