Cindy is very passionate about and experienced in finance and analytics. At her current role at Optum, a large American healthcare company, she developed budgets and forecasts for Overhead SG&A, performed month-end estimation and variance analysis, and created Excel reports for critical and expensive accounts to inform on expenditure and aid in understanding cost efficiencies. Prior to this role, she analyzed large data sets, updated complex Excel risk models, and helped improve company's ROA by about 15%, while she was working in risk management and corporate development in a financial services company for three years. While working full time, she passed CFA Level I & II exams. She graduated with an MBA from USC Marshall School of Business. Cindy is a driven and focused team player. She learns quickly, takes initiative, and works efficiently to deliver timely and high-quality results. In fact, her previous manager told her that she was the fastest analyst he ever worked with and he came from an investment banking background. She learned and mastered SQL in her first job as a risk analyst, and polished her financial modeling skills through the MBA curriculum and working at Optum. Moreover, Cindy is detail-oriented, a great team player, a multitasker, and an outside-the-box thinker. She has great work ethics and good time management skills. When she's not working, you can find her watching movies/shows, playing the piano, going to cardio and strength workouts, ballet classes, spending time with her cat, Bacon. Key Computer Skills: advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, BIRT, R Studio, VBA