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Financial Analyst Accounts Payable

Location:
Hinckley, OH
Salary:
200000
Posted:
May 18, 2021

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WEI GU, CFA

** ****** ***** ***** ***: 607-***-****

Hinckley, OH 44233 Email: admiwv@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

AmTrust Financial Services Inc. (Cleveland, OH)

A multinational property and casualty insurance company with approximately $6 billion net annual premium and 6,000 employees worldwide.

03/2019–Present Assistant Vice President, Treasury 03/2018–03/2019 Director, Treasury

Lead Global Treasury Operation team and responsible for banking relationship, global bank accounts and banking system (bank portal and Kyriba Treasury Management System) administration, and cash and liquidity management support. Launched a 3-tier preferred banks structure to guide strategic objectives including regional banking, bank account rationalization and payment centralization.

Support claim and premium operations by selecting banks to offer alternative payment solutions including prepaid card, virtual card, and mobile payment.

Provided project leadership to roll out bank reconciliation and cash accounting utilizing Kyriba Treasury Management System to controllers globally.

As global process owner for Procure to Pay (P2P), led two 2 full cycles of Oracle Cloud ERP global implementation through providing project oversight, designing and launching end-to-end processes, and conducting user testing and training with regional teams.

Consolidated and centralized North America Accounts Payable operation and reduced operating cost by 50% through ERP implementation and major initiatives including eliminating paper invoices, check payment reduction, and launching virtual payment card.

Consolidated and centralized Global T&E team, rolled out the company’s 1st Global T&E Policy with Regional Addendums through Oracle Cloud iExpense.

Consolidated and centralized US unclaimed property management team, streamlined end-to-end process, strategically cleaned up past due liabilities with minimized State penalties.

As owner of main Treasury policies and SOX audit, partnered with internal audit to establish process governance, ensure compliance and resolve control gaps. Automated quarterly bank account and user entitlement attestation and reporting to enhance efficiency and control. EATON (Beachwood, OH)

A multinational power management company with approximately $18 billion annual revenue and 95,000 employees worldwide.

07/2016–03/2018 Manager, Capital Markets (Treasury)

Managed the company capital structure and liquidity that supports $20 billion annual revenue stream, $8 billion debt, $2 billion liquidity facility requirement, $4 billion fixed-to-floating swaps, 16-member bank group, rating agencies, transfer agent, and debt compliance. Major financing activities included a EUR 500 million issuance declared as net investment hedge, renewal of $2 billion 3-tiered credit facilities, and a $1 billion 2-tranche senior unsecured notes offering with 9-swap-lock unwind.

Managed a $4 billion fixed-to-floating swap portfolio. Executed fixed-to-floating interest rate swap and treasury lock transactions to hedge against interest rate risks and collaborate with accounting/tax department to finalize hedge documentation and tax treatment.

Evaluated, recommended and executed commodity hedging to hedge against pricing risk for business sectors and led the project to design and deploy global commodity hedging program under the guidance of FASB’s amended ASC 815.

Provided senior management team with merger and acquisition capacity and credit rating analysis by forecasting and stress-testing capital structure.

Responsible for interest expense budget and forecast, derivatives (swaps, rate locks and commodities) mark to market, hedge effectiveness testing, and covenant compliance review.

Co-led TMS (FIS Quantum) re-implementation with focus on capital markets and derivative transactions and accounting.

WEI GU, CFA

50 Walden Ridge Drive Tel: 607-***-****

Hinckley, OH 44233 Email: admiwv@r.postjobfree.com

Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY)

A multinational technology company with approximately $11 billion annual revenue and 51,500 employees worldwide.

11/2012–07/2016 Global Process Owner, Requisition to Pay (Treasury - Global Shared Services)

As the global process owner for requisition to pay, worked closely with operation teams globally to achieve process effectiveness and efficiencies through global process standardization, continuous KPI improvements, ERP implementation and enhancements, and compliance to policy, procedures and SOX requirements.

As the global owner of Concur Travel and Expenses, responsible for approving configuration and policy changes, company-wide communications, and continuous deployments to entities and regions without Concur.

