SALS FARSI, CFA

4135 Woodman Avenue * Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

sf55c0b4@westpost.net * 818-205-9827 * cell 323-533-4130

Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Bilingual (French/English) financial executive with extensive international and
domestic experience in the financial and investment industry. Core competencies
include:
* Investment Management
* Financial Analysis
* Forecasting * Cash Management
* Budgeting
* Cost Reductions * Technology Integration
* Regulatory Compliance
* Efficiency Improvements

CAREER EXPERIENCE
IRIS INTERNATIONAL, Chatsworth, CA, 2009 - Present
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Iris International (Nasdaq: IRIS) is a $100M top line revenue medical device com
pany specializing in Diagnostics. Responsibilities include:
* Prepare and deliver monthly/quarterly presentation to Senior Management and Bo
ard of Directors.
* Create Quarterly/Annual Budgeting & Forecasting for all departments of the fir
m.
* Submit Merger & Acquisition Analysis/Recommendations.
* Produce customized financial reports requested by the CFO or other Corporate V
Ps.
* Supervise and manage junior financial analyst.
Business Consultant, Los Angeles, CA, 2008-2009
Worked with small businesses on business rationalization.
* Analyzed organizational structure and made recommendations relating to busines
s rationalization including cost cutting, expansion and merger.
* Gathered, managed, and monitored key performance indicators to facilitate stra
tegic decisions.
* Identified key performance indicators; monitored and analyzed trends.
* Tracked operational issues (i.e. payroll problems or processing delays).
* Created customized reports for management, clients and vendors.
* Created and developed investment portfolios as required.
CANYON CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC, Beverly Hills, CA, 2001 - 2008
Vice-President, Research Analyst
* Generated investment ideas and buy/sell recommendations to investment committe
e.
* Researched, analyzed, and monitored over 50 companies representing over $300M
of assets in the paper, forest, and packaging sectors.
* Created financial models to monitor and forecast credit metrics for 30+ compan
ies.
Associate, Research Analyst
* Generated investment ideas and provided long-short equity recommendations to p
ortfolio managers across Canyon's various hedge funds.
* Researched, analyzed, and monitored investment strategies for the risk arbitra
ge portfolio.
* Reviewed risk/reward in M&A transactions
Director, Risk Manager
* Developed risk-management systems for the convertible arbitrage portfolios.
* Researched, analyzed and monitored hedging strategies for the convertible arbi
trage portfolio.

MONIS SOFTWARE, INC. (now a division of SUNGARD), New York, 1995 - 2001
Director, Head of Customer Support
* Ran North American customer support operations, trained new sales force on Mon
is products, helped established Monis convertible analytics as the leading produ
ct in the financial industry.
Manager, Customer Support
* Created and ran European/Asian customer support operations, developed training
courses for sales force on Monis derivatives product analytics, helped design a
nalytics and interfaces.
Sales Representative
* Sold Monis financial software throughout Europe while assisting in the develop
ment and design of the software.
CARGILL FINANCIAL MARKETS PLC, London, UK, 1992 - 1995
Analyst/Trader
* Analyst/Trader on the fixed income arbitrage desk. Analyzed futures, swaps, sw
aptions and sovereign debts for arbitrage opportunities.
CREDIT LYONNAIS BANK, Paris, France, 1991 - 1992
Quantitative Analyst
* Implemented and developed FRA/Swaps pricing software for the capital market tr
aders.
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Finance (1992)
UNIVERSITE PARIS-DAUPHINE - Paris, France
Master of Science, Computer Science (1991)
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY (UMIST) - Manchester, UK
Diplome d'Ingenieur (1990)
ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE - Lille, France
Bachelor of Science, Math & Physics (1988)
UNIVERSITE LYON - Lyon, France