Purlen Muhleman

About Purlen Muhleman

A top-performing Vice President of Finance with 22 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis. Credited with combining leadership, business development, and financial analysis expertise to deliver growth in highly complex markets. Extensive experience analyzing financial opportunities, identifying trends, and recommending and implementing performance-based actions. A highly accomplished visionary with a natural ability to build relationships, set and achieve goals, and deliver results, ultimately resulting in increased profitability.

Experience

1. Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

   Dna Diagnostics Center Eurofins

   Jul 2018 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   FP & A Lead for private equity owned firm, managing finance and accounting functions, analysis of strategic initiatives, and ERP implementation. Manage monthly financial close and reporting process, including analysis and presentation of results to private equity ownership and lendersLead budget and quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, cash flow and debt covenants planning processes.Provided decision support on viability of target acquisitions. Managed due diligence and post close integration activities for target acquisitions.Made recommendations on organic growth initiatives. Oversaw migration of general ledger accounting and reporting from Quickbooks into NetSuite and Hyperion-Smartview. Integrated revenue recognition and reporting from company’s existing ERP system into NetSuite.Developed departmental expense reporting structure, allowing trackability and accountability of expenses by business units.

Education

• Miami University

  Masters Of Business Administration, Decision Sciences

  1995 — 1997

• American Collegiate Institute (ACI)

  High School

  1983 — 1990

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  Finance, Corporate and International Finance

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Management
• Budgeting
• Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Online Publishing
• Strategic Planning
• Accounting
• Variance Analysis
• Project Management
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Business Strategy
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Financial Reporting
• Key Per
• Corporate Finance
• Process Improvement
• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Change Management
• Leadership
• Access
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Competitive Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Long Range Planning
• Project Planning
• Budgets
• Finance
• Business Planning