- Marcus Hooks has over 10 years of experience in accounting, finance, business analysis, and IT roles across multiple industries. He has a BSA in IT and is knowledgeable in GAAP, Excel, SQL, and systems like SAP, Oracle, and Hyperion. - He has experience leading projects, analyzing business processes, developing reports, and improving efficiency. Past roles include positions at major companies like Bank of America, Delta Airlines, ATT, and Siemens. - His skills include financial and data analysis, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, documentation, and problem solving. He aims to provide analytical solutions and recommendations to help businesses meet their objectives.

1. Marcus Hooks
P. O. BOX 77612 Atlanta, GA 30357 Phone: (404) 861-6178 hooksmdh@outlook.com
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
 BSA, IT Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Revenue Accounting, Project Accounting, Cost
 Accounting, Inventory Accounting, Auditing, Accounts Receivable Analyst, Billing, AP
 Industry Experience: IT, Banking, Aviation, Telecom, Healthcare,Manufacturing, Big 4
 Knowledgeable of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the U. S.
 Systems utilized: SAP, Hyperion, Essbase,Hyperion Brio, Oracle 10.7 / 11i/ Oracle 11.0.3-
Catalyst Lawson, PeopleSoft 9.2, Great Plains, JDEdwards,Intaact,Concur, Salesforce.com
 Advanced PC skills particularly Excel (pivot tables, charts/ graphs, VLOOKUP,logic
statements),Word, Access (queries,tables), Financial/ Data Modeling and Reporting
 Outstanding Communication, Interpersonal and Professional Skills
 Possess Organizational, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
 Ability to be creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
 Technical experience: SQL, Visual Basics.
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marcus-hooks/5/862/518
EXPERIENCE:
Feb’11 – Present Consultant
ATC / Atlanta / Financial Analyst
 Accomplishments: Lead initiatives to successfulcompletion, analysis and documentation of
business cases,business requirements, impacts, process flows, performance metrics and training
impacts. Developed and implemented corrective actions plans to meet Quality standards.
 Partnered with internal business partners and external clients to evaluate existing and new
business processes,services and systems to meet the company and client business objectives
with an emphasis on process changes,improvements and reducing operating costs. Outlined,
designed and documented business flows.
 Collaborated with internal business partners from order entry to completion, to ensure
successfulproject delivery. Facilitate meetings with business owners to ensure the compliance
of client business rules. Financial and data mining.
 Developed and propose alternative operational approaches, and/or problem resolutions.
 Site Manager for various center audits to ensure compliance. Performed extensive investigation
and recovery of loss products and revenue. Communicate possible project risks.
 Directed the development and implementation of process and systems to improve efficiency in
organizations activities.
Bank ofAmerica / Charlotte / IT Business Analyst
 Accomplishments: Successfully learned business objectives in an efficient timely matter to
interpret the data and offer recommendations, including proposal of solutions. Brought my
talent and skills with Hyperion Essbase,SAP,Oracle,including creative and advanced levels
with Excel. A short-term contract alleviating a consultant 18-month contract. A team of 6
consultants were established to streamline our process and continue to meet successfully the
deliverable and completion of project’s go-live date July 2014.
 Documentation. Data mapping. Data Mining and Analysis. Research Analysis within various
systems. Redirect misallocated funding. General ledger entry uploads. Communicate to
management of extensive research analysis. Actuals to Scorecards,including virtual meeting.
 SQL queries and auditing research. Manipulate massive amounts of data to create reports.
 Understand and follow appropriate SDLC. Liaison with IT and Engineers.

