Sales Manager

KEVIN SLEZAK

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937-***-**** West Milton, Ohio 45383 *******@***.**.***

SUMMARY

Results driven, self motivated Financial Analysis Professional with

diversified experience in the Information Services industry, focusing on

modeling and analysis. Background includes start-up experience, leveraging

a broad range of skills including negotiation, pricing, marketing, sales

and distribution. Demonstrated ability to provide creative yet sound

analysis and practical solutions. Proven effectiveness in leading project

team financial analysis efforts ranging from product to market to capital,

from inception to delivery and beyond. Successfully created and delivered

complex corporate internal financial reporting, metrics, budgets and

analysis focused on accuracy in a rapidly changing environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ROBERT HALF CONSULTING- DHL, Wilmington, Ohio Nov, 2008-Mar 2010

Consultant

Responsible for divisional accounting, ad hoc analysis, budgets and

reporting. Created first multi division monthly Balance Sheet report and

analysis for US Aviation. Monthly intercompany account reconciliation,

divisional JE's for closing, monthly budget variance analysis and internal

reporting. Created model for two divisions in 2009 budget cycle and

generated analysis and reporting for restructuring costs. Extensive use of

SAP and Hyperion for special projects.

RESOURCES GLOBAL PROFESSIONALS, Plano, Texas & Nashville Tenn. Sept,

2007-Sept, 2008

Consultant - Community Health Services and Thompson Corp.

Plano, Tx. Provided financial analysis on account and dept. coding for

a multi million dollar companies migration from PeopleSoft to SAP. Using

SAP, identified over $2million in coding errors that were subsequently

corrected by accounting. Generated new commission plans for the UK

subsidiary and created a model for UK revenue recognition for software

license sales. Created a 13 week rolling sales forecast and provided SAP

retrieved data to Finance as required. Assisted in creation and loading of

annual budget in Cognos.

Nashville, Tenn. Generated all excel modeling reports and tracking for

the asset revaluation of a $7 billion acquisition in the Hospital market.

Assisted in the coordination of the asset appraisal and created the model

and data for the journal entries required to the GL and the Fixed Asset

System for a change in asset value, depreciation and Goodwill.

EXPERIAN, Denver, Colorado 2000-May, 2007

Senior Financial Analyst

Provided internal corporate reporting for Profit and Loss modeling, Flash

and Trend analysis, corporate KPI's, Performance Metrics, cash flow,

operating leases, sales pipeline analysis, regression modeling, budgets,

forecasts and analysis for a $240 million information services division.

Created and maintained revenue, expense and capital budgets, forecasts and

analysis for email division.

. Enhanced revenue and optimized resource utilization by creating the

first product and client profit and loss model including IT

Operations. Downloaded sales and expense from Oracle to analyze client

pricing and functional expense concurrent with assigned functions.

. Generated detailed financial data for several acquisitions and

integrated financial processes and reporting for those acquisitions.

. Reduced fixed costs by creating complex tracking reports downloading

system performance to Excel and Access for network and capital

optimization. Enhanced data available to management to make pricing

and capacity decisions resulting in staged purchases to maintain just

in time capacity.

. Improved margins by analyzing complex data sets, revealing product

cannibalization, erosion and growth for products in all life cycle

stages.

. Enhanced customer satisfaction and reduced system downtime, due to a

later dismissed lawsuit, through analysis of Technical Operations and

client data by day and hour for a six month period.

. Insured integrity of corporate functions through expense and capital

analysis utilizing Oracle Financials and Optiflow.

CAREERTRACK, Boulder, Colorado 1998-2000

Manager of Business Development & Warehouse/Distribution

Developed pricing, managed business analysis function and created business

plans for new initiatives. Served concurrently as Warehouse manager with

responsibility for $10 million annual inventory and $3 million annual

freight budget. Managed staff of 23 exempt/non exempt employees.

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. Improved resource utilization and optimized marketing and pricing by

developing a financial business case model and reporting against

industry benchmarks.

. Improved margins up to 50% on product sales and seminar registration

that could be moved to the internet by developing a migration business

plan.

. Reduced inventory levels by $1 million within eight months through

retooling the warehouse function, improving controls, redesigning the

purchasing model, JIT product, improving turns ratio and reducing PPV.

. Reduced freight and distribution costs by up to $1 million annually

through price negotiations with vendors.

. Reduced costs by developing an outsourcing analysis on the warehousing

function and customer service. Created and maintained product sales

forecast and management reporting.

PROFORMA, Franktown, Colorado 1994-1998

Local franchise for North America's largest print and promotional products

distributor.

Owner/President

Managed all aspects of marketing, sales, finance, negotiation, purchasing

and shipping.

LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton, Ohio

Manager, LIS Revenue and Expense Analysis

Responsible for annual expense and $220 million revenue budgeting process

and ongoing rolling forecasts. Managed all division analysis on pricing

integrity, product sales, marketing initiatives and business cases using

IRR, NPV and Payback and led a staff of six direct reports.

. Improved senior management decision process by introducing SPSS

statistical modeling and integrating UNIX software.

. Increased system usage, customer satisfaction and efficiency regarding

product delivery through business case analysis and directing

financial analysis and tracking for the company-wide implementation of

a new search engine with estimated sales of $125 million in a staged

rollout.

. Improved margins by up to $15 million by leading the analysis on sales

force restructuring through more efficient leveraging of the sales

force.

. Led financial efforts in the development, launch, tracking and

reporting of a $20 million CD product. Managed the financial analysis

on new marketing programs, sales and engineering initiatives and multi-

million dollar capital funding requirements.

. Improved efficiency and increased management financial knowledge

through developing, introducing and maintaining the first distributed

budgeting, analysis and reporting system for revenue, expense and

capital.

Additional Experience

GENERAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING BUSINESS GROUP

BATTELLE AND BATTELLE CPA'S

EDUCATION

BS, Accounting, Magna Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma, University of

Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

General Electric internal Financial Management Program

CPA test review under way

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