Management Project

Breanne Fougnie, MBA

**** ****** **. **** * Troy, MI 48084

248-***-**** acb56z@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HD SUPPLY, INC.

Senior Pricing Strategist / Senior Financial Analyst June 2010 – Present

As a Senior Pricing Strategist, I work within the Pricing Team at HD Supply ($14B Retail, Distribution, and

Manufacturing Firm) to design, implement, and enforce new methodologies around pricing with regards to strategy,

upstream and downstream consolidation, promotions, cost reductions, inventory and brand management, and key

product line initiatives for the $6B Tools/Commodities team.

-Provide direction to category management concerning pricing strategy and implementation

-Determine and deliver pricing for all products in the semi-annual catalog, monthly promotional brochures, and

grand opening flyers - voted best executed team by marketing two years in a row

-Initiate vendor consolidation initiatives that has led to millions of dollars of back end rebates

-Lead two daily conference calls in select markets to gain knowledge of field reaction to strategy and direction

-Write and develop business plans on local and national markets highlighting key product initiatives that has led

to positive growth in both volume and gross margin growth

-Write monthly SWOT analyses on local and national pricing practices used by the CFO to increase synergy and

standardization of pricing behavior in the field

-Create financial decks for Parent Companies, Financial Institutions, and Board of Directors

-Forecast break-even and profitability scenarios/EVA analyses on potential acquisitions

-Implement best practices nationwide to standardize and improve business functions

-Present monthly and quarterly financials to Board of Directors

-Research profitability and entry scenarios for proposed vertical integration growth

-Forecast corporate expense and overhead for all entities in multiple currencies (currency neutral)

-Maintain financial ratios, currency forecasts, and margin performance analytics

-Provide insight for needed restatements and accounting streamlining

-Write RFIs and RFPs that resulted in multi-million dollar projects and contracts

-Financial Analysis on RFP profitability used to determine key opportunities for growth

COMPSAT TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Left to pursue full-time MBA program at Tulane)

Senior Financial Analyst April 2007 – June 2008

Responsible for preparing income statements quarterly, producing and analyzing profit and loss reports,

and creating sales statistics and compensation plans based on sales performance for staff

-Reported directly to the CFO

-Streamlined financials with excel into an automated updating format saving over 10 hours a month

-Created budget and forecast models for monthly and yearly financials that updated automatically from database

-Enhanced financial analysis for managers on utilization, ROI, and KPI’s enhancing their ability to perform their

responsibilities

-Constructed a cost/benefit analysis for new health insurance and 401k plans that saved the company 2 million

dollars

-Constructed a cost benefit analysis for expanding IT consulting services based on salary, overhead, and

utilization of the department that led to 2% increase of EBITDA

-Performed other ad hoc analysis for CFO, HR, and management saving valuable time through efficiency

-Presented quarterly financial position using KPI’s and the budget versus actual comparison to ownership

(responsibility used to be CFO role)

-Assisted in staffing, organizational, and compensation decisions which led to significant cost savings

DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP

Project Controller July 2004 – April 2007

Financially responsible for projects from $70 million dollars and up to three projects at one time

Projects included Public Sector, Automotive, and Manufacturing clients that had multiple international resources

and provided valuable experience reconciling, merging, and analyzing data from many different reports and in

different currencies. Official SME of pricing and budgeting Public Sector and consulted on numerous RFP efforts

and trained controllers new to Public Sector.

Responsibilities on projects included:

-Budget creation, maintenance, modification, and forecasting model creation using automated methods that

saved project management over 40 hours monthly

-Used Hyperion, Oracle, Access, SAP extensively and trained leadership on ways to maximize functionality

-Analyzed profitability, expenditures, SOW phrasing, and financial viability of future opportunities

-Created business scenarios for costing potential projects and proposal writing that was key in winning a 40

billion dollar public sector project

-Implemented expense protocol that saved over 25% in overhead expenses on a project

-Provided by-period financial updates to management to significantly improve their ability to focus on project

activities and client relations

-Ran forecast scenarios for financial management that assisted in high-level decision making

-Organized training on financial awareness for project management and staff to provide awareness of how

could better assist their needs and improve expenditure policies

-Trained colleagues on expense minimization and helped create awareness of areas of improvement

-Completed the Leadership Program from Harvard Business while with Deloitte Consulting, LLP

-Led trainings and workshops on Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint for colleagues and management

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration New Orleans, LA

TULANE UNIVERSITY, A.B. FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS May 2010

Concentration: Finance, Strategic Management and Leadership

GPA: 3.6

Specialist Certification by Microsoft in Excel 2007

TA for MBA1 Accounting Class and Member of the Energy Club and “Toastmasters”

Greencastle, IN

Bachelors of Arts in Economics, Philosophy May 2004

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

Cumulative GPA: 3.4 Major GPA: 3.3

Member of the Poms Squad, DePauw Choir, and Treasurer for the Sorority, Delta Gamma

SKILLS

Computer: Databases: SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Access, Microstrategy Software: Microsoft Excel 2007 (Certified

Specialist working to become Expert), Microsoft Excel 2003 (Certified Expert), Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (Certified

Specialist), Microsoft Office Software (extremely experienced), Microsoft Access (experienced), Win 95/98/2000/XP

(experienced), MacOS (experienced)

Language: Spanish; Intermediate conversation and writing abilities; desire to become fully fluent

INTERNSHIPS

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Tulane University,

Studied with Companies Abroad in Paris, Buenos Aires, and Beijing Summer 2009

In Paris, in contingency with the INSEAD, I studied the business and challenges of Alcatel Lucent and Cemex.

In Buenos Aires, in contingency with Universidad de Belgrano, I studied the hurdles of doing business within South

America and the strategies of dealing an unstable market and political climate by meeting and observing the

businesses of Arcor and Bunge and Borne.

In Beijing, in contingency with Tsinghua University, I studied about the business practices within China and the

difficulties of operating in a heavily controlled economy through visiting and working with businesses including the

Central Bank of China, Morgan Stanley, and Ogilvy and Mather.

Created Financial Statements for 2 Non-Profit Firms and implemented better accounting methods and cash flow

analysis protocol

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