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Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Wilmington, Delaware

Course #1 – Financial Management Foundations (FIN 599, Saturdays): Teach average class size of 45 grad students with a smooth transition into the economics and financial aspects of the MBA curriculum; covering financial markets, macro and micro economics, financial statements analysis, ratios, and investment projects evaluation.Course #2 – Corporate Finance (FIN623, Saturdays): Teach average class size of 30 grad students by use of analytical tools to evaluate corporate financial decisions; covering corporate financial performance, planning and forecasting, valuation methodologies, cost of capital and capital structure, dividend policy, capital budgeting, risk analysis, and working capital management.

Wilmington, Delaware

Develop sourcing strategies to lead ultra-high value complex outsourcing contract negotiations with suppliers and achieve optimal pricing, favorable commercial terms, and rigorous service levels and credits; emphasizing bottom line P&L savings and risk minimization.Present and seek approvals from senior executive leaders at major deals forum; summarizing major commercial achievements and key risks outstanding.Review ultra-high value deals with highly complex pricing structure and provide total cost of ownership analysis, as well as recommend competitive counter-proposals to senior leaders.Procurement site-lead for Barclays Citizenship initiative; working with various non-profit organizations in organizing employee volunteering events.

Wilmington, Delaware

Finance partner with full profit and loss responsibility for Amazon co-branded credit card program. Provide strategic financial guidance to relationship management team and senior leaders on financial performance, deal impact analysis, investment decisions, and business initiatives.Subject matter expert on partner contractual obligations, revenue sharing, rewards expense, and other marketing and financial commitments.Published Partner Cards financial results deck for CEO of Chase Card.Managed summer interns and financial analysts in corporate development program.Provided strategic direction on establishing financial operations in U.S. and India for Canada partner card business.Managed and lead the expense segmentation for Card, including submissions for Actual, Budget, Risk Appetite, ICAAP & CCAR.Responsible for operating expense management for domestic and international business units.Provided analysis for sale of major Sears card portfolio to Scotiabank Managed expense approval process for FTEs, contractors, & marketing.Reviewed weekly headcount and contractor reporting for CFOs.Maintained the risk & opportunities.

Newark, Delaware

Modernized and optimized the entire FP&A group's financial and metrics reporting.Established organizational budgeting process and expense & headcount reporting standard across the company.Lead the annual expense budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for the entire company.Managed and maintained the firm-wide Cost To Acquire Student Loan Model and expense segmentation.Redesigned the staffing, professional fees, and unit cost models for budgeting and monthly tracking for Fraud Prevention / Investigation / Write-off, Credit Bureau Management, Sales Call Center, Credit Acquisition, Private Credit Organization, and Centralized Mail.Lead and delegated the Essbase and Hyperion Planning requirements from Navient to Sallie Mae (during company's planned split) to a financial systems vendor.Provided Hyperion and Essbase training to power users.Reconciled monthly financial results from PeopleSoft Financial to Essbase to Hyperion Planning.Sent from Sallie Mae to Oracle University (Reston, VA) during the transition phase to complete technical training in:• Oracle Essbase 11.1.2 Bootcamp (July 2014)• Oracle Hyperion Planning 11.1.2: Create & Manage Applications (June 2014)

Wilmington, Delaware

Joined during 2008 Economic Turmoil and overcame many challenges as the company transitioned from PFPC to PNC Global Investment Servicing to BNY Mellon. Responsible for publishing highly sensitive expense and revenue analytics, under extremely tight deadlines and executive management pressure. Managed P&L, Budgets, Forecasts, A/P, A/R, & mutual fund management reporting.Streamlined various processes from Budgeting to P&L reporting to mutual fund reporting.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Financial Management

Graduated with a 3.5 GPA.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Financial Management

Graduated with Cum Laude. Finished degree in 2 years by taking ~ 30 credit hours a semester, including Summer and Winter Semesters.