TONY RAY
Venice,FL
Summary
Senior Analyst with exceptional teamwork, leadership and communication skills. Over 30 years of experience working on large-scale projects as well handling daily operational requests. Exceptional technical understanding to meet project deadlines.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Analyst
VNO/THANKS Cost Reduction Group
- Prepare monthly and ad-hoc presentations for upper management
- Assist in cost reduction activities in plant and at suppliers
- Work with Purchasing management to gain agreement on cost reductions
Senior Financial Analyst, Product Cost Consultant/Senior Financial Analyst
Monozukuri Capital Group
- Assisted in developing capital budgets and Product Introduction Cost for various projects
- Monitored capital spending and Product Introduction Costs on various projects to ensure regulations were being followed
- Reported monthly to upper management
- Product Economic Control -, Extensive interactions with various departments as a business advisor to help ensure decisions are financially sound for the overall profitability of Nissan on a global basis
- Worked extensively with Monozukuri staff, Program Directors, and upper management to ensure program capital expenditures are reasonable and that they are within program budgets
- Responsible for coordinating and completing global cost and profit monitors
- Responsible for completing vehicle manufacturing plans and ensuring these plans are accurately reflected in contract
- Involved in the calculation of transfer pricing.
Financial Analyst
- Created the Profit by Product manually in Excel on a monthly basis
- Compiled, analyzed, and presented the monthly financial package to upper management
- Analyzed monthly variances on the profit by product to prior periods as well as the business plan
- Tony Ray (cont.)
- Responsible for creating forecasts for Manufacturing
- Responsible for monthly manpower tracking and reporting
- Developed and analyzed cost studies for proposed manufacturing projects
- Developed fringe benefit budget for manufacturing.
Cost Analyst
- Responsible for the monthly purchased parts analysis for two vehicles
- Maintained system accounting treatments
- Involved in minor model pricing analysis.
Business Office Manager
- Responsible for all Business Office operations involving patient accounts, including billing, reimbursement, and patient complaints
- Managed twenty employees
- Developed front end collection procedures
- Revised overall collection process.
Human Resources – Strategic Workforce Planning – Senior Analyst, Program Lead, Senior Planner
Nissan North America
12.1996 - 07.2020
- Responsible for Headcount Reporting
- Work closely with management from various groups and locations
- Heavy emphasis on special projects
- Experience with Tableau and SAP
- Human Resources – Alternative Workforce Solutions –, Responsible for governance of multiple third party vendors
- Responsible for analyzing, planning, and executing headcount shifts between multiple locations
- Prepare and review presentations with upper management
- Responsible for tracking Labor Cost Benefit of executed and planned projects
- Work closely with management from various groups and locations
- Nissan Pricing Strategy -, Responsible for analyzing and reporting pricing and positioning of various vehicles
- Prepare and present pricing proposals to senior management
- Prepare Price/Value forms for product lifecycles
- Work closely with multiple groups
Director of Accounting
Columbia Florence Hospital
09.1994 - 12.1996
- Responsible for all day to day accounting operations
- Developed month end closing guide
- Maintained general ledger for five entities
- Initiated and established payroll direct deposit for employees
- Prepared capital, service demand, and operations business plan.
Office Manager and Accountant
American Abrasive, Inc
04.1993 - 09.1994
- Developed month end closing process
- Responsible for processing payroll
- Responsible for employee benefits.
Auditor-in-Charge
USDA – Office of Inspector General
01.1991 - 04.1993
- Responsible for auditing a wide range of programs of the Department of Agriculture including Food Stamp, Program, Women, Infant, and Children's Feeding Program, and Farmers Home Administration
- Supervised audit teams
- Responsible for writing audit programs.
Internal Revenue Agent
Internal Revenue Service
01.1987 - 01.1991
- Responsible for auditing personal and business federal tax returns
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of North Alabama
Florence, AL1996
Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Finance
University of North Alabama
Florence, AL1989
Skills
- Microsoft Office (Project, Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)
- Presentation Development and Delivery
- Present Findings
- Sales and Marketing Support
- Valuation
- Business Acumen
- Presentations and Decks
- Data Analysis
- Report Preparation
- Price Testing and Analysis
- Data and Analytics
- Capital and Resource Allocation
Timeline
Human Resources – Strategic Workforce Planning – Senior Analyst, Program Lead, Senior Planner
Nissan North America
12.1996 - 07.2020
Director of Accounting
Columbia Florence Hospital
09.1994 - 12.1996
Office Manager and Accountant
American Abrasive, Inc
04.1993 - 09.1994
Auditor-in-Charge
USDA – Office of Inspector General
01.1991 - 04.1993
Internal Revenue Agent
Internal Revenue Service
01.1987 - 01.1991
Senior Analyst
VNO/THANKS Cost Reduction Group
Senior Financial Analyst, Product Cost Consultant/Senior Financial Analyst
Monozukuri Capital Group
Financial Analyst
Cost Analyst
Business Office Manager
Master of Business Administration -
University of North Alabama
Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Finance
University of North Alabama
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