Robert Shaffner Email & Phone Number

Charlotte Metro

Ft Mill, Sc

• Responsible for forecast and reporting of third party compliance engagements across the Corporate Compliance organization for projects totally over $108 MM• Developed dashboards for reporting of various spending categories to provide leadership line of sight into trends and spending patterns• Managed SharePoint site and process handling inboard projects; over $8MM.• Managed process handling review and approval of contractors; over $18MM annually• Automated tracking of Compliance and Risk contractors for life of contractor engagement; over 300 contractors• Managed accounting unit structure to assure proper reporting of projects and overhead

Ft Mill, Sc

• Forecast owner of forecast for inbound default servicing home mortgages• Understand, manage, report and monitor historical performance of forecast in Liquidation (Short Sales/Deed-in-lieu) space worth over $180 million.• Manage data surrounding investors to understand similarities and differences.• Forecasting includes usage of SQL & SAS data retrievals, Excel and PowerPoint presentations• Develop and enhance analytical tools used in understanding forecast performance as well as process behaviors to provide cost savings, performance enhancements, and regulatory compliance• Redeveloped model using statistical methods improving accuracy (5-18% improvement)• Ad-hoc dataset development using SAS, SQL, and Teradata to analyze and report process flows.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Execution, maintenance, and design of reports for home office charges to lines of business• Daily use of Cognos, DB2, SQL queries.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Developed and executed strategy for large bids ($500,000 to $22,000,000); brought together stakeholders including sales, customer service, and business units to obtain consensus pricing strategy, developed tools to implement and measure pricing strategies and behaviors• Responsible for pricing, and analytical support for North American sales and management team in Distribution marketplace; handled regions with sales from $30 to $100 Million• Served as Pricing Analyst for Switching and Fusing business unit comprising over $40 million in sales• Ensured on time delivery of data to customers, as well as monitored and reduced turn-around time within department from over 2 days to less than 1.2 days increasing on-time performance to over 95%• Increased price realization from -1% to +0.8% on sales of approx. $45 Million

Canton, Ohio Area

 Pricing, Marketing and Analytical support for North American management team in Distribution marketplace and Automotive marketplace analyzing markets, developing sales programs, recommending customer activities (based on behavioral analyses) all while driving profitability Helped grow distribution sales from $18 Million to $30 Million over several years Key pricing contact for $300 Million division (Automotive OE) Designed, developed, and implemented rebate approval, tracking, and validation system

 Pricing, and Analytical support for North American sales and management team in Distribution marketplace. Quality system trainer, administrator, and approver. Sarbanes-Oxley Business Unit specialist assuring compliance. SAP implementation “Change Agent” Designed, developed, and implemented rebate approval, tracking, and validation system Price Deviation Request overhaul designer and administrator (Recovered additional revenue $12,000,000 (3%))

 Responsible for special price administration for $400 million North American Distribution Management organization. Recruited, trained, and promoted staff of 7 direct reports Quality system trainer, administrator, and approver. Sarbanes-Oxley Business Unit specialist assuring compliance. Analytical support for North American management team

 Responsible for forecasting process for Off Highway, Power Transmission, Heavy Industries, and Consumer & Superprecision “front ends” Total Business forecasted: ~$200,000,000 Re-engineered reports and spreadsheets used in process. Daily use of MS Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access, and a mainframe interface

 Responsible for Inside sales, Customer Service, and Technical help for manufacturing organization with over 430 distributor branches in 11 states Implemented and operated quote follow-up system for tracking and capitalizing on business opportunities Managed staff of 7 direct reports Daily use of MS Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access, ACT, Netscape Navigator, and a mainframe interface Responsible for sales growth at 75 “house” accounts Tactical and strategic management of $78,000,000 in sales Responsible for staff recruiting, hiring, training, development, and termination (if needed) of staff.

Account Development Responsible for Sales, Service, and Technical help for industrial distribution organization comprising over $400,000 in revenue Developed and Coordinated field representative efforts including sample program and product training Named to team designed to secure ISO 9002 rating Responsible for profitability of assigned sales region. Generated 32% gross profit Grew sales over 75% during tenure Knowledgeable in numerous types of filtration products and processes Sales Correspondent Responsible for quotation system design and use on Desktop publishing system (Macintosh & IBM) Assisted in shipping and receiving, as well as Payables and Receivables accounting Provided support for field representatives for a variety of large volume accounts Responsible for Purchasing all products for distribution Responsible for office systems with duties for improving efficiency Handled company wide computer network and workstation support

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bsba, Finance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance, General