Scott Birnbaum's Resume (Last updated January 7th 2008)

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SCOTT BIRNBAUM

San Francisco, CA 94131

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

Babycenter.com, San Francisco, CA

2007 - Present

Senior Financial Analyst
  • Worked directly with all senior management to create revenue and expense forecasting for all of Babycenter's businesses.
  • Develop proposals for capital projects and manage the financial aspects of active projects.
  • Currently reworking the analytical approach to analyzing the company's ecommerce business.

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BTWW Retail, Dallas, TX

2004 - 2007

Senior Financial Analyst
  • Created and maintain all planning/analysis models for the company.
  • Instrumental in closing monthly financials and generating financial statements.
  • Managed daily cash flow $20MM line of credit.
  • Heavily involved in the acquisition and integration of Sergeants Western World and Coopers Western Warehouse. The acquisitions added 28 stores and roughly 40 million in sales.

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Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX

2003 - 2004

Senior Financial Analyst
  • Analyzed expense budgeting for Neiman Marcus stores. The budget exceeded $500MM.
  • Forecasted sales numbers on a month, season, year and 5 year basis. Yearly sales forecast for the stores division were in excess of 2.5 billion.
  • Analyzed incremental spending levels to determine stores that were not leveraging their expense structure.

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Fossil, Inc, Richardson, TX

2001 - 2003

Business Analyst
  • Spearheaded creating a company-wide reporting project using the Cognos Business Intelligence Tools and SAP BW.
  • Acted as a liaison between the company's top executives and the IT department.
  • Worked as a team member on Fossil's SAP R3 implementation.

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Fossil, Inc, Richardson, TX

1999 - 2001

Financial Analyst
  • Worked directly with the CFO on Mergers and acquisitions analysis and due diligence.
  • Completed a comprehensive five-year sales forecast for the entire company.
  • Modeled the original financial forecast for the launch of the Fossil Jean Stores concept.

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EDUCATION 

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1994 - 1998

BBA in Finance

 

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SKILLS 

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, SQL, Cognos BI, Apropos, Metacube, Oracle Financial, SAP R3 and Hyperion Essbase

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