Dwayne Kennemore, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Utilize Python to fact-check and replicate economic and demographic charts reflecting socio-economic changes for American Indian communities using multiple datasets, previously generated using Stata, improving data accuracy and ensuring consistency across analyses.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Director | Data Science and Advanced Analytics

Itasca, Illinois, Us

Treasury: • Maintained funds flow and timely vendor payments in adverse circumstances (absent Controller, absent senior accounting staff, absent Accounts Payable head) as client company approached bankruptcy. • Drafted and executed Letters of Credit for domestic and international customers across Europe and the Middle East. • Primary executive responsibility for ACH and wire transfer payments. • Managed front-line vendor communication at client before, during and after bankruptcy emergence.• Developed electronic payments process and work flow process for Accounts Payable department to curtail missing invoices and protracted payments. • Designed data structures and testing protocols for automated ACH process implementation.FP&A: • Maintained 13-week cash flow predictive model for Board of Directors. • Provided financial reporting and covenant compliance certificates for bank lenders.• Developed funds flow diagrams and other exhibits for use by corporate counsel representing client company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. • Developed budgets and periodic variance analyses using Excel, including break-even and profitability analyses for pricing strategies. • Created and presented to executive leadership visual representations of fundamental data using PowerPoint. Supply Chain: • Assembled a multi-vertical team (in a silo-driven organization) to address sizeable inventory disparities which were slowing down operations and causing excessive re-work. • Developed an order of operations to rectifying supply chain issues including inventory tracking and procure to pay. Technology: • Developed custom automated process improvements for accounting and financial processes for a logistics company, and trained company personnel to use new technology.• Systems integration.

Kansas City , Ks, Us

• Led financial reporting, budgeting and planning process at two dairy plants and one ice cream plant, comprising more than $350 million in annual revenues. • Implemented Excel-based dash boards for providing insight to management of developing P&L trends. • Managed a team, including one analyst and one manager. • Mentored junior financial staff in methods for identifying revenue enhancing opportunities (including creating RFPs and examining trends in volume and margin for over 20 different product lines and over 100 SKUs).

Radnor, Pa, Us

• Performed primary research, underwriting and presentation of investment opportunities in the public and private loan markets. • Portfolio FP&A: Created internal budgets and analyzed variances in portfolio company financial performance. • Performed financial due diligence by interviewing C-Level managers and private equity sponsors to develop an understanding of risks and opportunities in financing private middle market companies. • Managed, directed and reviewed work product of junior financial analysts.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Performed valuation of client companies ranging from $5 million to $7 billion in enterprise value, for purposes of evaluating corporate transactions including LBOs, mergers, and recapitalizations,. • Managed, directed and reviewed work product of analysts in production of presentations for the firm’s clients.

• Developed and presented investment recommendations for credit review committee members for three CLO funds, one unlevered fund and one credit hedge fund. • Managed sector coverage of financial services sector, homebuilders, real estate, building products, consumer goods, and retailers for first lien, second lien, and high yield loans and bonds.

Degree Candidate, Master'S Degree (A.L.M.), Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Systems

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting And Analytic Finance

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance