Chief Financial Officer Resume
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SUMMARY
- A dynamic and high energy accounting, financial and IT professional with over 20 years’ experience in corporate accounting with proven managerial and leadership skills
- I have spent much of my career completing specific projects for a variety of organizations and industries.
- Eager to problem solve my client’s complex needs in a constantly evolving & challenging environment regarding Operations, ERP systems, controllership, forensics & investigations, and financial reporting and compliance requirements.
- Colleagues and clients have described me as a “special ops” business & management consultant that can parachute in and get the job done effectively & efficiently.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Chief Financial Officer
Responsibilities:
- Charged with developing, setting, implementing, and managing strategic goals and objectives of both entities to promote strong growth, financial fitness, and efficient operations
- Hold fiduciary responsibility to ensure company assets and shareholder value and equity are protected from internal and external parties and forces
- Responsible for financial and operational success of the Accounting, Finance, HR and IT departments and set and champion all strategic company goals and budgetary projections
- Lead migration from Paycom to Paychex HRIS for over 150 employees and ensure all proper protocols are followed and financial accuracy of all merged data and successful go - live in new system
- Implemented a major cost savings plan, negotiated with vendors, and developed metrics to identify, measure and track overhead waste to reduce drag due to major shortage of revenue due to our hotel partners closing
- Successfully secured nearly $700K in Payroll Protection Funds from federal government program via SBA to bolster cash position to help keep team members on the rolls and chance to survive through the major economic slowdown drastically affecting our industry
- Instrumental in securing a $2.0MM Line of Credit facility backed by A/R and Real Estate
- Produce and present all annual, quarterly & monthly financial statements and analysis to CO, BOD and Stakeholders
- Prepare all relevant tax related schedules and returns for outside CPA firm to finalize and file
- Create ad hoc reports and analysis as requested by CEO and Board
- Develop department budgets, CAPEX budgets and SOP’s for various financial, IT, and HR operational “Best Practices”
Confidential
President & Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Served as the Great Plains System Administrator, corporate trainer and business analyst to the US/EU finance and IT departments, managing additional post implementation projects and helped deploy TM/1 budget and reporting program
- Part of the SEC reporting function: audit of financial data, create ad hoc reports and schedules, co-authored MD&A sections relating to EU operations, ITSOX and Accounting SOP’s, etc.
- Directed complete international implementation and roll out of Great Plains 10.0 for InterMune’s new European operations due to drug commercialization in all 27 EU member countries
- Spent 5+ months in Europe in 2012; traveling to each of InterMune’s local offices to implement and train its accountants and accounting firm’s staff on Great Plains, FRx and ReQLogic
- Traveled between San Francisco and Europe to provide training & support with Great Plains and assist with month, quarter and year end closes
- Held classroom training sessions with 25+ attendees for 2 weeks with local country office follow up and 2011 Y/E close assistance
- Authored a comprehensive GP training manual and trained European accounting staff according to US corporate accounting standards and procedures
- Managed month end multicurrency and entity consolidations and contribute to SEC filings and audits
- Project manager for GP 2013 upgrade planned for 2013/2014
- Directed the daily accounting, month end close and quarterly reporting for the European entities including financial production analysis, FAS 52, SOX compliance and audit reviews
- Responsible for project design, planning, training, testing, protocol, test script, technical writing/ reports and validation report creation and execution of the European rollout to all operating units and personnel & conducting training in multiple European countries
- Configured multicurrency module to process 11 currencies and developed a protocol to add additional exchange rates as needed
- Configured, implemented and trained users on new intercompany module and developed SOP’s and training manual for accounting department
- Created 30 new databases and companies in Dynamics, wrote new company set up protocols and designed new general ledger account structure
- Managed several 3rd party integrated applications to the new GP environment and developed SOP’s, training manuals and test scripts for deployment and use in the production server
- Created complete sets of FRx financial reports for multiple layer and multi-currency consolidations, metrics, advanced management reports, and various comprehensive analytical reports for SEC reporting
