Finance Transformation Leader Resume

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Finance Transformation Leader

Responsibilities:

Managed a project to transfer finance processes to a third - party business process outsourcer.
Lead the finance organization of a multi-national strategic business unit with revenues of $500M and operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.
Successfully managed the company’s SAP FICO implementation.
Responsible for maintaining a sound control environment that provides for the safeguarding of assets and the reliability of financial records.
Liaise with senior management to convey drivers of business performance.
Prepare and coordinate monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and strategic plans.

Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Coordinated consolidations of actual, and forecasts for a business segment with annual revenues of $1.1B.
Headed the shared services organization for credit and collections and accounts payable.
Performed acquisition accounting on two acquired businesses, and performed due diligence on numerous others.

Acquisition Integration Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Integrated the US accounting operations for an acquired business unit with annual revenues of approximately $200 million.
Hired, trained, and implemented procedures and internal controls to establish the accounting for transactions the majority of which had previously been performed in the prior owner’s shared service group. Shortened the monthly accounting closing timeline from nine days to three days in order to conform to Confidential ’s closing schedule.

Internal Audit Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning, fieldwork, and reporting of financial and operational audits of company subsidiaries and corporate head office functions.
Managed the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance program, coordinating management’s self testing as well as conducted independent assessments of internal controls over financial reporting.
Participated in annual company-wide risk self assessments.

Confidential

Director of Finance

Responsibilities:

Reported to the President of IMEX, managed the activities of seventeen direct reports in the areas of financial reporting, general accounting, billing, collections, and accounts payable.
Combined the accounting processes of three acquired businesses into one, utilizing a MAS 500 financial package. This conversion resulted in an ongoing annual saving of one million dollars.
Responsible for preparing the annual budget and forecast updates. Was the primary contact for information requests coming from the corporate office. Presented the results of operations to PB board members at quarterly business review meetings.

Internal Audit Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed the Consolidations and Management Reporting department for the North American Home & Personal Care Business Group, a business unit with $4 billion in revenues.
Coordinated annual plans, and long term strategic plans. Gathered insights to operational drivers of performance for upper management, and the parent company.
Led the finance and accounting functions for Unilever’s dry-cleaning venture start-up. Responsible for all aspects of general ledger accounting, reporting, sales audit, accounts receivable, purchasing, accounts payable, and tax reporting.
Led the finance role in support for a program, which delivered more than $200 million in savings during 2002, exceeding planned projections by more than twenty percent. Managed an extended group of 16 Finance Representatives.

Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Prepared reporting to the parent company, senior management, and government agencies.