Christopher M. Holmes
622 Ezara Court - Brick, NJ 08724 - (732) 814-3308 - Christopher_Holmes@comcast.net
March 27, 2013
Attn: Human Resources/Jobs
To Whom It May Concern,
It is with your organization that I desire to offer my strong work ethic and knowledge. Having a proven track record in both the corporate financials and technology fields along with my exceptional analysis, I am certain that with my skills, when linked with the vision of your company will serve to create new opportunities and added success to your organization.
My experience as an Analyst, I was consistently energized by opportunities in analyzing, developing and implementing strategies to ensure the ability of increasing revenue, productivity and growth. With accountability for developing key frameworks, reporting measurements, several multimillion-dollar project implementations and managing over $47 Million in engagements, I offered significant contributions in strategic development, financial analysis, forecasting and pricing structures.
Having an excellent ability to concurrently manage projects, while meeting rigorous performance standards and demanding timelines, I have acquired a solid reputation for effective communication, and teamwork. In providing a solution driven leadership style, I was able to deliver key enhancements to help further develop the organizations growth consistently delivering on-time and under budget: Under my guidance we:
• Developed a Pricing Model Framework that measured the effectiveness of new pricing structures and led to defining new strategies, and identify trending issues.
• Analyzed and implemented a global system alignment with the integration of the organizations $34 Million Theken Spine acquisition into the existing platform.
• Reconstructed the corporate discount request form approval and implementation processes. Establishing performance measurements and KPI’s.
• Developed timely billings strategies to ensure financials were collected under the client payments terms, increasing monthly cash collections and helping increase the North-East Sub Unit Revenue by 11.8% in consecutive quarters.
• Created budgets & analyzed P&L impact reports to maximize profitability and project revenues against firm-wide forecasting.
I firmly believe that my dedication and passion for work is in perfect line with your current needs. If your firm is looking for a dependable, results-oriented professional with a solid performance record, I would be interested in speaking with you to discuss the value of my strengths and experience can bring to your organization. I look forward to meeting with you and discussing this opportunity more in-depth. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Mr. Christopher M. Holmes
Enclosure: Resume
Dow Jones & Company, South Brunswick Terrace, NJ, US, Financial Analyst
-Developed a New Pricing Model Framework to accurately measure the Wall Street Journal’s channel distributions effectiveness against pre pricing change period. Analyzing results, monitoring week on week performances and presenting findings on a weekly basis to senior management that lead to defining new strategies, spotting patterns and identify trending issues.
-Managed and produced weekly circulation reports through identifying and collecting data from multiple sources and organizing final outputs ensuring their accuracy of the data implemented and deadlines were being met on-time.
-Provided on-going analysis and tracking of revenue, subscriptions and marketing orders against various metrics to develop insight on trends, discrepancies and financials for WSJ Print, WSJ Online, Barron’s Print and Barron’s Online product lines.
-Reviewed weekly and monthly News Corporation financials and analyzed variances against reported Dow Jones circulation reports to ensure reported data was consistent across all platforms.
-Worked collaboratively with cross functional team members in UAT testing within retention and acquisition to evaluate data is congruent with information that is extracted from databases and to generate parameters and identify results during the migration of data into the new Mosaic system.
-Compiled analysis and developed departmental procedures through effective research and communication on weekly and month end reporting; leading to the development of work instructions that provided an accurate understanding to the finance team and the organization of finance operations.
Ernst & Young, LLP, Iselin, NJ, US, Financial Management Analyst
- Managed $47 Million in engagements on a reoccurring basis with top grossing Office of the Chairman accounts providing financial analysis and reporting support with Principals, Managing Partners and Senior Mangers of the firm.
- Proactively developed timely billings strategies to ensure financials were continuously collected under the client payments terms, increasing monthly cash collections and helping increase the North-East Sub Unit Revenue by 11.8% in consecutive quarters during fiscal year 2012.
- Developed budgets and analyzed P&L impact reports on a weekly basis to maximize profitability and project revenues against firm-wide forecasting for multiple engagements measuring actual vs. expected revenues.
- Reviewed and developed invoices on a weekly basis ensuring the firm billed appropriately on engagements both foreign and domestic.
- Reconstructed pricing and formulated bill rate adjustments for engagement teams to ensure maximum return of revenue. Determining feasibility and formulating appropriate actions on the continuation of engagements through effective forecasting measurements.
- Analyzed income statements determining if engagements are below or above financial estimates and investigating variances from forecasted planned measurements.
Integra LifeSciences Corporation, Plainsboro, NJ, US, Pricing & Contract Analyst
- Responsible for the development and implementation of the Theken Spine Acquisition. Analyzing the organizations structure and moving $34 Million in revenue through 4,500 products and 1,500 customers into Oracle designing a global structure.
- Reconstructed the corporate discount request form approval and implementation processes for the two largest grossing divisions accounting for 80% of the organizations yearly revenues. Developing performance measures and KPI’s to ensure continued growth and success of the implementation.
- Implemented monthly pricing discrepancy reports providing increased reporting measurements to identify trending issues. End results 54% cleaner data of pricing discrepancies.
- Managed $75,000 in monthly Broadlane Administration and GPO Wholesaler Fee’s ensuring customers were compensated as expected and on a timely basis, while developing projections of future costs associated with these clients.
- Analyzed yearly pricing structures with senior management and executive committees. Researching competitor’s pricing and market trends to formulate future year adjustments on the organizations product lines.
- Developed user acceptance testing of the Oracle API system, while developing work instructions and training individuals on new procedures leading to improved productivity and accuracy by 97%.
- Lead administrator in the Oracle R12 Project Delphi areas of Pricing, Operations and Customer Management helping improve overall departmental efficiency and data quality, while enabling clear and concise monitoring.
- Minimized credits by 25% while managing over $850,000 annually through corporate credit investigations.
Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, US, Bachelors, Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, concentration in Management
The Dr. Kettlitz Award, Award
Top Individual in Anisfield School of Business for the year 2010.
