# Hieu Van Nguyen Financial Planning & Analysis leader, corporate development and fleet asset finance Las Vegas, Nevada | hughng92@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hvnguyen92 | https://hieuvnguyen.com/ ## Summary Finance leader who turns analysis into the decisions leadership acts on. Hieu Van Nguyen has worked across investment banking, corporate development and operating FP&A. He ran sell-side M&A processes totaling more than $1 billion in transaction value, led the financial work on multi-site divestitures and capital investment programs, ran FP&A for a $3 billion-plus global division, and now owns fleet-asset finance for a 100-plus engine program at Allegiant Air. He holds a triple major in Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, and replaces manual reporting with automated systems. ## Experience ### FP&A Fleet Assets Manager, Allegiant Air June 2026 to present | Las Vegas, Nevada - Owns the monthly close and spend variance reporting for a 100-plus engine fleet program, and rebuilt the reporting to make it faster and cleaner. - Reviews leadership-facing financials, and caught and resolved a $20+M full-year reporting error before it reached the executive team. - Defends the company's spend against its MRO overhaul vendors by substantiating credit refunds and challenging multimillion-dollar invoices line by line against contract, on the first claim under a newly signed master agreement. - Built a leaner-capital strategy for the fleet's spare engines that held service levels while cutting idle spare-days from 476 to 455 and freeing the working capital they tie up. - Led engine-fleet integration for a major acquisition, bringing 15-plus acquired engines into the operating financial picture and standing up the reference framework the combined program now runs on. - Runs the cross-functional weekly engine program review and serves as the commercial point of contact to the MRO vendors behind the program's largest maintenance costs. - Scope also covers overhaul-vendor negotiations, multimillion-dollar insurance recovery and the long-term fleet-disposition strategy that decides how capital is deployed across the fleet. ### Corporate Development Senior Associate, CHS Inc. February 2025 to June 2026 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Drove the financial and structuring work behind a multi-site grain-asset divestiture: eight elevator locations across two business units carved into three transactions, defining the deal perimeter and shaping the buyer landscape leadership took to market. - Led the valuation behind a renewable-diesel and oilseed-crush capital program, pricing each plant investment across the feedstock, trade-policy and clean-fuel-credit scenarios (RVO, 45Z) that determine which projects clear, and gave leadership the read it used to direct capital. - Built the financial backbone for a regulated midstream pipeline negotiation, modeling the tariff, volume-commitment and escalation economics that set the company's position at the table. - Ran diligence on a live acquisition and gave the steering committee and senior leadership the analysis behind the go-forward decision. ### FP&A Lead, Ecolab February 2024 to February 2025 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Served as the FP&A lead for a $3 billion-plus global life-sciences and healthcare division, owning its budgeting, forecasting and variance, and writing the financial story that reached the C-suite, the board and investor relations. - Cut the division's monthly financial reporting cycle from roughly four days to under fifteen minutes and made it more reliable. - Advised the commercial organization on pricing, competitive position and territory strategy, and rebuilt the business-case approval process to move decisions through senior leadership faster. ### Investment Banking Associate, Piper Sandler June 2021 to February 2024 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Ran 15-plus live sell-side M&A processes end to end, from valuation to close, across healthcare, medical technology and diversified industries, totaling more than $1 billion in transaction value. - Served as deal lead on concurrent mandates for founder- and PE-owned sellers, directing diligence, modeling and management presentations and acting as the seller's day-to-day lead through close. - Was the technical authority on valuation for deal teams, building the LBO, DCF and comparable analyses that senior bankers and clients made decisions on. - Generated roughly 35 to 40 percent of the team's business-development output alongside senior bankers, and built the bench by recruiting, training and mentoring its analysts and summer associates. ### Strategy & Consulting Senior Analyst, M&A (Early Promotion), Accenture March 2020 to June 2021 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Executed buy-side acquisitions across healthcare, financial services and the public sector, leading the diligence and valuation that delivered 15 to 25 percent purchase-price improvements. - Led market analysis and integration work that drove synergy capture across the firm's acquisition portfolio. - Directed a five-person task force that uncovered a fraudulent-identity scheme in state unemployment claims, protecting millions in public funds. ## Education University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota Bachelor of Science, Financial Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (triple major), December 2019 Honors: Presidential Scholarship (full ride), Dean's List, James Costigan Scholarship ## Skills Core expertise: FP&A and Variance Analysis, Corporate Development and M&A, Divestitures and Capital Investment Analysis, Financial Modeling (LBO, DCF, 3-Statement), Vendor and Contract Negotiation, Reporting Automation (Power BI, Excel/VBA), Asset and Fleet Economics, Executive and Cross-Functional Communication Technical: Financial Modeling, Power BI, Excel (VBA / Macros), SQL, Python, SAP ERP, Bloomberg Terminal ## Certifications - Series 79 - Series 63 - Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) ## Languages - English (Full Professional) - Vietnamese (Native / Bilingual) Last updated October 13, 2026.