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Robert G. Busch
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804 Sanctuary Lane Naperville IL 60540
Month/Year Hired Month/Year Left Total Years with Company
Jan 1982 Jun 1990 12
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Albuquerque Audit Manager
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United States
Also worked in Chicagoland in Risk Consulting/Enterprise Risk Services 1998 - 2002
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V.P. Internal Audit
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Summary of Background
Recruited & retained diverse global (US, Chinese & European) team of twenty professionals
Created process team with six sigma black belts, yielding annual savings over $4 million
Executed crisp audit committee communications stimulating feedback on team & company
Andersen experience: Facilitation, project & enterprise risk management, internal audit,
IPO, SEC
Areas of Expertise
People Leadership Process Transformation Audit Facilitation of needs/issues Opportunity
Identification Enterprise Risk Management Staff Size, Required Skills Business Case
Sarbanes-Oxley/Vendor Sourcing Recruiting/Retention Acquisition/Divestiture Audit
Committee Liaison Training and Development Project/Process Execution ERP System (SAP)
Implementation Promotion into Organization Savings Realization Internal Partner Review of
Finance
Professional Experience
Newell Rubbermaid Atlanta, GA 2003 - 2007VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNAL AUDIT Led twenty person department located in Brussels,
Belgium and Atlanta, GA reporting to both the audit committee of the board of directors
and the corporate CFO
Transformed team into an international cross functional talent factory with 92% of 30
hires in role 2+ years promoted out of audit. Created the most diverse (based on
ethnicity) global finance team
Created process team with six sigma black belts, yielding savings over $4 million with
projects in licensing, pricing, procurement, product liability, returns and trade
promotion management
Negotiated 15%+ price reductions from outside consultants, maintaining scope and quality
Recognized formally by CEO, CFO, President-Global Manufacturing and SVP-Project
Management for providing outstanding service to key projects in North America and Europe
Initiated global review of finance alignment with internal business partner expectations,
identified key gaps (profitability analysis and decision support) to close with finance
transformation
Led the identification, quantification and mitigation plan review of the top 10
enterprise risks for the audit committee s (AC) key role of risk management process
oversight and AC charter compliance
Championed 2007 (SEC/AS5 revisions) and 2004 (1st year) Sarbanes-Oxley thought leadership
and communications for a 99% productivity improvement in 2007 and 97% effective score in
2004
Arthur Andersen Chicago, IL 1998 - 2002
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC AND ENTERPRISE RISK SERVICES Advisor & instructor to partners and
project teams engaged in providing risk consulting and internal audit services 2001 - 2002
Identified insights on the viability of a client s growth options for use as a basis to
craft interview questions for investors in a $7 billion global biotechnology and medical
products manufacturer
Received outstanding evaluation for development of treasury and risk management
application systems implementation methodology used by Andersen Risk Consultants
DIRECTOR OF PROCESS AND CONTROL Business risk based offerings developer 1998 - 2001
Determined gross product development risk exposure for wireless handset manufacturer
which identified the limit to growth was inadequate geographic presence in emerging growth
markets
Directed seven professionals in restructuring of 4,000 internal controls into enhanced
COSO framework and produced best practice example of end to end order to cash receipt
process
United Parcel Service - Atlanta, GA 1992 - 1998
BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN MANAGER, Strategic Process Redesign Team Assessment, design
phase for product development and project management processes 1997 1998
Led development and adoption of project evaluation criteria for first ever effort to
screen all of approximately 300 corporate projects to startup formalized program
management office
Directed eight, gained approval for $2.5 million project to evaluate $800+ million
product portfolio s pricing and positioning, resulting in three-year plan to improve
operating profit by $75 million.
Facilitated over 15 meetings to enable change and capture product development design
revisions
STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER, Acquisition ($2 billion) Post Evaluation Review 1996
Co-authored the U.S. Ground Business Unit Strategy update, covering $12 billion in
revenue, resulting in recommendation approval by CEO, COO, CFO, and Sr. Executive VP of
Sales & Mktg
REVENUE TEAM MANAGER, Acquisition ($2 billion) Evaluation 1996
Developed strategic reasons from review of acquisition target. Crafted recommendations on
which parts of Target UPS should consider pursuing based on industry structure analysis
Assisted valuation team to develop and review assumptions for stand-alone valuations of
Target's business units' forecasted discounted cash flows
ECONOMIC TEAM LEADER, Future U.S. Domestic Product Portfolio Team 1994 - 1995
Co-authored overall project work plan for cross-functional team of 22 managers and
consultants
Led economic team of consultant, sales manager and finance director to quantify scenarios
Managed construction of software based economic model used to evaluate UPS strategy
options
Industry changing impact reported in Wall Street Journal and New York Times
SENIOR STRATEGY ANALYST, U.S. Domestic Business Development 19921994
Arthur Andersen Tulsa, OK and Albuquerque, NM 1982 - 1990
Progressed to manager and leader of $850,000 in net fees. "Expert" in initial public
offerings, SEC reporting, Healthcare/Energy. Instructor (rated 4.89 out of 5.0) in
Technology Risk Management
Education and Honors
Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School, March 2007
Published Case Study, Communicating the Reward of Risk Management, Protiviti, March
2006
Certificate in Electronic Business Strategy, University of Chicago, December 2000
Elected by team members to present the group s e-business strategy final case
recommendation
Masters in Business Administration (International Business and Finance), Indiana
University, 1992
Awarded graduated assistantship, Elected President of International Business Society
B.S.B.A (Accounting and Computer Science) University of Tulsa, 1982
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Oklahoma and New Mexico
Robert G. Busch
CPA/MBA
804 Sanctuary ****************@*****.***
Naperville, IL 60540 630-***-****
Robert G. Busch, CPA/MBA
804 Sanctuary ****************@*****.*** Naperville, IL 60540 630-***-****
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