Senior Analyst Fp A

Matthew Brajkovich

*** * ********, **** ***** CA 90802 615-***-**** **********.****@*****.***

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Utilize strong leadership skills and business knowledge for a world class company to develop employees, refine processes, and improve transparency of business information to exceed company goals.

QUALIFICATIONS

●Effective leader skilled in managing numerous levels of employees including managers, supervisors, and other degreed and non-degreed professionals.

●Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.

●Enjoy applying technical knowledge to create automated solutions to manual processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PSC Metals Inc. 2016- Current

A portfolio company of Icahn Enterprises in the scrap metal industry which was purchased by SA Recycling in 2021.

Corporate FP&A Manager

●Run the day to day tasks for the finance department directly reporting to the CFO.

●Responsible for monthly results, forecasts, budgets, operation meetings presentations, board of directors reports, cash flow & forecasting, etc.

●Notable Achievements-

Automated the P&L updates for the monthly results file by creating a matrix with vector formulas from scratch by the second month end close i was there, saving dozens of hours monthly.

Created a freight analysis using Excel Slicers which allowed a whole new level of analysis, giving transparency to regional management expense analysis by customer or carrier, which allowed for the first time drilling down & decisions to be made at those levels to reduce freight spend.

Created new robust and automated various daily reports for senior leadership as well as automated our SEC reporting pack to our parent company.

Deloitte (Consulting Position thru Vaco) 2015-2016

Consultant filling in for Manager- Financial Analysis Position while she worked full time on a large financial accounting system project.

●Compiled and Distributed firmwide AR reporting results for senior management.

●Managed AR Posting and Collections for acquisitions.

● Prepared Balance Sheet reconciliations for all AR accounts.

●Notable Achievements-

oAutomated Billings to Parent Company using MS Access and Excel Macros to be posted as a JE instead of issuing manual invoices, saving 6 days of manual work each month.

oAutomated Daily Cash Report using Excel Macro, saving 4 hours of work each day for the India team.

Viacom (NASDAQ - VIA.B) 2014-2015

$14 BB Nasdaq company internationally serving in the media and entertainment sector. Viacom media networks controls over 150 television stations and 300 digital properties.

Director, Order to Cash

●Direct all seven order to cash departments in the service center consisting of 19 professional employees supporting domestic and international business operations.

●Drive continuous process improvements through identifying and realizing business process improvements, continuing optimization of staff, and monitoring KPI’s.

●Develop metrics to provide senior management with new information to monitor the service levels provided.

●Notable Achievements-

oFully automated unapplied cash reports by building excel macros, saving cash applications staff over 2 hours each day.

LKQ, Inc., Nashville, TN. (NASDAQ – LKQ) 2009-2014

$4.5 BB Nasdaq company serving as the nation’s leading provider of replacement systems, components, and parts needed to repair vehicles.

Manager, Corporate AR/Credit & Collections 2012-2014

●Corporate department head of credit and collections department responsible for all accounts receivable, credit, collections, and cash management policies, procedures and SOX narratives.

●Independently manage, supervise, and develop North American Credit & Collections, Corporate AR, Sales Tax Exemption, Unclaimed Property, & Bank Reconciliation departments consisting of 30+ employees in a fast paced environment.

●Responsible for portfolio of over $2,000,000,000.00 in AR Aging.

●Notable Achievements

oReduced staffing needed by 27% while simultaneously reducing overtime by greater than 50%, while the team was continually getting larger workloads due to multiple acquisitions.

oCollected on disregarded AR amounting to $280k that was between 1-2 years old.

oStreamlined our NSF processing into a paperless process similar to our credit approval process.

oMerged previously independent Canadian operations into our credit and collection department.

oSuccessfully implemented new reconciliation software for cash management and bank reconciliations.

Supervisor, Accounting 2008- 2012

●Supervise company wide intercompany department with over 430 locations nationwide, including domestic and foreign entities on 7 separate ledgers.

●Manage, supervise, and develop four degreed accounting professionals.

●Notable Achievements

oCreated a process to use Microsoft Access to streamline intercompany AR reporting process which reduced time spent compiling report by 90%.

oDeveloped Macro for general accounting team for variance analytics that saves 4 hours during close each month for over 20 analysts.

oDesigned sales report for over $5 MM worth of consigned inventory and distributed companywide to local management teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Expert Excel (Macros, Pivot tables, Vlookups), Advanced Access, Oracle, SAP, Cognos Reporting, Cognos Controller, ADS Prelude, Mas90, Kronos, ReconNet, AssureNet.

EDUCATION

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Bachelor’s of Arts, 2006

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