Emily Beckerwerth

Experience

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  Moore, Camp, Phillips and Patterson LLP

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1995

  Temporary Tax Season Help

  Completed Individual and Partnership tax forms

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  Alliance Data

  Jun 1995 - Jan 2016

  Collaborated with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) directors in various lines of business to understand changes in their planning/analytic needs, as well as created and implemented Oracle Hyperion and Oracle OBIEE solutions. Member of the Financial Applications IT governance team. Managed project teams averaging 5 to 15 people. Recruited, developed, and retained top-quality talent and built a highly effective, cross-functional core staff numbering 7 personnel. Implemented a 2-year-long, multifunctional Treasury Servicer Application project to replace a manual approval process and Excel spreadsheets that strengthened the audit controls for reporting on an average of $13B receivables. Executed a $1M Oracle Financial Analytics initiative for one of Alliance Data’s divisions that came in under plan by 15%. Carried out a Loyalty Air Miles Planning Application with complex, dynamic formulas in less than 12 months. Facilitated an IT SOX season with minimal second requests and no defects by strengthening IT Audit controls (2015). Recommended and facilitated the streamlining of over 20 Essbase cubes containing $15B in receivables and $740M in delinquency data. This process created data dictionaries, validation of data loads and added over 10 complex analytic formulas that strengthened the Governance and reliability for those cubes.  Managed risk for the organization in areas of business continuity and disaster recovery Show less Partnered with the FP&A Vice President to provide financial, analytic, and strategic planning information to the executive committee that led to increased visibility and predictability in financial performance. Prepared monthly financial reports to support decision making and maintained the company’s current-year and long-term forecasts. Identified and recommended capital spending and investment alternatives across lines of businesses. Oversaw financial planning process and prepared leaders for review with executive management team. Created financial models and reports using Oracle Essbase, PeopleSoft nVision, and Microsoft Excel.  Led the annual budgeting and strategic planning process for the company. Communicated the consolidated results to the FP&A Vice President.  Supported the Management’s Discussion and Analysis as well as the preparation for the quarterly earnings release by providing reporting and adhoc analysis. Identified and recommended spending and investment alternatives across lines of business. Collaborated with leadership to create steering committees that prioritize project spending and generated a budget that better aligned projections with actuals. Decreased payroll expenses by developing a pivot table that enabled management to be comfortable with waiting to hire new and replacement employees. Goal setting for the team and alignment of Finance staff resources with key initiatives through team leadership, coaching and mentoring skills Drove efficiency and profitability through gathering and interpreting metrics and related industry drivers. Modernized monthly forecast and annual budget process, which included completing the monthly annual forecast by business day 9, which allowed leaders an extra day to evaluate results and management to develop multiple scenarios. In the modernization, member formulas were added and updated to provide consistent reporting amount all entities. Show less  Approved Revenue, Expenses, Asset, Liabilities, Interunit and Intercompany journal entries and accruals prepared by general ledger accountants and managed month end closing.  Participated in reducing the Line of Business Billing close process from 5 days to 3 business days.  Used PeopleSoft Query to mine revenue data and drivers, then in Microsoft Excel modeled trends and provide forecast insight.  Provided timely explanations of variances between actual results and forecasts/budgets.  Acquisition Integration into company’s accounting system, made recommendations on staffing needs and created transition plan and timing schedule. Implement company’s Accounting Policies and interpreted guidance in regards to accounting transactions. Reviewed audit schedules and coordinated audit work papers with internal audit team Ensured completion and reviewed balance sheet reconciliations and communicated findings Communicated with finance team on financial accounting and reporting deliverables, issues and process improvements Prepared multiple departments monthly forecasts and annual budgets Participated in the annual budgeting and strategic planning process Performed ad hoc analyses Led and managed a team of eight professionals Show less • Assisted in the preparation of monthly financial statements, including detailed variance and trend analysis for management review• Analyzed and reconcile balance sheet accounts • Prepared ad hoc reports for management • Assisted in the production of monthly forecasts and annual budgets• Assisted management in training new staff• Enhanced productivity by using Hyperion to automate Balance Sheet Reconciliations and Income Statement Variances• Provided annual support for audits Show less

  • Sr Mgr, Enterprise Performance Management

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  • Dir, Financial Planning and Analysis

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2012

  • Accounting Manager

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2005

  • General Ledger Accountant

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • Billing Accountant

    Jun 1995 - Jan 1997
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  ClubCorp

  May 2018 - Aug 2020

  Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
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  Atmos Energy

  Aug 2020 - now

  • Finance Manager

    Aug 2022 - now

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    Aug 2020 - Aug 2022