Rob Ayres

About Rob Ayres

Career Overview:Accomplished Credit and Risk Manager with over 20 years of experience in both public and private companies. Senior level financial management and leadership within early stage, high growth, sustained and restructuring environments. Proven successes in planning and leading strategic B2B billings, claims, annual budget, monthly and quarterly forecast, annual budget process, call-center operations, reporting, cost-reduction initiatives, operational reviews, improvements, strong analytical skills, leadership skills and relationship building. Manager and supervisory experience in both union and non-union environments. Led a number of collection projects that yielded more than $4.0 million in annual savings, and write-off reductions from 8% of total accounts-receivable down to below 3% year-over-year.Specialties: Credit & collections, budgeting, reporting, cost-reduction, operational process creation, review & improvement, treasury, payments, billing, policies, project management and accounts payable

Experience

1. Senior Financial Analyst

   Nicor Gas

   Oct 2019 — Present · Naperville, IL, US

Education

• Eastern Illinois University

  B.S. Accounting, Accounting

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Internal Audit
• Natural Gas
• Collections
• Project Planning
• Insurance
• Budgets
• Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Financial Analysis
• Word
• Sox
• Accounts Receivable
• Business Process
• Internal Controls
• Outlook
• Variance Analysis
• Credit
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Accounting
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Access
• Process Improvement
• Cost Reduction
• Energy
• Customer Service
• Financial Reporting
• Analysis
• Risk Management
• Call Center
• Call Centers
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Strategy
• Peoplesoft
• Account Reconciliation
• Accounts Payable
• Accounting
• Restructuring
• General Ledger