Dana Blakey

About Dana Blakey

I have a high degree of self-motivation, strong communicative skills and human relations expertise, excellent organizational capabilities, and a broad base of competent accounting and managerial skills qualify me. I also enjoy personal planning administration and execution of working endeavors. Specialties: account reconciliation, GAAP, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accruals, billing, business intelligence, cash flow, cash management, closing, conversion, customer relations, financial reporting, financial statements, fixed assets, general ledger, sales tax government Fund accounting, SAP, Great Plains Dynamics, PeopleSoft, Kronos, Lawson, Microsoft Suite and Oracle.

Experience

1. Senior Financial Management Associate

   Ey

   Sep 2017 — Present · Atlanta, GA

   Analyzing and monitoring a multi-client portfolio (240 Million portfolio) for Tax Service Line. Providing recommendations to 50+ EY Partners for financial improvements. Monitoring COGS, time and expenses, and margin. Preparing reports (P&L, Variance Analysis, Budget versus Actuals, and Risk Analysis reports) to summarize financial performance and impacts.•Preparing daily and monthly reports to structure financial forecast; preparing and summarizing financial data to identify potential financial risks.(Statement of Operations, Expense, and Cash Flows).•Providing support to client servers, leading and providing guidance for preparing scenario analysis and pricing trends. Managing the company\'s monthly financial close process; monitoring trends to improve margin.•Providing daily supervision and direction to personnel; preparing sale reports; Training other FMAs, as well as client-serving executives (CSE). Identify and providing recommendations to, Partner, and Director of Finance to reduce risk for standard portfolio. Providing recommendations for strategic growth and improving margin.

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  Masters

  2013 — 2015

• DeVry University

  Bachelor's

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• General Ledger
• Budgeting
• Fixed Assets
• Analysis
• Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Financial Statements
• Cash Management
• Peoplesoft
• Accounting
• Asset Management
• Access
• Account Reconciliation
• Accounts Payable
• Internal Controls
• Bank Reconciliation
• Income Tax
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Balance
• Financial Analysis
• Finance
• Journal Entries
• Quickbooks
• Tax Preparation
• Microsoft Access
• Tax
• Gaap
• Leadership
• Auditing
• Analytical Skills
• Sap
• Budgets
• Payroll
• Accounts Receivable