Management Control

Michael Graziano

Credit Suisse First Boston, LLC

Education/Qualifications 2000 – 2003

Organic Lighting Technologies, LLC

Wharton School Of Business,

**** – 2005

University Of Pennsylvania

Dell Inc. (Contract)

BSE with concentrations in

2004 – 2004

Finance/Economics, Market Research,

The Home Retreat, LLC

and Entrepreneurial Management.

2004 – 2010

Areas of Practice Value Added Consulting

2010 Current

Treasury / Funding

Internal Controls

Budget Preparation

Variance Analysis & Reporting

Data Analysis

Sales

Commissions

Expenses

Inventory / COGS

OPEX

Balance Sheet Analysis

Margin and Pricing Analysis

Management Reporting

Bank Reconciliations

Business Process Development

GL Accounting

Contract Analysis

Vendor Negotiation

Trade Analysis

Industry Lines

Corporate Finance

Investment Banking

Retail

Hi Tech

Healthcare

Computer Applications

ERP systems

Microsoft Excel including VB & Macros

Microsoft Access & DB Design

Microsoft Office (remaining products)

Intuit Quickbooks Pro

Intuit Quickbooks POS

Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop

Work History

Long Term Capital Management, LLC

1997 – 1999

Michael Graziano – 360 Nueces St, Unit 1802 Austin TX, 78701 – **********@*****.*** – 512-***-**** (M)

Professional Experience treasury / funding, commission calculation/accruals and trade modeling &

analysis.

Experienced background includes

• Experienced in developing the business needs for internal control systems and

managerial positions in finance,

implementing those systems into daily workflows.

internal control, and retail.

• Qualified liaison between business unit and IT for development and

Accomplished roles from two of Wall

implementation of IT solutions.

Street's leading firms: Long Term

• Managed month end and year end closing process.

Capital Management and Credit

Suisse. This experience includes four • Maintained successful control over $6 billion in OTC derivative positions.

years as a financial controller • Personally managed $4 billion in foreign exchange for a large hedge fund. This

performing both finance and includes calculating anticipated FX balances, and executing spot and forward

accounting tasks and two years in trades of size on the FX market. Negotiated pricing and managed counterpart

foreign exchange & treasury relationships.

management. Developed broad and • Experienced in product pricing; including margin analysis, market analysis,

deep skills related to financial control, supplier analysis, negotiated preferred pricing, and revenue analysis.

revenue analysis & forecasting, OPEX

• Managed audit information flow on over 20 important internal and external

analysis, GL accounting, management

audits.

reporting, month end close, budgeting

• Office / Staff management experience including process development.

and variance analysis, and contract

analysis. Instrumental in finding

Major Projects

significant cost saving efficiencies and

• Developed new control infrastructure for new broker dealer.

in developing key control solutions.

• Improved control structure reduced firm capital requirements by 20%

•

Principal Areas of Practice Redesigned interface increased controller efficiency by 30%

I provide a potential employer with • Integrated existing Sarbanes Oxley requirements into control system,

and allowed for future development of control & reporting requirements.

expertise in corporate finance and

• Created an automated stress testing application which tested our trading

accounting.

positions. This reduced operational risk over the previous system by 75% and

• General accounting experience

saved the team 20 hours of time per month per employee.

includes analysis and reporting of

• Streamlined option price testing procedures which increased accuracy by 20%

revenue, OPEX, COGS,

and reduced errors by 30%.

budgeting/forecasting & variance

• Designed and implemented a completely automated treasury management

analysis.

• system which saved the company over $800,000 per year, cut funding prep time

General finance experience

from four hours to one hour (75% increase in efficiency) and significantly

includes comprehensive financial

reduced operational risk.

analytics, contract analysis,

margin analysis, internal controls, • Designed and implemented a cash reconciliation management system.

• Recovered over $200,000 in interest from late payments and trade

settlements.

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