Management Manager

Kurt A. Hill

Longmont, CO

************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/kurthillfinance

303-***-****

Summary

Finance professional with a diversified background that has the strategic

ability to manage change for improved performance and efficiency.

Extensive experience working in fast paced and highly complex

organizations. Proven record of progressively increasing responsibilities

within financial planning, budgeting and forecasting. Successful

communicator with the ability to influence business partners and drive

decisions. Skilled at learning and understanding complex systems and

processes to gain insight into financial information.

Skills

. Operational and strategic planning

. Budgeting and capital plans

. Forecasting and trending projections

. Expense management

. Business improvement process

. Variance analysis

. Management reporting and consolidation

. Problem Solving

. Complex model building

. Information Systems & Technology

. Hyperion, Essbase, SmartView

Professional Experience

First Data Corporation; Denver, CO (1995-2010)

Director Finance, Technology & Operations; (2008-2010)

Responsibilities: Managing all aspects of the operational planning,

strategic planning, forecasting, and monthly close processes for $2B

annual operating budget and $300M capital budget. Business partner to

the Global Technology & Operations (GTO) executive, preparing multiple

analytical reports to drive business decisions. Manage financial

reporting structures to maintain integrity of reporting and analysis.

Key Results:

. Successfully achieved first ever consolidated monthly reporting

analysis package for the GTO organization managing across multiple

functions, global locations, and departments that included dashboard

summaries, P&L analysis, detailed trends, variance analysis and

R&O's.

. Provided insight into the total business view that led to improved

management decisions, over 2 year period reduced operating budget by

20%.

. Engineered the creation of the financial reporting structures that

led to a reduction of management reporting by 3 days.

. Created foreign exchange impact analysis for the GTO organization

that was ultimately used across the company and for 10K/10Q

reporting.

Director Finance, EDM Project; (2005-2007)

Responsibilities: Create, develop and implement common process and

procedures across the enterprise utilizing the Hyperion Financial

Management system. Lead the integration of multiple COA at the

business unit level to a common enterprise level COA. Implement

various management reporting hierarchies, including financial and

organizational structures.

Key Results:

. Implemented processes across the company that reduced the monthly

close cycle by 2 days.

. Through detailed analysis reduced the number of accounts being

utilized by 20%.

. Constructed common and consistent management reporting across the

company leading to a reliable close process.

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Director Finance, Concord Integration; (2003-2005)

Responsibilities: Lead finance role for IT organization on the

integration of Concord, a $1.5B technology company. Develop detailed

business cases for IT integration activities reflecting project

expense, capital requirements and run rate synergy savings.

Key Results:

. Achieved $250M in annual synergy savings and under spent budget of

$300M of integration expense.

. Created multiply business case for IT projects and developed

methodology for tracking and reporting all project expenses and

synergies for the total integration. The business case format I

developed was used across all integration projects.

Director Finance, Data Center/Applications; (2000-2003)

Responsibilities: Managing the operational planning, forecasting, and

monthly close processes for $500M annual operating budget and $100M

capital budget for the domestic data centers and application

organizations.

Key Results:

. Rolled out common data center cost pool model to the major data

centers, developing standard resource metrics and rates.

. Introduced per item costing for the FDMS business unit at the

transaction level by platform to provide the pricing group enhanced

information for contract negotiation.

. Presented two charge back methodologies at the ISFMA conference in

San Antonio, TX April 2001.

Manager Finance, FDT/WU Data Centers/Applications; (1997-2000)

Responsibilities: Financially accountable for the FDT data center, IPS

applications, WU applications and WU data center with an annual budget

of over $300M.

Key Results:

. Generated product line analysis across the multiple groups to provide

insight into the different usage requirements by products that drove

overall product profitability analysis.

Financial Analyst; (1995-1997)

Responsibilities: Managed all internal and external clients invoicing

for data center services.

Key Results:

. Created product line invoices for internal clients to enhance

their monthly P&L analysis.

First Denver Mortgage Company; Denver, CO (1989-1994)

Internal Auditor, Financial Analyst;

Responsibilities: Implement the position of Internal Auditor and

evaluate servicing portfolios for acquisition. Responsible for

assessing the future delinquency, foreclosure and payoff rates of the

portfolio and determine cash flows generated were sufficient to meet

the company's long-term goals.

Key Results:

. Successfully implemented the first ever position of Internal Auditor

for the company developing all programs and audit tests.

. Purchased 4 servicing portfolios that increased annual revenue by

$2M.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in

Finance, University of Northern Colorado.

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