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Male
48 years old
San Diego, California
United States
Salary: 175 USD/Yearly
Education: master's degree
Relocate: Yes
Areas of Expertise: accounting/finance, business/mgmt, internet/Software/
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SPENCER L. BRADY, MBA La Jolla, CA 92039-3002 slb.one@usa.net 858.775.9991 SUMMARY Executive Finance, Administration, and IT professional with emphasis on large-cap, publicly traded organizations and management philosophy that stresses results ownership. Extensive PMO and IT accounting/finance experience with proven results in department turnaround situations. Strong ability to manage people, processes, and technology, while ensuring positive program and client relationships. Expertise in accounting policy development, cost management, metrics, forecasting, knowledge transfer and transfer pricing. Additional skills and abilities include: - Former IT CFO & Controller
| | | | - SME in IT Finance Management
| - Software capitalization – SOP 98-1
| - Client Server Security Remediation
| - GAAP and statutory accounting
| - Infrastructure Management – ITIL
| - Contract and SLA negotiations/management
| - CRM Application Conversion and Support
| | - ERP Application Development, Conversion, Support – PeopleSoft, SAP, Treasury Services
| - Product/organization costing/profitability – KPIs
| - Program Management – CMMI3, FLCSWD, PMI, PMO, SDLC
| - Business Intelligence – dashboards, scorecards, metrics
| - Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404 Engagement Management/Remediation
| - Revenue recognition – SAB 101, 104; SOP 81-1, 91-1, 97-2, 98-9, VSOE
| - Earned Value Management – EAC, ETC, EVM, TCO
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SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING EXPERIENCE SPENCER L. BRADY, LLC, San Diego, CA 1998 – PresentExecutive Program Director for Finance, Accounting, and Information TechnologyAn LLC-formed company principal working for medium-to-large market-cap organizations in long-term engagements that strive to provide strategic, operational, financial, infrastructure, and technology-related advisory services. Industry segments include financial services (banking, credit card, mortgage and insurance), aerospace, defense, automotive, utilities, consumer electronics, information technology, and software development. Engagements have been governed by a Consulting Agreement (CA), coupled with a Statement of Work (SOW). SPECIFIC CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS SAIC, San Diego, CA 2007 – 2008· Added financial acumen to the IT Department as it supported a variety of financially based, enterprise-wide platform and application conversions and development efforts.· Created business cases for PMO-driven projects (Deltek CostPoint, SAP R/3, PeopleSoft).· Conducted due-diligence and architectural analysis on proposed legacy retirement initiatives.· Provided an “IT CFO mindset” to the business analysis organization, including project management leadership.· RFL: Company-wide mandated Reduction-In-Force. SPENCER L. BRADY, MBA 858.775.9991 Page Two SONY ELECTRONICS, San Diego, CA 2006 – 2007· Defined global infrastructure best practices and business process changes, developed planning templates, and created a project prioritization process.· Interfaced with the SOX assurance team, and created a project forecasting tool.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. VISA, Foster City, CA 2006· Ensured all Visa Inovant infrastructure assets met all applicable security standards and business process flows, in accordance with SOX.· Identified all hardware, transferred ownership to proper entities, tracked the test script progress/results, reported statistical data to the Corporate PMO, and advised Visa IT management of progress and impediments.· Project completed on time, and under budget.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Los Angeles, CA 2005 – 2006· Led and advised both infrastructure and enterprise-wide ERP projects and programs, met or exceeded client expectations relative to requirements, functionality, schedule, and cost.· Effectively managed people, processes, and technology; leading teams of certified, licensed, degreed PM, IT, Software Engineers, and audit professionals and consultants.· Created, reviewed, and revised project plans, workflow, and test plan results, utilizing CMMI, PMI, MS Office, EVM, Waterfall, WADM, RUP, MSF, COSO, and CObIT frameworks.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. CONTROL SOLUTIONS, INTERNATIONAL (CSI), San Diego, CA 2004 – 2005· Managed SOX project team, consisting of eight degreed, certified financial professionals.· Identified controls, highlighted key controls, constructed test plans to verify soundness of the key controls, performed remediation activities, communicated results of audits to management.· Conducted business polices and procedures review concerning software revenue recognition and software capitalization.· Interfaced with management team, external audit team (PwC), and internationally-based CSI team to ensure project scope, plan, timeline, resource pool, an operating budget remained on target.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON, Los Angeles, CA 2003 – 2004 · Provided managerial leadership and direction to the Finance and Administration group as the accounting policy and systems coordinator. Areas of emphasis included GAAP and SOP 81-1, 91-1, SOP 97-2, SOP 98-9, and SOP 98-1 compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Corporate Governance, UOP, FERC, statutory accounting, regulatory statutes, and company policies.· Managed the creation and operation of a data warehouse environment.· Produced budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, costing metrics, dashboards, and regulatory filings.· Responsible for corporate and business unit ERP application development, support, reporting, and enhancement.· Directed periodic G/L close, reconciliation, and other financial reporting and analyses.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed.
