Duncan Beatty
Verified Expert in Finance
Finance Expert
Lima District, Lima Region, Peru
Toptal member since September 1, 2021
Duncan has a passion for startups. He has experience in business and revenue models, asset allocation, budgeting, forecasting, valuations, and pitch decks and fundraising on many projects during his time in Silicon Valley. His MBA from The Wharton School and mechanical engineering degree perfectly complement finance, technology and operational execution. For him, consulting is a rewarding challenge; he helps clients make good financial decisions and grow their companies successfully.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Case Studies
Expertise
- Business Planning
- Cost-benefit Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Fundraising
- Pitch Decks
- Strategy
- Valuation
Work Experience
Fractional CFO
Co-working Club and Art Gallery
- Managed accounting for five different entities. Coordinated with an external accounting firm on tax filing preparation.
- Handled billing for club members (usually an automated payment setup) and collections in special cases.
- Performed financial modeling and forecasting for the growth of the business, as well as scenario analysis for different options.
Finance and Strategy Lead
Motion Innovation Platform
- Analyzed multisided marketplace platform business model to understand the value received by each side, elasticities for each side, and how to approach the pricing to promote ignition of the platform (solve the chicken and egg problem).
- Developed a detailed revenue model with multiple revenue streams for a multisided marketplace platform business model.
- Produced initial 5-year, 3-statement financial forecast including Opex and Capex, revenues, and cash flow.
CFO, Strategy, FP&A, and Financial Modeling Expert
Toptal Clients
- Worked with several specialty social networks on their business model, launch strategy, revenue, and expense forecasts, user growth and retention, cash flow analysis, financing needs, fundraising strategy, and execution.
- Performed as CFO for an IoT tech startup focused on improving agriculture. Worked on budgeting, forecasting, and strategy, analyzed and developed employee stock option plan (ESOP), managed accounting, and assisted with closing a seed financing round.
- Performed as CFO for a health and wellness startup. Worked on industry and market analysis, business model, launch strategy, revenue and expense forecasts, cash flow analysis, financing needs, fundraising strategy, IP strategy, and set up accounting.
- Worked with an NFT company with a unique approach related to art sales that involved a DAO and a nonprofit. Worked on the business model, financial forecast, revenue sharing and optimization, and fundraising.
- Worked with edtech company on updating their systems and expanding services. Worked on capital budgeting and asset allocation, evaluating ROI in terms of valuation and P/E multiple appreciations.
- Helped establish an esports business. Worked on the business model, revenue and expense forecasts, cash flow analysis, financing needs, user growth, retention, and valuation.
Finance and Operations Consultant
Freelance Consulting
- Performed economic analysis and valuation for a hydroelectric facility. Prepared pitch materials for fundraising.
- Led a project to develop a business case and economic profile for sugarcane ethanol production. Prepared pitch materials for fundraising.
- Developed business cases, financial forecasts, and valuation models for commercial and residential real estate projects.
- Built local teams for agricultural, mining, real estate construction, and hydroelectric projects. Worked on resource identification stage to secure prime candidates for development.
- Researched and developed the post-harvest processing implementation plan and the commercialization plan of premium chocolate for a cacao plantation.
General Manager | CFO
Finca Tierra Verde SAC
- Founded a premium dark chocolate company in Peru, working with local farmers to ensure high-quality cacao sources.
- Developed a business plan, budgets, financial forecast, and implemented the commercialization plan.
- Managed financial operations, including accounting, treasury, control of expenses, and reporting.
- Built and pitched a fundraising presentation to foreign investors to expand capacity and build vertical integration through plantation acquisition.
- Developed and market-tested products, established production processes, and designed and built machines necessary to optimize quality and efficiency.
- Developed brand, logo, and packaging to enhance customer experience. Researched industry to identify target market segmentation, pricing, and marketing plan.
Senior Manager of Project Administration
Consorcio Minero Horizante
- Managed the CapEx and project team consisting of project managers, engineers, support staff, and contractors. I was also responsible for capital investment projects valuing over $100,000,000.
- Implemented a capital expenditure management system to review, value, and prioritize project investments for economic and strategic impact.
- Performed economic and strategic evaluations and justifications, including cost, benefit, and risk analysis.
- Budgeted and forecasted CapEx and OpEx on individual projects.
- Established the department of projects, including PPM software, procedures, controls, hiring, and training.
- Implemented clean and transparent guidelines for tenders, resulting in a thorough and competitive bidding process, a higher caliber of contractors, and improved cost and quality.
- Led the time, cost, scope, and quality management, logistics and scheduling, obtaining environmental and legal approvals, and contractor management.
