Liam Moran Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

First Analysis serves emerging growth companies, established industry leaders, and investors through its venture capital funds and through First Analysis Securities Corp. (FASC)*, which provides investment banking and related services. First Analysis's integrative research process underpins all its efforts, combining dynamic research on thousands of companies with thousands of relationships among executives, investors, and other key participants in its focus areas, yielding a deep, comprehensive understanding of each sector's near-term trends and long-term potential. Since 1981, First Analysis has invested $800+ million of capital from its venture arm and has advised companies on billions of dollars in capital raises and M&A from its investment banking arm.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Manage discounted cash flow, net present value, and return on invested capital analysis on new long-term core company growth initiative, Macy’s Backstage; summarize all store-within-store and freestanding location returns• Communicate and foster relationships with Real Estate, Store Environment, Construction, and upper management to see that Backstage phases are rolled out efficiently with sufficient returns and long-term EBITDA profitability performance• Create prospective Backstage location tracking tool to instantly update business partners on modeled location performance saving over 6 hours weekly allowing for greater analysis and business development

New York, Ny, Us

• Construct and implement dynamic database for the assembly and reconciliation of Macy’s Inc P&L with business platform, OneStream, to expedite CFO/Board presentation production by 85%, saving over three hours weekly• Forge and manage relationships with all 23-business team subsidiary heads under the Macy’s umbrella; automate rollup of business teams for total Macy’s SG&A with VBA macros thereby streamlining the normal full-day process to allow for comprehensive review and analysis• Correspond regularly with Investor Relations and Economic Forecasting team in order to provide a more accurate lens regarding amendments to forward looking sales revenue, earnings guidance, and out-year business plans• Fulfill ad hoc requests from CFO and upper management regarding any income statement or business plan inquiry with a timely, cohesive response and data to support

New York, Ny, Us

• Created and integrated mall database tool for Real Estate Department on Macy’s store fleet vulnerability that improved the team’sproductivity by 80% in evaluating strong storefronts• Developed model to measure sales and gross margin figures for Macy’s Backstage, an innovative off-price store model• Built model to quantify sales improvement tale winds from Bon-Ton’s bankruptcy• Performed deep financial and market demographic research to assess the value of the company’s business enterprises; andstreamlined the analysis of Macy’s storefronts in relation to its online presence• Forecasted and managed multi-year budgets to influence major capital expenditure decisions

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Performed special projects to accelerate customer needs such as review of mechanical assessment, billing, preventativemaintenance, pricing, proposals and HVAC audits• Completed market research on targeted vertical markets for identifying revenue growth opportunities

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Concentration In Integrated Program Humane Studies; Cum Laude

Summer Program, Finance, General

College Preparatory; First Honors