MARVIN SIMS, CPA
E-mail: *********@*****.***
* ******** ****** * Scarsdale, NY 10583 * 347-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Business-savvy senior executive with Big 4 public accounting background and
experience in all facets of financial management, strategic pricing and
revenue management. Successful at leading cross-functional teams, managing
transformational process improvement initiatives and implementing
performance-based operational metrics, resulting in revenue growth and cost
savings. Problem solver with a talent for simplifying complex issues,
viewing business holistically and repositioning business strategies to
maximize financial goals. Highly-skilled at negotiating complex
transactions and a proven leader adept at building high-performing teams
and effective communication.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
. Spearheaded the sales and pricing transformation, resulting in $36M of
incremental recurring revenue by implementing standard pricing, creating a
methodology for defining standard global product set and developing
negotiating strategies and standard value-selling playbooks for new deals
and contract resigns
. Implemented strategy to foster strategic sales growth and competitive
advantage wins, spearheaded restructuring of sales incentive plan and
instituted standard pricing and new sales process driving a 40% grow in
revenues
. Engineered strategic business turnaround and transitioned business from a
single production site with $9M in annual revenue and annual losses $3.5M
to a profitable multi-site company with annual revenues over $100M, by re-
engineering business process, pricing strategies and successfully
integrating the fulfillment and print manufacturing operations
. Led successful turnaround of Retirement Services Unit growing revenues by
32%, significantly improving quality and customer satisfaction, launching
product innovations and upgrading software platform
. During company spin-off, implemented a strategic investor relations
program and communication plan that defined key business metrics, provided
the appropriate business transparency that resulted in the company's stock
price outperforming the Dow and S&P 500 by more than 20% during the 2007
financial crisis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Strategic Pricing and Revenue Enhancement
. Developed comprehensive value-based pricing strategy, standard pricing
and underlying pricing models, resulting in rationalized pricing across
products and client base, and creating a flexible more disciplined
pricing structure to optimized profit and accelerate deal closings
. Created a Global Pricing Center of Excellence and implemented a deal
review governance process, resulting in transforming the pricing function
from a transaction order-taking function to a strategic proactive deal
support function, enabling the business to reduce price quote cycle time
by 50% and increase pricing points by 10-15%
. Developed process for launching new products and designed new governance
process for client resigns providing a more disciplined and proactive
process facilitating revenue optimization
. Designed capacity metric model for Business Processing Outsourcing
services, enabling the company to profitably price the BPO service and
create predictive capacity metrics, ultimately leading the business to a
path of profitability
. Increased margins 16% and created double-digit annual revenue growth by
simplifying product pricing, revamping the sales process and aligning the
sales compensation plan with the company's strategic growth objectives
. Managed and negotiated large complex multi-business unit deals, including
developing and setting target pricing, discounting guidelines, bundling
and negotiation strategies to enhance revenue retention levels for client
resigns and increase velocity of new deals
Financial Planning & Business Management
. Managed all aspects of financial reporting, strategic planning, business
analysis, and partnered with business unit GMs and senior management to
design business and finance strategies to lead corporate turnarounds and
fuel growth
. Built finance organization for newly created division, including
designing a new organizational structure and creating new management
reporting infrastructure, which included implementing flash reporting
process that monitored financial and operational performance on a weekly
basis, resulting in a more proactive management of the business
. Led successful turnaround of underperforming $20M business unit by
upgrading product platform, lowering cost to serve by redesigning
operational workflows and re-negotiating strategic partner alliance deal
. Developed and implemented a new metric-based production business model
that was the catalyst for reorganizing production operations, resulting
in more than $1.0M in annual labor savings
. Restructured strategic alliance agreements and negotiated 3rd party
outsourcing agreements resulting in annual savings of $1.8M, expanded
distribution capabilities and increased delivery speed to end customers
Marvin Sims, CPA
E-mail: *********@*****.***
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Business Transformation and Process Improvement
. Revamped and simplified the strategic planning process by integrating
product strategy, sales objectives, operating metrics and financial
metrics, and creating linkage with the fundamentals of industry market
sizing and market share analysis, resulting in a clear strategy with
executable initiatives to generate long-term revenue and profit growth
. Spearheaded the turnaround of newly acquired facility and to developed
business strategies for the integration of multiple manufacturing plants,
also resulting in a real-time disaster recovery operating model
. Redesigned platform process resulting in $1.2M in cost saving, improved
service standard turn-time by 40% and created a more efficient load
balance and capacity planning process
. Reduced Data Center cost $2.1M, increased speed to market for IT
projects, and provided true disaster recovery capability for both
production and processing by initiating and completing shared-service
outsourcing plan for IT functions
. Launched spin-off by creating company's first-ever investor relations
infrastructure, included developing communication guidelines and
policies, implementing technology platform for monitoring stock, peer
groups and investor activity, hiring and training staff, and developing
workflow processes to support quarterly earnings quarterly investor
webcast
Relationship Management and Leading Cross-Functional Teams
. Selected by senior management to lead the global strategic pricing and
growth-orientated sales transformation initiative
. Developed and maintained complex relationships with institutional
investors and analysts, and designed targeting and acquisition programs
for adding new analysts and shareholders
. Led Investor Relations function during the spin-off and initial public
offering and served as the primary communications interface between
company management and the investment community
. Led the transition team during $1.1B business unit divestiture
transaction, coordinating the communications plan, building the
standalone infrastructure for Finance, Administration, IT, HR, including
negotiating all benefit plan agreements and coordinating customer and
vendor contract conversions and assignment
WORK HISTORY
Broadridge Financial Solutions - NYSE:BR (former subsidiary of ADP); 2005 -
Present
. Global Head of Strategic Pricing and Deal Support, 2012 - Present
. Vice President of Regulatory Affairs & Strategy, 2010 - 2012
. Vice President of Investor Relations, 2006 - 2010
. CFO Fixed-Income Processing Division, 2005 - 2006
DST System, Inc. - NYSE:DST; 1997 - 2004
. Vice President Finance & GM Retirement Solutions, 2002 - 2004
. Vice President Finance, 1997 - 2002
Earlier Career: CFO, Arrow Entertainment; CFO, SMA Video Productions, Inc.;
Controller, Synovate Research (formerly Behavioral Analysis, Inc.);
Assistant Corporate Controller, LVI Construction, Inc.; Director of
Accounting, Madison Square Garden Corp; Senior In-Charge Auditor,
PricewaterhouseCoopers.
COMPUTER & SOFTWARE SKILLS
. Excellent working knowledge of Excel, Microsoft Word, Access, PowerPoint,
Lotus Notes and Outlook.
. Experienced in systems implementation and knowledge of Oracle, Great
Plains, Hyperion, Solomon and MAS90 Systems
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
. BS Accounting - Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY * Graduated Cum Laude *
3.85 GPA in Major
. CPA - State of New York * National Investor Relations Institute
. Member of Executive Diversity Council * Co-sponsor and Chairperson for
the Multi-Cultural Associate Network