javier larez

business consultant

About

I'm a business consultant who has fun identifying business problems and implementing simple and functional solutions. I have some time served in Project-based Finance and financial management. My critical thinking and analytic skills are sharp and always practiced. I'm always pursuing new knowledge in Microsoft Excel, and I have some working knowledge of statistical and analytic programs like IBM SPSS, SAP Crystal Reports, Python Pandas, SciPy, and NumPi. In short, I’m a finance/accounting guy with a can-do attitude and a love for problem solving. Specialties: * Business Consulting, Excel development, and financial model development. Functional Experience: * Microsoft Office, Advanced Excel, Knowledge and use of: SQL, Oracle 7, Salesforce, IBM SPSS, R, Python: Pandas, SciPy, NumPy. Active Professional Goals: * Finish Grad School with honors! * Pass the CPA. * Focus on becoming an Auditor. * Join a consulting firm specializing in Accounting and Finance!

Country

united states

City

san francisco

Industry

accounting

Skill

budgets, microsoft excel, ms excel pivot tables, critical thinking, financial analysis, customer focus, time management, fast learning, finance, quickbooks, microsoft office, powerpoint

Experience

freelance financial analyst

razorfish

2013-11 - 2014-1 · 3 mos

assistant superintendent

alcd

2010-8 - 2013-2 · 2 yrs 7 mos

* Special District of the State of California providing interment services to local tax-payers for over 150 years. * Responsibilities * Monthly full-cycle payroll and managed general ledger. * Contributed to monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting to the county and state. * Produced ad hoc financial reports for large purchases, contracts, and Board of Trustees’ requests. * Accomplishments * Lead development of financial model to forecast Endowment Fund growth which helped the ALCD continually adjust prices and fees in order to meet financial goals set over a 20-year period. * Researched and wrote a $2.5 million financial proposal which successfully acquired funding to purchase land to ensure future operations.

business consultant

alc district

2014-2 - Present · 12 yrs 8 mos

* Special District of the State of California providing interment services to local tax-payers for over 150 years. * Accomplishments * Created financial plan that brought company from $500,000 operating loss to a record profit margin in 25 years. * Directly responsible for $75,000 in sales, as well as an overall increase of sales by 30% by implementing new sales methods. * Reduced expenditures resulting in first ever year under budget by 15%. * Designed Fortune 500 quality excel spreadsheets to enable district to track KPIs, profit, pricing, and endowment fund, and other data analysis. * Wrote full technical manual on every aspect of business, from operations to sales.