Management Quality Assurance
Resume:
WILLIAM BLANKEMEIER
Boston, MA **135
***************@*****.***
EDUCATION
May 2010 Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business,
Wellesley, MA
Masters of Business Administration
GPA - 3.6
May 2005 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
B.S. of Business - Finance major/economics minor
Finance GPA - 3.9; Overall GPA - 3.4
Dean's List (4 semesters)
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Semester abroad ( 1/04 - 7/ 04 )
Faculty of business and law academic distinction
SOFTWARE Excel, PowerPoint, FRx, Hyperion Essbase, Sharepoint,
Great Plains, Sage, Crystal Xcelsius
EXPERIENCE
2010 - Present Goldwind USA, Inc., Boston, MA
An international wind turbine manufacturer and developer
of utility scale wind projects.
Consultant- Finance and Strategy
. Worked directly with upper management to develop a long
range strategic plan.
. Developed a formalized budgeting process to be used
across departments.
. Reviewed and reported actual vs. budgeted financials and
investigated any variances for explanation and future
forecasting.
. Developed a working capital model to be used by upper
management to track cash flows.
. Built and updated a dashboard for management reporting
summarizing financials, margins, ratios, shipping volume
and average selling prices.
. Researched, negotiated and oversaw the implementation of
the expense management system.
. Performed competitive analysis and reviewed industry
standards.
. Developed a formalized reporting process for investors
and lending institutions.
2007 - 2009 First Wind, Newton, MA
A privately held developer /operator of alternative energy.
Current operations include Maui, HI; Buffalo, NY; and Mars
Hill, ME
Senior Financial Analyst/Corporate Strategy
Reporting to the Director of Finance, perform a variety of
corporate finance as well as operations / project analysis,
including:
Corporate:
. G&A budgeting and reporting - created budgets for 12
departments with department heads and provide timely and
accurate reporting on budget to actual data.
. Board Reports - compile all financial and project
information for monthly and quarterly board meetings.
. Actively participated in filing of S-1 (registration
statement for public filing) to the SEC.
. Review of PPAs and other contractual agreements.
. Gathered financial data to deliver accurate financial
statements
. Hyperion Essbase implementation, development,
installation, and training of employees, as well as
maintaining the trees/data cubes.
. Participated in Essbase developer training at Oracle
headquarters.
. Developed five year strategic plan for development and
operating projects with senior management.
Operational:
. Timely and accurate reporting of two of the three
operating projects (Kaheawa and Niagara Wind Power).
Includes financial statement creation and diligence,
operational data analysis, as well as budget to actual
reporting delivered on a monthly basis.
. Point person for all development budgeting and reporting
. Development Reporting - Budget to actual spending for
the projects in the development phase. Approximately 40
projects.
. Development Budgeting - gathering and updating
development budget data. Working with upper management
(CEO and CFO) on quality assurance of the budgets.
. Ongoing updates of budgets - preparing and change orders
that developers may have throughout the year and present
them to upper management for approval.
2005 -2007 KPMG LLP, Boston, MA
Associate: Transaction Services
Performed financial due diligence on behalf of private
equity and strategic clients in pursuit of merger and
acquisition transactions.
. Evaluated the target company's quality of earnings;
identified potential earnings adjustments including non-
recurring, unrecognized, and anticipated revenues and
expenses, and pro-forma items.
. Analyzed the target company's quality of assets;
identified the components of specific financial
statement accounts using the offering memorandum,
management reports, and SEC filings. Performed trend
analysis to identify areas for additional investigation.
Identified off-balance sheet assets and liabilities.
. Analyzed business trends and seasonality of the target
company's revenues, expenses, and margins. Identified
key customers and suppliers. Evaluated profitability of
product lines. Calculated key performance measures
including EBITDA, working capital and profitability
ratios.
. Traveled both domestically and internationally to
participate in interviews of management at target
companies. Created question lists for use during these
interviews.
. Performed reviews of the target company's audit work-
papers; created question lists for use during auditor
interviews.
. Created discounted cash flow models for private equity
clients that calculated NPV and IRR of investments in
portfolio companies. Identified historical and
forecasted values for variables used in LBO models.
. Gained skill at effectively presenting information;
participated in writing detailed explanations for
findings, determined effective presentation techniques,
and created corresponding tables and graphs.
. Recipient of KPMG's 'Encore Award' for outstanding
achievement in actively exhibiting the firm's core
values while serving the clients and teaming with
coworkers.
. Clients advised include Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain
Capital, Weston Presidio, Nautic Partners, General
Atlantic, and Priceline.com.
ACTIVITIES
2009 Habitat for Humanity Volunteer
2005 University of Rhode Island Ram Fund Member
. Select group of students chosen to manage alumni funds
in excess of $100,000
. All investments are picked and managed by students
2004-2005 URI Financial Engineering Club
2004-2005 URI Financial Management Association
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