Accounts Payable Management

CLIFF GRUBIN

**** **** **** ******, ********, N.Y.

718-***-**** (H) 347-***-**** (C) Email- *****.******@*****.***

Results–driven financial professional with extensive experience in market data vendor, exchange and telecom procurement and provisioning. Expertise in inventory, expense and project management. Effectively builds client relationships and demonstrates the ability to communicate with all levels of an organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Goldman Sachs & Co., Jersey City, NJ Sep.1998- Aug 2010

Vice President, Global Market Data Management

Managed a global provisioning and invoicing team of ten (10) located in North America and Europe. Responsible for processing 2,000 market data requests on a monthly basis and total budget oversight of over $300 million.

Created and implemented new provisioning process which resulted in the reduction of request time for market data orders from thirty (30) to twelve (12) minutes.

Coordinated the upgrade and transfer of the firm’s market data inventory into the new MDSL/MDM database which consisted of 12,000 users, 365 vendors, 1,200 accounts and 4,200 services.

Managed and directed the Dual City Transition Project. Responsible for the coordination of hiring, training and transitioning daily operations to Bangalore, India and Salt Lake City, Utah. This was accomplished by on-site visits to each location.

Developed training program and created run books for new hires. This documentation covered all phases of the market data procurement and invoicing cycles.

Cultivated and maintained relationships with over fifty (50) top tier market data vendors such as Bloomberg, ThomsonReuters, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Factset, Intex and CQG. Responsibilities include: conducting bi-weekly and monthly meetings to review accounts, resolve billing discrepancies and inventory issues.

Partnered with the Strategic Vendor Management and Business Analysis teams to negotiate product pricing with vendors.

Reengineered the accrual process which resulted in the reduction of time spent by fifteen (15) hours on a monthly basis.

Effectively led several expense management initiatives which resulted in over $1 million savings to the firm from late fees and closed accounts.

Conducted weekly and monthly market data financial and provisioning meetings for Technology, Operations and Finance Management. Prepared and delivered detailed reports on expense, budget, inventory and trend analysis.

Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY. June1988- Aug.1998

Supervisor, Accounts Payable

Managed a team of five (5) that was responsible for the processing of over 200,000 individual transactions on an annual basis for the firm’s global travel and entertainment expenses.

Produced and distributed 6,500 monthly expense reports for all divisions.

Managed the relationship with American Express and worked to address GS employee inquiries. The total call volume averaged 250 on a monthly basis.

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Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., New York, NY. Jan. 1988-June1988 Accounts Payable Analyst

Analyzed and processed all travel and entertainment expense reports.

Researched and resolved accounts payable issues.

Updated and posted transactions to the firm’s general ledger.

E.F. Hutton, New York, NY. Feb.1987- Dec.1988 Supervisor-Accounts Payable-Mailroom

Processed all Federal Express and Airborne monthly vendor invoices.

Reviewed and processed travel and entertainment expense reports.

EDUCATION

Baruch College, New York, NY. – Accounting Major

Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY. – Associates Degree – Accounting

SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Windows XP, MDSL/MDM, Reuters DACS

Market Data Vendors – Bloomberg, ThomsonReuters, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Factset, CQG, Intex, Platt’s, Interactive Data Corp, Cantor/BGC.

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