eFinancialCareers

SUMMARY

Accomplished senior manager with over 16 years international experience in corporate finance, business development, acquisition integration and financial modeling. Special skills in foreign exchange and interest rate risk management, cash and debt management, and credit analysis. Recognized for strong analytical abilities leading to revenue growth and cost saving initiatives. An inspiring leader with a record of successfully guiding cross-functional teams.

EXPERIENCE

XYZ BUSINESS, ANYTOWN, USA - 2004 - Present
Senior Manager of Treasury (2006 – Present)

• Drive corporate treasury initiatives for XYZ and manage over $3.6 billion in debt and $310 million in interest.
• Oversee the corporate foreign exchange program and conduct FX trading in the spot and forward markets. Hedged 75% of exposed 2008 foreign translational earnings.
• Present monthly hedge effectiveness results to business unit’s senior management. Develop and maintain tracking models. Oversee FAS 133 & 157 interest rate swap hedge accounting.
• Initiate pay-fix interest rate hedges on debt. Analyze, evaluate, and price interest rate swap derivatives.
• Repatriated $85 million in cash from international subsidiaries through playing key role on project team.
• Managed a $150 million bond repurchase program, which entailed buying back bonds below par and unwinding cross-currency interest rate swaps.

Senior Manager of Acquisition Integration, Travel Distribution Services (2005)

• Developed processes and financial models to track synergies from $2.5 billion of domestic and international strategic acquisitions.
• Modeled and evaluated human resource and operations benefits/costs realized from acquisitions and partnered with acquired companies to integrate new systems into their businesses.
• Presented monthly status updates and acquisition analyses to the Senior Management team.

Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis (2004-2005)

• Determined financial feasibility of new branded travel website, “ABC," and generated $1.5 million in membership revenue.
• Recommended plan that realized $2 million in savings by reducing call center operations and outsourcing.
• Created usable metrics to analyze business

A NEW COMPANY, ANYTOWN, USA - 2000 - 2003
Senior Business Analyst/Planner of Strategy and Business Development
• Demonstrated the potential of a store-within-store new business concept by developing financial models. Recommendations utilized by senior management to structure contracts with two national grocery chains.
• Maximized sales by managing portfolio of 335 products in 12 shops.
• Analyzed performance within grocery store to determine bi-weekly promotions and new layouts.

AN AIRLINE, ANYTOWN USA - 1997 - 2000
Senior Marketing Analyst of Revenue Management (1998 – 2000)

• Delivered strategic and competitive analysis support to Operations, Finance, Sales, and Scheduling.
• Managed yield of routes that totaled $800 million in revenue and covered 17 Northeast and 11 Micronesian cities.
• Consistently over performed on overbooking, load factor, and margin targets. Achieved 93% load factor.

Senior Financial Analyst of Pacific Financial Planning and Analysis (1997 – 1998)

• Spearheaded cost saving initiatives related to a capital expenditure program.
• Drove increased productivity of divisions by developing reports to measure performance of labor groups against airline metrics. Analysis used by CFO to reduce labor costs.

ANOTHER COMPANY, ANYTOWN USA - 1990 - 1994
Credit Analyst of International Banking Group
Conducted fundamental and quantitative financial analysis of international companies seeking financing.

• Supported Vice President in managing the banking relationship of clients in the $200 million German portfolio.
• Recommended Company Name $340 million term loan, which was used to purchase XYZ convenience stores.

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NY, NY - 1996
MBA in Finance

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY - 1990
Bachelor of Science in Finance

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Member of the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP), Citibank Credit Training, Euromoney: Fixed Income Instruments, NYIF: Asset and Liability Management

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient in Excel, Word, Power Point, Hyperion, FXpress, and Reval (Interest Rate Swap Software)

KEY WORDS: International corporate finance, finance, business development, acquisition, acquisition integration, financial modeling, foreign exchange risk management, interest rate risk management, cash and debt management, credit analysis, analyze, analytical, leader, cross-functional teams, corporate treasury, corporate foreign exchange, manage, senior management, certified treasury professional, CTP, excel, hyperion, FXpress, Reval, MBA