Experience

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  Laguardia community college

  Feb 2009 - now

  Chair face-to-face meetings to discuss financial performance, budget administration, and expenditure, as well as conduct workshops to promote staff engagement. Build and deploy financial plans and strategies for the college while maintaining compliance of all operations with defined budgetary constraints. Draft and generate detailed reports on college-wide and divisional financial performance and present to senior management for informed decision-making. Facilitate comprehensive discussions with College Senate and constituents regularly to critically analyze the effectiveness of financial plans and address relative issues accordingly.▪ Interim Executive Director of Business and Finance, overseeing operations in the Budget, Accounting, and Purchasing offices.▪ Steer all facets of financial policy development while streamlining financial processes with a focus on increasing workflow efficiencies.▪ Manage operational, grant, and capital activities; ensure budgets were implemented, aligned with the college’s mission and strategic priorities. Provide frequent progress reports, expense analysis, and compliance with internal and external stakeholders.▪ Improve the effectiveness of collaborations by facilitating strategic communications on financial and risk matters with various campus constituents, including faculty, administration, and college executives.▪ Assume responsibilities pertinent to budget allocations, funding requests, reimbursements, and financial issues resolution in collaboration with Central Office, University Budget Office, and Office of the University Controller.▪ Review past performance, drive accountability, forecast adverse events, and manage the college's annual budget of $290+ million while structuring multiple financial models and expense projections.▪ Provide president with corrective action plans and effective recommendations by conducting forecast versus actuals analysis, expense projections, and reconciliations. Show less Backed CUNY Central Office personnel in the process of ideating, creating, and, formalizing CUNY first P-Card and travel/expense modules. Ascertained payments implementation under a reasonable yearly budget by processing and reconciling manual accruals. Led all aspects of Oracle’s Financial software transition, involving development, testing, and implementation, while overseeing payroll integration with Financial Edge and ADP software, as well as dispensing resource materials and delivering trainings. Conducted reviews and generated reports on open encumbrance, travel & expense, credit card reconciliation, budgetary activity, and projections, as well as served the New York City Comptroller’s Office in furnishing year-end accountability reports by reconciling imprest and travel accounts.▪ Superintended the completion of all accounting activities on behalf of non-/tax-levy entities, including the LaGuardia Foundation, Auxiliary Enterprises, College Association, Education Fund, and Early Childhood Learning Center.▪ Managed Cash Management, and short and long term investments.▪ Met with Board members regularly to review budgets, and expenses; made recommendations as necessary to ensure milestones and goals were being met.▪ Reduced end-user errors as well as increased vendor payment turnaround by upskilling staff members in areas of travel, expense, departmental receipting, requisition management, procurement, and A/P modules.▪ Entirely resolved all accounting-related issues in conjunction with college departments, vendors, and A/P staff members.▪ Enforced relevant policies and procedures to achieve operational efficiency of the overall accounting process.▪ Restored internal controls and write-off Account Payables by introducing effective policies, procedures, and guidelines.▪ Verified financial statements and paid-up taxes corresponding to non-tax levy entities (990’s, CHAR 500) in facilitating external auditors annually. Show less • Managed, processed, and disbursed student tuition payments including cash, payments plans, scholarships and waivers in accordance with CUNY, Federal and State regulations and directives.• Managed Title IV and TAP remittances; ensured funds were received and accurately reflected in student accounts. Coordinated with the Financial Aid department on student eligibility.• Oversaw the Bursar student lab where we provided one-on-one financial guidance; assisted students with registering for tuition payment plans; provided seminars on various financial related information.• Created and implemented a collection strategy that reduced the delinquency of emergency loans by 20%.• Analyzed and determined student refund eligibility; ensured refunds were distributed in a timely manner.• Monitored student delinquent accounts; analyzed and prepared student records for collection agency submission. • Investigated student concerns and implemented appropriate courses of action.• Investigated defects in the Student Financials module and reported anomalies using the CUNYfirst Customer Relations Management module; resolved issues by coordinating with various key-members in the Central Office.• Trained all staff on the CUNYfirst Student Financials module during implementation; created and maintained all training materials; provided ongoing training on a one-on-one basis and in a classroom setting as needed.• Managed the Bursar website, ensuring pertinent student, faculty and staff information was up-to-date and accurate.• Chaired the Financial Liability Appeals Sub-Committee; met with committee members monthly to make determinations on student tuition appeals based on extenuating circumstances. 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  • Senior Director of Budget and Financial Planning

    Jun 2016 - now

  • Adjunct Lecturer of Business

    Mar 2013 - now

  • Finance Manager

    May 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Bursar Coordinator

    Feb 2009 - May 2013
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  Southern new hampshire university

  Mar 2017 - now

  Adjunct lecturer of business

  Master's Level Business Courses