Finance Director/Manager

Nathaniel G. Hastings

******************@*****.*** 713-***-**** Austin, TX 78703

SUMMARY

I am a highly motivated Finance professional who has recently moved to Austin, Texas from the San Francisco Bay. I am extremely adaptable and innovative, having roughly 10 years of experience in both established and high-growth environments across multiple industries. My most notable achievements include participating in the Franks International IPO in 2012 (NYSE: FI), coding a groundbreaking asset utilization algorithm in 2014, implementing sweeping cost efficiency measures at Sysco in 2015, obtaining my Rice MBA in 2016, administrating CSI’s budget in 2018, learning SQL in 2019 and leveraging it to mass effect henceforth. I look forward to working with you!

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) 2014-2016

Rice University, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business Houston, TX

Bachelor of Science, Commerce and Business Administration 2005-2009

The University of Alabama, Culverhouse School of Accountancy Tuscaloosa, AL

Major: Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Financial Process Manager Jul. 2019 – Apr. 2020

Consero Global Solutions (High Growth Finance as a Service Company) Austin, TX

• Created and implemented efficiency measures amid a restructuring of an international finance and accounting team consisting of roughly 700 professionals.

• Proposed policy change, process change, and software projects to steering committee, which included cost-benefit analyses

• Re-engineered accounting policies and processes to drastically reduce labor demand in India-side GL accounting group, resulting in an efficiency gain of roughly 10%

• Advised on artificial intelligence based automated financial review software project

• Project managed software initiative involving aggregation and generation of multi-client accounts payable data outputs to enable effective management of the India-side AP work group.

• Designed and project managed construction of the company’s first finance data warehouse

• Reviewed and submitted change recommendations in client-side relationship and policy measures to minimize cross-client effects of single client negligence

• Authored SQL decision algorithm to automate client-side SaaS revenue trajectory analyses, saving 360 US analyst hours annually at a 20% growth rate.

• Thoroughly documented GL, reporting, FP&A, and O2C processes during a two-week residency in the Bangalore, India office

• Examined and evaluated potential cybersecurity threats facing the India office

Consulting Analyst, Financial Process Automation Apr. 2019 – Jul. 2019

BPL Plasma Austin, TX

• Implemented automated unit-level inventory calculations, both eliminating the rollforward process and reconciling operations with finance.

• Authored T-SQL procedure to convert ADP payroll output to the GL entry.

• Designed structured query environment to expedite monthly labor analyses

• Established central finance SQL operating environment

Finance Manager May 2018 – Dec. 2018

California Skin Institute (High Growth Finance Project) Mountain View, CA

• Issued all internal and external reporting packages for Goldman Sachs backed dermatology finance project consisting of four legal entities

• Owned all budgeting and forecasting administration

• Conducted a mid-year re-budget of the organization at the request of the investment banks

• Managed Google Sheets based internal financial reporting system, delivering financial, trending metrics, and doctor compensation breakdowns

• Delegated select duties to a Jr. Analyst

• Reviewed target acquisition analyses

• Developed management reporting tools and dashboards to drive company growth

Sr. Financial Analyst Sep. 2016 – May 2018

On Lok, Inc. (Established Bay Area Healthcare System) San Francisco, CA

• Served as lead analyst in the annual budget process of five non-profit entities, being responsible for strategy and planning, labor modeling, intercompany contract management, budget holder communication, and budget consolidation/presentation.

• Prepared and presented monthly and quarterly budget/forecast analyses to senior leadership for purposes of financial planning

• Maintained relationships with all key stakeholders and addressing financial concerns on a continuous basis

• Designed and created innovative databases that expedited generation of organizational line of business regulatory reports, calculated accounting allocations, and processed complex datasets for analyses

• Led various initiatives within a relatively new finance team that greatly improved the accuracy, execution time, and capacity for complexity of both budgeting and reporting processes

Sr. Cost Analyst May 2016 – Jul. 2016

Harmless Harvest (CPG Coconut Water Company) San Francisco, CA

• Developed the end-to-end cost flow model for the organization’s new production facility under construction in Thailand

• Collaborated with supply chain department to determine net COGS and profitability metrics for individual product lines

Supply Chain Analyst II Dec. 2014 – Mar. 2016

Sysco Corporation Houston, TX

• Analyzed strategic alignment of business units to customer locations for high profile accounts, working in tandem with senior sales staff to win new business exceeding $500M in the first six months

• Modeled financial proformas for proposed alignments, and actively achieved buy-in of recommendation by sales executives, senior finance, and senior supply chain personnel

• Interfaced regularly with sales team to develop go-forward strategies for select customers based on performance-based monitoring

• Overhauled analysis methods and created Access databases that reduced completion time of complex backhaul analyses by 90%

• Initialized a cross-functional effort with capital finance team to develop statistically derived incentive schedules for customers exceeding annual business of $1.0B, expected to generate over $60M in landed savings during first year of implementation

• Procured datasets via SAP

Financial Analyst, Applications Development Sep. 2011 – Dec. 2014

Frank’s International, NV (Publicly Traded Oilfield Services Company) Houston, TX

• Conducted internal consulting and managed special projects, primarily focused on the efficient use of fixed assets to achieve maximum ROI

• Held requirements gathering sessions to determine requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to potential IT solutions

• Determined cost derivatives and proper attribution and reporting of costs for select business units

• Evaluated process efficiency and unit suitability for application integration

• Designed VBA based algorithms to reverse-calculate running asset utilization and turnover ratio trends, utilized by finance team to determine optimal capital placement

• Assisted in the filing of SEC form S-1

• Developed management control reporting package that assisted in helping the newly public company pass the first audit of internal controls

• Developed market share reports via integration of macro data, operations intel, and raw operations data that greatly improved internal transparency and contributed toward strategic planning by executives

• Designed and issued a recurring series of regional and location-based financial reports for Vice President of International Operations

• Designed and utilized system that interfaced with asset management database to statistically assess need for physical audit of equipment per operating location, presented value added at annual controllers’ meeting

• Conceptualized and conducted Excel training seminars

Operations Analyst Jul. 2010 – Sep. 2011

Integrated Production Services (Mid-Size Oilfield Services Company) Houston, TX

• Designed internal reporting system for safety statistics and issued monthly executive reports detailing various federally monitored safety statistics and transportation-related data

• Interfaced regularly with field locations, served as an anchor point for communication, and gained valuable first-hand safety education through numerous oilfield visits and leadership of staff meetings in the absence of the Vice President

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Served on the Jones Student Association for Professionals (JSAP) extended committee as liaison between the full time and professional MBA classes (2015-2016)

• Served the Student Government Association (SGA) at the University of Alabama as a member of the Campus and Student Life Standing Committee, responsible for communication and awareness of issues between the student and faculty governments (2007-2008)

• Served on the student senate at Abilene Christian University as a freshman class senator (2004-2005)

• CPA eligible via requisite coursework and experience

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