Email: parminder.kaur0712@gmail.com Phone No: 360-810-7299
Career Overview: A dynamic career-oriented professional having 14+ years of experience with a strong background in Finance and Education in Higher Ed domain. Demonstrated a sustained commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and expertise to plan strategically to support and empower staff, build lasting relationships with peers and colleagues, and achieve the higher education agency and institutional goals of raising educational attainment and meeting the education and training needs of Washington state's economy.
Education and Professional Certifications: • Master of Science in Information Technology Management (M.S) – United States (2021) • Master of Arts. (M.A) – India (2003) • Bachelor of Arts (B.A) – India (2001) • Bachelor of education (B.Ed.) – India (2004) •
CAPM (WGU) – United States (2021)
Summary: • Over a decade of experience leading educational initiatives, driving innovation, and delivering results. Skilled in providing policy direction, developing procedures, and managing resources to support student success. Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders. • Highly motivated and dedicated professional with a strong background in community and technical college systems. • Skilled in providing leadership and direction to diverse teams, managing grants and budgets, and delivering strategic priorities. • Adept at overseeing all accounting and financial processes, ensuring accuracy and completeness in compliance with Washington State Auditor's Office, Office of Financial Management, and SBCTC requirements. • Develop and manage the college's budget in accordance with state regulations and procedures, including revenue forecasting and compliance monitoring throughout the year. • Have extensive knowledge and experience in participating in union negotiations, keeping in mind the CBA guidelines, and providing input from a budgetary standpoint and representing the college and Agency at the statewide Budget Accounting and Reporting Council (BAR) council. • Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a team of professionals. • Accomplished leader with a track record of success in strategic planning, policy development, and team management. • Experienced in administering multi-million-dollar budgets, conducting research, and building collaborative partnerships with diverse stakeholders. • Ability to prioritize, manage and execute multiple tasks in timely manner. Follows through on all assignments and takes ownership of reported issues. • Strong analytical skills, ability to identify problems, research issues, and provide solutions. • Strengths are being pro-active, self-motivating, diligent and detail oriented. • Good Team player and possess strong interpersonal skills
Work Experience: Employer: Clover Park Technical College 07/2022 – Till Date Position: Executive Director of Budgeting and Finance Responsibilities: • Financial Management related tasks include: o Manage all accounting and financial processes consistent with the requirements of the Washington State Auditor’s Office, Office of Financial Management, and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Ensure reporting is accurate and complete. o Manage and coordinate all aspects of the college’s monthly, year-end, and biennial-end closing processes in conjunction with other college departments, the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, and the Office of Financial Manage. Provide informational reports to the Board of Trustees and the college community. o Supervise Accounting Coordinators responsible for the direct completion of college accounting, purchasing, receivable, funded students, grant and foundation accounting, and cashiering; including scheduling, leave approvals, and performance evaluations. • Manage the college budget. o Lead collaborative college budget development process including revenue forecasting. o Present the final budget to the Board of Trustees for approval. o Ensure that the college’s expenditure remains compliant throughout the year with the budget. • Committee participation and working relationships include: o Act as the college's representative for the statewide Budget Accounting and Reporting Council (BAR). o Provide financial information for ad hoc reports required by other departments. o Serve on the negotiation management team for both faculty and classified bargaining units. • Financial oversight of college capital projects: o Manage all accounting and reporting as required by OFM, State Board, and Department of Enterprise Services. o Maintain complete project files. o Access and prepare biennial capital requests. o Adequate training completed from DES to stay in compliance before signing contracts. • Oversee operations of the College Bookstore o Monthly review of the operating results of the bookstore. o Prepare and request Managers' salary and benefits reimbursement from Barnes & Noble. o Ensure Vendor payments to Barnes and Noble are prepared and submitted in a timely manner for funded student bookstore accounts. • Participate in the union negotiations keeping in mind the CBA guidelines and provide input from the budgetary standpoint. • Oversee payroll processes and make sure the leave balances are reported correctly. • Actively participate and contribute in CPTC’s efforts to create a diverse, equitable inclusive environment in the college. • Face of CPTC ME project. An initiative by the EDI committee at CPTC.
