Paul Schafheitle, Mba Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Oakland, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• Worked on a workforce capacity planning project, as part of the Operations Planning & Analysis Team.
• Successfully developed and implemented a complex and highly automated workforce capacity planning model, utilizing advanced excel formulas and features.

Took a career break to focus mainly on professional development and travel. Earned multiple certifications in the Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence space.

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

• Led the quarterly budgeting and five-year forecast modeling efforts and presented the Shared Services groups’ monthly expense variance analyses to Executive Staff. Mitigated discrepancies for month end close by.
• Financial Business partner to Shared Services Group Leaders; involving Global Human Resources, Facilities & Office Services, Distribution, Customer Service, Circulation, and DEI valued at $30M in annual expenses across.
• Collaborated with Management to establish, track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve efficiency and cost controls, utilizing Power BI dashboards.
• Compiled narratives around business results, including monthly business segment P&L variance analyses.
• Contributed to the financial statement packages, schedules, and dashboards provided to the Management forums.
• Significantly reduced the time needed to consolidate budget summaries and variance reporting for executive leadership using advanced excel formulas.

• Led the corporate annual P&L budgeting and rolling forecasts and delivered variance analyses on monthly basis. Maintained financial reporting materials for monthly Board of Directors meetings. Served as part of.
• Implemented budgeting process improvements for maximizing sales and gross margin forecasting accuracy.
• Supported management team to assess company's past and forward-looking sales performance by designing and maintaining sales performance reports and KPI templates.
• Enhanced company's profitability by creating multi-tiered sales and gross margin variance summaries for management team and provided actionable insights.
• Contributed to reduced inventory levels through presentation of monthly supply versus demand and sales forecasting performance to management team for sales and operations planning activities.
• Created automated operating expense variance templates and reduced process time from 12 hours to 15 minutes.

• Led the annual budgeting and monthly forecasts and presented functional groups’ monthly expense variance analyses to Executive Staff. Consolidated and presented weekly corporate financial outlook and key financial.
• Financial Business partner to Functional Group Leaders; involving Global Sales / Marketing, IT, Finance / Accounting, Human Resources, and Legal valued at $90M in annual expenses across multinational sites to.
• Collaborated with IT Leaders to ensure SAP project implementation executed within $12M budget

• Directed a team of three; while leading finance, accounting, and administration functions. Steered overall financial reporting, including monthly income statements, balance sheets, statement of cash flow, and key.
• Reduced tax and audit fees by 50% by transitioning from a Tier 1 to Tier 2 Accounting firm.
• Enhanced profitability by designing various break-even analyses and proposing recommendations to determine ideal publication frequency for all publication titles.
• Conducted research on paper price trends via U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics and reduced paper expenses by 10% through successful negotiation with printing vendor.Additional Experience:Senior Financial Analyst (Worldwide.

Mba - Finance

B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering