Aaron Vieha

Studios Technology Strategy and Planning Support - Financial Analyst

Duration: 03/2023 - Current

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders and project single-threaded owners (STOs) to build bottom-up budgets and document approximately 150 software licenses and annual renewals used by the department.
• Update Finance SOPs and workflow documentation to better define roles and responsibilities between Finance and department stakeholders.
• Support month and quarter-end close activities, including calculating accrual amounts and capitalized labor spend.
• Automate manual processes, including resource management, to approve, extend, and track over 200 contingent workers.
• Develop data models for variance analysis, forecasting, and annual planning.
• Create dashboards, Excel models, written reports, and slide decks for executive reporting and annual planning.
• Perform ad hoc analyses to calculate the financial impact of strategic decisions, to support decision making.

Close Process Optimization - Financial Analyst

• Performed quantitative and qualitative analysis on month- and quarter-end close activities to define pain points across key Finance domains (Tax, Payroll, AP, Accounting, Cost Accounting).
• Interviewed stakeholders to determine current maturity level and worked with industry leaders to define future state goals and improvement roadmap.

Procurement Process Data Analysis - Analyst

• Analyzed purchase order data collected from a proprietary data mining tool to benchmark process efficiency and define trends.
• Calculated throughput time, level of standardization, and automation rate of current activities.