Robert Scott Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Owner of Fitness Machine Technicians franchise operation in Greater Atlanta Area.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Providing finance consulting services for Invesco.

Greater Atlanta Area

Providing finance consulting activities for Carter's Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Led team of three finance professionals providing strategic planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis support for managing general agency with $500,000,000 in revenue. Led integration efforts of acquired business.
• Improved monthly and quarterly presentations to board of directors and owners by creating deeper analysis, better visualizations of information, and setting formatting standards.
• Redesigned forecast models for administrative expenses to base them on key operating drivers. Improved forecast accuracy and reduced number of models from over 40 to 12.
• Established changes to month-end close process, resulting in more complete financial results, better variance analysis, and alignment of forecast with month-end process.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led team of eight finance professionals providing strategic and tactical finance support for IFCO business, $500,000,000 in revenue, and 4,000 employees located in 120 manufacturing and warehouse facilities across.
• Optimized budget and forecast processes/models by using key operating drivers as the base. Achieved improvement of forecast accuracy to within 2% of sales and analyses based on metrics.
• Developed tool to identify pricing actions needed at market level to maintain profitability. Implemented 10% price increases while minimizing customer loss.
• Implemented process improvements to monthly close process, shortening it by one day.
• Improved analytical tool to support bidding process for used pallets, resulting in $2,000,000 in cost savings through more effective bidding as well as improvements in win rate for bids.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Position was promoted to Director role based on increased scope from acquisitions and increased responsibilities. Provided finance leadership and support for all strategic planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
• Created all new revenue reporting and analyses for the digital platforms to make it more insightful, forward looking and actionable. Improved reporting and tools over time so that I was able to consistently project.
• Built revenue performance reporting for each ad location on every digital platform. Product design and sales teams used analyses to change ad sizes and locations resulting in $10M+ in revenue impact.
• Finance lead for implementation of critical digital advertising systems and a business intelligence tool.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led finance team of 11 people responsible for providing strategic planning and analysis, forecasting, reporting, and performing month end close process. Revenue tripled to $900M+ during this time.
• Drove analysis based changes in product selection, product promotions, marketing expenses and also logistics and warehousing cost models that drove profit margin from -20%+ to 5%+.
• Developed SKU profitability tool to analyze both existing and new SKU’s. Tool used by merchants to make product selection and promotion decisions which drove significant improvements in profitability.
• Created analysis on shipping expenses and revenue and identified the price point to establish free shipping. Resulted in everyday free shipping on orders over $149.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Coordinated cross functional teams from both companies, over 25 people, on 10 month project to integrate the day to day activities, policies and processes for all areas in the company.
• Led separate integration team that drove revenue synergies and operational cost savings between the companies resulting in $5M+ of impact.

Greater Atlanta Area

Built first consolidated P&L and drove strategic budgeting process for $700M+ business unit. Updated financial reporting and regularly developed new financial analyses. Created presentations for the Division President to deliver to the CEO and the Executive Leadership Team.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Performed industry and competitive analyses and created in-depth research notes. Built and managed P&L and valuation models, and earnings analysis. Partnered with Research Analyst in setting investment recommendations.
• Ranked 3rd out of 25+ Analyst/Associate pairs in internal performance survey.
• Restructured financial models so that the projected financial statements were driven by key business drivers such as same store sales, new location openings and wage and food inflation.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Created business plan with executive management team which resulted in a successful $23M second round of venture capital funding.
• Developed competitive analysis of biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provided management consulting services, specializing in process redesign and supply chain management. Worked in the Management Solutions Group focused on providing consulting services to mid-market companies under $1B.
• Awarded Deloitte & Touche Client Service Excellence Award (Awarded to less than 1% of projects).
• Coordinated implementation team for six months to redesign the entire purchasing, warehousing and accounting processes for a retail grocery store chain with revenues of $400M.
• Established strategy for supply chain of three hospitals being merged and identified $4M+ in savings.
• Developed feasibility study for Canada hosting the 2010 World Cup of Soccer. Report resulted in Canada officially bidding for the event.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provided engineering design services to customers building cement manufacturing plants in Canada, the United States and South America.
• Coordinated and built feasibility proposal for a $200 million cement production line.
• Led firm in the successful implementation of ISO 9001, resulting in certification.

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

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant for finance and micro-economics.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Full tuition scholarship - 1991-1995. Elected to Engineering Society Executive Committee, 1991-1994