Experienced business and finance professional with global experience in Fortune 100, small, medium and entrepreneurial companies. Possesses diverse background including certifications in accounting, fraud examination and information technology with experience in North America, Europe and Africa. Comfortably bridges the gap between IT and business; communicates effectively throughout the organization.

Financial Modeling

Financial modeling is the task of building an abstract representation (a model) of a financial decision making situation. This is a mathematical model designed to represent (a simplified version of) the performance of a financial asset or a portfolio, of a business, a project, or any other investment. Typically by financial modeling is understood to mean an exercise in either asset pricing or corporate finance, of a quantitative nature. In other words financial modeling is about translating a set of hypotheses about the behavior of markets or agents into numerical predictions such as firms decisions about investment (e.g. the firm will invest 20% of assets) or investment returns (e.g. returns on this stock will, on average be 10% higher than the market's returns).

SMF Management Consulting, Inc.'s Services provided included the following :

• Business valuation, especially discounted cash flow, but including other valuation problems
• Scenario planning and management decision making ("what is"; "what if"; "what has to be done")
• Capital budgeting
• Cost of capital (i.e. WACC) calculations
• Financial statement analysis (including of operating and finance leases, and R&D)
• Project finance.