Ese Basharu, MBA

• Responsible for the guiding and directing financial analysis, evaluation, and report generation activities of current and proposed financial plans. • Responsible for the development and executes complex Projects relating to financials. • Operate business planning and reporting processes and own and develop sub processes within the sales business unit. Processes include Monthly close and reporting process; expense and contribution planning; complex financial analyses such as Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). • Lead 4 member group of Project Specialists and Consultants. Responsible for staffing and continous assessment and performance evaluations for finance unit. • Coordinate financial and staffing requirements for projects directly undertaken for the “pure” consumer business group. • Manage documentation of funding and timelines for projects assigned to the group. Develop business unit period budgets as well as expected unit sales forecasting models. • Responsible for studying all the projects and analyzing variances as a result of shortfalls. • Responsible for building and maintaining a good rapport with other teams.

• Performed Business-related planning/analysis overseeing $40 million Verizon Operations Real Estate project relating to expense forecasting and financial performance for the southern region. Produced timely performance analyses to reveal variance against budgets and best views to pinpoint profitability and possible cost savings. • Managed risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors. • Gathered requirements during inception phase, documented and delivered functional specification documents, and assisted in Rational tools. • Planned and conducted quarterly User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for system application upgrades for the entire South region. • Tracked key project expenses in relation to $5 million in cost savings for the southern region with a focus on Verizon’s real estate operations. Designed automated Excel templates to compare database output and compare variance analysis views. • Enabled business unit to develop reports showing trends based on historical data for Verizon’s small business team by developing model databases, creating queries, and designing macros in Access.

• Saved $100,000 in project expenses by pinpointing sub-contractor over-charges. Analyzed financial data for expense, budget, and contractual deliverable estimations. • Oversaw finance team responsible for monitoring building project expenses, performing variance analysis, ensuring accurate client billing and maintaining contract delivery plan as well as preparing ad hoc management reports. • Served as a vendor manager, managing 30-40 sub-contractors by developing and maintaining strong relationships to ensure that the projects were deployed on time.

• Ensured effective operations by assessing, monitoring, and evaluating the CDF / UNDP (United Nations Development Program) Women in Development Credit Program with a portfolio of $1 million. • Enhanced credit monitoring process of a $1.5 million portfolio. Increased repayment rate from 56% to 90% for all portfolio clients. • Improved field operations by researching, documenting, and implementing "Best Practices" and developing business plans with cash flow analyses for 20 pure enterprise projects.

CERTIFICATION Project Management Professional (PMP.), in progress