Financial Analyst Information Technology

Abdou Diakite

240-***-**** • Cleveland, OH • ad74mv@r.postjobfree.com • https://linkedin.com/in/diak4ever

EDUCATION

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Washington, DC

Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Finance, GPA 3.5

Aug 2015 – May 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

College Park, MD

Bachelor of Science – Accounting, GPA 3.75

Sep 2008 – May 2010

MONTREAL COLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Montreal, Canada

Certificate – Business Intelligence & Data Analytics

July 2015

EXPERIENCE

International Monetary Fund

Washington, DC

Financial Analyst, Administrative Expenditures and Control (contract)

Nov 2021 – April 2022

•Reviewed applications and supporting documents in Peoplesoft treasurer approval panel

•Processed vouchers for payment, performed audits and completed certification for end-of-year applications

•Liaised with HR to amend erroneous applications in Workday, process adjustments and respond to inquiries

Next Phase Solutions & Services Inc Columbia, MD

Senior Accountant (laid off – workforce reduction) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

•Posted vouchers, cash receipts, vendor payments and performed monthly bank account reconciliations

•Monitored AP and AR aging and followed up with customers to collect past due balances

•Reviewed and posted labor cost, billing and revenue for FFP, T&M and Cost-Plus contracts

•Prepared balance sheet account reconciliations and maintained workpapers supporting account balances

•Maintained fixed assets schedule, calculated monthly depreciation and reconciled schedule to general ledger

•Reviewed payroll register, deductions and posted payroll entries to the general ledger

•Set up new tax jurisdictions in ADP, filed payroll tax amendments and resolved delinquent tax filings

Cambridge Associates, LLC Arlington, VA

Accounting Specialist (temporary work permit) Jun 2017 – Feb 2018

•Reviewed investment performance reports and validated accuracy of market values and portfolio returns

•Performed reconciliation between Northern Trust account statements and Cambridge financial reports

•Entered web cash movements on custodian portal to fund operating expenses of institutional clients

•Created pro-forma cash ledgers to improve visibility on cash flows and reduce portfolio performance drag

•Produced client meeting material and portfolio summaries with capital markets updates, exhibits on asset allocation, returns by asset class and manager, sector exposure and recommendations for new fund managers

CGI Group Inc, Global IT Consulting Group Montreal, Canada

Financial Analyst, Corporate (contract) Jan 2015 – Jun 2015

•Worked with the Finance team to run dollar weekly and quarterly cash flow collection reports by using Diver BI tool to query data from Peoplesoft and Access Databases and distributed reports to executive management

•Participated in improvement initiatives and developed of a multi-currency functionality into the report

•Provided support to business unit controllers by responding to inquiries regarding AR Work in Process, Billing and Revenue balances related to foreign exchange

Quality Software Services Inc (QSSI) Columbia, MD

Accountant (Corporate) Aug 2010 – Nov 2013

•Processed vouchers for vendors and subcontractors’ invoices and employee travel expense reimbursements

•Reviewed AP and AR aging reports and prepared weekly vendor check runs and ACH payments

•Verified resource assignments and created project codes, labor categories and approval groups

•Exported timesheets from Deltek T&E into GCS, resolved error log and posted labor distribution

•Processed payroll for 500+ employees and filed federal, state withholding and unemployment taxes

•Generated customer billings for Firm Fixed Price, Time & Material, Cost Plus projects

•Performed bank reconciliations, prepared adjusting entries and updated schedules for the month-end close

•Assisted the controller during the year-end financial and program audits

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Certification: CPA License 2013 – Present (Inactive)

IT Training: Microsoft SQL Server BI ETL, data models, data warehouse, cub

Software: Excel Pivot Tables, Solver, VLOOKUP, Macros, VBA, Unanet, Deltek, ADP Workforce, ADP SmartCompliance, Tableau, SAS Miner, ACL, Cognos, PeopleSoft

Interests: Outdoors, Travel, Ocean, Swimming, NFL, Soccer, Trading, Risk Analysis & Modeling, Politics & Government

Other: Permanent Resident – No sponsorship required. Lived and traveled US, Canada and Africa. Bilingual French & English

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