Employer: SBCTC 04/2019 – 6/2022 Position: Senior Finance Functional Analyst Responsibilities: • Was promoted from Finance Functional Analyst to Senior Functional Analyst supporting the PeopleSoft Finance pillar. • Primary responsibility includes supporting the Billing and Account Receivable modules. • Additionally, also help with supporting other modules including General Ledger, Treasury, Cash Management, Grants, Contracts and Project Costing. • Responsible for integration between Student Financials (CS) and Finance (FSCM) pillars. • Work as a liaison between Functional and Application support teams to troubleshoot and test technical issues. • Responsible for Finance PUM implementation impact analysis and testing. • Work with Oracle Support to raise Service Requests and worked on PeopleSoft Finance product bug fixes. • Create PeopleSoft Finance reports using PS Query tool to meet college requirements using GAAP and GASP standards. • Work closely with the accounting department to streamline business processes for colleges. • Actively participate in DEI activities and attend BAR meetings. • Provide end to end support to finance issues for all the colleges in ctcLink system. • Conduct Business Process Fit Gap (BPFG) sessions and work with the project team to help with the implementation. • Adept in finance year end accounting processes. • Provide Training to end users and team members. • Participate in Oracle PBCS Budgeting tool implementation.
Employer: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) 02/2013 – 05/2016 Position: Sr. Business Analyst Responsibilities: • Worked as Business Analyst to support the PeopleSoft Finance system for Billing and Account Receivable modules and responsible for PeopleSoft security administration. • Responsible for Product Maintenance, Production Support, Post Release Enhancements of PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 General Ledger, Accounts Receivables and Billing. • Manage and Monitor support service calls in Quality center issue/defect management tool. Maintain security in PeopleSoft Financial system. Troubleshoot application and functional security system issues. • Proactive issue resolution and helped business to identify issues beyond reported scenarios. • Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner. • Communicate with the business users to provide regular updates on the status of the issues reported. • Used PeopleSoft Excel to CI tool to load customers from third party billing applications. • Created PS Query to help business users review the Billing data before invoice generation. • Actively supported AR and Billing module as well as integration with other Finance modules. • Performed Impact analysis of the change requests received. • Created test plan/scenarios/user stories based on design documents including functional and business requirements. • Involved in data set-up and execution of test Cases and generating test scripts. • Co-ordinated with business teams to perform testing or acceptance testing for new enhancements and changes or fixes in areas like Billing and Accounts Receivables • Planned User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Business user team and provided ongoing support. • Coordinate with Business Users to understand the enhancement and change requirements. • Involved in creating and updating PeopleSoft FSCM Training Manuals, standard procedure manual using the Oracle UPK tool .
Co-ordinated and conducted monthly issue review calls and business user Training sessions. • Resolved critical issues in timely manner during both day to day and month ends Billing and Account Receivables modules. • Review Compare Reports, identify the changes before applying patches released by Oracle. Then plan and execute regression testing before applying the patches. • Served as the key point of contact/Liaison between different project groups.
Employer: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) 03/2006 – 01/2013 Position: Business Analyst Responsibilities: • Work in the position of a Business Analyst. • Work on service Requests raised by the users. • Provide application security access and privileges to users. • Work on Change Requests, create test plan and facilitate user training. • Create process documentation based to guide the business user in doing day to day activities, identify gaps and issues and recommend enhancements. • Manage and Monitor support service calls. • Monitor daily data flow between in house finance application and third-Party Applications. • Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner. • Carry out RCA – Root Cause Analysis for major problems. • Communicate effectively with the technical development team to find a solution for the issues and defects identified in the system. • Prepare weekly status updates. • Other work as assigned by the supervisor.
Tools and Expertise: • Project Management tools & methodologies: ctcLink PeopleSoft System, PS Query Reporting Tool, Quality Centre testing Tool, UPK Developer for training material build, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, Microsoft Projects, Agile Development, SDLC Methodology, Vendor management (product and consulting), Change Management, IT Controls establishment. • Collaboration Software – SharePoint, Confluence, Microsoft Office suite, and Google suite. Training Courses and Workshops Attended: o Oracle PBCS – Cloud Budgeting Tool training – August 2020. o PeopleSoft FSCM - PeopleSoft Functional - June 2013 o PeopleSoft security Overview workshop – May 2013 o Fundamentals in Finance course completed successfully – April 2008.