Alina May

About Alina May

Financial Services Professional with extensive expertise in operational responsibilities, including P&L, strategic planning and financial management. Highly effective in increasing profitability, growing revenues, tackling tough business issues, streamlining processes through automation, improving the functionality of databases and creating operational efficiencies. Possess strong analytical, leadership, budgeting and management skills. Specialties: Forecasting, Budgeting, Legal Entity Control, Special Purpose Entity Database, Hyperion, Expense Analysis

Experience

1. Finance Team Lead

   Bloomberg

   Jun 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Prepared annual budget, develop and maintained revenue and expense models to project the annual operating baseline budget, interim forecasts and multi-year strategic plans • Owned end-to-end financial planning, managed the full P&L and headcount analysis for the entire division• Analyzed financial results and key trends, assessed current and future business risk and opportunities and effectively communicated insights and actions to company’s leadership team• Implemented pricing and reporting automation for all Bloomberg real-time exchange products including the overall project design, project management, synthesis of various data sources and maintenance across all functional groups • Build a real-time master data file to ensure data integrity and accuracy. Utilized the created master file to recommend strategic direction for finance processes and data management including design, operation, innovation and implementation• Maintained business partnerships with key contacts, maintaining account structures and working closely with clients to define financial and operational reporting needs• Provided operational support to business by providing insight, feedback and recommendations on various business workflows, process enhancements and key reporting tools• Provided monthly variance analysis based on changes in subscribership, pricing and FX movements• Provided financial and operational reporting for revenue and expenses, prepared monthly dashboards and developed financial projections• Led team responsible for ensuring exchange vendor reporting and supporting internal systems are accurate and compliant with contractual requirements• Implemented detailed analytical models and forecasting methodology for exchange costs and revenues to evaluate areas of risk and opportunities• Managed a team of internal and external resources, which led to a successful implementation of the FX Pricing tool and Reporting Automation for the firm

Education

• Pace University

  Public Accounting

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Accounting
• Internal Controls
• Leadership
• Financial Analysis
• Analytical Skills
• General Ledger
• Analysis
• Financial Accounting
• Hyperion Enterprise
• Equities
• Investment Banking
• Budgets
• Finance
• Gaap
• Capital Markets
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Financial Risk
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Services