Asra Kulsum
💰 Financial Analyst | 📊 FP&A | 📈 Forecasting & Variance Analysis | 💡 Data-Driven Decision Maker | 🤖 Python | 🧠 Power BI | 🔍 Risk & Investment Analytics
- Role
- Financial Analyst at Principal Financial Group
- Location
- Springfield-Branson, MO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Asra Kulsum
Senior Java Developer with 6+ years of experience building scalable, secure, and…
Experience
Financial Analyst
Oct 2024 — Present · US
Refining month-end and quarter-end close activities through automated reconciliation processes,shortening reporting cycles by 4 days and saving $210K annually in manual effort. Strengthening forecasting accuracy by integrating advanced Excel models and SQL-based varianceanalysis, reducing budget deviation from 12% to under 5%. Analyzing capital expenditure trends and optimized resource allocation for ongoing projects, preventing $1.8M in potential overspending each fiscal year. Evaluate financial performance across multiple cost centers, identifying inefficiencies that led to an 8%reduction in operating expenses. Streamline data consolidation from SAP, Oracle, and Workday systems, enhancing reporting accuracyand cutting data preparation time by 40%. Employe scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support $60M worth of investment proposals,improving ROI predictability across multiple business units. Advance revenue forecasting precision by leveraging Python-based predictive models, improvingquarterly projections by 15%. Monitoring working capital and cash flow movements, ensuring liquidity stability while optimizinginterest income on idle funds worth $3M annually.
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