Erik Eckerson, CPA, CISA

Experience

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  MIL Corporation

  Sept 2009 - Jun 2016

  As a Senior Accountant at MIL, I provided a variety of accounting tasks while supporting the Momentum operational accounting system for a Federal agency. My work as a Senior Systems Accountant at MIL demonstrated the following skills and experience:• Preparing reconciliations for monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.• Developing specifications for General Ledger (GL) posting logic which adheres to accounting and technical requirements and presenting findings to senior leadership.• Identifying and resolving General Ledger (GL) posting model issues. Creating journal voucher transactions to update postings and ensure proper audit documentation is maintained.• Monitoring accounting system compliance with Accounting and Governmental regulations including USSGL Treasury Guidance, Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM), Foreign Affairs Handbook (FAH), and OMB Circular A-123.• Developing SQL queries to isolate, extract and analyze accounting system data. Show less As a Systems Analyst at MIL, I provided a variety of technical accounting functions while supporting the Momentum operational accounting system for a Federal agency. My work as a Systems Accountant at MIL demonstrated the following skills and experience:• Providing technical accounting system support during the year-end Annual Close process.• Executing batch interface transactions and monitoring the impact of transactions in the accounting system and resolving issues as they arise.• Developing customized financial reports using SAP BusinessObjects software.• Identifying time-consuming internal business processes and implement process improvements.• Developing and maintaining detailed design documents to define business, functional and technical requirements. Show less

  • Senior Systems Accountant

    Jul 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Systems Analyst

    Sept 2009 - Jul 2014
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  PwC

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2017

  Program Manager

  At PwC, I supported the audit readiness program for a Federal agency and its various reporting entities. My work at PwC demonstrated the following skills and experience:• Facilitating efforts to achieve unmodified Financial Statement audit opinions by working with reporting entities and service providers to design and implement process improvements for the agency’s audit readiness program. • Developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) which outline processes for developing, reviewing, and reporting Financial Operations metrics. • Designing and implementing process improvement plans which attain Financial Operations metrics goals.• Providing program management services to coordinate, manage, and support all contractually required activity, including submission of contractual deliverables.• Reviewing and validating Statement of Work (SOW) proposals. Providing Quality Assurance to ensure projects are delivered to the scope defined in the SOW and any deviations adhere to defined change control processes.• Participating in business development activities, including evaluation of potential opportunities, leading pursuit efforts, and developing proposal responses. Show less

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  CGI

  Sept 2017 - now

  Senior Business Analyst

  My current role at CGI is a Senior Business Analyst supporting CGI Federal’s Momentum ERP (Momentum), an operational accounting system designed for federal agencies. I work in a client-facing role as the Momentum product owner, where I support agency stakeholders in defining the product roadmap and driving the day-to-day financial operations and product development schedule from design through release. My responsibilities at CGI include:• Managing technical programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules for agency-wide periodic reporting processes including Financial Statements, 1099 reporting, Cash (Fund Balance with Treasury) reporting, and Annual Close.• Developing rapid solutions to simplify and automate everyday processes. Leading cross-functional teams including software development engineers to design, simplify and automate everyday processes and deploy in an agile manner.• Writing code using SQL to engineer custom financial reports and automated process improvements for Finance and Accounting stakeholders.• Leading business process re-engineering efforts for ensuring eligible vendor payments comply with IRS requirements for backup and foreign tax withholding.• Managing Momentum software development processes for prioritizing, scheduling, delivering and launching financial system product releases and incorporating enhancement requests to existing features.• Supporting Momentum product releases and implementation efforts by developing release plans, functional requirements, technical design documents, test scripts, and conducting end-to-end system testing, regression testing, and user-acceptance testing. Show less