Financial Analyst

Zidong Zhao

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Dallas, Texas 75252 Email: **********@*******.***

SUMMARY

A highly motivated finance professional with strong analytical skills and work experience in financial analysis, forecasting, planning, and

valuation. Hands on experience in M&A, Investment Banking and Private Equity through competition and projects. CFA Level I

candidate and now accomplishing prerequisites to sit for CPA exams with a plan to pass all exams for both in three years. I am seeking a

financial analyst position to provide business support for better decision making .

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 2013.05

M.S. in Finance Graduated with High Distinction GPA 4.0/4.0

Dean’s Excellence Scholarship 2012-2013; Impact Scholarship (Leadership Based) 2011-2012

Shandong University of Science and Technology Qingdao, China 2011.06

B.S. in Electrical Engineering GPA 3.5/4.0

Dean’s Excellence Scholarship (Second Class) 2007 -2011; Outstanding Student Leader 2007-2009

WORK EXPERIENCE

Becker Professional Education - Falcon Reviews Division Irving, TX Present

Financial Analyst Intern 2013.05

allas Habitat for monthly revenue report matching revenue from different sources to the correlated classes.

D Assist to generate Humanity

Analyze class attendance data and create executive summary reports to show class attendance statistics.

Evaluate instructor performance and individual student exam performance correlating to class attendance data.

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

NCH Corporation - World Headquarters Irving, TX 2013.05

Financial Analyst Intern (FP&A) 2012.09

Analyzed monthly P&L financials of Chem Aqua division. Conducted variance analysis with country financial

managers in Asia and dug into suspectable accounts using Oracle drill-down method.

Created various executive summary reports, marketing program reports and scorecards for Chem Aqua division.

Assisted in the monthly forecasting and annual planning process for all Asian countries.

Prepared presentation slides for quarterly board meetings for Asia Pacific region.

Audited International Lab Charge Cost of $0.3M. Made sure that the cost was legitimate and presented to CEO.

Spearheaded a Corporate Allocation Project for international department of $4M . Made sure the allocated expense

was proportional to the growth and profitability of the business and presented to CEO.

The University of Texas at Dallas - Full Time MBA Admissions Office Richardson, TX 2012.06

Admissions Coordinator 2012.01

Coordinated with director of the program on admissions, marketing and customer services.

Processed 500+ application files for prospective students from all over the globe.

Updated application status for prospective students and answered phone calls.

PROJECTS

ACG MBA Case Valuation Competition (3rd Place, Team Honor) – UT Dallas

Valued a private company ‘Fastlane, Inc.’ using DCF, Market Comparable, and Blue Sky approaches.

Provided alternative selling strategies using MBO, LBO, Earn Out, and Accretive EPS methods.

Investment Memo on Walmart Stock for The Student-Run Investment Fund – UT Dallas

Provided industry, SWOT, and valuation analysis for Walmart stock and placed a BUY recommendation.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Meeting Coordinator and Membership Mentor at Ascend Organization – UT Dallas

Coordinated a series of networking events for Ascend with professionals from Big 4 accounting companies.

President of Journalism Group; University Journalist – SUST, China

Published 30+ articles on the university newspaper. Led a journalism group of 15 students and provided mentorships.

Completed “Gears of Selling” Sales training program on Chem Aqua – NCH

Warm up, product demo, close sales, and follow up.

Interpreter – NCH

Provided simultaneous interpretation between English and Chinese for a 3-day sales seminar.

PERSONAL SKILLS

Intermediate Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Table), PowerPoint (Mekko Graphics), Word, Outlook.

Oracle FSG, Business Objects, Marketplace, Onbase, PeopleSoft, Cisco Meetings.

Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Morningstar.

Basic SQL.

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