Resume - 2015

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RANDY CLEMENS KNOXVILLE, TN (865) 604-6113 RANDYCLEMENS@HOTMAIL.COM PROJECT ACCOUNTANT/ANALYST/TRAINER An established project accountant and analyst with proven experience supervising a senior team, budget creation, high level communication skills, cost proposal writing, managing multi-million dollar project setups, strict adherence to protocol and government compliance, and process improvement. Work closely with project lead team to develop and lead training, track metrics, troubleshoot new processes and suggest new paths forward, streamline existing processes, and a proven record of effective communication and presentation skills. Core Competencies Government and Commercial Contract RFP Familiarity Proficient and Effective Trainer and Presenter in Large or Small Groups Highly Analytical and Work Creatively to Find Solutions Team 1 st Mentality Budget Creation and Reporting Self-Motivated Professional Strong Leadership Experience Process Mapping for Potential Efficiencies 15 Years Advanced Excel Experience (Macros - Pivots) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Leidos (previously SAIC) 2008 – Current Project Accountant II – Federal Lead Subject Matter Expert and Trainer for Deltek Costpoint and Contracts Systems. Configured new and existing projects to achieve SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) controls and company objectives for cost accumulation, revenue recognition, and reporting. Responsible for analyzing contract documents and recommending solutions for proper revenue recognition, tracking, compliance, and billing. Manage federal direct project setup meetings with cross-functional team; directed Costpoint new project setup or changes, including communicating and completing project change requests, concerns or status updates. Create proper Costpoint structures while interpreting contractual requirements, revenue formulas, billing and reporting, wage determination, tax setup and schema and Project Management (PMO) fees. Manipulate and download data via Hyperion Enterprise, knowledge of tables and use of queries to extract information into reporting tables, views, pivot charts, groupings, and downloadable data files for use in MS Excel. Manage indirect project strict adherence to Corporate WBS structure for the Sector.

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RANDY CLEMENSKNOXVILLE, TN ♦ (865) 604-6113 ♦ [email protected]

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT/ANALYST/TRAINERAn established project accountant and analyst with proven experience supervising a senior team, budget creation, high level communication skills, cost proposal writing, managing multi-million dollar project setups, strict adherence to protocol and government compliance, and process improvement. Work closely with project lead team to develop and lead training, track metrics, troubleshoot new processes and suggest new paths forward, streamline existing processes, and a proven record of effective communication and presentation skills.

Core Competencies

Government and Commercial Contract RFP Familiarity

Proficient and Effective Trainer and Presenter in Large or Small Groups

Highly Analytical and Work Creatively to Find Solutions

Team 1st Mentality Budget Creation and Reporting Self-Motivated Professional Strong Leadership Experience Process Mapping for Potential

Efficiencies 15 Years Advanced Excel

Experience (Macros - Pivots)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Leidos (previously SAIC) 2008 – CurrentProject Accountant II – Federal Lead Subject Matter Expert and Trainer for Deltek Costpoint and Contracts Systems. Configured new and existing projects to achieve SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) controls and company objectives for cost accumulation, revenue recognition, and reporting. Responsible for analyzing contract documents and recommending solutions for proper revenue recognition, tracking, compliance, and billing.

Manage federal direct project setup meetings with cross-functional team; directed Costpoint new project setup or changes, including communicating and completing project change requests, concerns or status updates.

Create proper Costpoint structures while interpreting contractual requirements, revenue formulas, billing and reporting, wage determination, tax setup and schema and Project Management (PMO) fees.

Manipulate and download data via Hyperion Enterprise, knowledge of tables and use of queries to extract information into reporting tables, views, pivot charts, groupings, and downloadable data files for use in MS Excel.

Manage indirect project strict adherence to Corporate WBS structure for the Sector.

Key Achievements

Participated in conversion of 5,000 projects valued at over $1.3B from BST into Costpoint while managing the Federal PA team on normal daily activity.

Trained over 40 employees in indirect project setup, contracts systems, and/or Costpoint project setup and acting Subject Matter Expert for our Sector.

Managed team that input over 638 new awards worth an estimated $408M in value in the last 12 months and $437M in just over 2,000 modifications while meeting all Standard Level Agreements for response times.

PAI Corporation June 2007 – December 2007Accountant/Financial Analyst

Consultant hired to assist with cost proposal writing, month end financial reporting and journal entries.

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Prepared and processed all monthly invoices, AP vouchers, JEs, reversals, adjustments, and entered all timesheets to create the weekly payroll batch. Worked directly with the Controller on all financial issues.

Advanced Academics February 2005 – May 2007Accountant/Financial Analyst

Worked directly with the CFO on all accounting duties from budgets, tracking fixed assets, depreciation, board presentation material, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and monthly financial packages. Also added additional value by working with the Sales Department to develop Process Mapping to help identify and address gaps to help streamline our sales process.

Improved company budget process, tracked all departments’ monthly activity, and aided in year-end projections.

Created internal expense reports and verified and processed all employee travel reimbursements (Excel Macros).

Processed, tracked, reconciled, and reported on all AP and AR transactions for the entire company.

Key Achievements

Member of the Process Mapping Team created to help identify and address gaps to help streamline our sales processes.

Worked directly with multiple departments to settle system related issues with the IT coding team.

Advancia Corporation July 2001 – February 2005Accounts Payable/Receivable Specialist

Hired as an Accounts Payable Specialist right out of college I quickly learned the system, the intricacies of government contracting, reporting, audits, and was awarded the Receivables duties as well. I worked to always grow and learn and embraced the challenge to become a critical member and primary mapper of all the processes within the company.

Reviewed, reconciled, and approved open billing detail data used in billing company project accounts.

Processed, tracked, reconciled, and reported on all AP and AR transactions for the entire company.

Key Achievements

Member of the Value Stream Mapping team assembled to track several processes within the company to report to executive team. Also designed training material and slide presentation for future use.

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AWARDS & RECOGNITIONValue Stream Mapping Team, 2004

Process Mapping Team Member, 2007Employee of the Month, 2007

Costpoint Conversion Project Team Recognition, 2010Mythbusters Certificate Recipient (EIS Conversion), 2012

Award of Excellence, 2012Nominee for Achievement Award (B2C Conversion), 2014

EDUCATION & SOFTWAREBachelor of Arts in Economics - The University of Oklahoma - May 2001

Trainer and SME for Indirect Projects, Contracts Systems, Project Accounting, Costpoint Conversion and Deltek Costpoint

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Experience with Costpoint, Groove, Sharepoint, COGNOS, Hyperion, Solomon, and Deltek GCSMS Office: Advanced Experience with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Lync, and Visio