2. Wells Fargo Bank / Charlotte / Business Systems Analyst
 Accomplishments: Successfully build reports for VPs and management continue to utilize.
Improve process of efficiency. Streamline processes,which included diagram workflow
documentation. Reducing and eliminating time consuming projects by 10 hours.
 Financial and Data mining. Report analysis for severalsites, including, Business Partners such
as Verint and NICE. Research analysis within SEAMS. Strategically work with MACDs.
 Provide analytical support, develops complex reporting, prepares and analyzes business
performance reports, and assists with strategic projects. Forecasting, Budgeting, Actuals.
 Technical experience with SAP, Hyperion, Visio, PeopleSoft. Variances analysis, budget
forecasting reporting presentation to management, program/ project managers and Engineers.
Hewlett Packard / Atlanta / Financial Analyst
 Accomplishments: Virtualoffice short-term contract to clean up several projects. Reduce
Actuals vs. FC of 22M. Technical skills: Oracle, Hyperion, Essbase and Expert Excel.
 Trend and variance analysis, data modeling, bench marking with extremely large amount of
data. Research analysis. Variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting.
Delta Airlines / Atlanta / Business Analyst
 Accomplishments:Successfully build reports for VPs and management continue to utilize.
Assist the development, design and building Access databases and queries. Improve process of
efficiency. Reduce Workflow reporting from 8 hrs. to 2 hrs. Eliminate manual and time
consuming processes.
 Review test plan, cases and data for various levels of functional tests of table load programs.
 Documentation of severalprocesses. Tacticalprocesses. Provide technical expertise and
solutions. Communicate user errors from Aeroxchange mailbox. Problem analysis and submit
recommendations for solutions. Provided design and technical architecture.
 Trend and variance analysis, data modeling, benchmarking with extremely large amount of data
consisting of airplane parts and pricing, while maintaining data integrity. Analysis and research
analysis utilizing SAP,Materials Management and Finance Modules. Analysis Fixed/Non Fixed
pricing. Analyzing and manipulating high volume of data.
 Utilizing Hyperion and SQL. Advance Access Skills. PeopleSoft. Provide analytical support,
developed complex reporting, prepared and analyzed business performance reports, and assisted
with strategic projects. Severalexecutive presentations.
ATT / Atlanta / Financial Analyst
 Accomplishments: Continued success of assisting VPs,Project Managers and Engineers
ensuring projects capitalize. RFL: Workforce reduction due to opposition from the federal
government of deal with T-Mobile. Resulting in a $4 Billion pretax accounting charges.
 Responsible for developing and comparing forecasts to operating budgets on a monthly basis to
identify and analyze trends affecting budget needs and to make recommendations for actions to
be taken to ensure conformance to budgetary limits.
 Lead meetings to gather data regarding budget status,produce daily, weekly and monthly
reports on budget status for clients and supervisory chain of command.
 Utilize SQL, COGNOS. Advance Financial Analysis skill, Expert Excel skills.
 Analysis & reporting, development of related tools used in performing analyses and improving
existing processes as they relate to reporting & data mining.
 Expertise in report development, data warehousing, data mining and data analysis. Proactively
evaluate, analyze and design solutions for improving existing reporting and related processes.
Variance analysis, resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
 Develop and distribute monthly reporting to include trend analysis and detailed variance
assessments for operational & key metric results.
 Create ad hoc queries and retrieve data from various data repositories in order to perform
various operational analysis. Deliver data in the form required for business use (i.e. Excel,
PowerPoint, Access, etc.). Financial reviews with senior managers.

3. Network Support Specialist
 Technician support and resolution, problem tickets. Resolve issues and problems through
resolution/completion. Creation and maintenance of customer service request documentation
through resolution. Provision of customer updates and status reports with regards to open
customer issues as appropriate; Ensure problem resolution via the maintenance of appropriate
action plan and/or project plan.
Apr’08 – Nov’10 Internap, Inc. (Technology) Atlanta, GA
Revenue Accountant
 Accomplishments: Successfully met deadlines and goals as primary source of internal created
database systems as Database Administrator. Process improvement and efficiency, including
working with IT. Improve efficiency of role. Problem analysis and submit recommendations
for solutions RFL: Internap reduced workforce to generate $5M in annualized operating
expense savings.
 Sales reserve calculation of sales credits, EBIT, write-offs, AR aging, SLA’s, Deferreds,
payments and manual adjustments.
 Utilize Oracle Financials, IAT, Salesforce.com,Database,Dispute Tracking systems.
 Analytical thinking, problem solving, developing and gathering statistical data for analysis, and
financial reporting. Complex calculations.
 Responsible for the maintenance and administration of DTT. Maintain data validity. Extract
data from DTT (primary independent user of database). Data Analysis. Generate reports to
upper management, sales management and multiple business units, also, ad hoc reporting.
 Provide user training; maintain training material, documentation, policies and procedures.
 Being detailed, well organized, and communication skills were successfultools.
 Analyze and facilitate processes for process improvement and efficiency.
 Assist in implementation of new Financial Systems or new modules for existing systems. Work
directly with IT for process improvement, interface,and efficiency modifications.
 Review SO orders. Contract review. Assist auditors with quarterly and year-end audit.
 Month-end close processes,Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Journal entries.
 Cash for Reserve Recoveries,GL Write Offs by BU,Collectability, Sales Reserve Aging.
Nov’06 – Aug’08 Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Technology) Alpharetta, GA
Financial Analyst
 Accomplishments: Continued success of assisting VPs, Project Managers and Engineers
ensuring projects capitalize. Trained new contractors. RFL: Siemens downsize 4200 employees
in the IT division. Preparing to spin off SIS as a Siemens subsidiary.
 Diligently work an essential integrated part of the SIS PRO finance team.
 Project controlling and Commercial support for Applications Management Center (AMC) for
North America (NA). Utilize Lawson,Hyperion 11, SQL, Excel and Access.
 Manage Global Procurement Services (GPS) LOB. Develop monthly revenue,costs, forecasts
as well as monthly/ annual budgets.
 Establish consultant contractual agreements,initiate monthly billings (for recurring charges,
change requests and projects) as well as controlling incoming charges from AMC business
partners. Process SIS costs and sales/ cross charges to Siemens Operating Companies.
 Review, identify, analyze and evaluate complex financial solutions.
 Analysis and research utilizing Hyperion with what-if scenarios, build dimensions, metrics and
scenarios. Build and produce Forecasts. Utilizing tables and reports with Excel. Reviewing of
Financial and transactional data.
 Support SAP LOB. Obtained costs,revenue recognition, T/E for invoicing, account
reconciliation, journal entries and monthly accruals. Including, A/R functions.

