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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Managed Capital Markets Team to support the Treasurer in planning and implementing the capital structure across all global subsidiaries, supervising one senior analyst.• Worked closely with the Financial Planning and Analysis Team on treasury-related assumptions for budgeting and long-term planning.• Oversaw compliance with debt covenants for a $2B term loan, including notices, debt payments, letters of credit, and revolver activities.• Developed and implemented foreign exchange (FX) spot trading and hedging policies, centralizing transactions to reduce risk and lower currency conversion fees.• Created presentations and analyses for senior leadership and lender discussions, to illustrate the company’s financial and capital markets positions.• Effectively forecasted interest expenses and free cash flow.• Fostered and maintained strategic relationships with new partner banks to support term loan and debt activities.• Reviewed quarterly and annual financial reports in capital markets and treasury-related matters.Position Highlights:• Successfully hedged an additional $500M of floating rate debt with five banks through effective management of the interest rate hedging process, bringing the total hedged amount to $1B for a floating term loan.• Led the FX exposure review process, resulting in identifying a $5M FX risk to EBITDA.• Streamlined the review and forecasting processes, enhanced the trading process efficiency and auditability, and secured substantial trading cost savings through the following initiatives:o Standardizing the quarterly investor presentation process;o Designing a free cash flow forecast model to synchronize with the FP&A budgeting process as well as cash flow forecast models for subsidiaries to integrate into the overall cash flow forecast;o Systematizing the FX trading process within Treasury; ando Drafting FX hedging and trading policy documents

• Collaborated with Treasurer to design and implement capital market initiatives and optimize liability management strategies.• Backed Treasury operations in approving travel and expenses and processing wire payments.• Directed a team of pricing analysts for deal analysis.• Designed a pricing model to analyze all company transactions, evaluating over 1,000 potential scenarios annually.• Executed liquidity management analysis to evaluate KPIs and plan issuance calendar.• Performed sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of changes in funding costs, residual values, and maintenance reserves on (internal rate of return) IRR and cash flow.• Drafted presentations for investors and the company board to detail capital markets positions and future outlooks.Position Highlights:• Played a leading role in closing an asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction, the first of its kind in company history and the fastest ABS deal close in the aviation space, which generated a $70M profit for the company.• Independently modeled a joint venture with a potential valuation of $2B and played a key role in shaping and o structuring the JV.• Built an interest expense forecasting model for FP&A that projected interest on over $8B in debt, as well as a capital expenditure forecasting model for FP&A and Treasury that assessed more than 100 planned aircraft acquisitions over the next five years.• Automated the pricing request process and scenario modeling by developing a custom module in Leaseworks, a Salesforce platform, enabling the modeling of over 1000 potential scenarios annually.• Served as an inaugural member of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Team, focusing on exploring and implementing sustainability practices in aviation.

Forecasted and planned monthly/quarterly budget projections for Digital Entertainment and Licensing departments. Modeled P&Ls for potential projects.•Led strategy and research effort for monetizing mobile applications and games through assessing the global market and performing comparative analysis. •Spearheaded company effort to track stage play revenues and discovered discrepancies leading to recovery of over $200k, enabling Paramount to meet yearly revenue target.•Created and presented strategy to COO on improving customer experience and increasing views for Paramountmovies.com.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Provided regular financial database updates to enable securities trading and analysis.• Researched new international equities/convertibles for internal database using information from financials, Bloomberg, Reuters and other research applications.• Worked to streamline internal database from 13,000 securities to 9,000 to improve efficiency and reduce errors• Researched and processed corporate actions such as stock splits, mergers, and dividends

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Conducted financial modeling and analysis, performance attribution to measure ROI and traded Investment Grade securities and equities for institutions and high net-worth clients. • Modeled all existing and potential client portfolios and provided recommendations for allocation and investments.• Researched securities and advised Portfolio Manager on investment potential.• Recommended investment strategy and allocations based on anticipated duration, yield, and maturity of securities.• Traded securities in Investment-Grade Fixed Income bonds and equities for portfolios totaling $500M.• Increased operating efficiency in the trading department by 200% through eliminating redundancies and streamlining procedures.• Sold $2 million of corporate-backed Municipal bonds before market crash destroyed their value.• Wrote quarterly letter to clients analyzing portfolio performance using Bloomberg, Axys and Axiom.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Modeled portfolios, coordinated fixed income trades, monthly performance attribution • Analyzed clients’ portfolio performance in fixed income securities with CMS and Bloomberg.• Trained and supervised 2 Portfolio Management Assistants.• Improved efficiency through recommendation to switch to digital record-keeping.• Reconciled daily cash balance reports and security holdings in FIN.• Managed and edited procedure manuals for accuracy and relevance.• Trained and coached other Portfolio Management Assistants.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology