Ryan Kain Email & Phone Number

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Riverwoods, Il, Us

● Head of Discover Network Revenue FP&A which accounts for over $220Bn in volume and $4.5Bn revenue annually. This includes managing a revenue and volume model that forecasts at different merchant charge, card product and allocated intersections.● Rebuilt the five-year long-range planning (LRP) process within Discover Network to provide more accurate strategic planning and influence Payments leadership decision making. Partnered with our Global Pricing & Analytic teams to achieve this goal.● Managed all Discover Network regulatory and compliance exercises such as 10-K prep, CCAR, Fixed Interval Validations, Reg-W, Risk Management Validations, and creation of various ad-hoc analytic reports around recent regulatory and compliance findings.● Created a revenue dashboard for Payment Services Executives/Officers that visualized results and compared them to various trends, allowing for more informed strategic decisions during forecasts.● Responsible for month-end result explanations and storytelling for Payments leadership, Central Planning, Finance leadership, and Accounting leadership. This included frequent whitespace analytic deep dives and becoming the lead subject matter expert for revenue.● Launched multiple efficiency initiatives to retire manual, time consuming tasks, such as partnering with our robotic automation team to retire our monthly statistical data load by creating logic for a bot to take over the task.● Continuously innovate by questioning current processes, taking weekly technical trainings, and evaluating pain points.

Riverwoods, Il, Us

● Managed operating expense budgets exceeding $100MM annually for Global Marketing, Global Acceptance, Risk Management and Admin areas within the Payment Services business unit.● Performed competitive analysis to drive strategic insights and promote informed decision making for the Payments business.● Developed new and enhanced existing financial models to improve forecast accuracy and provide greater detail to business partners.● Overhauled the allocation process by collecting, reviewing, and updating rates throughout Payment Services, including frequent allocation rate reviews and questioning the methodologies used to determine rates.● Implemented new month-end close variance analysis documents and heatmap files to allow greater OpEx visibility for senior leadership.● Drove efficiency in reporting by creating new headcount and contractor dashboards for senior leadership business partners.

Chicago, Il, Us

●Controlled and analyzed $150MM+ worth of client budgets to ensure accurate revenue recognition, budget allocation, forecasting and planning of cost, and budget reconciliation.●Created and posted journal entries for the month-end close process to ensure balance sheet reconciliation accuracy.●Established a new internal subsidiary and implemented best-practice financial procedures to ensure the successful transition of the owned subsidiary to the independent subsidiary.●Head senior financial analyst for intercompany projects and internal studio management in charge of an additional $20MM+ worth of internal budgetary management and analysis.●Distributed monthly reports to finance directors that determine the aging of $50MM+ worth of monthly accounts receivable and works-in-process for all client accounts prior to month-end close procedures.●Conducted international and domestic tax regulations as lead-off contact for all tax-related inquiries for the five FCB North American offices.●Designed and implemented internal finance learning sessions to guide and teach all financial analysts the functionality of different reporting tools and innovative solutions to automate reporting for higher efficiency.

Chicago, Il, Us

●Developed weekly scorecards for senior leadership’s review that showcased the annual issuance of $1B of loyalty rewards points which were treated as a liability on the company’s balance sheet.●Created a weekly report for upper management that showed the number of new loyalty rewards members that made purchases with licensed business partners of Sears and compared them to the 50MM+ existing members.●Constructed scorecards for business unit leadership comparing weekly financials against plan and pro forma projections for a selection of stores receiving revenue and inventory from non-traditional sources.●Provided weekly reporting and slide presentations to the Chairman of the Board on the turnaround efforts in Puerto Rico and New York, which included updating financials on licensed business partners in those markets.●Built a margin variance analysis template for 42 individual Sears and Kmart stores that displayed product and store growth for markets in Puerto Rico and New York to allow each margin adjustment item to be compared to the rest of the chain and nation.