Manager Management

Igor Grinberg

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Manalapan, NJ E-mail: **********@*****.***

Verizon Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Manager May 2015 - Present

Establish business partner relationships with key business contacts and execute financial controls and accounting procedures

Lead monthly meetings with business Directors and VP’s to review monthly financial results and create forecasting/planning models

Deliver relevant management reporting packages including business performance / results and variance analysis for revenue, expense, headcount and capital in a timely and consistent manner

Partner with the product management team for the business planning process including validating revenue models and quantifying incremental resources (capital, expense & headcount) for calendar year initiatives

Design, develop and maintain the appropriate financial reporting capabilities to support Verizon organization

Create firm wide process to accurately calculate monthly market data accrual by vendor, user and region to create transparency and identify opportunities

Lead the financial assessment of business cases relative to new initiatives. Provide the required financial oversight post-approval

Ensure financial tracking on major initiatives and report on the health of major IT projects from a financial perspective

Participate in the Governance review process and furnish the requisite financial schedules and analysis

Responsible for the supervision, development and mentoring of 7 direct reports who perform various accounting and finance functions

Partner with other internal organizations to coordinate budget transfers & cross charges to programs AIG New York, NY

Manager June 2013 – May 2015

Prepare department budgets, forecasts and monthly financial statements for the entire Property Casualty business

Partner with senior managers in building financial plans with associated budget/forecast/variance analysis while assisting in understanding key drivers behind year over year & month over month expense trends

Collaborate with senior management to provide insight and transparency around the property casualty expense base, delivery schedule and efficiency

Responsible for activity Based Costing and the internal allocations of expenses

Provide senior management with robust management reporting, communication and client reporting, focusing on the overall business unit performance against objectives

Prepare executive level presentations on strategy, budget, project delivery, controls, risks, etc.

Led outsourcing initiative to streamline work efforts and activities to external vendors resulting in ~ $45M in cost savings

Ensure processes are in place to provide the proper level of transparency on expenses with a focus on key drivers

Build strong relationships with central accounting, FP&A, and reporting to manage and oversee annual planning process

Assist in driving overall strategic agendas and prioritization process for the entire property casualty group

Proactively highlight issues and risks to the objectives, derive solutions and drive remedies to completion Morgan Stanley New York, NY

Sr. Manager July 2012 – June 2013

Manage all finance and accounting functions (~$2.5B annual budget and 1,200+ resources) for the Distributed, Mainframe, End User Computing and Data Center Operations business units, providing direction and financial expertise to each commodity technology executive

Created framework and led initiative to transform Technologies, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Compliance, Equities and Fixed Income forecasting

Created and presented all divisional business cases (capital and operating expenses) to executive management as justification for firm wide investment in IT infrastructure. Communicated client P&L impacts from service / price changes, ensuring implementation flowed through to billing and inventory management

United the key participants in the rate development process by partnering with product, expense and volume owners, to enable better recovery management, product transparency, technology reviews and validation, and executive reporting

Responsible for calculating and processing monthly accruals related to consultants, application software, hardware, external vendor and service contracts

Created firm wide business cases that scale to current and future market conditions. Business case examples include capital investments in new product launches, legacy equipment cleansing programs and hardware / software licensing and maintenance

Collaborated with finance management throughout the firm to model and incorporate the Morgan Stanley / Smith Barney Joint Venture assets and inventory into the firms core Investment Banking and Wealth Management businesses

Responsible for the supervision, development and mentoring of 3 reports who perform various accounting and finance functions American Express New York, NY

Manager November 2008 – July 2012

Responsible for planning and completion of the annual Budgets/Forecasts for Card/Tech Finance Division group through extensive liaison with Global counterparts, colleagues and cost center managers

Prepared monthly financial reports, identified and researched key variances of actual vs. plan for management explanations

Responsible for full P&L actual and forecast variance analysis preparation and submission for monthly/quarterly reporting processes

Supported standardization of Reengineering practices, processes, platforms and protocols; shared best practices to optimize the Enterprise-wide reengineering tracking and reporting

Designed and generated timely accurate reports and dashboards, including project status updates, variance analysis and risks

Involvement in key Strategic Business Analysis projects. Placement within the AEXP finance team to provide finance leadership on a new business partnership

Managed a fixed asset base of ~$450MM annual expense, including detailed asset reconciliations, roll forwards, CIP analyses, and depreciation forecast plans

Statistical Analysis / Benchmarking – Analyzed performance of Business units response time to severe application incidents/outages Consultant, New York, NY

HSBC – Michael Page (February 2008 – October 2008)

Improved quality control of engagement process and recommended new procedures, resulting in an increased productivity to firm

Responsible for planning and completion of the annual Budgets/Forecasts for Division Admin group

Researched and analyzed key business drivers, trends and operating systems metrics

Participated in cross-functional business projects and analysis of profitability by line of business, by customer, by country

Provided the Department Heads with their monthly expense performance vs. Budget for each of their departments

Prepared the Extraordinary Items monthly report to account for Asset Management expenses for items outside of business

Maintain key business unit relationship with Human Resources on compensation budgeting/planning/reporting Alliance Bernstein (March 2007- November 2007)

Supported and prepared financial analysis for the entire IT organization

Responsible for the preparation and analysis of financial reports, statements, and financial materials for specific products and/or business units

Assisted CFO of finance with the preparation of business cases

Responsible for day-to-day Operations/Statistical Analysis and Spreadsheet Management

Developed cost allocation system and answered questions from finance leaders

Partnered with Business units in development and support of financial systems Credit - Suisse (March 2006 – February 2007)

Prepared company's annual budget and quarterly forecast of balance sheet, P&L and cash flow statements

Prepared and reviewed managements groups presentations to executive team

Compiled detailed monthly reports for expense management in order to provide various analysis, including expense trends, cost efficiencies and headcount status

Supported EUM international business in private banking for Zurich division Ernst & Young (February 2005 – February 2006)

Education: Brooklyn College December 2004

Bachelor of Science and Art

Majors: Finance, Management

Minor: Accounting

GPA 3.5

Computer Skills: Business Objects, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Hyperion, Broker View, Cognos, Essbase, Omega & SAP

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