Finance Manager

Steven Blandin, MBA, CMA candidate

813-***-**** *********@*****.***

Expertise: More than 11 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis and Finance Operations. Succeeded in creating and heading the full financial statements budget, forecast and variance analysis from scratch in the Consumer Packed Goods industry. Influence Senior Management Team thanks to effective communication, presentations and what-if analysis. Recognized for complex financial modeling know-how, ERP systems implementation, great management skills, business acumen and problem-solving aptitudes. Identify, delegate and supervise tasks to ensure completion under strict timelines. Evolved in manufacturing, distribution and service industries within big and medium-sized companies.

Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Performance metrics (KPI’s)

Cost Accounting & Pricing Strategies

Profitability Analysis

Consumer Packed Goods industry experience

Cross-functional Team Leader

Effective Team Management

Senior Management influencer

Excel Guru

ERP Systems: SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Essbase, Business Warehouse, Cognos, etc…

System Integration and Implementations

English – French – Spanish

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCHRATTERFOODS, INC

Finance Manager – Financial Planning & Analysis – Florida Nov 2015 – Current

Total ownership of the P&L, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows from a Financial Planning & Analysis stand point for a medium sized consumer packaged goods distributor to retailers and food service. Modeled, designed and implemented most of the financial statements reporting, while driving annual budget and strategic operating plan. Directs financial analysis on most high visibility projects, while influencing senior executives towards most efficient solutions. Overview of the pricing strategy through sound understanding of the cost structure and Gross Profit margin goals. Coach and mentor 2 direct reports.

Direct the Budgeting, Forecasting & variance analysis processes for the P&L, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows

Protect Gross Margin through development of KPIs, price lists management, control of promotions funding and commercial reporting oversight.

Influence Senior Management thanks to financial modeling and superior presentation skills.

Orchestrate new ERP system implementation with direction of a cross-functional team.

Analyze leases and potential capital investments through NPV, IRR and EVA calculations

Accomplishments: Created the entire reporting package thanks to superior system and spreadsheet modeling skills. Set up a clear budgeting and forecasting process. Maneuvered a new ERP system implementation.

L’OREAL

Finance Operations Manager (SalonCentric) – Tampa, Florida Jan 2014 – Oct 2015

Go to Finance contact for the Operation team in a $1 billion distributor of beauty products in B to B. Ownership of the promotion margin recovery, vendor compliance delivery and early payment discount processes. Management of 3 direct reports.

Drive margin recovery efforts by billing back vendors based on discounts offered during all promotions.

Manage and book agreed promotion funding, from raising trade agreements with vendors to providing reports back on performance and collection.

Negotiate with vendors on funding issues that arise from promotions and business growth actions.

Manage penalty system for late deliveries and delivery errors from vendors

Animate a team of three analysts to streamline and improve Finance processes linked to Operations.

Accomplishments: Implemented the vendor compliance delivery system. Cleared out heavy backlog of agreements with effective negotiation on points of contest with vendors.

VERIFONE

Finance Manager (Consulting) – Tampa, Florida Sep 2013 – Dec 2013

Engineered a financial planning process around incoming cash flows to enhance predictability.

Modeled a financial model to create a Forecasting process with variance analysis versus actuals.

Helped set up the ground work for the upcoming Budget cycle.

Accomplishments: Worked hand to hand with Finance Director to drive overall FP&A process improvements.

MASONITE

Senior Financial Analyst (Headquarters) – Tampa, Florida Sep 2011 – Jan 2013

Profitability Analysis through EBITDA NPV and IRR calculations on manufactured doors used mainly for assessing proper pricing and promotions to customers, within a $1.5 billion leader in door manufacturing.

Drive Profitability Analysis on products to finalize pricing strategies with Senior Sales Management. These pricing strategies are key with major distributors such as Home Depot and Lowes.

Build a monthly standard margin Mix Analysis to identify good and bad performers. Worked with product management teams to isolate and mitigate products with low profitability.

Run complex what-if scenarios on product profitability to assess risks and opportunities in new ventures.

Accomplishments: Created a comprehensive financial model to assess profitability at the product level for a $150 million product line review with Home Depot. The line of products presented reflected a list of more than 500 doors with 80 new prototypes, with the ability to easily change parts within the Bill Of Materials.

TYCO INTERNATIONAL

Senior Financial Analyst (ADT Security Services) – Boca Raton, Florida May 2010 – Sep 2011

Financial, Planning and Analysis around Revenue production for the Residential and Small Business unit, a $1billion in revenue business unit within the $7 billion in revenue Tyco International company.

Coordinate and interact with Senior Sales Management to build budget, weekly forecasts and compensation targets across more than 20 Sales Metrics for the North American region.

Improve and model complex financial dashboards with relevant Key Performance Indicators summary views. Deliver daily, weekly, monthly and YTD Pro Forma statements in a timely and accurate manner with great process automation improvements thanks to proper utilization of Excel and Access tools.

Drive cross functions improvement projects with Marketing and Compensation teams to increase Sales reps retention rates and promote organic growth.

Accomplishments: Lead the project analysis on partnership with Verizon with Return On Investment, Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value and Discounted Cash Flow analysis.

HEWLETT PACKARD

Senior Financial Analyst (Business Critical Systems) – Houston, Texas Jun 2007 – May 2010

Financial Planning and Analysis around Cost Of Goods Sold for the Business Critical Systems General business unit, a $3 billion in revenue business unit that specializes in high-end servers.

Act as the corner stone of the Forecast, Budget and variance analysis processes at corporate level. Improve predictability through accurate and timely forecasting and reporting including Forecast, Budget, Portfolio Plan, and Supply Chain cost reduction initiatives.

Act as a lead with region and factory teams to foster optimal financial processes and controls around Cost Of Goods Sold planning and reporting. Monitor consistency in metrics and definitions.

Own the SOX control for Overhead recovery variance during quarterly and annually Audit processes.

Assist in development of short and long-term business plan.

Influence the reduction in supply chain and inventory driven costs. Provide financial support for supply chain projects. Enhance and develop analysis with relevant financial modeling.

Accomplishments: Significantly improved regions standard cost forecasting by creating a model with a forward-looking view of standard cost at SKU level with rate, mix and volume changes period over period.

LEGRAND NORTH AMERICA

Financial Analyst – Hartford, Connecticut May 2006 – Jun 2007

Mergers and Acquisitions support and financial planning and analysis duties in a $1 billion in revenue electrical products manufacturer.

Supported Mergers and Acquisitions effort with due diligence assistance: market study and support in development of strategic direction, financial statement analysis, identification and valuation of targets with net present value, return on investments, internal rate of return, working capital and weighted average cost of capital computations.

Financial planning and analysis duties included: forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, financial modeling and preparation of government surveys. Bridged the gap between corporate and divisional levels to ensure timely and accurate completion of financial reporting packages.

Analyzed sales information to support strategic decisions regarding customer rankings.

Determined volume and price effects for materials at part number level.

Accomplishments: Created complex modeling to assess inflation risk of materials used in manufacturing.

EDUCATION

Master in Business Administration (Finance and Information Systems) May 2006

The University of South Florida – Tampa, Florida (AACSB) GPA: 3.82

Master of Global Management, with honors March 2005

University Paris IX Dauphine – Paris, France

Bachelor of Arts in Finance, with honors April 2004

University Paris IX Dauphine – Paris, France

Bachelor of Arts in Marketing, with honors April 2004

University Paris IX Dauphine – Paris, France

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