Jonathan D. Bobrow

*** **** ******, **** **, Summit, NJ 07901 973-***-**** adu5sg@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Financial executive with a background in accounting, financial planning and reporting seeks an opportunity to assist an organization to achieve their objectives by using skills and experiences obtained from a variety of industries: financial; manufacturing; consumer products and non-profit.

Experience

September 2017 - Present

Senior Financial & Budget Advisor, NYC Department of Education – SchoolFood

Establish Divisional metrics for evaluating food cost containment efforts including materials consumption, labor utilization and supplies.

Review vendor financial statements to determine financial capacity to perform under contract potential awards from the DOE.

Forecast revenue and expenses and track variances to budget.

Convert system generated data into timely financial information to support financial decisions.

Participate as a liaison for Finance during audits of Federal program grants.

Determine targets for marketing campaigns by optimizing reimbursement rates available from local and Federal government programs.

May 2003 – August 2017

Senior Project Manager, NTT Data Americas, New York, NY

Responsible for the design, execution and successful implementation of an Enterprise-wide Financial Planning, Budgeting and Performance Reporting system for the NY City Department of Education, Office of School Food. This enterprise serves almost 1 million meals daily in over 1300 outlets and generates over $450 million in annual revenue.

Meet with Executive and Senior Management to define project objectives, requirements, milestones, timeline and budget.

Prepare all Business Requirement Documents with supporting forms and exhibits and gain approval of Executive Management and Project Sponsors.

Convert Business Requirements into functional technical specifications for project programmers,

Monitor and supervise programmers and perform all data mapping for new system.

Create test plans for each stage of implementation and success metrics.

Create training materials for managers and supervisors and conduct training.

Load historical and budget data into the system.

Interpret system results.

March 1996 – February 2003

Project Manager, Culpeper Consulting, New York, NY

JPMorgan Trust Services and Private Bank – Performed business analysis and project management services in conjunction with the conversion of Chase's legacy systems to Global+ asset management.

Produced detailed project plans for all accounting and reporting aspects for JP Morgan Corporate Accounting on financial and tax issues.

Create test strategy and test plans to ensure correct and complete conversion and ensure interim status correctly posted in automated test tracking system.

Duetsche Bank, NY Branch. Responsible for financial support during the Bank's preparation to list on the NYSE. Responsibilities included reconciling $8O Billion interbank portfolio of precious metal, loans and derivatives on a daily basis from over 50 counterparties.

Chase Manhattan Bank - Provided project management support for the merger and integration of Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank, NA in their consumer finance, mortgage and Caribbean business units.

Created the project plan and documented the conversion for an $8.0 Billion credit card portfolio.

Documented the consolidation of the operational accounting functions of a $30.0 billion mortgage bank

Redesigned and documented a new financial reporting system for Chase's $12.0B auto finance unit.

November 1993 – February 1996

Chief Financial Officer, Natwest Bank (Delaware) Wilmington, DE

Managed the financial aspects of establishing the new state-chartered Bank.

Established a new financial analysis function for management reporting, product profitability analysis, marketing campaign profitability and acquisition cost

Supervised the asset divestiture of $100MM sub-prime home equity portfolio.

Managed an expense budget in excess of $365 million.

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

MBA, August 1991

Executive Program – No major field of study

Adelphi University, Garden City NY

M.S. Accounting, August 1975

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

BBA Accounting, May 1975

Certifications – CPA, NY (Inactive License)

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