Sales Plant

KEVIN M. HAMILTON, MBA

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H: (248) 762 – 9126 Email: ***********@*****.***

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Budgeting/Forecas Cash Flow Sales Strategy

ting Analysis Support

Variance Analysis Profitability Business

Analysis Case Analysis

Financial

Statement Executive ‘What If’

Analysis Presentations Analysis

Capital Investment Annual MS Office

Budgeting

Accounting Close Hyperion

Cost Reduction Essbase

Product Decision

Support EVA/NPV/RO SAP

S/RONA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chrysler L.L.C.,

4/2007 – 12/2008

Senior Financial Specialist – Sales & Marketing

Finance

Tracked, calculated, forecasted, and reported on sales

incentive spending in the market for roughly 500

competitive products.

Increased efficiency of competitive sales incentive

reporting by roughly 30% while reducing forecasting

variance to less than 10%.

Provided competitive analysis of sales incentive spending

to sales operations and worked with them to develop

reactionary sales strategies.

Provided analysis to product net pricing group and worked

to develop new model year product pricing.

Responsibility and coordination of entire sales &

marketing weekly cash flow forecast of roughly $2.0

Billion. Items responsible for included retail revenue, fleet

revenue, incentive spending, advertising, dealer network

programs, and payments or revenue associated with 3rd

parties. Developed entire cash forecast process from start

to finish with individual forecast areas and standardized

that process into a repeatable system using Hyperion

Essbase.

DaimlerChrysler Corporation

10/2002 – 4/2007

Corporate Advanced Product Financial Control Analyst

Calculated the primary financial metrics used by executive

management for making product decisions for current and

future products. Worked with colleagues in Stuttgart,

Germany to standardize these calculations then led the

U.S. effort to create a database within Hyperion Essbase to

increase the repeatability and efficiency of these

calculations.

Provided financial analysis to executive management (up

to Board of Management in Germany) on company fixed

cost structure, assets employed, return on sales, return on

net assets, net present value of product decisions, and cash

flow.

Extensively used excel modeling to analyze then allocate

entire company balance sheet and income statement to

individual product calculations to achieve a fully

accounted metric for product investment decisions (usually

between $1.5 and $4.0 Billion of investment). This

included weekly powerpoint presentations to executive

management up to and including the CFO.

Kevin Hamilton, Pg. 2

DaimlerChrysler Corporation

6/1999 -10/2002

St. Louis North Assembly Plant Senior Financial

Analyst

Responsible for monthly plant forecast and variance

explanations for short, medium, and long range forecasts

as part of accounting close.

Developed plant model year budgets and tracked

performance against those budgets. Budgets included

manpower analysis, capital expenditures, cost reduction

initiatives, and materials analysis.

Oversaw capital spending and asset acquisition for a $500

Million 300,000 square foot plant expansion of the Body-

in-White area.

Achieved financial targets of 6% - 10% cost reductions for

responsible plant areas 3 out of 4 years.

Lead the development of business plan for first the Body-

in-White area of plant and then the Paint area.

DaimlerChrysler Corporation,

2/1998 – 6/1999

Toledo Ohio Machining Plant Payroll Specialist

Oversaw and balanced the weekly payroll for 1,200 hourly

employees.

Made monthly deposits and oversaw the plant’s petty cash

fund.

Administered local accounts payables.

Assisted is payroll related negotiations between the UAW

union and local management.

Implemented and launched a new payroll and time-keeping

system that was eventually implemented company wide.

EDUCATION

Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, 4/2007

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Relevant Coursework:

Concentration in International Business

Courses included Statistical Analysis, Strategic Marketing,

Global Compensation Issues, Economics, International

Trade & Finance, International Financial Mgt, and

Financial Analysis & Reporting

Graduated with a 3.6 GPA (on 4.0 scale)

Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36830, 12/1997

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BS)

Concentration in International Business with Spanish

language option

Graduated Magna Cum Laude (3.6 GPA)

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