Melissa Berg

Experience

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  Siemens Energy

  May 2012 - May 2013

  Distributed Generation Services -Region Latin America• Created a forecast process which harmonized data collection to streamline regional entity reporting• Planning lead for FY14 budgeting process • Developed Excel tool that identifies and tracks over 900 people and consolidates information from 4 business units and 10 countries to provide management with clear visibility of supporting resources • Maintained SharePoint website to increase communication effectiveness between headquarters and regional entities Show less

  • Financial Analyst Co-op

    Aug 2012 - May 2013

  • Financial Analyst Summer Intern

    May 2012 - Aug 2012
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  Siemens Energy, Inc.

  May 2013 - now

  • Responsible for the financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and invoicing of long-term service projects within the gas turbine business with a portfolio of approximately $600M.• Managing projects alongside the project manager with the objective of timely execution, deliveries, and optimized financial results.• Presenting the current financial status of the projects on a quarterly bases to Segment/Executive management.• Supporting the Sales/Project managers with financial analysis for ongoing project renegotiations with the customer.• Daily collaboration with the project manager to identify risks and opportunities within the projects.• Supporting the RNA Fleet Pool with monthly financial analysis and journal entries.• Creating a quarterly headcount productivity report to support visibility for management.• New collaboration model (NCM) Coordinator for LTP regions Latin America, Europe, and Middle East.• NA Service Digitalization Lead- actively sharing current digitalization measures and creating a digitalization plan for the worldwide finance community within the business unit.• Providing efficient solutions to current department processes using UI Path, Alteryx, and Tableau.• 1st Place RLA PUMATHON winner in FY21. Total project savings registered in Pumaweb is over $3m.• Pursuing the next level of Siemens CPM certification program: CPM Small Projects Show less Power Generation Services-Region Latin America• Prepare and present a monthly forecast of the regional income statement to Siemens headquarters in Germany• Consolidate, analyze, and present actuals, forecast, and budget financials for 11 Countries and 11 service lines with a portfolio of approximately €600M.• Prepare offshore Order Entry, Revenue, and Profit financials• Evaluate open A/R and create a cash collections forecast• Supported commercial topics and the sales team by performing financial calculations for project bids during the LOA process and ensured new projects were compliant with the new collaboration model for cross-border projects.• Manage Salesforce potential order data and collaborate with Sales and Marketing team to create a financial forecast• Design and maintain Alteryx workflows to detect forecast changes among large amounts of data for which I won an SD Coin award.• Facilitate the creation of guarantees while also monitoring open guarantees to ensure timely cancellation• Planning lead for the budgeting process and Business Target Agreement activities• Continually increase efficiency of reporting and forecasting by automating and improving processes • Researched and presented new business models to Siemens Executive Financial Leadership Team as part of the Growing Talents program.• Presented to an audience of 200 Siemens Employees as part of a talent panel at an RLA Leadership Meeting• Graduated from the Siemens WINS Mentoring Program• Supervise and coach interns Show less Distributed Generation Services-Region Latin America• Prepared and presented a monthly forecast of income statement keylines for 11 countries and 4 product lines to upper management• Coordinated and led business review meetings with product lines to discuss financials, projects, forecasts, and business trends• Improved collaboration with product line colleagues which increased EBIT forecast accuracy 14% Y-o-Y• Participated in project reviews as a World Project Controller• Monitored Field Service budget clearance and facilitated yearly planning• Planning lead for the budgeting process and Business Target Agreement activities• Performed quarterly business reviews and created PowerPoint presentations to provide analysis to support upper management strategic decision making• Automated and improved productivity of forecasting process• Managed and coached two interns Show less

  • Commercial Project Manager

    Mar 2020 - now

  • Financial Analyst

    Nov 2015 - Mar 2020

  • Financial Analyst

    May 2013 - Nov 2015