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Lynchburg, VA

$50 million behavioral health firm providing services to clients suffering from mental health, intellectual disability and substance abuse issues. Led organization’s Administrative functions consisting of Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Billing & Collections and Facilities by providing financial leadership, strategic direction and counsel.

Responsible for management of $2 billion global pension fund (defined benefit and defined contribution plans) utilizing investment managers and consultants, implemention of treasury controls and compliance activities. Provided treasury leadership for merger, acquisition and divestiture activities.

Provided audit leadership to major business units comprising $3.8 billion in sales and staff organizations. Had key responsibility for Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, testing and assessment. Primary liaison with newly appointed external auditor (PriceWaterhouse Coopers). Responsible for development of internal audit resources. Led effort to identify.

Provided financial leadership to Senior VP SCTS and team to deliver financial cost and SG&A productivity commitments. Implemented new to the organization metrics to enable external benchmarking of Information Technology, Supply Chain and Customer Fulfillment costs.

Developed and implemented strategies to achieve growth initiatives and financial objectives for $160 million business. Developed creative financial analysis and models to evaluate strategic growth alternatives. Provided analytics to identify underperforming commercial arrangements and generated solutions to improve customer profitability.

Developed and executed audit plans for business units comprising $600 million in sales. Led due diligence efforts to support $250 million joint venture. Responsible for management of finance entry level rotational program. Doubled new hires from college to address finance pipeline talent issues.

CFO responsibility for Meter Business (Operating Margin, Net Income, Funds Flow, Productivity, Capital Investments). Increased Operating Marging by 17% over 2 year period. Implemented Activity Based Costing to drive improved business decision making. Formalized commercial bid review process to drive margin enhancement and appropriate pricing decisions.

Developed and delivered corporate-wide advanced education for finance professionals within GE. Delivered workshop to five GE businesses to facilitate improvements in cash flow. Re-designed finance education curriculum to address issues surfaced during needs analysis. Expanded finance education to deliver courses in Europe and Asia.

Financial controllership responsibility for this $250 million manufacturing facility. As a member of the facility leadership team drove significant improvements in Inventory turnover and productivity. Established GE culture in a newly acquired business.

Financial controllership responsibility GE Plastics Technology Division including evaluation of product and process technology imrpovement strategies.

Joined GE on the Financial Management Program (FMP). Upon completion of the FMP held a series of increasingly responsible, financial positions in GE Corporate R&D, GE Power Systems and GE Corporate Information Technology businesses.