Steven Leviten

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** ******* *****, ************, *** JERSEY 08844

SUMMARY

Highly analytical finance professional with extensive experience directing and enhancing enterprise-wide financial operations in demanding environments. Solutions-focused strategist with a proven record developing and deploying impactful initiatives to streamline operations and increase productivity. Articulate mentor and leader of teams.

SKILLS

Finance Transformation

Budgeting & Forecasting

Business Requirements /Bus. Analysis

Data Modeling

Dimensions & Facts – Star Schema

Business Intelligence assessments

Master Data Management

Analytics

Business Performance Management

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Predictive Modeling

Scorecards

Dashboards

Specific Technologies

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)

Hyperion Planning

Oracle Cloud ERP

SAP FC

TM1

Dodeca Spreadsheet Management Platform

EXPERIENCE

MI Finance Lead - Americas

INFORMA MARKETS and FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE June 2019 – Present

Manage budget and projection process. Analyze and drive financial data to effectively challenge budget and projection assumptions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness.

Support and guide business stakeholders to transform their reporting requirements into visually appealing and usable dashboards.

Identify risks & opportunities to the business while aggressively challenging barriers to performance.

Engage as a thought leader helping promulgate best practices for Financial Planning & Analysis as a key stakeholder for the work of the central FP&A COE.

Create processes to monitor & validate data integrity of TM1 against corporate systems (SAP-BI & Hyperion)

Supervised Hyperion Planning system upgrades.

Collaborated with key finance stakeholders to support and build enhancements to the global planning systems.

Lead Cross Functional development teams, with an emphasis on requirements gathering, functional design, system documentation, and user acceptance testing.

Promoted opportunities to streamline business processes, provide value-added analyses and implement positive change.

Develop and implement an enterprise wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, and data architecture.

Reduced forms and redundant reports by 35%, which gained analytic efficiencies.

Vice President - Finance IT

CANTOR FITZGERALD/BGC May 2007 – June 2019

Led FP&A to standard reporting definitions and dimensionality across multiple segments.

Saved the company $25K per month on consulting fees by managing divisional reporting in-house that involves code development/maintenance.

Primary contact for Internal and External Audits and all SOX requirements for Financial Systems.

Re-engineered the entire business intelligence architecture whereby Hyperion Essbase is utilized and available throughout Cantor, and over 400 affiliates.

Worked on special projects as requested by the Corporate FP&A and the Global Finance Business Partners.

Developed and deployed a Global ESSBASE reporting system, which supports both Essbase and Relational data sources.

Created on-line reporting packages which enable detailed drill-down analysis from Essbase data sources into data sources stored in the Oracle Ledger, by utilizing the Applied OLAP Dodeca client.

Negotiated with vendors and consultants on development initiatives, producing cost savings of 40% of original budgeted targets.

Served as Project Manager for the FP&A team, during the implementation of CDMR (Daily P&L), and Executive Management Reporting initiatives.

Strong analytic and design skills, translating user requirements into a workable process.

Develop data governance policies and determined the appropriate reporting tool for migration of 200+ reports.

Converted FSG Balance Sheet and P&L reports from Oracle to the Essbase platform.

Administrator and developer

CBS BROADCASTING January 2006 - May 2007

Provided finance principles and controls to Brand / Sales team and developed solutions to optimize P&L driving Net Revenue, Gross Margin performance while driving share leadership.

Provided Hyperion Planning development and project management expertise, servicing 120 users.

Architected financial software and supervised technical processes pertaining to the month end close, along with quarterly forecasts and annual budget updates.

Worked with senior FP&A management and end users to develop business processes, and related requirements.

Managed end-to-end quarterly closing and consolidation processes of a multi-billion dollar balance sheet for CBS-Showtime - including consolidated financial statements and footnotes.

Provide narrative on significant variances against budget and prior year.

Configured and optimized Essbase databases, thus enhancing performance, while significantly reducing calculation times.

Provided automated reconciliation procedures for data and metadata loads via the Sybase data warehouse., Solely developed and delivered the training for the new FP&A Essbase reporting system to over 1,200 users.

Applications included financial projection, planning and cost allocation.

Created automated data loads and dimension building processes within MS SQL server. Processes provided 24/7 user access.

Technology Lead - Hyperion Administrator

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON January 2005 - January 2006

Lead developer and architect within the FP&A team of the shared services NCS Finance Division.

Working closely with senior management and staff, develop and enhance financial models to plan and report on progress against business objectives, capturing key business drivers and metrics.

Provided Hyperion Planning development and support expertise, servicing 280 users.

Administered month end close processes, along with June update, October estimate, preliminary Plan, and final Plan processes.

Maintain and develop insightful financial and operational metrics.

Trained users in Essbase, Hyperion Planning, and SAP - SEM.

Created flexible financial models detailing revenue and expense analysis.

Understand and influence drivers of all P&L buckets in support of division objectives, challenge assumptions and drive adjustments as needed.

Assistant Vice President, Senior IT Developer - Project Manager

CREDIT SUISSE / FIRST BOSTON November 2000 - January 2005

Led development and support Initiatives following the initial Peoplesoft Financial upgrade.

Led a Global Project Team in support of business intelligence initiatives.

Prepared and led executive steering committee meeting reporting on strategic and tactical initiatives.

Served as project manager for initiatives involving IT Finance, and Asset Based Management (ABM).

Reviewed expense allocations and allocation methodologies as appropriate.

Installed the Hyperion Essbase Server, API, Application Manager and Excel Add-In software.

Defined new Hyperion Essbase applications and databases ("Cubes" or "Models').

Defined Essbase outlines for new databases.

Designed and coded VB programs utilizing the Essbase API to manage 24x7 availability of Essbase.

Designed and coded Essbase EssCmd and Essbase MaxL scripts to automate the Essbase database.

updates.

Designed and implemented a fully automated "lights out" batch process linked to the GL nightly closing process using Control-M.

Developed Essbase Report scripts for database reconciliation.

Tuned Essbase Databases for optimal calculation and report response times.

Built and assisted users in building Essbase reports using Essbase Excel Add-In with VB/VBA macros.

Senior Financial Systems Programmer - Project Manager

TEACHERS INSURANCE and ANNUITY CORP, TIAA-CREF October 1993 - November 2000

Administrator and developer of Essbase and Web - applications.

Applications included financial projection and budgeting and cost allocation.

Served as Project Manager for Corporate Lock Box, and On-line check producing applications.

Produced risk analysis applications within Essbase and automated data loads and dimension

building processes within MS SQL server.

Produced mission critical applications which facilitated the General Ledger conversion process.

Senior Accountant

SMITH BARNEY HARRIS UPHAM September 1991 - October 1993

Drive the monthly close process of financial reporting packages, including a 50-page executive fact-book.

Analyze and investigate variances between budget and actual results on an ongoing basis.

Standardized the corporate chart of accounts for over 20 consolidating entities.

Developed an automated, comprehensive financial reporting package which provided key financial data on divisions, cost centers and products across entities.

Wrote a manual defining the corporate chart of accounts, minimum balances, posting requirements, and security access.

Established maintenance and operational control procedures for the corporate general ledger to ensure compliance to corporate policy.

Acted as a liaison between the finance division and application systems operations personnel.

Analyzed current and past trends in key performance indicators to facilitate and support timely and definable planning and decision making.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Arts: Accounting and Political Science, Computer Science and Business Administration

Upsala College East Orange, New Jersey

New York Institute of Finance

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