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Ryan Muroff

Managing Director

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New York, NY 10017

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Ryan Muroff is a Managing Director in Ankura’s Office of the CFO™.  Ryan has worked with clients in various industries, and his projects often entail evaluating the financial viability of strategic initiatives, providing tactical recommendations for operational improvement in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), treasury, accounting, and business unit finance, and advising management teams on ways to improve overall effectiveness of the finance function.

Experience

Ryan’s professional experience includes:

  • $7 Billion Private Equity (PE)-Owned Multi-Brand Restaurant Franchise: Led five-year strategic planning initiative across seven brands supporting over 33,000 locations; built a three-statement financial model to support broad forecasting efforts, including department-level shared services; conducted scenario analyses for $5 billion debt refinancing with initial public offering considerations; instituted automated workforce planning processes/analytics.
  • $1 Billion Rental/Subscription Car Company: Acted as Interim VP of FP&A; led annual budgeting, long-term planning, monthly board reporting and analytics; built reusable models for more than $500 million asset-backed security funding scenarios; led mergers and acquisitions and footprint expansion initiatives by building business cases and leading conversations with operational partners.
  • $1 Billion E-Commerce Retail Business: Led financial integration analysis for $40 million acquisition an over 300-store specialty home décor retailer; built consolidated short-term financial integration model and long-term outlook to support investor and bank discussions; identified more than $25 million in overhead and operational cost synergies; collaborated with C-suite to develop investment committee presentation, including pro forma financials, deal structure and purchase price allocation, valuation scenarios, and integration roadmap.
  • $80 Million Agricultural Financial Services Business: Led strategic planning effort by building a three-statement model and collaborated with treasury on capital funding models; enhanced annual budgeting processes, including business partner relationships; supported chief financial officer (CFO) and board through a more than $500 million debt refinancing and $60 million equity fundraise.
  • $100 Million Venture-Backed Digital Health Software as a Service (SaaS) and Hardware Startup: Supported build out of FP&A function including forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning; developed three-statement model with operational key performance indicators (KPIs) supporting continued rounds of equity fundraising; created customer cohort forecast models across Depository Trust Company, business-to-business (B2B), and wholesale channels.
  • $5 Billion Publicly-Traded Omnichannel Retailer: Operated as Chief of Staff to senior vice president of finance; developed comprehensive integrated three-statement model for long-range planning; designed automated KPI reporting for corporate and product finance teams; designed corporate FP&A operating model and path for reorganization; supported implementation of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service financial planning platform.
  • $300 Million PE-Owned Marketing B2B SaaS Provider: Built recurring revenue models and frameworks for annual/monthly recurring revenue reporting and forecasting; developed automated Alteryx workflows for subscriber analysis saving over 100 hours monthly; enabled day three post-close reporting capabilities.

Prior to joining Ankura, Ryan was a Consultant in the CFO solutions practice at Berkeley Research Group, and before that was a Senior Associate in Forensic Consulting at PwC.

Education
  • MS, Financial Forensics, University at Albany, SUNY
  • BS, Accounting and Business Management, University at Albany, SUNY
Certifications
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Alteryx Core Certified
Affiliations
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

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