Dell Chambers

About Dell Chambers

Senior finance manager with over decade of experience managing public sector and…

Experience

1. Senior Associate

   Grant Thornton (US)

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Serve as Team Lead for Budget Execution for contract with U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) Office of Information Technology (OIT). Oversee $4.3B budget portfolio analysis and completion of deliverables. Direct budget analysis for $2B of COVID-19 funding for 2020 – 2022. Assist government agencies to build budgets used by U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the President, working within Federal PPBE process. Manage relationship with large IT organization to assess potential IT programs for supporting decision-making of CIO. Evaluate program risks, likelihood of success, financial requirements, and other aspects of program health. Select Accomplishments:• Improved productivity by 25% by creating dashboard reports that support strategic decision-making of executives, including Congressional Monthly Expense Report (CMER), COVID-19 Report, Budget Review, PO Linking Report, and OIT Budget Allocation Report.• Facilitated succession planning and enhanced new staff onboarding by creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Budget Operating Plan (BOP), Fiscal Year Close Out, Reimbursement Agreements/Interagency Agreements, Payroll Management, and Budget Reviews.• Enabled VA to self-report data issues and risks by creating Budget Execution Compliance report with Share Point team.• Enabled executives to track spending for U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) status meetings by creating COVID-19 reporting dashboard.• Improved business decisions by 22% by creating central repository of unfunded request prioritization management system tool. Developed SOP and dashboard that reported on costs at the lowest level, which was used to make decisions on what unfunded requests should be funded

Skills

• Project Planning
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Visio
• Budgets
• Finance
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Essbase
• Strategy
• Training
• Process Improvement
• Variance Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Auditing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Public Speaking
• Internal Controls
• Analysis
• Management
• Team Building