I am a dynamic management career building professional with 19 years corporate finance experience. Throughout my tenure, I have consistently outperformed revenue and profit objectives, dramatically reducing costs while working without defined boundaries.
My core capabilities include; extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, preparing and managing budgets, preparing forecasts as well as managing and mentoring staffers. My experience also includes; audit and compliance, inter-company accounting, transfer pricing for legal entity accounting, international accounting, construction accounting, job costing, strategic sourcing and asset management.
I would welcome an opportunity to discuss my credentials in more detail as well as any positions where my expertise would be a complement.
Regards,
Robert Hill
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Professional Experience
Metropolitan Life – Consultant
September 2008 – January 2009
Technology and Operations Finance
Responsible for the financial planning and analysis for the Institutional Technology group; a $170 million annual budget and 655 headcount. Accountable for the accuracy and integrity of the ledger and portfolio budget, actual and forecast data. Managed the relationship with the CIO, including the communication of the financial results, forecast and all process, policy and performance metrics.
• Developed strategic project and operating expense budgets by anticipating requirements, trends and variances.
• Implemented benchmark and performance models that supported management decision support.
• Created management reports to forecast fixed asset depreciation and software amortization expenses as well as maintain inventories of internally developed software.
• Assisted in the identification, tracking and monitoring of $7.7M annualized savings resulting from process optimization and other cost reductions initiatives.
• Maintained stewardship of contract service costs, analyzed trends and identified savings opportunities.
• Developed cost allocation methodologies to charge back direct and indirect expenses for strategic projects.
MarKar Partners LLC – Consultant
January 2008 – August 2008
Technology and Operations Finance
Responsible for various financial planning and analysis activities for a venture capital and hedge fund investing firm. Manage all general accounting functions including preparation of financial reports, bank reconciliations, month end closings, budgets and strategic planning.
• Researched and resolved technical accounting issues.
• Tracked and analyzed forecasts.
• Coordinated the external financial requirements and partnered with external auditors.
• Prepared financial statements and presentations.
• Prepared federal, state and local tax returns.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and research capabilities.
JP Morgan Chase - Vice President
August 2006 – December 2007
Investment Banking Technology Finance
Responsible for the financial planning and analysis for Investment Banking Risk Management division: a $40 million annual budget and 120 headcount. Prepared monthly budget, headcount and various ad hoc reports. Prepared month end accruals, general ledger journal entries and reconciled income statement and balance sheet accounts. Identified risk and opportunities for cost savings and cost avoidances.
• Prepared the Business Case financial analysis for Risk Management’s major capital projects; $150 million capital investment allocated over 5 fiscal years.
• Developed cost allocation methodologies to charge back direct and indirect expenses for strategic projects and operations departments.
• Developed a control process to manage the division’s fixed asset accounts. Monthly and annual forecasts were derived from this control process.
• Created a control process to forecast depreciation and amortization expenses and calculate the cost of refreshing fixed assets.
• Reconciled the division’s balance sheet accounts for capitalized internally developed software.
• Prepared process documents to support SOX and internal audit reporting requirements.
CIBC World Markets – Executive Director
May 1998 – August 2006
Investment Banking Technology Finance
Managed staff of 11, responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the technology division: a $90 million annual budget and 200 headcount. Responsible for the monthly invoice processing, payment and general ledger reconciliation including fixed assets purchases. Performed audits of product inventories, and negotiated contracts for the disposal of fixed assets and market data services.
• Lead Controller for the new building construction of 300 Madison Avenue, N.Y: $80 million
technology infrastructure budget. Utilized Job Costing and Construction accounting methodologies to track and allocate construction expenses.
• Lead Controller for the Equity Sales and Trading floor upgrade: $35 million.
• Reduced $3 million of annual expenses by developing an inventory control processes and implementing the Teldata market data inventory/ billing application.
• Negotiated various vendor contracts resulting in 28% reduction of procurement expenses.
• Reviewed RFI and RFP documents to ensure internal audit compliance.
• Reengineered and expanded the telecommunications general ledger hierarchies, which improved client comprehension of their expenses.
UBS – Divisional Vice President
August 1991 – April 1998
Technology Finance Manager
Managed staff of 8 responsible for telecommunications billing, cost allocations and internal chargeback methodologies. Responsible for the monthly invoice processing, payment and general ledger reconciliation of telecommunications expenses. Responsibilities also included researching and resolving client billing inquiries by implementing and managing a Service Center.
• Negotiated a telecommunications salvage contract resulting in $5 million recovery.
• Recovered $1million of telecom costs by implementing an inventory control database.
• Designed and implemented an invoice / journal entry processing application resulting in a 50% decrease in staff headcount, and streamlined the monthly bookkeeping reconciliation process.
• Authored a directory of firm-wide telecom billing services and expenses designed for new hire training, and audit process documentation.
Professional Skills
Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel (pivot tables), PowerPoint, Explorer, Lotus Notes, Clarity / NIKU Project Time Reporting, Hyperion EssBase, Business Objects, Oracle, SAP, People Soft Asset Management, Teldata’s Market Data Manager
Education
State University of New York at Albany
School of Business
Business Administration 1990
New York University
Stern School of Business
Cash Management 1996
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