Chris Gerhart Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managing capacity planning for the Enterprise Supply Chain organization.

Plano, Texas

• Developing monthly and annual forecasts and plans for Ant Farms Digital Media division.• Created financial modeling and reports highlighting the company’s portfolio trends, future revenue and cost streams, along with capacity requirements necessary to achieve the company’s objectives.

Irving, Tx

• Developed monthly and annual forecasts and plans for companies with annual expense of more than $300M USD. • Actively participated in cross-functional meetings concerning GSE, FHA, and VA investor breaks and penalties that would result in identifying areas of opportunity and improved management understanding of end-to-end processes.• Routinely performed SAS/SQL queries on the company’s data warehouse (datasets consisting up to six million records) data mining for key analytics and KPI information.• Developed and analyzed the quarterly loan loss reserve for the GSE conventional and government loan portfolios.• Analyzed and communicated monthly financial results. Prepared timely monthly financial PowerPoint results deck.• Performed ad hoc analysis providing insights and recommendations to management.• Hiring manager left the company and the unit was relocated to another state (reason for leaving).SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS: Acquired trigger reports, claim occurrence break data, and claim status reports relating to GSE, FHA, and VA investor penalties from various operational sources; aggregated the data and created dashboard reporting which led to improved management understanding of cycle times, trends, delay drivers, and timing of losses. Through analysis, modified or added new drivers to the forecasting model which improved accuracy.  Developed variance models resulting in more detailed analysis and quicker turnaround. Streamlined the unit’s results/forecasting Excel model and PowerPoint presentation deck resulting in the elimination of manually inputting of over 300 data items monthly. Was told by my manager in my mid-year review that they could see me going to the next level.

Richardson, Tx

• Developed monthly financial analysis and results commentary for 35 mortgage default products with annual revenue of more than $200M USD.• Provided timely month-end reporting/analysis on 19 profit and loss statements. • Calculated cost of goods sold including estimates for invoices not yet received.• Prepared timely monthly financial results deck.• RIF (Bank of America acquired Countrywide) is the reason for leaving.SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS: Assumed additional reporting responsibilities upon entering the unit due to another senior analyst position becoming vacant unexpectedly which was eventually filled four months later. Accepted additional cost of sales analysis responsibilities four months after coming into the unit at the request of the manager (viewed as a problem child with high visibility). Changed the methodology of analyzing and commenting on KPIs utilizing volume mix calculations. Affected the unit manager’s methodology in the calculation of monthly cost reserves substantially improving accuracy resulting in lower scorecard variances. Automated multiple charts and implemented centralized database significantly reducing maintenance time and ensuring consistency in the unit’s reporting. Created complex financial models and reports to summarize high volume of information significantly enhancing reporting and variance analysis. Assisted a senior analyst in a critical monthly close activity. Transitioned and implemented new reporting (from Countrywide to Bank of America based reporting).

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Managed websites to generate sales for brand. • Developed and implemented business plan. Coordinated web development and administration. Managed expenses and cost accounting. Submitted orders to company for fulfillment.• Conducted analysis, utilizing pivot tables, Excel, and Access. • Company changed commission plan (reason for leaving).SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT: Improved sales performance by creating processes for traffic analysis, partnerships, and paid advertising. Ranked top in monthly sales and web design by Nature’s Rx.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Nortel Networks, Senior Financial Analyst, 11 yearsArco Oil & Gas, Gas Revenue Plant Accountant, 4 years