Erin J. Williams

Current

• Finance Manager at General Electric

Past

• Financial Management Program at General Electric
• Finance Intern at EMC

Education

• Harvard University
• College of the Holy Cross
• Ashland High School

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Connections

50 connections

Industry

Oil & Energy

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Erin J. Williams’s Summary

a driven perfomer in the area of financial analysis and acocunting. Proactive, team leader, with a propensity for excellence.

Erin J. Williams’s Specialties:

Six Sigma Greenbelt Certified
Advanced user of MS Excel and PowerPoint, Instructor of Advanced Excel Techniques for current employer
Experience with Visual Basic Script creation and editing, in conjunction with MS Excel Macros
Extensive use of Brio, Oracle Financials, Cognos, among other financial systems
Proficient with Word, Outlook, Lotus 1-2-3, Working knowledge of MS Access and MS FrontPage

Erin J. Williams’s Experience

• Finance Manager

  General Electric

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Oil & Energy industry)

  July 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  ×Lead revenue recognition for $42M New England/Upstate NY/Western PA District
  ×Drove receivables collections for the district, ending the year at 8% Past Due; built relationships with Customer AP contacts, created a tracking file for service managers and finance to easily identify top receivables priorities
  ×Managed inventory flow, to ensure timely and accurate billing.
  ×Created inventory tracking file that easily identifies action items for billers and managers - Improved inventory days
  ×Drove monthly estimating process for district, ensuring accuracy and completeness
  ×Ensured 100% reconciliation of account recs for district, reconciling 85 account recs on a quarterly basis, and 4 on a monthly basis; created account rec tracker for global HQ FP&A team
  ×Responsible for two billing resources in India

• Financial Management Program

  General Electric

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Accounting industry)

  July 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  Finance Analyst: Four rotations over two years in different functions within GE Energy. Exposure to manufacturing finance, services finance, sourcing finance, and HQ FP&A.
  FMP Program Coursework: Four classes in Accounting Fundamentals, Operations, Business Controls, and Business Strategy; Business Honors in 3 of 4 classes
  Responsibilities & Accomplishments:
  ×Owned functional cost for HQ function in $10M business within GE Energy Services
  ×Lead T&L Bullet Train team responsible for 11% cost out year over year
  ×Completed Six Sigma Green Belt Project for the Gas Turbine Manufacturing Business
  ×Drove controllership throughout multiple businesses and ensured compliance via Account Reconciliations
  ×Evaluated business commodity/FX needs and managed FAS133 requirements
  ×Ensured compliance for fixed assets through P&E audit; identified write off opportunities
  ×Created complex estimating files using advanced excel techniques and VB macros

• Finance Intern

  EMC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMC; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2002 — September 2002 (5 months)

  ×Lead Product Reporting Project implementation for 12 managers and 85 users, wrote functional design and queries
  ×Worked with FP&A team on non-revenue reconciliations
  ×Prepared VP level presentations for Business Review Meetings
  ×Reconstructed group website

Erin J. Williams’s Education

• Harvard University

  Certificate in Management 2006 — 2009 (expected)

• College of the Holy Cross

  BA, Economics, Classical & Modern Italian Studies, 1999 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Women's Varsity Ice Hockey

• Ashland High School

Additional Information

Erin J. Williams’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Erin J. Williams’s Interests:

Microsoft Excel certification, visual basic, running for Dana Farber, coaching Ice Hockey, Photography

Erin J. Williams’s Honors:

Maruzio Vanicelli Prize, ECAC All Academic Honors, Dean's List, FMP Business Honors

Erin J. Williams’s Contact Settings

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• job inquiries
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• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch