Manager Sales

ANDREW YACOS, MBA

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OBJECTIVE: Experienced hands on senior finance professional that will

coordinate and implement your high exposure strategic initiatives. I will

apply a solid fact based analytical approach in order to identify cost

savings and organize your forecasting processes. As a result, I can drive

P&L improvements and promote business efficiencies within your

organization.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Budget Forecasting Cost Containment Hyperion Essbase Planning

Investment Review (New Profitability Modeling

Initiatives) Trend Analysis

Staffing Development & Collections (Accounts Active Listing

Reporting Receivable) Strategic Planning

EXPERIENCE:

April 2005 Lexis-Nexis Martindale Hubbell

to Present FINANCE MANAGER (1/07 - Present)

. Responsible for creating annual $250M

consolidated Expense, Staffing and Capital budget

and strategic 3-year financial forecast across a

matrix(ed) and shared service business unit.

Manage and develop staff of 2 Senior Financial

Analysts.

. Collaborate on maintenance and enhancements of

monthly and quarterly updates for product-level

profitability 'Dashboard' report. Publish

strategic 'Metrics' analysis.

. Hyperion Planning (a Cognos like performance

management software) super-user and trainer.

Created systems analytics and data extraction for

all allocated cost drivers.

. Manage monthly /annual Expense and Staffing

closing process and provide executive variance

reports, narrative and commentary.

. Finance lead serving on 'Executive Investment

Council'. Partner with business owners to

document, measure progress of and quantify 5-year

corporate investments plans.

. Analyze cost containment initiatives and present

strategic recommendations for Senior Management

review. Occasional contract review and

retention.

. Responsible for creating and tracking unit level

Staffing and 'Open-to-Hire' measures and

maintaining their corresponding analysis and

reporting.

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST (4/05 to 12/06)

. Provided ongoing and ad hoc financial analysis

regarding the combined performance of direct

business unit and shared services.

. Responsible for submitting and tracking unit level

Capital Expenditures and maintaining spend

analysis and reports.

January 1990 Dun & Bradstreet and its subsidiaries

to December 2004

February 2000 Moody's Investors Service

to December 2004 MANAGER OF BILLING, COLLECTIONS & CASH APPLICATIONS

(12/02 -12/04)

. Supervised and coached previously under performing

Billing & Collections team responsible for $100+

million research business. Oversaw Cash

Applications activities. Provided monthly

reconciliation of receivables and aged reporting.

Coordinated quarterly corporate reserve analysis.

Created and published monthly 'Billing,

Collections and Cash Applications' report packet

for CFO and Controller review. Report packet

contains comprehensive departmental financial

analysis and commentary.

. Created and published monthly 'Billing,

Collections and Cash Applications' report packet

for CFO and Controller review. Report packet

contains comprehensive departmental financial

analysis and commentary.

. Coordinated operational testing and implementation

for required enhancements to group's People Soft

Billing, Collections and Cash Application modules.

. Developed and monitored Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

departmental polices and compliance. Documented

internal policy and procedures for Billing,

Collections and Cash Applications group

implementation.

ANDREW YACOS

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ASSOCIATE ANALYST - BOND RATING GROUP (2/00 -11/02)

. Provided bond rating assessments within Finance

industry (non-bank lending) through detailed

financial statement (cash flow and balance sheet)

review. Published opinions regarding

creditworthiness of bond issuer's complex and

robust funding activities.

. Examined public and private financials in order to

drive analysis; principally based upon variations

of ROA, ROE, NPV, leverage and cash flow trends.

. Published in-depth credit opinions and

methodologies that commented upon and communicated

to bond-holder community on the long-term credit

characteristics and outlook of the Non-bank

Finance industry.

. Maintained close relationships with issuers and

investor community.

. Revised product pricing for Asset Manager segment

due to uniqueness of issuer group.

June 1995 Dun & Bradstreet U.S.

to January 2000 SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

. Acted as finance liaison for $100+ million

emerging product group.

. Financial modeling; Developed and managed US

'Product Profitability Analysis' System - An

Activity Based Costing (ABC) application that

analyzed all US products. Efforts included new

product pricing modeling. Trained subsequent

model owners.

. Coordinated annual budget, forecast and ongoing

sales pipeline analysis.

. Consolidated US monthly financials. Composed

several financial reports, including P&L

forecasts, which were incorporated into CFO's

monthly report to Executive Committee.

January 1990 IMS America - Data & Sales information provider to the

Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry

to May 1995 REVENUE ACCOUNTANT (1/93 -4/95)

. Created monthly financial performance and analysis

package for senior management. Supervised staff

of five Revenue Specialists and oversaw creation

of all Sales contracts.

. Reviewed and evaluated internal accounting and

operational controls to identify reporting

inefficiencies.

DATA QUALITY ANALYST (1/92 - 12/92)

. Performed assessment & review of pharmaceutical

sales activity across national wholesale channels.

OUTLET CODING MANAGER (1/90 - 12/91)

. Supervised staff of twenty coding specialists who

maintained the integrity of proprietary database

of domestic Pharmacy & Hospital profiles.

1988 to 1989 US Trust

OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR - Unit Trust Operations

. Supervised daily transfer processing and account

maintenance of John Nuveen Unit Trust and Dividend

Reinvestment bond funds.

1986 to 1987 EF Hutton

RETIREMENT ACCOUNT SPECIALIST

. Responsible for administration and maintenance of

northeast regional personal IRA, SEP & KEOGH

account base.

EDUCATION:

1993 Fordham University - Graduate School of Business

MBA, Finance GPA 3.4

1986 College of William & Mary

BA, Public Policy

COMPUTER SKILLS: Financial Systems Training: Hyperion Essbase (Planning &

HFM), leadership role in User Acceptance Training

(UAT). Oracle G/L. Peoplesoft Billing & A/R.

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

(Excel\Access\Word\PowerPoint).

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