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Finance Risk Factors

Finance careers require strong quantitative skills such as critical thinking, financial modeling, and data analysis. Candidates should have knowledge of accounting, financial markets, and financial statements in order to analyze financial data and make recommendations. Employers also seek interpersonal skills like leadership, teamwork, and communication. Desired technical skills include proficiency with financial modeling, information technology, and resume keywords like accounts receivable, capital budgets, cost reduction, and equity financing.

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Finance Risk Factors

Finance careers require strong quantitative skills such as critical thinking, financial modeling, and data analysis. Candidates should have knowledge of accounting, financial markets, and financial statements in order to analyze financial data and make recommendations. Employers also seek interpersonal skills like leadership, teamwork, and communication. Desired technical skills include proficiency with financial modeling, information technology, and resume keywords like accounts receivable, capital budgets, cost reduction, and equity financing.

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Skills Desired

Finance careers require the same soft skills as any other career. However, quantitative skills
need to be superior. Finance professionals in many roles need to analyze both quantitative
(typically financial) and qualitative data, then build models upon which to base decisions. Here
are specifics about desired skills.
 Critical, detail-oriented thinking, with strong quantitative skills.
 An understanding of managerial accounting, and operations background can help in project
analysis. MIS coursework may help with both internal systems and general analysis tools.
 Knowledge of financial markets, capital structure and other fiscal policies and risk
management.
 An understanding of financial statements, an ability to analyze those statements and an
ability to translate financial and other information into opinions about credit quality and
relative pricing of equity securities.
 Candidates should be able to forecast scenarios, analyze them and recommend a course of
action.
 The ability to create and use financial models is essential.
 All employers seek leadership skills and the ability to work in teams.
 Strong oral and written communication skills.
 Personal computer proficiency and information technology skill.

Resume Key Words


 Accounts Payable: Streamlined accounts payable functions, established common
vendor files, eliminated duplication and reduced monthly processing time by 20%.
 Accounts Receivable: Introduced improved accounts receivable and collection
policies that decreased outstanding receivables by an average of 40% monthly.
 Asset Disposition: Determined proper asset disposition, sale, and leasing options
following plant divestiture.
 Asset Management: Established Asset Management Division to control $55 million
in capital equipment and technology.
 Asset Purchases: Structured and executed asset purchase of Zylong Corporation in
Canada.
 Audit Controls: Implemented a stringent program of audit control to reverse
previous findings during Coopers & Lybrand external audit review.
 Audit Management: Directed financial and operational audit management programs
of 89 sales, manufacturing, and distribution businesses worldwide.
 Capital Budgets: Formulated, justified, and managed $8 million in capital budgets
annually.
 Cash Management: Redesigned cash management processes, renegotiated banking
relationships, and created the corporation’s first comprehensive corporate treasury
function.
 Commercial paper: Structured and negotiated over $125 million in commercial
paper transactions with Chase Manhattan Bank.
 Corporate Development: provided strategic, financial, legal, and negotiations
expertise for corporate development initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, joint
ventures, and technology licenses.
 Corporate Tax: Led a team of eight responsible for corporate tax filings in more
than 1,000 local, state, and federal jurisdictions.
 Cost Accounting: Implemented automated cost accounting systems to analyze all
labor, material, technology, process, quality, testing, and manufacturing costs for each
product line.
 Cost Avoidance: Introduced proactive management techniques to strengthen focus
on cost avoidance and elimination within each manufacturing process.
 Cost Reduction: Delivered over $2.8 million in first year labor, inventory, and
delivery cost reductions.
 Cost/Benefit Analysis: Conducted large-scale cost/benefit analysis studies to
capitalize upon long-term growth and profit improvement opportunities.
 Credit & Collections: Reduced DSO by 28% through improved credit and collection
processes.
 Debt Financing: Negotiated $2.5 million in debt financing with a major banking
institution and a regionally based venture capital firm.
 Divestiture: Planned and executed profitable divestiture of the $ I.5 million emerging
electronic commerce product line.
 Due Diligence: Orchestrated complex due diligence reviews in cooperation with
outside financial advisors, accountants, and legal counsel.
 E-Commerce: Launched the company's entrance into e-commerce to capitalize upon
Internet marketing and partnership alliance opportunities.
 E-Trade: Designed and implemented client-server based e-trading system to allow the
instantaneous processing of stock and bond transactions.
 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP): Led Weinhold Winers through
successful LBO and ESOP transactions, creating a corporation that is now ranked #1
in nationwide market share.
 Equity Financing: Structured a three-way partnership between 3M, Telecom, and
IBM for $160 million in equity financing for new technology venture.

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