Jason Wright Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Reporting & Analysis

Asset Liability Management

Greater Detroit Area

Senior Financial Analyst, Operating Expense Finance - Implemented Run Grow Transform analysis and reporting. Utilizing Gartner resources, introduced reporting on operating expense vs. investment in improvements to IT capabilities to help IT leadership optimize resources for current and future business state. - Enhanced and automated monthly IT expense reporting. Changed reporting from account view with manual process to push-button process populating concept view for easier consumption by IT leadership. - Implemented new project forecasting tool (Planview) and trained entire IT project management team to use - Identified gap in project expense reporting and mitigated by creating process to capture expense in local markets - Drove best practices during interview process for new analyst by recommending consistent competencies to measure and using consistent results tracking - Displayed stamina and teamwork during business planning process through extended hours and challenging deadlinesCommunity & Social Responsibility Committee member 2016 – presentManaged Penny Wars fundraiser in Detroit office, raising ~$3500 for charityRan 2019 NCAA bracket challenge, creating team building opportunity for all U.S. offices

Senior Financial Analyst, Management Reporting - Presented monthly to IO CFO total IO KPI performance summary, including analysis of pre-tax earnings, retail penetration, operating expenses, net interest margin, headcount, losses, asset trends, cost of funds, and ancillary income - Developed tools and routines to populate approximately 20 page IO performance summary used by IO CFO to support presentation to GMF president - Improved Country Review process. Eliminated numerous reporting issues resulting in efficient meetings with productive dialogue, while enhancing the relationships between local and central finance. Additionally, added China operations to the routine by working with China finance team. - Took the initiative to manage multi-dimensional database management system (Essbase) on behalf of Finance, and made multiple improvements including data validation, communication of data availability, and FX normalization scenarios

Senior Financial Analyst, Balance Sheet Management - Established unsecured trigger sign-off process by building Access database to process sign-off, email notification, house sign-off history, and report on compliance - Redesigned Mexico, Chile and Colombia liquidity and funding models with automated liquidity metrics that offered local treasurers instant feedback as they populated their forecasts, cutting two days from the forecast process - Calculated Funds Transfer Pricing interest expense and economic capital, and trained finance team members on FTP concepts - Implemented FX risk framework, bringing transparency to impact of mismatch between revenue and expense currencies - Managed undergraduate intern during summer internship

Troy, Michigan

Created and implemented improved process of cash forecasting from accounts receivable - Cash forecasting by location, customer, and week for full year for all North American locations - Month end accounts receivable balance sheet forecasting by location and customer for all North American locations - Replaced two forecast processes performed by four people with one efficient process performed by one person - Improved variance analysis and detail level visibilityManaged one MBA intern during a summer internship

Provided business case financial analysis for all appropriations requests and go/no-go checkpoint reviews for the Trailer Production business unitForecasted and summarized global Capex spending for the aftermarket parts distribution business unit

Completed the Management Development Program, an 18 month accelerated development program