Travis Barron, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

+ Built and led the Business Operations team for Indeed’s Job Seeker organization from inception to 6 FTEs. + Team spanned 5 functional areas: Annual Planning & P&L Management (~$330M P&L), Recruiting Management of headcount investment (~50% growth/+500 FTEs), Strategy and Operations to prioritize, allocate and scale resources, and Analytics to improve predictability of complex business areas.+ Led budget planning process for ~$330M annual budget. Pivoted the organization's fiscal year 2023 budget from moderate growth (+20%) to cost-cutting in 2 weeks (-8%).+ Designed and implemented Job Seeker Resource Management Processes and Tools, scaling up as the organization grew from less than 1,000 FTEs to 1,500+.+ Established a leadership bench within business operations, attracting top talent and establishing performance standards for the function.+ Mentored team members to enhance their abilities, resulting in a high-performing team of 6 FTEs with improved P&L management capabilities, operational rigor, and analytical skills. This enabled the team to build dashboards and deliver hiring updates, organizational analyses, and financial reporting, leading to efficient and effective use of organizational resources.+ Developed trust and influenced organization leadership, peers, and key business partners such as FP&A and Talent Acquisition, resulting in enhanced allocation efficiency and alignment across Indeed's strategic initiatives.+ Served as a thought partner to the organization's head of strategy & operations and Leadership Team.

+ Provide small businesses with expert analysis in evaluating business andprofitability opportunities.+ Expanding to personal finance space after identifying opportunity to buildplatform offering home sellers new way to sell to help them keep more money

London, London, Gb

+ Traveled with family to better connect our children with their cultural and familialbackgrounds before they began kindergarten.+ Spanning 13 months, our journey included 19 stops in 13 countries across 4 continents, and relocating from Kirkland, WA to Austin, TX.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Drove step function improvements at both Egencia and Expedia’s eCP platform. Note: Expedia sold the Egencia brand to AMEX Global Business Travel in 2021.+ Drove step function improvements for ~$400M Global Supply revenue forecast process by leveraging financial systems tools to automate the conversion of booking volumes to revenue forecasts, resulting in 50% efficiency gains.+ Built and led a Financial Planning & Analysis team of 3 FTEs across 2 continents (Bellevue and London).+ Spearheaded complex and cross-functional strategic initiative to align revenue recognition processes in the General Ledger across global regions, resulting in eliminating recurring data discrepancies and accounting gaps between US and European internal systems financial reporting.+ Led transformation of Egencia’s Global Supply finance processes of ~$400M line of business in support of the brand's reorganization from a regional to global management structure.+ Drove step function improvements for +$250M Breakage revenue forecast by rebuilding the forecast platform to improve its automation and better leverage business intelligence data, resulting in a 50% improvement in process efficiency (from 3 weeks to 1.5) and ~20% improvement in forecast accuracy.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

+ Saved $156k in 2014 fiscal year commission expenses by identifying duplicate YTD payments of niche segment through building financial model of sales volumes and contract terms; collaborated with Accounting, Database Management & Back Office to claw back overpayments and implement process to capture future savings.+ Created monthly sales forecast & reporting process to drive sales by establishing targets for all seven channels, collaborating on bridge actions with stakeholders, initiating mid-month follow-ups, and variance analysis with Sales Directors at month's close.+ Initiated and led realignment of reporting hierarchy to better detail channel’s business performance and their strategic management by presenting recommendation to President, CFO and partnering with relevant stakeholders.+ Implemented forecast process in Projects channel by providing direction to channel VP, establishing reporting expectations and developing capabilities with appropriate personnel. Improved, basis supported forecasts provide clear view of Channel's monthly and full year sales expectations.+ Moved monthly business performance reporting process and standards from confusing data dumps based on ad hoc analysis with figures that don't tie to insightful, multilayered standardized reports of key business areas to breakout business drivers in a clean, user friendly format with consistent data integrity.

New York, Ny, Us

+ Drove $98.4 million Global Support OPEX budget to 2.0% below the FY13 plan to increase Net Operating Income by $2 million while maintaining strategic spending programs to help offset Sales shortfalls.+ Increased effectiveness of strategy development in the Clinique FY13-FY15 and FY14-FY16 Strategies by producing long range plans and status reports for the brand’s 10,000+ unit global rollout of its flagship project and expansion plans in emerging markets.+ Enhanced strategic alignment of the FY13 and FY14 Capital Budgets by creating a Capital Supplemental Book that served as roadmap for senior brand management in aligning the fiscal budgets with its long range strategic vision.+ Spearheaded formation of $30 million year over year increase in Clinique’s capital investment as part of corporation’s transformation initiative by providing analytic support and assisting in developing brand’s long term capital plan.+ Saved nearly 30% in estimated spend on Dies & Mold FY13 capital budget as well as procured over $2 million in unused funds from prior years by creating a collaborative management process involving Marketing, Procurement and Finance.+ Upgraded the monthly estimate and close process of Clinique’s International Inc. $19 million budget by revamping the accrual analysis process and creating effective key project and cost center management files to more effectively drive the budget.+ Improved management of brand’s global 5 year, 10,000+ unit in-store iPad roll out strategy by creating more effective budget and progress reports as well as partnering with the Project Manager. + Raised standard of commentary in brand’s monthly financial review reports distributed to senior management through in-depth analysis of P&L’s.

New York, Ny, Us

+ Contributed more to increasing bank revenues than 90% of peers by consistently performing in top 10% of region in new account openings, which were the key driver of revenues and a strategic focus for the region.+ Obtained FINRA Series 6 and 63 licenses upon selection from District Manager to take part in the banks selective program based on my consistent scoring above national averages in banker’s performance.

+ Created and Instructed a Public Speaking course deemed necessary for English and Tourism majors by the President of Anyang University by researching key focus areas, developing a course plan and establishing evaluation metrics. Course was recognized by faculty as huge success with expanded course offerings the following semester.+ Received evaluations 10% above peer average as reviewed by student body as well as recognition from the President of Anyang University as an “excellent” professor.+ Took on additional courses at all three institutions any time additional instructors were needed including a 10 week foreign business diplomats workshop for government selected individuals to provide business assistance to developing nations.

Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Us

+ Client outsourced services to Healthcare Services Group. Served as the liaison between the client, management and staff to maintain a solid client/firm relationship.

Ramsey, Nj, Us

+ Received awards as top sales representative in district for new accounts and premium business solutions 3 consecutive months.

New York, Ny, Us

+ Supported and collaborated with Financial Advisor and Analyst in gathering, inputting and analyzing data and performing spreadsheet analyses concerning mutual funds to provide better client decision-making information.

Mba, Finance

B.S. In Business Administration, Finance