- 30 Charlton St. 1E Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY xxxxxx ( (xxx-xxx-xxxx * abc@xyz.com

Dear Hiring Manager,

        In response to a job vacancy posting for the position of ________________, I am taking this opportunity to tender my application to become part of your team. My resum is attached for your review and consideration.

What I offer is my baccalaureate degree in Accounting and more than 27 years providing high-performance corporate accounting, customer service, operations, and financial management in the entertainment, marketing/branding, media content management, and publication businesses. I am currently with the branding company Red Peak in Xxxxxx as its CFO and Director of Finance after serving Fox Cable Networks Group as Director of Finance for its Entertainment Group. For more details, please take a moment to go through my resum .

In leveraging my financial management competencies, regardless of industry, I also bring to the table my personal strengths that include a passion for achieving business objectives through sustained results-driven leadership excellence. Along the way, I have also proven my interpersonal communication skills that help build relationships with clients, stakeholders, and industry professionals that facilitate in growing the business while forging teamwork synergies with colleagues in attaining shared commitments.

I am confident that my education, experience, and personal strengths offer the right mix of qualifications with which I can help achieve your objectives as part of your executive management team. Should you need further clarification, or would prefer to schedule an interview, please do not hesitate to reach me through my phone or email address indicated in the heading. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

DAVID PETRUZZIELLO

Attachment: Resum

- 30 Charlton St. 1E Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY xxxxxx ( (xxx-xxx-xxxx * abc@xyz.com

Executive Director CFO (Advertising Entertainment)

Qualifications Profile

    Highly self-motivated and results-driven management professional with more than 27 years providing high-performance corporate accounting, customer service, operations, and financial management in the entertainment, marketing/branding, media, & content publication businesses.

    Detail-oriented without losing sight of the big picture, analytical and methodical with critical thinking to strategize solutions in addressing work issues even under stressful work conditions.

    Well-organized with multitasking and prioritization skills that optimize resources to achieve outstanding results.

    Decisive leadership, strong people management, and exceptional interpersonal communication skills that inspire confidence while forging teamwork synergies with colleagues and subordinates across diverse ethnicities.

Key Expertise

Marketing Management

    Strategic Planning & Execution

    Marketing Communications

    Entertainment Business Development

    Customer Service Management

    Process/Workflow Improvement

    Media Content Management

    Financial Risk Management

    Relationship Management (Customers, Stakeholders, Public, Government & Suppliers)

Financial Management

    Intellectual Property Rights Management

    Advertising Revenue Forecasting

    Fiscal & Budget Management

    Profitability Management

    Royalty/Commissions Accounting

    Full-Cycle Corporate Accounting

    Financial Audit & Control

Technical

    ERP: JD Edwards, Enterprise

    FOX Pace Traffic System

    Deal Maker

    MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Access)

Professional Experience

Red Peak Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY

    Provide strategic direction in Finance, HR and Office Management, directly supervising 35 people and around 5 freelancers while maintaining a gross revenue budget is $15M and the overhead of $8M.

    Developed policies and procedures to operate the business more efficiently, generate more accurate revenue forecasts and reports, analyzing time worked on projects vs revenue recognition, and ensuring profitability of projects by tracking weekly fees vs staffing in contracts.

Financial Management

    Manage Financial Analyst and Operations Assistants, and oversee Weekly Tracker reports and year-end financial reports, annual capital budgets, NY P&L and quarterly P&L forecast, and monthly closes and accruals.

    Work closely with LA Account Management to ensure accurate audit support, program reporting, SOWs, and MSAs

    Provide regular program summaries and reviews, ad hoc reporting/analysis for executives, monthly burn analysis and annual retainer negotiations for client Intel

    Approve expense reports, invoices, and purchase orders.

    Oversee Replicon maintenance and training, and resolve employee issues

    Utilize AJ and Stacy to streamline Finances & develop procedures/manuals to formalize office operations

HR Management

    Oversee enterprise-wide implementation of annual merit increases, quarterly bonus and holiday work incentive processing, salary updates, employee movements, continuing headcount statistics, Visa processing for foreign employees, new employee onboarding, and employment severance/termination.

    Collaborate with the immigration attorney in recruiting and ensuring proper documentation of foreign staff.

    Address all salary and benefit issues and provide Reference Letters for requesting employees leaving the company.

    Manage annual benefit enrollment in United Healthcare, VSP, Aflac

    Develop, produce, and disseminate Employee Manuals with current updates on corporate vision/mission statements.

    Provide organizational and transformative change management to develop a positive corporate culture and motivation incentive that enhance morale and staff productivity, and employee engagement

Office Management

    Oversee in-house and 3^rd poarty maintenance of office premises and equipment to ensure seamless operations and ready availability to clients and visitors.

    Manage petty cash and approve all purchases within approved budgets.

    Oversee logistics for client meetings as well as local and corporate events such as company anniversaries, holiday client gift giving, staff birthdays, etc.

- 30 Charlton St. 1E Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY xxxxxx ( (xxx-xxx-xxxx * abc@xyz.com

Professional Experience (continued)

Fox Cable Networks Group Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY

    Promoted from Manager in 2004 to lead a management team in growing the finance department handling growth in revenues. Supported the sales teams totaling 33 representatives in multiple markets for FX, the National Geographic Channel, NatGeo Wild, and the Fox Movie Channel. Forecasted annual revenue for each network, totaling more than $700M as of November 2011.

    Designed and administered the commission plans for all sales personnel that created a just incentive mechanism to deliver consistent sales growth and increase customer patronage.

    Prepared overhead budgets for each channel and expense authorizations for major projects.

    Introduced more efficient systems to assess inventory more accurately and on time while reducing the month-end liability balance from 1 month to 5 days.

    Built and nurtured close business partnerships with sales teams and managers in all the regional offices and with Senior Vice Presidents and management teams of networks.

    Oversaw preparation of all ad sales overhead, direct-cost budgets, and long-range plans involving 25 departments with a total of $59M in expenses.

    Monitored budget vs actual expense variances and worked with managers to ensure fiscal accountability.

    Created and presented Ad Sales P&L across 7 networks to the President of Ad Sales & News Corp Finance.

    Introduced sustainable process improvements that reduced administrative load for Account Executives and made it easier to focus on customer satisfaction while exploring new sales opportunities.

    Provided financial management support for Fox Sports Net, introducing process efficiencies, improving report accuracy in tracking inventory, reducing liabilities to improve the rate of replacement impressions that enable strong sales growth.

EMI Music Publishing Ÿ Xxxxxx, NY

Simon & Schuster Ÿ Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Coopers & Lybrand Ÿ Parsippany, NJ

Education

    BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY Ÿ Lewisburg, PA (1989)

B.S.B.A in Accounting

    INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES Ÿ Vienna, Austria (Spring 1988)

Study Abroad Program

Awards & Recognition

    Received superior customer satisfaction ratings from sales customers