Tricia Callis Blaser

• Perform project cost planning, financial reporting, monitoring, and analysis to support program execution, funding management, and project performance.
• Prepare Estimates at Completion (EACs), financial forecasts, accruals, variance analyses, and ad hoc reports to support management decision-making and monthly financial reviews.
• Conduct detailed cost reporting reviews and financial validations to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls and contractual requirements.
• Prepared Estimates at Completion (EACs), financial forecasts, accruals, variance analyses, and ad hoc reports to enable informed management decision-making and streamline monthly financial reviews.
• Conducted detailed cost reporting reviews and financial validations to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls, thereby supporting integrity of financial reporting.
• Support project setup and maintain financial tracking systems and cost controls to ensure alignment with program objectives and contractual requirements.
• Evaluate contract modifications and assess financial impacts on project budgets, schedules, funding, and forecasts.
• Identified financial risks and cost-saving opportunities, collaborating with Program Managers, Contracts, Procurement, Finance, and PMO teams to implement corrective actions that enhanced program profitability.
• Prepare financial deliverables, management reports, and cost analyses to support project reviews, billing activities, forecasting, and executive reporting.

Performance in a Direct Support role on the ADVaT project; facilitating and participating in weekly meetings, recording, tracking and publishing action items generated during Technical Interchange meetings (TIMs); Supported ADVaT team in editing and formatting technical documentation to enhance clarity and compliance. Providing financial support in tracking, reconciling and reporting hours and costs for the financial reports. Develop and maintain financial databases for the report of financial data to meet contract reporting requirements; reconcile with corporate financial reports when they are published; reporting and track anomalies to resolution. Working in tandem on a daily basis with the project manager to maintain schedule and mitigate risk. Provide Provide review and qualification of costs on invoices as prepared by accounting staff; resolve issues before submission of invoices. verify and reconcile income statements with direct charges tracked against the project. Assisted in developing and preparing briefs.

• Analyzed financial data to identify trends and inform strategic decision-making.
• Developed detailed financial models to support budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to assess project viability and ROI.