Nicholas Bruno Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

RPM is one of the fastest-growing logistics companies in the world, specializing in Finished Vehicle and Freight transportation. Leveraging a robust network, we deliver thousands of units per month throughout North America and Europe. With our continued global expansion, our core competency remains the same—address our customers' shipping needs by matching available trucking capacity and meticulously facilitating every transport tender with the very best tech-enabled logistics execution.We understand our company’s strength comes from our team of dedicated individuals who work better together, embrace change, who are tenacious, persistent, measured, disciplined, loyal, and value trust earned when the job is complete.RPM has made Inc. Magazine's annual Inc. 5000 list 8 straight years and made their Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest in 2020 and 2021. Some other accolades include being named by Food Logistics as a Top Green Provider, Great Places To Work® certified, Crain's Top 200 Private Companies, Named by Transport Topics as a Top 50 Freight Broker three consecutive years in a row, awarded the honor of Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures in 2018, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces in 2017, "Cool Places to Work in Michigan" by Crain's Detroit Business in 2015, 2016 and 2017. We have also received Entrepreneur Magazine's 360 award in 2016 & 2018.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Head of Finance, Accounting and Purchasing

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Head of Finance, Accounting and Purchasing

New York, Ny

People Manager to 1 Financial Analyst

New York, Ny

New York, Ny

• Provide financial analysis and support to the technology teams to help manage their expenses and net recovery position. Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, identification of risk & opportunities, and underlying cost drivers.• Partner with Accounting and Reporting teams to ensure entries are properly processed and results reported accordingly.• Converted all reporting and plan packages from Essbase to TM1. Developed reconciliations in TM1 to validate expected changes from budget to budget. • Develop periodic financial forecasts. Train and coordinate with various teams to ensure that templates are completed and loaded into consolidation models to ensure correct inputs to the forecast.• Implemented tracking database of monthly net recovery position to provide audit trail of under or over variable recoveries. • Provide insightful monthly commentary for financial results to technology leadership and partners. • Lead calls with technology teams VP’s to go over financial results and follow up with any inquiries. • Provide quarterly vendor rate reporting to leadership to aid in managing their scorecard metrics.• Promoted from Financial Analyst on March 2013.

New York, Ny

• Maintain risk management and downstream system integrity of a blended portfolio of vanilla, exotic FX Options and IR Swaps.• Actively participating in FX Options specific projects, providing operational and control perspective. • Resolve deal queries and define root causes from Back Office, Front Office, and clients. • Constantly identifying and addressing opportunities for improvement; taking initiative to deliver simple and innovative solutions that improve business and affect positive change. • Multi-task with particular emphasis on daily checklist and controls in a fast paced environment. • Managed the FXO Team’s creation of a uniform documentation process, substantially reducing errors.• Re-built a database to provide Implied Volatility to various Hedge Funds at a faster pace and comply with new software. • Created and implemented a database in excel to easily identify late trade booking to report to senior management.

Newark, De

Rates/Exotics Financial Control Specialist• Worked closely with middle office to ensure trade bookings agree between front and back office systems and ultimately the general ledger.• Worked with various areas to research, escalate and clear cash and settlement exceptions in a timely manner.• Reconciling and substantiating P&L, cash and positions monthly, quarterly and yearly to better inform front office/trader of exact exposure to risk and profit while creating transparent financial control for regulatory reporting.• Liaising with Middle Office, Settlements Teams, and Trade Support to resolve risk management system to Ledger sub-system differences.• Completion of monthly GLRS process. Responsible for 1,258 certification accounts. • Completed FAS 159/Fair Value Option Reporting and Long-Term Debt Disclosure on a quarterly basis for all Credit Hybrid Products.• Performed multiple reconciliations of different products across the Fixed Income Exotics & Hybrids Business. • Led migration of all Collateralized Debt Obligations and Collateralized Loan Obligation books from the Structured Products Group to FIEH business.

Dayton, Oh

• Launched an affiliate marketing website providing college students with a cheaper alternative to purchasing their books at the bookstore.

Dayton, Oh

• Organized, completed and coordinated the input of others into required schedules for the fiscal year-end operating results package for external review.• Troubleshooting and fixing out of balance conditions in the general ledger caused by flaws in the operating software. • Performed detailed analysis of accounts used to track the receiving of inventory through accounting software Reflections and MAS 200.• Reconciled the accounts payable to the subsidiary ledger. (A/P Aging reports to the G/L Account)

Dayton, Oh

• Handled and became familiar with FRP composites.• Prepared inventory data sheets using Microsoft Excel.• Recorded incoming/outgoing shipping and receiving for specialty corrosion resistant products.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance

Activities and Societies: • Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity; Fundraising Committee and Sound Body Chair • Flyer Investments Team; Supporting.