Timothy A. WalkerP.O. Box 1157, Thibodaux, LA 70302-1157 * (214) 207-3129 *twalker2678@gmail.com

B.A. with a successful progressive career with years of experience in Accounting, Budgeting, Data Extraction, Financial Analysis, and Internal Auditing

Innovative thinker with strong analytical and organizational skills. Accustomed to meeting strict deadlines and delivering on multiple projects both as a team member and an individual. Motivated for

challenges and adapts easily to the continuous and evolving needs of business. Demonstrates the ability to overcome obstacles and increase the company’s productivity and revenues.

KNOWLEDGE AREAS

*Loss Prevention and Auditing *Budgeting and Forecasting*Inventory Management *Financial Profit & Loss Reporting*Strategic Trending Analytics *Dashboard Visualization Analytics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Baton Rouge, LA Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is a private not-for-profit 800-bed hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. Our Lady of the Lake is a primary teaching site for graduate medical education programs and serves 45,000 inpatients and 350,000 outpatients annually.

Financial/Business Intelligence Analyst - Business Office 2016-PRESENTFinancial/Business Intelligence Analyst - Revenue Cycle 2015-2016

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review/analyze various exception reporting from the hospital cash management systems (Emdeon, HBOC, Med Assets, etc.) to identify outstanding AR balances within the various insurance payers and notify upper management of negative trending effecting revenue.

• Identify opportunities for revenue enhancement and budget management support via EPSi. Includes ad hoc review of all contracted vendors on a monthly basis for the revenue cycle to monitor cost analysis.

• Assist in the set-up of the electric 835 remit process with HealthQuest and McKesson. This process includes conversion from third parties handling cash posting to internal HBOC cash posting for all hospital insurance payers.

• Provide set-up and creating various templates for extraction and parsing of data. This includes 835, but also included invoices, checks, EOB’s, bank reconciliations using various platforms such as Data Watch, Monarch Pro, and Excel Data Modeler.

• Create scripts within Boston Workstation to run excel files to make daily changes to HBOC. Patient account status changes and include internal requests or third party collections (Xtend/Med Assets, etc.) as requested.

• Create and maintain Excel dashboards to connect to raw data to offer real time trends for management. • Develop specific automation processes using Excel VBA, Power Query, and Power Pivot to customized

reporting using various raw and unformatted data.

DSC Dredge, LLC, Reserve, LADredging Supply Company, LLC is the world’s leader in portable dredges, manufactures cutter suction dredges of all sizes and applications.

Financial Analyst 2016

• Lead the preparation of the consolidated annual plan which is completed from a “bottom-up basis”.• Analyzed financial and operating data in preparing forecast of business operations and financial performance

including “what If” analyses.• Forecasted time horizons including current year and outlook to 5 years.• Analyzed data to determine past, present, and anticipated future performance.• Prepared detailed variance analyses as to the business reasons for deviations of actual results to

planned/forecasted results• Performed analyses of product line expansion and product line profitability.• Analyzed revenue & costs trends with comparison to selected benchmarks.• Conducted studies in areas such as organizational efficiencies, production capabilities, and cost containment.• Ensured planning & forecasting models/systems are updated continuously to reflect the company’s business

operations.• Completed treasury responsibilities including forecasting operational cash, liquidity, credit card administration,

and all outstanding A/R collection activity.

Aaron’s, Inc., Slidell, Louisiana Aaron’s, Inc. is a national leader in the sales and lease ownership and specialty retailing of residential and office furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances and accessories, has more than 1,800 company-operated and franchised stores in 48 states and Canada with annual revenues of $2.1 billion.

Sr. Business Analyst 2014-2015Divisional Business Analyst 2007-2014Internal Operational Auditor 2002-2007

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Audited and analyzed revenues, expenses, and accounting procedures to maximize business performance. Review financial statements, forecasting reports, revenue projections, and budgets.

• Maintained fixed assets and relayed information to accounting to ensure to avoid disruption to business.• Audited nationally and corrected abnormal or irregularities in inventory reconciliation and general ledger for

home office. Assisted in developing a new internal profit and loss financial reporting system to increase transparency for operations and cut preparation time by half.

• Identified bottom performing stores and conducted cost analysis to optimize margins both from controllable and non-controllable categories in increase profit and reduce operating costs.

• Increased efficiency of inventory holding costs by maximizing par reporting for inventory levels, especially for merchandise in off-peak season where sales were low and returns were high.

• Monitored and recommended changes to online targeting marketing campaigns, online payment activity, search engine advertisement, and online agreement orders. This increased customer levels and lowered the cost on average for customer acquisition.

• Launched internal divisional direct marketing campaign to target competition weaknesses. Increased store traffic and increased past customer agreement ratio by 30%. Assisted and trended the collections process including directing legal counsel to send attorney letters and file civil actions as necessary.

• Lead acquisition and third-party conversions when purchasing competitor locations. Completed the due diligence financial process for purchase agreements between parties to validate inventory and financial benchmarks.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Aaron's Highest Profitable Divisional Area (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)Aaron's Best Divisional Annual Audit Average (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014)Aaron's Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient (2011)Aaron's Best Overall Divisional Performance Area (2009 & 2010)Aaron's Founder "Thank You Coin of Appreciation” for Service Above and Beyond Call of Duty. (2003)

EDUCATION

Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Bachelor of Arts in Military History/International Affairs 1997-2001

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude • Honors in History • Alpha Sigma Nu Recipient for Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio and Word Microsoft AX, Sage Intelligence, QuickBooks, Asset Keeper, Lawson, Anaplan, Data Basics/Concur Expense Systems, Data Watch, Monarch Pro, Account Receivables Med Assets, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Excel Data Modeler, VBA/Macro and User Form, Power Query, and Power Pivot

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST