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Seung Jin (Kenny) Jeong

Summary

Solution-oriented and goal-driven business professional with 7+ years in supply chain operations finance, economic consulting, and auditing. Skilled in efficiently collecting, monitoring and studying various types of data to retrieve meaningful insights for use in financial models and innovative business solutions. Experienced in qualitative and quantitative analysis, financial modeling and forecasting.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Commodity Financial Analyst

Apple Inc.
10.2019 - Current
  • Forecasted cost and margin for NAND flash memory, SoC (System on Chip), OLED/LCD display, audio components, GPU, CPU, and touch sensors across core product lines
  • Worked with global supply managers across multiple commodity spaces to help navigate consistently shifting commodity markets and their implications on forecasting models as well as obtained latest developments in key commodity pricing negotiations with suppliers and up to date pricing and operations strategies
  • Played a critical role as the project lead for the redevelopment and redesign of the core commodity cost forecasting tool which covered a majority of the company COGS
  • Worked with data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers in the finance organization to understand and incorporate best practices regarding data in the finance space to help solution current state model scalability issues
  • Proposed and implemented innovative changes to core forecasting logic for commodities across all product supply chains as part of the forecasting tool redevelopment project, which resulted in ~25% to 50% model efficiency and helped deliver more insightful and accurate analysis to business partners across multiple finance functions
  • Collaborated with multiple business partners across the operations finance organization to understand downstream and upstream impact of commodity forecast deliverables
  • Developed and implemented a more accurate, streamlined, and uniform commodity cost variance analysis model to help analysts and global business partners secure additional savings up to ~$100M per quarter
  • Helped revamp the onboarding process for new analysts on the team as well as developed multiple trainings for core analyst functions and business logic which required a complete end to end understanding of processes in scope

Senior Associate

Berkeley Research Group LLC
04.2018 - 09.2019
  • Performed economic damage analysis ranging in $50M - $100M+ on matters related to forensic accounting, intellectual property infringement, and transfer pricing
  • Analyzed Nielsen ratings data and entertainment contracts to reconstruct and forecast potential company financials for future cashflow projections as a core input into a financial damage valuation model for a production company
  • Utilized databases such as CapIQ and Thomson One to research and compile financial data for use in valuation models
  • Organized large datasets and incorporated findings to produce financial damages models, detailed exhibits, and presentations

Audit Associate

KPMG, LLP
09.2016 - 04.2018
  • Performed audit services for clients in the healthcare and tech industry
  • Created reports on client competitors and performed analysis over competitor's growth, net income, and revenue
  • Completed variance analysis over fluxes of $100M+ over all financial statement records and accounts
  • Created pivot tables, charts, and macros to increase efficiency in test work and procedures
  • Performed predictive analytical procedures using CPI indexes and inflation rates to predict quarterly and yearly projections

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
05.2016

Skills

  • Variance and Trend Analysis
  • Financial Modeling and Forecasting
  • Project Management
  • Industry and Market Research
  • Economic Impact Valuation and Analysis
  • Data Visualization, Manipulation, and Analysis

Technical

  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Tableau (Desktop and Prep), Dataiku, Snowflake, Basic SQL and Python

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Korean
Limited Working

Timeline

Senior Commodity Financial Analyst

Apple Inc.
10.2019 - Current

Senior Associate

Berkeley Research Group LLC
04.2018 - 09.2019

Audit Associate

KPMG, LLP
09.2016 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of California, Berkeley

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