Digital Marketing Financial Analyst

Yash Dave

609-***-**** ********@********.*** ** Moss Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA

B.A. Economics Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Technology August 2015 – May 2019 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dolby Laboratories San Francisco, CA

Associate Financial Analyst IP Finance January 2021 – Present

• Work closely with General Counsel to conduct ad hoc analyses such as ROI on licensing, audit project, and litigation matter

• Oversee revenue target of $400M and operating budget of $120M across patents, government relations, LCP, and IPP operations

• Conduct analysis across income statement and present insights and strategies directly to executive legal team for decision making

• Evaluate Dolby’s intangible assets to determine net book value and adjust depreciation amount based on any impairments Associate Financial Analyst G&A Finance August 2019 – December 2020

• Analyze overall expenditure vs. forecast across G&A functions and present analysis directly to CFO for strategic outlook

• Manage an operating budget of $190M related to all infrastructure functions (Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, IT, Global Workplace Solutions, and Corporate Strategy); in charge of building out monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecasts

• Conduct variance analysis to target risk areas and present findings to CIO, VP of Finance, SVP of Human Resources, VP of Tax, VP of Manufacturing and VP of Corporate Strategy to re-allocate dollars as needed to optimize spending and resources

• In charge of evaluating and presenting external vendor expenses of $10M monthly within infrastructure to Corporate Controller

• Help lead location strategy analysis related to all 39 worldwide Dolby facilities across Americas, APAC, and EMEA, working closely with the VP of Facilities on allocations, asset depreciation, capital spend, and regional tax implications; created a scenario based framework to establish a methodology for allocating infrastructure costs across facilities and displayed this to the CFO

• Responsible for overseeing 500 heads, almost 25% of workforce, by updating hiring plan outlooks and budgeting for new hires; built a model to identify potential overspend and how to minimize risk which was shared with the CEO for decision making

• Helped form Dolby’s first function focused in the mobile application realm, Dolby On, by conjoining two existing functions; manage all expenses and heads and create budgets for external marketing spend to increase outreach for the application

• Work with the Director of Investor Relations to study variances and project expenditure to build quarterly and yearly guidance in preparation for earnings call meetings; construct models for Corporate Finance to forecast changes in operating expense

• Led sensitivity analysis for operating and capital expenses along with hiring to break down impacts of Covid-19 on our business functions so we could predict impacts on our future budgets and implications this will have on revenue outlook for the year Back to the Roots Oakland, CA

Business Development Intern June 2018 – October 2018

• Shadowed Co-Founders / CEOs during financial and legal meetings regarding corporate partnerships with companies such as Costco, Lowes, Whole Foods, Home Depot, Scott’s and Nature’s Path

• Revamped website and led brand marketing to evaluate collaborations with start-ups and media agencies such as Food Network

• Assisted Head of Product in improving manufacturing and conducting experiments which led to the launch of a new product

• Used AWS to construct a database to find common search terms by target audience, restructured marketing strategy with targeted ads and designed Amazon product pages; resulted in highest sales by volume for our best-selling product on Prime Day Bose Corporation Berkeley, CA

Co-Project Manager, Contract January 2018 – May 2018

• Co-managed a team of consultants throughout for-profit engagement to help Bose optimize efficiency of Global Business Services (GBS) and develop a strategic framework to become operationally efficient in China

• Investigated 7 common pain points across GBS such as internal tools and training procedures and addressed pain points through mini case studies developed from extensive research and calls with GBS professionals MyClo San Francisco, CA

E-Commerce and Marketing Intern May 2017 – September 2017

• Evaluated digital marketing strategies of retail startups and legacy companies and presented findings directly to the CEO

• Initiated the first Brand Ambassador Program, resulting in an additional 7,000 followers on Instagram along with 3% increase in sales driven directly through more exposure via social media along with direct links I created to products on our website

• Researched costs of various distribution channels and optimized inventory allocation and budgets to adjust overall spending SKILLS & INTERESTS

Languages: English (Native), Gujarati (Native), Spanish (Proficient), Hindi (Proficient) Skills: Microsoft Office, STATA, R, Adobe Photoshop, AWS, Digital Marketing, Financial Modelling, SAP, EPM, Power BI Interests: Cooking, Astronomy, Film Production, Interior Design, Hiking, Coaching, Travelling, Dallas Cowboys, Money Heist

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