Aristotle Mante, MBA

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Profile Summary

Experienced professional with a successful career in banking, business development, and

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administration. Excel at interfacing with others at all levels to ensure organizational goals are

attained.

Proactive approach has resulted in capturing numerous accounts and expanding client base.

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Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.

1. Excel within highly competitive environments where leadership skills are the keys to

success.

2. An effective manager with the skills necessary to direct, train, and motivate staff to its

fullest potential.

Experience

Strayer University, Columbus, OH 10/2010 – 12/2014

Business Risk Manager/Snr. Financial Analyst

• Prepared, analyzed and communicated key financial information and provided support

to management and other staff members regarding financial reporting and other related

issues. Assisted with budget preparation and financial planning processes. Assisted

with budget review for compliance and opportunities. Served as consultant to all levels

of management to provide decision support for initiatives, policies and procedures.

• Was responsible for short and long term financial forecasts, and other financial

analysis services to senior management on short or long term multi-discipline projects,

initiatives and ongoing operations. Coordinated with Project Management to

determine capital requirements for individual capital projects including the

development of Authorization for Expenditures and related variance analysis. Prepared

Monthly financial statement analysis including development of reports for

management to compare actual capital expenditures and operating results to budgeted

amounts.

• Compiled and analyzed moderately to complex financial information to ensure

accuracy and; created ad hoc, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports; provided

insightful analysis of key financial metrics with supporting documents to business unit

leaders, field and senior management; performed tasks such as financial forecasting,

trend analysis, reconciliation of internal accounts, system maintenance and participate

in special projects as assigned while working under general supervision.

• Prepared financial and business related analyses and research in such areas as financial

and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, business improvement, and

business investment opportunities. Prepared budgets, forecasts, trend analyses and

expense accruals. Provided information for various monthly journal entries.

• Performed daily risk analysis and valuation on portfolios, managed daily P&L

reporting process, assumed producing weekly risk management reports for upper risk

management committee.

• Provided a strong framework for implementing a cogent risk management strategy for

management.

• Prepared budget outlook parameters and performed sensitivity analysis for the CFO

such as expected gross margin for periodic strategic planning and financial reporting.

Improved valuation processes by identifying valuation risk, data integrity weaknesses,

and procedural enhancements.

• Performed a variety of highly complex and diverse analytical duties including the

collection and analysis of financial data from reports and various sources as wells

statistical analyses of financial data: served as consultant to management.

• Initiated improvements to reporting and forecasting capabilities in order to generate

meaningful formats and financial data to better serve senior management team in order

to facilitate decision-making.

• Provided information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing

reports; making presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.

• Developed presentations and written materials to convey the results of research and

analysis of projects to senior management and various risk committees.

• Taught finance and Business courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Performed detailed, interpretative financial analysis utilizing complex modeling

scenarios and activities.

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH 04/2006 10/2010

Snr. Financial Analyst/Account Manager

• Manage the Market Risk group for Commodities. In charge of implementation of the

ETRM system for the commodities business and risk analytics for the trading desk.

Manage a team of 11 QA (Quality Assurance) people, 4 developers and 2 analysts.

• Was responsible for setting up risk limits, procedures, and reporting. Provided

independent testing and valuation of market risk limits. Built various reports in CXL

(ETRM System) for the traders and Market Risk Group.

• Conducted quantitative analysis through price and stress testing, Greek calculation,

valuation of forward price curves and volatilities, and correlation extrapolation.

• Provided comprehensive reporting including modeling, forecasting and fundamental

and economic indicator analysis. Prepared daily commentary for traders and

recommended trading strategies.

• Performed independent quantitative research into leading market risk variables, e.g.

modeling price trends, volatility, correlation, and provided spread analysis in illiquid

markets. Built forward curves and volatilities of non-liquid trading locations needed

for price testing and for reserves.

• Assembled, compiled, analyzed financial information, and resolved

errors/inconsistencies in data from financial reporting systems.

• Worked in collaboration with business groups to provide insightful review and

analysis of risk and resource estimates developed by various business units.

• Developed annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and multi-year strategic plans in

conjunction with senior management . Created monthly expense reports/ P&Ls and

provided variance analysis for management review.

• Conducted independent research and complex analytical projects using industrial data

such as public filings, regulatory filings, and regulatory publications.

• Performed other assignments and special project analysis as requested by

management.

• Assisted in cross-training junior financial analysts

PSI GROUP, Columbus, OH 04/1996 03/2000

Business Analyst/ Financial Analyst

• Developed training manuals and trained regional sales persons in the advantages of the

new products being introduced.

• Played a key role in the development of the company’s strategic marketing and

advertising approach in the marketplace. Led a team to determine the advertising

placement approach for the department’s $10 million budget.

• Defined functional business requirements and modeled workflow processes for the

department. Produced data models for application software that was being converted and

upgraded. That included the internal data structure as well as mapping from old to new

systems. Produced reports using business intelligence tools. Defined business reporting

requirements including content, layout, and other characteristics.

• Worked with different business teams to manage and support all phases of the expense

financial planning process including consolidations: Reviewed monthly expenses to

ensure that expenses are booked correctly.

• Performed monthly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial

position/budget variance analysis. Researched and resolved Business Unit(s) inquiries

for assigned functional areas.

• Worked with different business teams to manage and support all phases of the expense

financial planning process including consolidations: Reviewed monthly expenses to

ensure that expenses are booked correctly.

Education

Franklin University (Graduation: 04 / 2003)

• MBA

• Specialization: Corporate Finance

• GPA: 3.82

• Certifications: CFP (Expected 2016)

Ohio State University (Graduation: 07 / 1998)

• B.S

• Business Administration/Finance

• GPA: 3.9

Skills

APPLICATION SOFTWARE EXPOSURE

SAS; STATA, SPRR, Microsoft Project ; Cognos Business Intelligence

Microsoft Visio; Microsoft Dynamic ERP. Rational RequisitePro Adobe Dreamweaver

Microsoft Office; Emptoris Supply Chain;Enterprise Application Software.

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