Paul Mortensen811 Bricken PlaceSaint Louis, MO 63122(479) 372-0910mortensenpb@gmail.com

Profile● Finance professional with more than a decade of experience in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and online

industries as both an individual contributor and team leader. ● Extensive experience transforming financial and operational data into actionable business intelligence for

business partners using financial and statistical modeling techniques.● Expertise working with large data sets. ● Proven strategic planning experience.

Experience

Finance Director – Global Operations (Interim), Wright Medical Technology; Memphis, TN Feb 2015- present

● Lead financial integration of global operations for $400M international acquisition.● Lead design and deployment of integrated product costing system (JDE).● Lead development of data warehousing and analytical decision support tools.● Lead strategic planning process and support identification and development of strategic supplier partnerships

for make/buy decisions.

Plant Controller, Gateway Packaging; Saint Louis, MO May 2014- Dec 2014● Prepared and presented monthly and annual reports of results, forecasts, operating plans, and strategic

initiatives to senior management and ownership.● Lead annual strategic planning process including the creation of annual sales, operations, and capex budgets.● Supported functional and operational business realignment developing financial models highlighting risk

sensitivities and strategies for optimizing profitability.● Lead due diligence team reviewing potential acquisitions.

Consultant, (NetEffects) Forest Pharmaceuticals; Saint Louis, MO Oct 2013- Apr 2014● Prepared annual operating and capital budgets for IT organization with an annual operating budget of $47M

and an annual capital budget of $30M.● Establish new best practices for coordinating communication across multiple sites and ensuring data integrity.● Create executive presentations for multi-level approval process.

Finance Manager & Controller, Amazon.com; Coffeyville, KS – Feb 2012- Mar 2013● Lead accounting and finance departments supporting 870k-sqft fulfillment center with $140M annual operating

budget, $1B annual sales, and 1100 full time associates including 3 direct reports.● Directed month end close and the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and

reconciliations.● Developed strategic plan realigning product distribution at fulfillment centers saving the company more than

$50M annually.● Lead operational cost improvement projects (Six Sigma) to reduce unit operating costs and identify new

revenue opportunities.● Analyze transportation expenses and lead coordination with transportation partners to identify optimally

efficient routes and schedules.

Senior Finance Manager, Walmart; Bentonville, AR – Oct 2007- Feb 2012● Developed Essbase and HFM consolidated reporting platforms for $1B Financial Services business and $22B

Private Label business to facilitate periodic reporting and analysis.● Lead contract negotiation with money transfer partner that resulted in the acquisition of a variable equity

stake for Walmart in the partner worth $700M without Walmart investing any money.● Led development of strategic contract negotiating strategy for sourcing private label products resulting in a

reduction in COGS by 750bps versus inflation saving the company more than $1B per an um.

● As leader of the FP&A Special Projects team provided C-level executive decision support analysis for company-wide initiatives/projects (i.e. real estate, IT, marketing) and provided related scripting for earnings calls and board meetings.

● Led the negotiation, deployment, and implementation of APT regression modeling test and control platform used to analyze operational and SKU performance across the company.

Financial Analyst & OBC Leader, General Electric (Aviation); Winfield, KS – Aug 2005- Oct 2007● Performed periodic accounting close process including the preparation of journal entries, reconciliations

(including supporting documentation), and financial statements for commercial airline overhaul facility with $600M in annual revenue and an operating budget of $100M and inventory throughput of $450M.

● Provided periodic revenue, COGS, and expense forecasts as well as accompanying variance analyses to standard and budgets.

● Partnered with local IT team to create a new accounting system facilitating cost accumulation, inventory management, and invoicing to support the creation of a new corporate entity generating $60M in annual sales.

● Led Six Sigma projects generating $1M in annualized savings by reducing direct job costs.● Provided financial support for contract negotiations by modeling expected job costs and providing scenario

analysis.

Senior Financial Analyst–New Product Development, Thomson-West; Eagan, MN – Jan 2003- Aug 2005● Performed product life cycle and decision support analysis for portfolio of recently released products with

$150M in annual sales including the generation of pricing and cost models, marketing budgets, sales budgets, and C-level reports for quarterly results.

● Support product acquisition team by providing a full billet of mergers and acquisitions analysis including target valuations under multiple scenarios (i.e. full acquisition, unit acquisition, full acquisition followed by division).

● Develop annual department expense and capex budgets and forecasts and provide periodic variance analysis.

Decision Support Analyst, Enterprise Rent-A-Car; St. Louis, MO – 1997-2000● Developed vehicle wholesale pricing model to determine optimal timing and price points for liquidation of

assets.● Developed model to determine most efficient distribution of new vehicle inventory to maximize revenue which

post deployment improved branch-level P&L by 6%.

Principal Owner, Advanced Claims Management; Kirksville, MO – 1994-1997● Created business providing IT, decision support, and office staffing services to 13 medical practices with more

than 40 physicians.

EducationWashington University (Olin School of Business), St. Louis, MO – MBA (Finance), 2002

Truman State University, Kirksville, MO – B.A. (Political Science), 1996

SkillsMicrosoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Access), Oracle/Hyperion Essbase (including cube design), Financial modeling, GAAP, Capital Investment Analysis, Six Sigma, Multiple Regression Analysis, SAP, Oracle Financial Applications, Cognos, Krystal Ball, NPV modeling, SQL, Relational Databases, Applied Predictive Technologies (Test and Learn™), Strategic Planning, Job Costing, Financial Reporting, Cost Accounting, Activity Based Costing, KPI Development, Capital Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Leadership, JDE

LanguagesEnglish (fluent); Spanish (conversational)