SPENCER L. BRADY, MBA 858.775.9991 Page Three TOYOTA, Los Angeles, CA 2001 – 2002 Accountable for $70M of expense and related program capital funding for one of the Big Five IT projects; managed the finance and administration function for the program.· Managed the finance and administration function for the program.· Coordinated department and project participation in an ERP software upgrade.· Produced accurate forecasts to within 1% of actual (EAC, ETC) of division, department, and project profitability.· Delivered concise presentations of financial/operating results to executive management.· Established effective billing algorithms, chargeback methodologies, and operating metrics for IT services. · RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP, Los Angeles, CA 1999 – 2001Accountable for $140M of IT Department operating expenses/related capital funding and for managing a team of nine accounting professionals.· Served as a member of the executive management team.· Responsible for functional business unit ERP application conversion.· Directed periodic G/L close, reconciliation, review of SOP 98-1 calculations.· Managed the company’s fiscal relationship with off-shore development and support organizations, such as Wipro.· Directed the development, reporting, and analysis of operating and financial budgets.· Created forecasting tools for use by management in controlling the overall enterprise.· Directed the department’s participation in a conversion to SAP from an antiquated in-house system.· Managed participation in audit engagements conducted by internal and external sources.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, Des Moines, IA 1998 – 1999 Accountable for a P&L totaling $140M.· Provided leadership (staff of 10), P&L Authority ($140M), department direction as the IT CFO.· Conducted partner-focused strategic business unit planning sessions.· Coordinated the financial management of joint-venture activities.· Directed the development, reporting, and analysis of operating and financial budgets.· Coordinated department turn-around process involving Finance unit.· Managed participation in audit engagements conducted by internal and external sources.· RFL: CA/SOW successfully completed. CORPORATE-HELD POSITIONS NATIONAL CITY BANK, Cleveland, OH 1996 – 1998Senior Financial OfficerResponsible for the financial control function of the Mortgage and IT business units, and for providing leadership during the installation of a new profitability reporting system. Also, was responsible for the financial management of a banking unit.RFL: Started LLC consulting firm.
SPENCER L. BRADY, MBA 858.775.9991 Page Four KEY BANK, Cleveland, OH 1993 – 1996Cost Management OfficerResponsible for the financial cost management function within IT, and for providing strategic planning, forecasting, and reporting services within corporate accounting.RFL: Merger-related Reduction-In-Force. BANK OF AMERICA, San Diego, CA 1987 – 1993Division Finance Manager, Financial Services SystemResponsible for the financial control function of the IT business unit.RFL: Merger-related Reduction-In-Force. EDUCATION · MBA, Management and Finance – Arizona State & Western International Universities Tempe & Phoenix, AZ· BS, Social and Behavioral Sciences – Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ SPENCER L. BRADY, MBA 858.775.9991 Page Five END-USER, MID-RANGE, AND MAINFRAME COMPUTING COMPETENCY
| · ARIS Business Designer, 7.0· ARIS IT Architect, 7.0· BMC Remedy· Business Objects’ Crystal Reports, 9.0· cc:Mail, 4.02· Computer Associates’ Clarity/Niku· Computer Associates’ MICS, 6.0· Computer Associates’ SAR, 1.6.7· D&B Millennium G/L, 2.0· Harvard Graphics, 2.0· Hyperion Essbase Reporting Module· Hyperion Pillar Planning Module· IBM DOS, 5.0· IBM PS/PC, 1.3· Lawson G/L· Lotus 1-2-3, 3.1+· Lotus Notes, 6.5· Lotus Symphony, 2.0· Microsoft Access, 2.0· Microsoft Excel, 10.0· Microsoft Office, 4.3· Microsoft Outlook, 5.0· Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0· Microsoft Sharepoint,· Microsoft Windows, XP Professional· Microsoft Word, 10.0· Pace KOMAND, 3.4· PeopleSoft, 8.9· SAP, R/3· Structured Query Language· Summit OPS/PPS, 4.1i/5.2· WordPerfect, 6.0a |
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