Management Engineer

SRIKANTH RAJU, CFA

**** *. ******* ****** . ******, CO 80018

*******@*******.*** . 248-***-****

SUMMARY / KEY Experienced finance professional with over 8 years of experience

FINANCE in financial analysis and valuations, and extensive experience in

SKILLS areas spanning Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis,

Corporate Finance and Business Finance. Experienced in

interacting with and advising senior level executives, and in

leading and managing teams. Key finance skills include: Cash

management; Portfolio/Investment management; Treasury operations

knowledge; Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and

financial reporting; Strategic financial planning and analysis;

Financial modeling and analysis; Forecasting of long-range

financials; Capital markets; Business case and capital

expenditure valuations; Capital structure and cost of capital

evaluations; FX and interest rate risk hedging and management

through derivative instruments; Derivatives valuation; M&A deal

valuation; and Lease versus buy decision making

EXPERIENCE FIRST DATA CORPORATION Greenwood Village, CO

Mar 2006 - Director - Treasury (in Treasury and Corporate Finance areas)

Aug 2010 Director - Finance Leadership Rotation

Involved in planning and executing investment management

strategies for a $2Bn

portfolio of assets; Forecasted and managed corporate liquidity;

Involved in cash

management; Managed investment of corporate cash balances;

Forecasted and

managed borrowings against $2Bn credit revolver facility;

Maintained bank relations

Strong knowledge of tactical treasury operations including cash

concentration, cash

management, cash positioning, cash settlement, electronic fund

transfers, and bank fees;

Developed business case for Treasury Workstation System (TWS)

Supported business units with financial analyses, revenue and

profitability analysis,

business case and capital investment evaluations, and performance

tracking; Identified

risks/opportunities impacting the business and made actionable

recommendations to

mitigate risks; Identified opportunities for improving revenue

cycle and working capital

Led the process for forecasting/creating long-range financials

(Cash Flow Statement,

Balance Sheet and Income Statement) and key financial metrics

for external rating

agency presentations and for internal management reporting;

Created comprehensive

integrated financial models in Excel to accomplish this; Provided

analysis of the

financials, key insight and recommendations for management

decision making

Involved in the development of strategic financial plans and

periodic financial forecasts;

Provided insightful variance analysis, prepared financial

presentations, developed

standard/custom reports and made recommendations to management;

Expertise in

understanding cost drivers and recommending operating cost

structure improvements

Evaluated interest rate and currency risk exposures; Created and

executed hedging

strategies to manage these risks using appropriate financial

instruments (interest rate

swaps, cross-currency swaps, FX collars etc); Modeled and valued

derivatives

Determined company Cost of Capital periodically for timely

communication to the

businesses; Performed capital structure evaluations

Performed M&A due diligence, deal valuations and competitive

analysis

Created and managed the lease versus buy decision making process

including

performing lease analyses and made appropriate financing

recommendations to the

business units resulting in savings of at least $4MM; Negotiated

better lease pricing

with vendors; Managed resources and collaborated with various

stakeholders to deliver

recommendations and decision support in a timely manner

Designed and owned the process for monitoring and tracking

compliance with company

debt covenants with buy-in and participation from various

stakeholders

Played a pivotal role as a subject matter expert in the design

and development of the

custom "debt module" in Hyperion Strategic Finance for improved

financial reporting

Created and maintained a comprehensive Excel model to forecast

and report cash/PIK

interest and amortization amounts for $22Bn of corporate debt and

$7.5Bn of swaps

Supported capital markets activities including debt and share

repurchases

Performed risk analyses to support disclosures in the 10K/10Q

filings with SEC

Created the annual budget for shared services and provided

variance analysis

Supported Western Union spin-off effort for corporate shared

services functions; Led the

Continued)

process for gathering pertinent information from various shared

services functions and

created financial models to reflect the post-spin baseline

operational cost structure for

services shared between First Data and Western Union; Created

macros to extract data

from HFM and create custom reports for management reporting

Leveraged the post-spin cost structure models to create the

annual budget for shared

services for new First Data Corporation

Summer 2005 AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. Colorado Springs,

CO

Finance Intern - IT Finance and Planning

Proposed a new IT charge-back model with several recommendations

for implementation in fiscal year 2006, resulting in a much

simpler model without compromising on accuracy of allocation of

IT charges to product groups; Estimated time savings due to new

model is about 35%

Implemented an initiative for centralized inventory management of

TM1 application licenses in order to ensure more efficient use of

licenses available company-wide

2001-2004 ALTAIR ENGINEERING, INC.

Troy, MI

Project Engineer (Responsibilities: Consulting/Project

Management/Financial Analysis)

Responsible for financial modeling, valuation and analyses of

capital expenditures and engineering project services (including

pricing of proposals); Drove economic decisions related to

corporate and project spends through rigorous analysis; Performed

lease versus buy analysis to drive financing decisions; Led and

managed a team of two analysts to provide significant financial

analysis support for engineering projects

Led four-member Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) team; Proposed

and implemented digital mock-up solutions for vehicle development

programs, saving $15 MM in prototypes and 18 months in

development time; Skilled at project management

Planned and managed budgets and performed cost-benefit analyses

for outsourced projects; Responsible for project in-sourcing and

out-sourcing decisions

Organized meetings with cross-functional teams and suppliers to

facilitate exchange of ideas on commonization of parts, resulting

in cost savings of $3.4 MM

1998-2000 QUANTUM CONSULTANTS INC. East Lansing, MI

Project Engineer - Onsite at DaimlerChrysler

Corporation

Executed Material Cost Management (MCM) projects, reducing parts

cost by $1.6 MM

1993-1996 HCL-HEWLETT PACKARD LIMITED Delhi / Chennai,

India

Marketing Executive (IT Solutions)

Established and managed dealer network to market IT solutions

Formulated marketing strategies for retail channel development;

Implemented advertising, pricing and promotional strategies

EDUCATION / CFA Charter, 2010

CREDENTIALS

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor, MI

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Master of Business Administration (Finance and Strategy), 2005

Graduated with High Distinction

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Clemson, SC

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 1998

KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY

Kurukshetra, India

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 1993

Earned 'Honors' by graduating in top 5% of a class of 160

students

ADDITIONAL Excellent cricket player; Avid hiker; Fluent in English, Tamil

and Hindi

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