Boris Zamyatin
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Finance Expert
Arlington, VA, United States
Toptal member since April 26, 2017
Boris is the CFO of Cadasta Foundation—a software nonprofit startup in the land and property rights arena. Boris has positioned several companies for sale and has completed more than 10 M&A acquisitions, joint ventures, and merger transactions. In his free time, he enjoys challenging freelance projects that include due diligence, valuation, financial modeling, and analysis.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
M&A Valuation Model
Market Analysis
Equity Research
Expertise
- DCF Modeling
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Forecasting
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- SaaS
- Three-statement Modeling
- Valuation
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
Cadasta Foundation
- Formed the finance, accounting, administration, communications, human resources, donor management, and legal systems of the startup and currently lead these functions to support the scaling of the business.
- Developed a 3-year budget and financial projections process that support strategic planning initiatives across functional teams and allowing the organization to easily compare actual results versus budget.
- Designed and implemented a financial system to ensure that data is maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards—leading to clean audit opinions every year of operations.
- Established the human resources, legal, and operating systems and procedures that allow the organization to effectively manage a globally distributed team.
- Monitored and analyzed the organization’s financial position and internal control environment; proactively identify risks and mitigating actions for the executive management team and board of directors.
Director of Finance
gategroup
- Managed the financial reporting, projections, and operations of 3 business incubators including hotels, rail, and lounges that gategroup originated for the diversification of revenue streams.
- Led the financial due diligence on 5 merger and acquisition deals that complemented organic growth of the business.
- Built a direct labor cost model that was utilized for union labor negotiations affecting 6,500 employees.
- Managed the financial turnaround of a gategroup company by streamlining revenue collection and reporting, designing tools that improved scheduling and productivity, and by performing labor rate analysis to curb employee turnover.
- Led the design, implementation, and roll-out of a new budgeting system that achieved a greater level of granularity in financial reporting.
Finance Manager
Thomson Reuters
- Positioned the company for the successful sale to a private equity-owned company at a 16x EBITDA multiple.
- Leveraged the acquisition of the company to help the private equity firm sell the entire business to Thomson Reuters.
- Led the financial due diligence in mergers and acquisitions for 3 international software companies by analyzing revenue recognition methods, developing revenue and cost synergies, and structuring projection models to prepare company valuations.
- Structured an international transfer pricing policy to improve the company’s tax liability position and to account for the transfer of intellectual property rights.
- Directed the financial and accounting operations of the company, which included the Ukrainian and Bolivian software development offices, by overseeing budgets, forecasts, A/R, A/P, expense management, and bank reconciliations.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Management
University of Maryland - College Park, MD, USA
Bachelor of Science in Finance and General Business
University of Maryland - College Park, MD, USA
Skills
Finance
Financial Modeling, Three-statement Modeling, Revenue & Expense Projections, DCF Valuation, Valuation, Finance Strategy, Accounting, Audit Management, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Revenue Management, Forecasting, CFO, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Equity Research, Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Budgeting, Cash Flow Forecasting, Due Diligence, Market Research, Valuation Modeling
Output Software
Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel
Data & Analysis Software
Hyperion, Bloomberg, Financial Data
Industry Expertise
Food & Beverage, Banking & Finance, Nonprofits, Aircraft & Airlines
Geographic Expertise
Australia, Ukraine, Bolivia
Other
Accounts Payable, Strategy, Revenue Analysis, Revenue Recognition, Transfer Pricing, Government Contracting, Accounts Receivable, Financial Statements, Reconciliation, Cash Flow Management, Human Resources (HR), Human Capital Management, Internal Control, Financial Statement Preparation, Budget Modeling, DCF Modeling, Administration, Legal, Modeling, SAP Business Warehouse (BW), Startups, SAP, SaaS, Market Research & Analysis, Stock Analysis, Pitch Decks
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