4.  Invoicing Purchase Orders and time reporting. Budget reporting, also financial metrics.
 Perform month end closing functions, which also included preparation of recurring and non-
recurring journal entries and booking.
 Develop P&L forecast on a monthly basis, as well as long term financial planning. Budgeting,
Forecasting, reporting and monthly analysis
 Variance analysis, budget forecasting reporting presentation to management, project managers
and operational units
 Prepared invoices for customer clients.
 Process improvement to increase efficiency.
 Germany reporting: KPI reporting.
Monthly reporting of Utilization/ Billability, also Headcount Analyst reporting.
Siemens Energy & Automation (Manufacturing) Alpharetta, GA
Financial Analyst (Consultant)
 Started SEA as contractor proceeded to SIS on a permanent basis. RFL: Controller
referralto Director of Finance acknowledging my outstanding work efforts and
accomplishments.
 Accomplishments: Save SEA over $150K indirect material by performing audits,
utilizing variances,research and analysis skills. Received acknowledgements and high
recommendations from managers and commodity managers. Also, train new interns.
 Revenue recognition, cost controlling and inventory management. Utilize SAP.
 Assisted and reported directly to Controller. Cost Analysis and Job cost reports,
Forecasting, Forecast versus Actuals, Review Cost budgets, Costing of Material items,
Multiple Variances,Actuals versus Budget, Audits, Inventory Reconciliation and
Inventory Adjustments, Indirect Material Analysis, Audit Indirect Material, Movement
type Analysis, Weekly Utilization reports, Exception reports and analysis.
 Recovery vs. Headcount recovery,Recovery Cross Reference,Business Unit recovery,
Material consumption and material analysis reports, Absorption analysis, and
Productivity reports / Production cost control. Reconciliations and reconcile various
databases.
 Complex calculations, Inventory Reserve calculations. Daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly reports. Month-end Closing processes,Preparation of Journal entries and
Payroll Accruals.
Nov’01 – Nov’06 Habif, Arogeti & Wynne Atlanta, GA
Finance/ Accounting Consultant
 HA&W (Big 4, one of the largest independent certified public accounting and business advisory
firm in Georgia). Worked with the following clients: BellSouth (Telecom), Verizon Wireless
(Telecom), Motorola (Telecom), CardioMEMS, Inc. (Medical Technology), NBIS (Insurance
Industry), EMC² (Technology Industry).
 Accomplishments: Successfully obtained over 10 years diverse background in Accounting/
Finance. Advancing skillset levels with Excel and multiple Accounting Systems.
 Analyze and produce complex financial reports. Successfully met deadlines and results.
 Accounting functions with month-end processes. Report directly to Controllers and Auditors.
Year-end analysis and closing. Recognized as exceeding goals.
 Analyze revenue impacting projects that sales make deals on hardware,software,or services.
Utilize Oracle 11i and Oracle 11.0.3. Revenue recognition.
 Multiple reports to management, ad hoc reporting. Cost budget analysis. Calculate cost budgets
for financial statements. Baseline funding.
 Point of contact for several resources (Project teams,Sales, Finance, Information Technology,
Engineering) in respective territories.
EDUCATION:
Business Administration concentration Finance
Database Management

5. DeVry University