Manager Supply Chain

DAVID FOX

**** ******* ***, ***** *****, CA ***51

650-***-**** . ******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Finance Manager position in an organization seeking an excellent record of:

creating financial models and forecasts, mining data for meaningful

analysis, effective business partnering and supporting senior management.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Technically savvy Finance Manager with over ten years of experience aiding

corporate and business unit management by delivering critical analysis and

driving enhancements to planning and reporting systems. Core competencies

include:

- Financial Forecasting & Modeling - Budgeting - Customer

Profitability

- Business Unit Profitability - Financial Reporting - Cost Variance

Analysis

- Strategic Financial Planning (Deal Analysis) - Product Forecasting -

Inventory Planning

- Efficiency Improvements - Report Automation - Technology Integration

- Cognos BI: Analysis Studio, Report Studio, CAF - Microsoft Office

(Excel expert) - Cognos Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Silicon Storage Technology; Publicly Traded until April 2010, now a

subsidiary of Microchip, Inc (public). SST Annual Revenue of $320M,

Sunnyvale, CA. (11/2006 - Present)

Achievements

. Established expense allocation methodology for calculating business unit

operating profitability.

. Designed and managed implementation of Cognos Planning budget tool.

. Reduced time required to generate revenue audit reports by 87 percent.

. Developed MD&A expense analysis which saved reporting manager nearly two

days in preparing SEC filings.

. Implemented monthly budget versus actual reviews with business unit

managers.

. Created Excel model for projecting earnings guidance.

Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

. Reporting directly to CFO, and at times CEO, responsible for maintaining

consolidated corporate forecast, partnering with IT to improve reporting

tools and drive management projects.

. Coordinate and direct company wide budget; maintaining Cognos Planning

tool and managing budget process.

. Manage up to two Financial Analysts on budgeting, cost variance analysis

and enterprise reporting tools.

. Write monthly financial letter for Board of Directors and prepare board

presentations.

. Provide analysis and schedules to support SEC reporting, audits, SOX

compliance, and mergers & acquisitions.

Monster Cable Products; Privately Held, Brisbane, CA. (05/2001 - 11/2006)

Achievements:

. Designed, built and distributed key business metrics that measured

corporate performance.

. Created financial forecasts to evaluate strategic proposals; presented

results to senior management.

. Initiated detailed customer profitability analysis by leveraging data

from sales analysis and cost accounting.

. Developed quarterly pro forma income statements for ten divisions using

financial and non-financial data.

. Partnered with Director of Manufacturing to develop standardized

inventory aging reports and analysis.

. Teamed with Inventory Management to construct analytical model for

evaluating product forecast accuracy.

. Served as reporting expert during and after Peoplesoft implementation:

structured data, created database queries and constructed financial

reports.

Manager, Financial Analysis & Reporting

Additional Roles & Responsibilities:

. Responsible for internal and external financial reporting,

consolidated corporate financial forecast and varied analysis

supporting Senior Executive decision-making.

. Managed up to three Financial Analysts and two Commissions Analysts.

. Collaborated with Sales Operations Director on proposal to enhance

Monster's commission structure.

. Member of the Planning & Leadership Team: contributed to and evaluated

methods of improving operational and financial performance.

Senior Finance & Business Analyst

Additional Roles & Responsibilities:

. Process Owner for FP&A: member of ERP Steering Committee. Determined

optimal data extraction methods for analytics and reporting. Served

as a technical resource for other departments.

. Built Business Cases for new product lines: reviewed contracts,

constructed financial models and evaluated operational impacts with

other departments.

. Established formal partnership between Finance and Product Development

by creating financial plans, providing analytical reports, identifying

trends and targeting improvement areas.

. Guided counterparts in Europe on financial analysis, creating

management reports and database queries.

Financial Analyst

. Constructed and maintained comprehensive, annual corporate financial

forecasts.

. Developed Pro Forma Income Statements & recommended cost reduction

strategies per division.

. Conducted monthly financial statement variance analysis and wrote

management review of results.

. Created and maintained cash forecast model; estimated borrowing level

necessary for cash requirements.

. Participated in Peoplesoft implementation by leading financial report

design, development and strategy; created queries to extract

information directly from database.

Oracle Corporation; Publicly Traded, Annual Revenue of $18B, Redwood

Shores, CA (05/2000-05/2001)

Achievements:

. Decreased excess and obsolete inventory by $300,000.

. Restructured planning process from a life-cycle build to a just-in-time

model of CD Pack Kitting.

. Collaborated with Procurement, Inventory Control, and Kitting to

implement M&D's In House Build Process.

. Trained individuals on Oracle planning methods and applications.

Planner

. Forecasted initial build quantities for new packs through historical

demand analysis.

. Managed $7 million of inventory by analyzing product availability versus

demand.

. Calculated reorder quantities for CD Packs and components; the purchases

of which total $35 million annually.

. Analyzed and reported key performance indicators measuring the duration

and causes of inventory shortages.

The North Face; Privately Held Subsidiary of VF Corp, San Leandro, CA

(10/1998-04/2000)

Achievements:

. Created several key reports concerning cost analysis, margin

calculations, and average selling price.

. Lowered discontinued inventory by $9.2 million (36%) for Spring 2000.

. Improved global net order matching by $1.8 million in 1999 through

production reallocation.

. Developed Microsoft Access training materials and instructed individuals

to an intermediate user level.

Merchandise Analyst (Sales Forecast Analyst)

. Forecasted domestic wholesale demand for the largest product division

($76.5 million in 2000).

. Projected future inventory levels and calculated necessary quantities to

purchase at the SKU level.

. Compiled world buys - $140.5 million in 2000 - to optimize production

quantities, ensuring that all purchases satisfy minimum requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Excel (Macros, Pivot Tables, Charts, vlookups, etc.), MS Access, MS

Word, Peoplesoft Financials & Supply Chain Management, Peoplesoft

Query, Nvision, Oracle 11i, Cognos Planning: Analyst, Contributor

Administration, Cognos Business Intelligence: Analysis Studio, Report

Studio, Cognos Analysis for Excel (CAF ), Oracle Supply Chain Planner,

FRX Reporting

EDUCATION

B.A., Economics & Political Science (dual majors), University of

California, Davis, CA, 1998

Cumulative GPA: 3.42, Deans List Honors

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