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New York, NY, US

New Jersey, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

Wayne, NJ

• Assist Treasurer and CFO with a $1.4 billion refinancing of the company’s domestic corporate term-loans and high-yield bonds in a challenging high-yield environment. Performed detailed analysis around the company’s.
• Manage one Senior Analyst, delegating responsibility and setting goals while providing guidance and professional development
• Model monthly cash flow forecast, providing senior management with a projection of our working capital, interest expense, debt repayments, peak ABL borrowings as well as year-end cash position
• Redesign and automate treasury forecasting models in a concerted effort to improve ease of use and increase efficiency by eliminating superfluous manual entries
• Responsible for special projects, namely exploring the possibility of reducing interest expense by strategically shifting debt from high to low interest debt instruments without compromising the company’s collateral.

Wayne, NJ

• Identified $1+ million in margin savings by eliminating the majority of non-season promotions at our flagship Toys“R”Us Times Square store. Acted as project lead, identifying non-performing deals, alerting the head of.
• Eliminated $60,000 of wasteful annual spending by using transaction level data to estimate how many in-store circulars were needed for Black Friday. Optimized our weekly circulation efforts by drilling into customer.
• Perform in-depth analysis of coupon offerings; identify overarching themes and trends as well as recommending specific strategies for future campaigns
• Evaluate incremental sales/margin benefit, deal penetration rates and basket detail of weekly promotions and present actionable findings to buyers

Wayne, NJ

• Developed individual DCF models for the analysis of new stores, remodels and lease renewals/restructures. Presented results and recommendations to senior management, and produced post-mortem analyses on previous.
• Managed the group’s intern; set performance expectations and provided coaching feedback sessions
• Built a strategic three-year plan for the company’s Asia joint venture (May 2011 - Oct 2011). Collaborated with the head of China operations to negotiate reasonable and achievable EBITDA targets
• Initial position at TRU (Jan 2011 - Apr 2011) was to support the head of Investor Relations and CFO by providing capital statistics for the S-1 and co-creating the Underwriter’s Deck for the company’s attempted IPO

Greater New York City Area

• Defined a suitable selection of foreign domiciled exchange traded funds (ETFs) to include in client portfolios for Switzerland-based wealth management start-up
• Analyzed cost/performance efficiencies and counterparty risk of select foreign ETFs
• Discussed best practices with potential vendors including NewEdge and Barclays. Communicated to senior management findings and recommendations

Jersey City, NJ

• Wrote research across all asset classes and presented recommendations at institutional client meetings.
• Combined both fundamental and technical analysis in research reports, providing a tactical/strategic viewpoint for institutional investors, including bulge-bracket firms and hedge funds
• Designed an Excel database with advanced functionality that alerted clients to movement of their equities of interest

New York, NY

• Launched fundamental coverage of twelve small- & mid-cap biotech companies with senior analyst
• Built financial models and wrote research for the group’s coverage universe
• Analyzed patient sizes, clinical trial progress, duration of company specific technology and drug-based patents
• Performed sell-side fundamental research coverage of bulge-bracket, internet and asset management firms. Provided data analysis and maintained proprietary investment banking pipeline report
• Compiled and analyzed data from various financial databases to forecast future investment banking trends

Washington D.C.

• Rebalanced investment portfolios. Co-designed and implemented the Wealth Management Division’s large-cap equity model portfolio

Masters Of Business Administration, Investments

Activities and Societies: Applied Investment Management (AIM), Finance and Investments Club, Student Ambassador

Bachelor Of Science, Finance

Activities and Societies: Finance, Banking and Investments Club