Senior Stratigic Analyst
Amyris
- Managed the five-year financial plan and valuation model, consolidating cross-border legal entities with complex shareholder structures and multiple currencies.
- Participated in fundraising and led financial due diligence talks – the company raised $90,000,000 in 2007 and 2008.
- Drove the company-wide budgeting process, producing our first robust annual OpEx and CapEx budget. Led the forecasting process for internal tracking accuracy and IPO preparedness.
- Managed and mentored a financial analyst and a budget manager, delegating workload and developing a team skillset to ensure department stability as the company grew.
- Performed strategic and economic analysis, comparing business models and currency and commodity risk to determine optimal development path.
- Conducted the analysis that resulted in our first two business development initiatives; a second-generation bio-fuel commercialization JV and an ethanol supply and marketing subsidiary. Acted as the key team member executing on those initiatives.
- Selected and managed external consulting teams for projects to evaluate new ethanol market attractiveness and conduct market research to determine pricing premium for our product.
Finance and Business Consultant
Freelance Consulting
- Developed a financial risk management tool for non-financial SME firms. Researched and interviewed potential customers to understand market needs and define product requirements.
- Developed strategic and financial plan for the biotech company utilizing gene therapy. Initiated business development by building a team to focus on licensing partnership as a path to commercialization.
- Researched prior art and wrote a patent application for a secure wireless access device, now published as number 20030204526. Performed market and competitive analyses and wrote a business plan.
- Performed market research, business model, and pitch deck development, pilot customer search, and fundraising assistance for a SaaS company in the insurance space that raised a seed round at that time.
- Developed revenue model, five-year budget, and three-statement financial forecast for local social networking company to prepare for fundraising.
Finance and Operations Consultant
Microsoft
- Performed QoS benchmarking and capacity analysis and forecasting for new email product rollout.
- Provided direction for product build-out and CapEx spend decisions of $100,000,000.
- Managed an outsourcing initiative, including value-added analysis and vendor evaluations.
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Corporate Finance
The Wharton School
- Acted as a teaching assistant for Advanced Corporate Finance, a strategy and valuation class. Learned and applied different valuation methods to projects, products, or companies, including cost, benefit, risk evaluations, and industry factors.
- Attended all classes and tutored students on the concepts when needed to ensure a good understanding.
- Graded all the assignments and reviewed with students when needed. Assigned grades for the course.
Co-founder, Finance and Strategy
Ecoventure
- Built an environmental engineering company serving the oilfield industry to help keep clients in compliance with government regulations concerning soil and groundwater contamination.
- Analyzed the oilfield services industry to identify high potential market niches. Developed and executed a business plan that led to the establishment of a service-oriented organization growing at 75% annually.
- Evaluated structuring and financing alternatives. Recommendation led to complete change in the strategic plan, enabling founders to maintain control and focus on expertise and customer service.
Manufacturing Product Manager
Onix Microsystems Inc.
- Brought together the development and manufacturing engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing efforts to establish manufacturable design and manufacturing processes and have quality components and a trained manufacturing group ready.
- Helped establish operations department to meet the initial four-month delivery deadline by preparing capital expenditure budgets and COGS forecasts, hiring personnel, and developing workflow.
- Managed a relationship with the primary contract manufacturing vendor, vastly improving communication amongst cross-company teams and enabling technology transfer to match the aggressive in-house schedule for the first time.
- Acted as the lead member of the emergency response entry team for responding to hazardous materials incidents in the facility.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer | Test Department Supervisor
Star Medical
- Managed manufacturing engineering and testing of every aspect of a solid-state diode medical laser system to improve quality and reduce costs. Organized and managed a test department to fulfill customer orders and meet production quotas.
- Managed a team of engineers and technicians with line responsibility for throughput and quality.
- Increased primary medical laser product production by 15x over an eight-month period while improving quality by 7% per month as measured by customer service calls.
- Implemented process and design changes to reduce costs and retain product margins as sales price dropped 30%.
- Coordinated with RA and QA departments on quality and FDA and ISO compliance, materials and purchasing departments on shortages and vendor issues, and engineering and R&D departments on quality improvement, design changes, and new products.
Various Positions
Petroleum Industry
- Designed and operated a chemical recycling system, including flow process and physical layout, and calculated preliminary specifications for the process like heat exchange sizing, pressure loss, pressure vessel sizing, flow capacity, and pump sizing.
- Designed custom valves for specialty chemical applications and managed small production runs overseeing quality assurance, on-time delivery, vendor negotiations, and material purchasing.
- Operated a petroleum processing plant and a power generation plant.
