Project Manager Management

David S. Klein

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SUMMARY

Highly accomplished finance professional with a history of implementing

effective processes and strategies to create, improve, and streamline

analytical tools to enhance financial and operational analysis. Results-

oriented, decisive leader with proven success in building strong cross-

functional teams, leading large projects, evaluating enterprise cash flow

models, fostering process improvements and developing company-wide

forecasts and variance analysis.

EXPERIENCE

NRG ENERGY Princeton, NJ

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis 2005 - 2013

. Managed $2 billion EBITDA budget (5-year budget), forecasting and

internal financial reporting.

. Created monthly Flash Report and Management Report for distribution to

Senior Management which highlighted and analyzed financial, operational

(KPI), and market conditions driving business on a monthly, quarterly,

and year-to-date basis. This report's timely analysis improved Senior

Management's ability to provide the 10Q and earnings calls 15 days

earlier.

. Project Manager for the implementation and development of SAP

(BPC/OutlookSoft) software - a budget and analytical reporting tool.

Delivered project ahead of schedule. Designed the functionality of

system to convert technical energy production generation models into

financial data for the purpose of forecasting and reporting analysis.

. Introduced company wide Contribution Margins and Adjusted EBITDA

statements in order to improve analytical clarity on product

profitability and derivative accounting. Meaningfully increased the

depth of analytics by instituting regional price/volume analysis.

. Provided financial analysis, earnings call scripts and press releases

for CFO.

Manager, Strategy and M&A

. Served as lead Project Manager on strategic M&A transactions for company.

Coordinated with third party, supervised 20-30 member cross functional

due diligence team, managed project budgets, timeline, enterprise

valuation model and sensitivity analysis, and presentations to Executive

Management for deal approval. Successful M&A transactions include:

- 3 acquisitions with an accumulated enterprise value of $174 million,

annually contributing over $35 million of EBITDA to the company.

- $174 million sale of NRG's 42% minority interest in a German coal-

fired power plant.

. Supported the creation of Energy Technology Ventures, a $300 million

joint venture fund with GE Capital and ConocoPhillips for investment in

emerging and innovative energy technology.

Manager, Investor Relations

. Critical participant in NRG's successful hostile takeover defense from

Exelon Corp. Held significant responsibility for retaining shareholder

support, despite stock price fall as a result of the economic downturn,

by demonstrating how NRG's management and strategic platform were

greatly more valuable as a stand-alone entity. These efforts resulted

in shareholder vote to reject the hostile bid by a 3 to 1 margin.

. Developed an investor outreach program in order to attract new

investors to NRG. Efforts generated over 20 million shares of new

investments in NRG's common stock from fund managers and private

investors.

. Managed daily operations of Investor Relations including skillful

messaging and market response to investors, potential investors, and

sell side analysts on topics relating to: Financial and operational

results, treasury and risk functions, accounting treatment, fuel

hedging and commodity trading, regulatory and environmental impacts,

and company growth strategies and initiatives.

. Influenced dozens of favorable sell side equity coverage reviews and

influenced three sell side equity analyst to select NRG as the top pick

in the merchant energy space.

PSEG Newark, NJ

Supervisor - Financial Reporting and Analysis 2000 - 2005

. Delivered Report to Management book and presentation to the Board of

Directors and Executive Officer Group including business unit

performance and analysis of monthly results and key performance

indicators and trends. Reorganized and improved the Report to

Management to make it illustratively more sophisticated and user

friendly.

. Improved and streamlined PSEG Power's management reporting with the

creation of more robust modeling. Developed and implemented a PSEG

Power Margin Package used in monthly executive management meetings.

. Prepared and issued competitive industry analysis using FACTSET and

other public financial data to benchmark specific areas of corporate

financial performance for use by the CEO, CFO, Investor Relations and

executive teams throughout the organization.

CHAMPION MORTGAGE Parsippany, NJ

Manager, Planning & Business Analysis 1998 - 2000

. Created Financial Planning Department - Implemented previously

nonexistent planning function.

. Transformed Senior Management planning concepts into functional Excel

models, generating detailed P&L and cash flow projections.

. Managed the Human Resource capacity Analysis Program - measured

departmental efficiency and justified staffing projections to minimize

over-staffing during seasonal trends.

. Completed ad-hoc projects and presentations to Senior Management,

including industry benchmarking, efficiency analysis, and future

sensitivity scenarios to investigate impact on corporate profitability.

RESIDUE RECYCLING Morristown, NJ

Owner - Plastic Recycling Broker 1996 - 1998

. Created brokerage business for the recycling of plastics and foam.

TOYS "R" US

Rochelle Park, NJ

International Corporate Accountant 1994 -

1996

DELOITTE & TOUCHE Parsippany,

NJ

Senior Auditor

1992 - 1994

EDUCATION

Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business

Bachelor of Science in Management, May 1992; Concentration - Accounting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Expertise in PowerPoint, Excel, BPC (SAP), SNL, Intralinks.

Familiarity with FACTSET and Bloomberg

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