Sales Management

RAMIN TALEGHANI

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EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Ann Arbor, MI

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Bachelor of Business Administration, April 2007

• Emphases in Strategy and Accounting

• G.P.A. 3.7/4.0

EXPERIENCE BLUEENERGY Bluefields, Nicaragua

Jan10 - Apr11 Director of Accounting and Finance

• Managed accounting team comprised of two local accountants, in Spanish for US-based

non-profit doing development work in isolated communities on the Caribbean coast.

• Systematized oversight of recurring monthly accounting and administrative processes.

• Overhauled internal control processes and job functions relating to use of cash and bank

transfers, implementing a better segregation of duties between roles.

• Coordinated with project managers to ensure availability of funds and aided in logistics

of materials acquisition to ensure successful execution of projects.

• Produced regular budget vs actual reports for project managers and management.

• Developed a new, simplified, and universal process for soliciting the use of funds for

both project and administrative expenses reducing confusion and improving efficiency.

• Provided regular financial reports to blueEnergy International management team.

• Analyzed spending trends of administrative expenses monthly and worked with the

Executive Director to reduce recurring administrative expenses by 25%.

• Created new budgets with owners for all administrative expenses, resulting in

improvements to expense approval and financial planning.

Aug07 - Dec09 GOOGLE, INC. Mountain View, CA

Financial Analyst, Finance Rotation Program

Rotation 1: Online Sales Finance Team - Aug07-May08

• Managed quarterly bonus calculation process for 600 employees in sales department.

• Negotiated quarterly revenue targets with sales teams in Asia Pacific Latin America

(APLA) countries.

• Expanded compensation program from 3 countries and $21M USD in revenue, to 7

countries and $60M USD in revenue over 4 quarters.

• Provided analytical and budgeting support to APLA management team.

• Revamped financial model used for calculating cost per revenue dollar productivity

metric for APLA countries.

Rotation 2: Checkout Finance Team - May08-Apr09

• Maintained profit and loss statement for Google Checkout, Google's payment processing

service, collaborating with other analysts in finance team and other members of the

Checkout cross-functional management team.

• Built five year financial model to analyze the impacts of fees changes, operational

efficiency improvements, and product launches as part of a major Checkout review.

• Developed automated reports using Python scripting language to pull data for Financial

Operations and Chargeback teams resulting in improved efficiency and rapid

information retrieval.

• Built web-based dashboards for management team to track key operating metrics.

• Designed methodology for breaking out credit losses and fraud losses due to negative

merchant balances.

Rotation 3: Profit and Loss (P&L) Finance Team - Apr09-Dec09

• Worked in three person team to develop a MySQL database used to allocate all of

Google's revenues and costs to product areas to create product P&Ls.

• Streamlined data upload and maintenance process for team's MySQL database.

• Prepared product managers for quarterly executive management business reviews.

Navajo Nation Division of Economic Development Intern - Summer 2006

ADDITIONAL •

Offit Hall Capital Management LLC Intern - Summer 2005

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National Outdoor Leadership School – Completed a course in the Bitterroot Mountains

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Proficient in Spanish, Microsoft Office, Python object oriented programming language,

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MySQL databases design, NetSuite accounting system

August 2011

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