Project Manager Management

ANUP GOPALAKRISHNAN

**** ************* ****** ***** • Atlanta, Georgia 30339

404-***-**** (cell) • *******@*****.***

EXECUTIVE-LEVEL MANAGEMENT: Strategy, Planning and Analysis

Accomplished finance executive and strategic planner with hands-on finance/business expertise and proven track

record of enhancing operational and financial performance. Adept at automating finance/accounting and business

programs/processes and developing innovative models to enhance efficiency and boost profits. Avant-garde

technologist committed to success, with top-notch data-analysis skills and unique history as an advanced software

programmer and large-scale project manager.

Financial Analysis • Data Mining and Multivariate Data Analysis • Complex Modeling • Automation

M&A • Strategic Planning • Budgeting & Forecasting • Growth Analysis

Excel Black-belt • Systems Design • Programming • Team Leadership/Mentoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LOGISTICARE SOLUTIONS, Atlanta, Georgia • 2007-Present

Provider of medical transportation logistics with approximately $400M in annual revenues.

Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis

Orchestrate all aspects of forecasting, budgeting, reporting and planning. Lead analysts to develop automated reports

and dashboards to boost efficiency. Act as main liaison between finance, operations and IT. Provide financial expertise

to support regional goals and objectives. Direct activities for enterprise-wide financial analysis and provide analytics

and metrics for strategic and operating decisions.

Process and Change Management:

• Streamlined reporting process to provide executive team with consolidated, consistent, and accurate reporting,

including all pertinent data points to manage the business by implementing a monthly dashboard with KPIs.

• Developed innovative statistical models to forecast the highly material transportation expense accrual based

on multiple data points utilizing historic trends, claims processing parameters and local market characteristics.

• Developed a highly efficient financial reporting system to obtain financial data from accounting system,

bypassing the need to use FRX, which was slower and less flexible. Trained accounting staff to utilize

programs, enabling quick and efficient analysis of data.

• Implemented a MOR (Monthly Operating Review) process, a platform for finance and operational management

company wide to address and present monthly results and issues to the executive team, enabling valuable

exchange of information that improved operations’ ability to manage the business and finance’s ability to

accurately report financial information.

• Responsible for the entire budgeting cycle; deployed easy to use models and templates to operational

management across 17 states to improve quality and consistency in budgeting process.

• Championed creation of enterprise data warehouse. Mentored, trained and supervised analysts and

accountants in modeling, automation and excel tips to fully utilize all available data to improve quality of

analytics.

Accomplishments:

• Led team in analytic preparation and modeling for potential sale of company (Prepared CIM, Management

Presentation and managed the Due Diligence process)

• Reduced monthly transportation costs, accrual variances & related adjustments by developing complex

statistical forecasting models.

• Slashed time required for monthly close cycle and thereby reduced number of accounting staff required to

support company growth by automating several monthly accounting processes.

• Enhanced margins on more than 30 healthcare contracts by developing a unique scheduling algorithm for

transportation providers.

• Developed quarterly board presentations on operational and financial performance.

• Lead the RFP team by developing and maintaining underwriting models.

Recognitions:

• Primary resource for ‘C’ suite for ad-hoc and off-the-cuff analysis

• Integral team member chosen to participate with executive team to improve functionality of proprietary

software system utilized by company to manage logistics of transportation services in order to obtain more

accurate, real time financial information.

• Promoted from Director of FP&A within 1 year.

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BRAND ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, Kennesaw, Georgia • 2006-2007

International scaffolding, insulation, and construction service company with annual revenues of $750M.

Manager – Financial Planning & Analysis

Spearheaded financial analysis across 5 regions. Implemented a ‘Monthly Operating Review’ process – a platform for

presenting results and analysis to the executive team. Developed budget models and quarterly re-forecasts to track

growth and performance. Responsible for all M&A activities. Enhanced AR models and helped the regions to improve

collections. Leveraged IT expertise to persuade CIO to develop new data models and enhance data warehouse.

Trained staff in Excel model building and SQL.

• Completed 3 acquisitions ranging from $4.5M to $35M in purchase price; secured deals in record time and at

lowest level of estimates (saving $450K for the smallest acquisition and $1.2M for the largest) by developing

and implementing an innovative model to analyze acquisitions.

• Slashed reporting time for integrations from 45 days to 19 days by automating the integration of the acquired

companies’ financials into Cognos.

• Reduced overall company DSO by 6 days in 4 months (DSO came down from 74 days to 68 days) and

boosted cash flow by building an enhanced model and deploying it across regions.

• Saved the company $85K/year by serving as Cognos administrator.

DELTA AIR LINES, Atlanta, Georgia

Leading airline with annual revenues of more than $14B.

Project Manager Corporate Forecasting & Planning (2002-2005)

Provided expert oversight of all modeling and reporting of revenue numbers for Delta and its subsidiaries. Built

revenue management models and advanced statistical models to forecast yield and load factors. Delivered daily,

monthly and quarterly revenue updates to the senior management team.

• Minimized variances in forecasts from 4.5-5.2 to 1.2-1.8 percentage points by building and implementing

forecasting models; models were used to forecast airline revenue yield each month.

• Cut total time spent by analysts to produce reports from 5 hours/day/person to 1.5 hours/day/person by

creating macros and programming enhancements (savings allowed for the hiring of an additional analyst).

• Rescued 1 day in the month-end close by building and automating advanced revenue forecasting model,

which resulted in ability to send revenue numbers to accounting on Day 6 instead of Day 7.

• Analyzed new pricing and yield management strategies and the impact on revenue.

• Enhanced accuracy of techniques used to forecast revenue yield by innovating and implementing a new

technique.

Project Leader Operational Data (1998-2002)

IT Architect for passenger data. Advanced programmer in C++/Java/Unix/Oracle/DB2. Ensured 24/7/365 availability of

all passenger and flight operational data systems. Served as project manager/leader on several successful passenger

data projects. Enhanced efficiency by building data warehouse for all passenger and flight information. Drove

significant cost savings for Delta Air Lines by creating an innovative passenger application which enabled a decrease

in the number of gate agents from 4 to 3 in 75 airports.

MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, Atlanta, Georgia • 1997-1998

Senior Software Engineer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, Bangalore, India • 1994-1996

Systems Analyst

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, Finance and Decision Analysis

2005, Goizueta Business School (Emory University), Atlanta, Georgia

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

1994, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India

Technology Summary:

Expertise in Advanced MS Office, SQL, Statistical Tools - SAS, EViews, @RISK, Minitab,

Cognos, Essbase, SAP, Visual Basic, Epicor, FRx, Forecaster, C++, Java, UNIX, Oracle/DB2/SQL Server

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