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Michael Jared

Conway,AR

Summary

Accomplished senior leader with over 18 years of experience in multi-unit operations and financial planning and analysis. Proven track record of driving operational excellence, optimizing financial performance, and leading high-performing teams across diverse industries. Adept at strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and implementing innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and profitability. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a strong ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels. Committed to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and delivering sustainable business growth.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of FP&A

Zips Car Wash
06.2022 - Current

• Drive on-going focus and efficiencies on cost optimization and expense management across the global segment of $620M of Revenues and $120M of EBITDA. • Ownership over the global financial planning and corporate accounting functions of the company’s largest revenue driving segment with a team of 12 individuals in 3 locations, including preparation and guidance of annual budgets and monthly forecasts. Responsibility over month-end close, SOX controls and annual/quarter audit along with preparing and managing external metrics for SEC reporting. Assist in preparation of the quarterly Board of Directors Reporting. • Manage, design and maintenance of the Hyperion/Essbase and TM1 financial systems of the forecasting process. • Lead scenario modeling, planning, and evaluation for managing risk and opportunities of growth. • Assist in the management of the Business Intelligence and Analytic team of 4 individuals in providing internal/external reporting tools. Highlight business trends for member statistics and data mining for various business initiatives that drive insightful recommendations for improved results. • Lead efforts in providing and creating billing optimization metrics and visibility for planning and remediation efforts. • Lead efforts in standardizing reporting and forecasting processes, create consistent key performance drivers of revenue enhancement segment.

Director of Operations

Driven Brands
01.2020 - 06.2022

• Business partner and enforcer of financial control on business operations; developed reporting on visibility and measuring financial impacts which highlighted operational deficiencies and improved revenue by 25%.• Streamlined and automated reporting processes to empower team in providing analysis to recommend improved profitability on marketing investments. • Led integration of financial forecasting process on acquired companies with $200 million in annual revenues. • Improved accuracy and visibility of revenue and marketing forecasts, of largest and most volatile division. • Assisted CFO with ad hoc financial data driven projects. • Provided and drove insightful and consolidated analysis of revenue and profitability on business partners and divisional teams. • Improved KPI metric reporting to highlight business performance by marketing channel.• Supported due diligence analysis of M&A opportunities and acquisition integration strategy.• Developed dashboard reporting on client profitability.

Sr. Manager-Manager-Sr Financial Analyst

Affinion Group
06.2003 - 03.2009
•  Lead the Implementation of the Hyperion member attrition and revenue forecast model.  Tested and challenged the calculations and inputs for the most accurate desired results.•  Created forecasting models for new billing frequency and trial length initiatives.•  Prepared membership revenue forecast for budget planning by updating and analyzing all key metric drivers of models.•  Monitored and quantified price point increase initiative across all services.•  Provided analysis and reporting packages to identify business issues and trends to facilitate management decision making on marketing investments.•  Enhanced and created forecast models to accommodate changing business needs.•  Monitored and tracked business model assumptions to ensure accuracy in monthly forecasts for business review meetings with management.  •  Coordinated Balance Sheet forecasts and explained variances for deferred revenue and prepaid commission balances.•  Provided support to product finance group for product operating forecasts.

Strategic Pricing Lead Analyst-Pricing Analyst-Contract Analyst

Georgia Pacific
08.1998 - 05.2003
•  Developed, managed and updated pricing model for largest division customer, including Requests for Proposals/Pricing on new business.•  Participated in SAP financial System Integration from IBM Mainframe.•  Maintained and reported profitability by product.•  Over-viewed and Budgeted allocated marketing funds for pricing incentive programs.•  Supported sales, marketing and finance departments with ad hoc requests.•  Developed and implemented pricing strategies to achieve business objectives.•  Analyzed market conditions to facilitate in forecasting and planning price points for new products. 

Education

Masters of Business Administration - Finance

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
2003

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT
1998

Skills

  • Team Development and Empowerment
  • Business Analysis and Modeling
  • Financial Operations Management
  • Effective Communication Skills with Executive and Senior Management
  • Financial Systems Implementation, Integration and maintenance
  • Strategic Planning/ Decision Support
  • Forecasting

Accomplishments

Led implementation of corporate subscription forecast model consisting of $400M of annual revenue. Ideated and built out analytical platforms and new methodologies to accurately predict future retail revenues based on predictive weather patterns, creating millions of dollars in labor savings. Ideated, modeled, and facilitated the launch of new subscription pricing structures resulting in $20M in additive revenues annualized.

Skills

MS Excel (Advanced skills in pivot tables, charts and macros), MS PowerPoint, MS Access (create databases, write and run queries), SAP, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Reporting – Data Warehouse, and IBM TM1  Language: Portuguese   Execonline, Leading Innovative Change, Certification from UC Berkeley 

Timeline

Director of FP&A

Zips Car Wash
06.2022 - Current

Director of Operations

Driven Brands
01.2020 - 06.2022

Sr. Manager-Manager-Sr Financial Analyst

Affinion Group
06.2003 - 03.2009

Strategic Pricing Lead Analyst-Pricing Analyst-Contract Analyst

Georgia Pacific
08.1998 - 05.2003

Masters of Business Administration - Finance

Fairfield University

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Quinnipiac University
Michael Jared