Director, chief administrative officer (cao)

Arthur Prusan

Maplewood, NJ

Finance and Operations executive at Goldman Sachs, UBS, Deutsche Bank and GE Capital. Member of leadership teams in Finance, Operations, Technology, Sales & Marketing and Shared Services. Designed and implemented corporate strategies to reduce costs by $150MM and increase revenues by $600MM. Executed large scale programs to outsource and near/far shore functions involving 500 FTEs. Managed offshore teams, deal closer in vendor and client negotiations, partnered with and influenced business leaders including C-level executives. MBA - Kellogg School of Management; BA - Yale University.

Work Experience

DIRECTOR, CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (CAO)

Deutsche Bank - Global Business Services

2010 to Present

Identified and reduced operational and performance risk to achieve $550MM budget target across Credit, Rates Emerging Markets and Equities Operations and Global Regulatory group.
• Owned cost drivers including real estate footprint, market data and headcount approvals for 1,500 person global division.
• Restructured India Business Management team; implementing new metrics and consolidating reporting to improve reporting accuracy by 100%.
• Drove transition of 450 roles to India including 50 senior staff roles.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Deutsche Bank - Valuations Group

2011 to 2012

Integrated 90 person Client Books and Records team into existing group.
• Identified operating efficiencies to reduce onshore headcount by 10% and offshore headcount by 5%.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Deutsche Bank - Financial Controls

2010 to 2011

Provide guidance and oversight for $100MM annual budget including forecasting, technology program and project spend, headcount tracking, expense, travel and hire approvals.
• Led transition of 140 person Financial Controls group from Finance into Operations.

DIRECTOR, FINANCE AND BUSINESS MANAGER - OFFICE OF THE COO

UBS Investment Bank -

Stamford, CT

2008 to 2010

Drove $59MM in cost savings through policy changes, renegotiated outsourcing contracts and influencing employee behavior in the areas of Real Estate, Corporate Services and Technology.
• Forged relationships with divisional COOs and CAOs to implement changes and meet savings objectives.
• Managed $350MM COO budget including budgeting, forecasting, analysis and recommendations.

VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL ANALYTICS AND REPORTNG

Goldman Sachs - Corporate Services and Real Estate Division -

New York, NY

2007 to 2008

Spearheaded annual strategic planning process for global division including $950MM budget, 150 employees and 3,000 contingent workers.
• Collaborated with service managers, procurement leaders and divisional COOs to reduce expenses by $100MM.
• Designed and developed financial models, reducing business services costs by $40MM.
• Built migration budget model for 9,000 employee transition into new headquarters building.

DIRECTOR, CORPORATE STRATEGY

IPC Information Systems -

New York, NY

2005 to 2006

Developed and presented Executive Committee Sales and Operations dashboards.
• Led international due diligence for $70MM Canadian acquisition, acting as liaison between CEOs and CFOs.
• Designed and marketed small customer strategic solutions including a starter product and $15MM captive lease program to new hedge funds and other small customers, tripling customer base and revenues.
• Improved data integrity of contract database driving an additional $10MM in contracted revenue.

Commercial Finance Manager

General Electric Corporation - Railcar Services -

Chicago, IL

2002 to 2005

Pricing Leader

General Electric Corporation - Commercial Equipment Finance -

Danbury, CT

1995 to 2002

Business Analyst

General Electric Corporation - Information Technology -

Stamford, CT

1989 to 1994

Education

MBA in Marketing and Management & Organizations

Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

2004 to 2006

MBA course work

Stern School of Business at New York University

2006

B.A. in Economics and Applied Math

Yale University

1988

Links

http://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurprusan

Additional Information

CORE COMPETENCIES
Finance/Reporting - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Sales Forecasting, Division/Department Budgeting, Monthly/Annual Forecasts, Headcount Planning, Dashboard/Scorecard Development, Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
Project Management - Six Sigma Certified, Process Improvements, Owned Project Plans and Budgets.
Strategy - Short and Long-Range Strategic Planning, Execution and Delivery.
Offshoring/Outsourcing - Managed offshoring programs, Led offshore teams in India and near-shore locations.
Vendor/Client Management - Contract Negotiations, Vendor/Client Relationships, Procurement, RFP/RFQ, Deal Closer.
Leadership - Global Team Leadership, Multi-Culture Experience, Hiring, Training, Retaining, Influencing & Collaboration.