- Installed and monitored cathodic protection systems on pipelines and in refineries to prevent corrosion and leaks.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and Finance with Honors
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania - San Francisco, US
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Certifications
QuickBooks Pro Essential Training
Audited Course (Lynda)
Programa de Formulación, Evaluación y Gestión de Proyectos Mineros
Gerens
Skills
Finance
Valuation, Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Asset Allocation, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Project Evaluation, Cost-benefit Analysis, Valuation Modeling, Forecasting, DCF Valuation, Three-statement Modeling, Revenue & Expense Projections, Investment Thesis, Market Research, Cash Flow Modeling, P&L Forecasting, Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), Corporate Finance, Private Company Valuation, Financial Management, Cash Management, Investment Return Scenario Analysis, Cash Flow, Cost of Capital, Cash Flow Forecasting, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Equity Valuation, Fundraising, Capital Budgeting, Operating Expenses (OPEX), Capital Raising, Due Diligence, Revenue Modeling, Comparable Company Analysis, M&A Modeling, Cap Table Formation, Venture Funding, Series A, Pricing, CFO, Startup Funding, Financial Reporting, Funding Strategy, Project Finance, Data Analysis, Seed Fundraising, Angel/Seed Funding, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Financial Risk Assessment, Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Investment Memoranda, International Finance, Private Equity, Profitability Analysis, Blockchain, Controller
Output Software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel 2016
Industry Expertise
Early-stage Startups, Mining, Agriculture, Technology, Building & Construction, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Construction, Oil & Gas, Energy, Electricity, Education Technology (Edtech), Renewable Energy, Insurance, Venture Capital, Electronics, Consumer Products, Residential Real Estate, Food
Geographic Expertise
United States
Data & Analysis Software
QuickBooks Online, Intuit QuickBooks, Hyperion
Other
Projects, Strategy, Business Planning, Operations, Financial Statements, Pitch Decks, Business Models, Investments, Market Research & Analysis, Startups, Excel Expert, Emerging Markets, Business Plan Consulting, Investor Presentations, Presentations, Storytelling, Business Strategy, Presentation Design, Investment Presentations, DCF Modeling, Manufacturing, Process Flows, Process Design, Finance, Financial Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis, Revenue Projections, Financial Forecasting, Excel 365, Business Analysis, Research, Writing & Editing, Commercial Strategy, Cash Flow Management, EBITDA, Scenario Analysis, Transaction Comparables, Integration, Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), Growth Analysis, Opportunity Identification, IRR, Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), Competitive Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Competition Research, Operating Models, Investment Analysis, Business Model Strategy, Corporate Finance Consultant, P&L Analysis, CAPEX, Project Management, Financing, Pitch Deck Consultant, Metals & Mining, Early-stage Funding, Investor Relations, Early-stage Venture Capital, Foreign Currency, Foreign Exchange, Financial Software, Impact Investing, Streaming, Consulting, Management Consulting, Renewables, Cost Accounting, Cap Tables, Exit Strategy, Fundraising Consultant, Reporting, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Social Networks, Biotechnology, Go-to-market Plans, Data Analytics, FDA & EPA Regulations, Market Segmentation, Healthcare Services, Fractional CFO, Inventory, Social Media Platforms, Business Setup, CAPEX Budgeting & Inventory Management, Business Transformation, ERP Implementation, Fundraising Strategy, Inventory Management, Pricing Models, Marketplaces, Apps, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), B2C, Business to Consumer (B2C), Logistics & Supply Chain, Monte Carlo Simulations, Value at Risk, Joint Ventures, Joint Venture Development, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Treasury Management, Green Energy, Go-to-market Strategy, Evaluation, Product Development, Outsourcing, Financials, Pitch Presentations, Product Design, SaaS, Medical Devices, Petrochemicals, Fintech, Risk Management, Financial Risk Management, Business Risk Assessment, Growth Strategy, Patents, Product Licensing, Intellectual Property, Capital Equipment, Work Process Design, Process Definition, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection, Vendors & Suppliers, Technology Transfer, Engineering, Testing, QA Testing, Production, Costs, Quality Control (QC), Production & Quality, Quality Management, Customer Service, Customer Support, Management, Mechanical Design, Mechanical Engineering, Power Generation, Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), GAAP, US GAAP, Education, Life Science, Marketing, eCommerce, Chart of Accounts, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Social Media Apps, Edtech Design, Launch Strategy, Profit Maximization, Budget Modeling, B2B Partnerships, Digital Media, Turnaround, Crypto, Media, Modeling, Marketplace Platforms, Platforms, Enterprise SaaS, Invoices, Billing & Collections, Asset Tokenization, Tokenization
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