Bazie Bates

About Bazie Bates

B••••••••@gmail.com21••••••30Combining Corporate and Operational Financial Planning & Analysis Expertise with IT technical skills.Highly accomplished, results-driven Senior Financial Management professional with more than 18 years of progressive experience in finance and operations management within $600M to global multi-billion dollars organizations supporting business units in Financial Services, Retail, Distribution, Manufacturing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), IT Outsourcing, Print/Mail, Construction Management, Paper Digitalization, Telecom and Corporate environments. Extensive and diverse experience in leading all aspects of Budgeting, Forecasting, Capital Planning, Monthly Business Review meeting and Financial & Operational Analysis as well as numerous areas within Accounting. Excellent communicator with the ability to present financial reporting and analysis to target audience in an easily understandable format. Adept at leading and managing cross-functional and international teams. Demonstrated ability in building financial infrastructure that streamlined accounting and reporting procedures. Extensive financial and accounting software capabilities including Oracle Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft Excel, and TM1. Strengthsfinder Top 5 Strengths – Learner, Teacher, Adapter, Aggressive (when required), and Listener Areas of Expertise • Financial Analysis & Reporting • Management Reporting • Budgets & Forecasts • Project Management • Consolidations • Performance Measurement • Accounting System Implementation • Capital Planning • Financial Trainer • GL / AP & AR • Shared Services Management • Cost Control • Process Improvement • Off-shore Staff Management • Financial Liaison • Financial Templates Development • Microsoft Excel VBA Coder • Staff Development

Experience

1. Sr Principal Consultant

   Cognizant

   Jan 2023 — Present · US

   My role is to lead the steps of Adaptive Planning implementation, a Workday product. I perform duties ranging from requirements gathering through the configuration and testing of the Adaptive instances. I\'m tasked with making sure our clients implementation experiences are successful and uneventful.

Education

• East Texas A&M University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business

  2004 — 2007

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Bachelor's Degree, Accounting

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Accounts Payable
• Financial Forecasting
• Budgeting
• Offshoring
• Management
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Planning
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Account Reconciliation
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Accounts Receivable
• Hyperion
• Ifrs
• General Ledger
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Consolidation
• Cost Accounting
• Strategic Planning
• Fixed Assets
• Financial Modeling
• Income Statement
• Cash Flow
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Capital Budgeting
• Financial Reporting
• Internal Audit
• Analysis
• Executive Management
• Financial Audits
• Revenue Recognition
• Internal Controls
• Budgets
• Shared Services
• Finance
• Cash Management
• Essbase
• Hyperion Enterprise
• People Development