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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Developed a monetization tool selling in-app advertising space which yielded $2MM in annual revenue as well as developing new CRM channels to target audience engagement
• Led team of eleven managing B2B relationships yielding $24MM per year in merchant-funded discounts targeted at increasing order volume
• Created modelling for key KPIs like cost per order, cost per new account, and long-term value in order to capture efficiencies in marketing spend, lowering cost per order by 66% in less than one year
• Managed $8MM budget directed at creating deep partnerships with marketing teams at top 500 restaurant brands via campaign creation, upper funnel, and mid-funnel marketing tactics

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led team of three analysts engaged in external reporting, production of internal dashboards, business intelligence, and general strategy and insight to the executive team using tools such as SQL, Tableau, and Excel
• Collaborated with engineering teams to define, test, and deploy external data pipeline utilized by dozens of large restaurant brands in the US, including McDonald’s, Chipotle, and Taco Bell

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed core FP&A functions and budgeting process for a P&L exceeding $75MM in revenue
• Created automated performance forecasting tools to allow account managers to make insightful recommendations, dramatically improving customer service quality while reducing ad hoc requests

Riverwoods

• Led team of analysts engaged in pricing strategy, competitor analysis, and counsel to general management
• Drove monthly Pricing Committee, presenting current trends, net change forecasting, and proposals for interest rate adjustments on all deposit products to senior management
• Developed and refined forecasting of $38Bn of deposit capital funding nearly 50% of overall assets
• Responsible for monthly revenue share payments to third party vendors in excess of $180,000 per month

Riverwoods, IL

• Oversaw and managed production, implementation, and automation of antifraud countermeasures in conjunction with fraud team, preventing upwards of $120MM in fraud losses in the first half of 2016
• Led analysis of innovative student checking product, including cost-benefit analysis, data architecture, and performance reporting
• Contributed analytics support and business knowledge to Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review model, which would later become the standard for deposits modeling
• Coordinated cross functional sessions with managers in treasury, finance, and analytics to gain a better understanding of current deposit trends, funds transfer pricing calculations, brokered rate adjustments, and swap.

Riverwoods, IL

• Led production of homegrown solution for recoding analytics reporting, keeping resources onshore and saving the business $2MM in development expenses
• Built and presented Deposits Scorecard to senior management each month, as per Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• Introduced tracking metrics using ACH data from largest competitors to gauge weekly net change movements

Riverwoods, IL

• Develop a unified banking system for all segments of Discover Bank to reduce inefficiencies and enable communication between divisions
• Led bank wide requirements sessions for three lines of business, Deposits, Personal Lending, and Student Lending
• Reduced and consolidated reporting requirements from 3,000+ reports to ~100 per business unit
• Provided detailed requirements to designers at Infosys Limited

Libertyville, IL

• Conceptualized and developed an audit system which quantified margin erosion enabling the pricing team to develop a new, more efficient system and bolster margins
• Redesigned and restructured the inefficient pricing process in order to lower transaction completion times and raise customer satisfaction