Provided project management oversight, working collaboratively with project managers and key contributors to ensure successful project delivery, with leading role in developing project charters, aligning IT and functional resources, managing project funding, change management, communications and training.

Partnered with Global Supply Management (Procurement) on Source-to-Pay transformation and led multiple Six Sigma Lean projects to reduce complexity and wastes, to standardize and automate, which saved an average 30% to 50% of processing time.

Streamlined and enhanced end-to-end intercompany process (billing, netting, and settlement) by leading a cross-functional project team including Treasury Operations, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and General Ledger.

Implemented cash pooling and streamlined foreign payment processes through partnership with Standard Chartered Bank in China.

09/2008–11/2012 Senior Treasury Analyst (Treasury - Corporate Finance)

Led capital markets refinancing activities including credit facilities renewal and long-term debt issuance.

Managed the covenant compliance review process for a $1 billion credit facility and debt principal and interest payments.

Responsible for quarterly Treasury forecasts (bank fees, cash and investments, debt, interest expenses, dividend, and share repurchases), 10K/10Q footnote disclosures, and interest rate swap hedge effective testing.

Managed a $3 billion cash and short-term investment portfolio. Participated in the investment manager selection process and monitor these managers through ongoing due diligence. Evaluated the portfolio performance quarterly. Worked with investment managers to conduct regular cash compliance analysis.

Utilized short-term and long-term cash forecast to provide strategic guidance on the company’s operating cash, reserve cash and strategic cash globally.

Developed a balance sheet hedging strategy and process, and implemented the strategy and process using the FXall. Conducted monthly analysis on foreign currency exposures for balance sheet hedge and provided mark-to-market reconciliations for foreign exchange derivatives transactions. 02/2004–09/2008 Senior Financial Analyst (Treasury - Global Credit)

Responsible for the execution of Global Credit Administration Policy and the implementation of standard credit management system and processes through guiding and training regional Order to Cash teams throughout the globe.

Managed an accounts receivable portfolio of over $600 million by providing in-depth credit analysis, evaluating customer creditworthiness, establishing credit lines and monitoring severe default and bankruptcy risks for 100 largest customers of the company.

Managed a $300 million contingency liability portfolio including the issuance of Letter of Credit and Parent Company Guarantees.

Prepared industry analysis and key customers financial analysis for quarterly Finance Committee and Board meetings.

WEI GU, CFA

50 Walden Ridge Drive Tel: 607-***-****

Hinckley, OH 44233 Email: admiwv@r.postjobfree.com

01/2002–02/2004 Senior Credit Analyst, Order to Cash (Treasury - Global Shared Services)

Streamlined credit analysis process by launching Dun and Bradstreet’s eRAM.

Designed and implemented comprehensive risk-scoring models that helped to achieve credit management process automation and standardization.

05/1999–01/2002 Financial Analyst (Photonics Technologies)

Led month-end close, monthly forecast and annual budget process for the plant and division.

Managed $100 million capital and R&D project spending through IRR and NPV analysis.

Performed restructuring and asset write-off analysis. BAX GLOBAL INC. (Beijing, China)

08/1996–07/1998 Business Analyst

Reported and analyzed monthly sales results.

Assisted customers with design of just-in-time warehouse and logistics solutions. EDUCATION:

08/1998–05/2000 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, MD) Robert H. Smith School of Business

MBA (Concentration: Finance)

Honors: University of Maryland Fellowship

09/1992-05/1996 UNIVERSITY OF INTL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS (Beijing, China) Bachelor of Economics (Concentration: International Finance and Trade) TRAINING & OTHER SKILLS:

Professional Training and Certifications:

CFA Institute Charter Holder

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Belt

Application/Software:

Treasury: Bloomberg, S&P Capital IQ, TMS (FIS Quantum & Kyriba), FXall

ERP & Other: Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, SAP, Khalix, Dun & Bradstreet eRAM & DNBi

MicroSoft (Office, Power BI, Project, Visio), Visual Basic, SQL Foreign Languages:

Chinese (Native Language)



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