Brendan Hendry Email & Phone Number

Long Island City, Ny, Us

• Hired to formalize the company’s Accounting practice; build/implement and automate financial systems, and guide the local and executive leadership towards proactive financial management of the company.• Oversee accounting and finance (FP&A) functions.• Fully responsible for designing, implementing and guiding the budgeting and forecasting for the Company.• Steadily implemented thoughtful transitions in the accounting practice to improve accuracy, transparency, and confidence in the financial data.• Guided both the Executive financial decision making process as well as the local business unit financial decision making process to align to budgeting and forecasting best practices.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

• Joined the company as it was acquired to build finance dept and accounting infrastructure from scratch to be GAAPaudit ready with 6-month lead time. Reporting directly to Parent company CFO (Opus Agency).• Oversee accounting and finance department of a $60M+ event production agency with 60+ employees.• Fully responsible for driving the budgeting and forecasting for the Company.• Drive the monthly and yearly close process to provide GAAP financials and analysis to parent Board of Directors.• Developed and implemented the company’s financial strategies, both internal (remuneration strategies) andclient facing.

New York, New York, Us

• Oversee accounting and finance team of a $20M advertising agency with 50+ employees that has launched and acquired 3 new companies during my tenure.• Responsible for the accuracy of financial records for each entity, improving systems and processes focusing on scalability.• Developed, implemented and trained new financial workflows including intercompany transactions andeliminations, media buying and reconciliations, production reconciliations, and month/year end close• Constant process and system improvements focused on scalability and transparency while mitigating operational and financial risk to maintain sufficient cash flow and invest in strategic projects.• Developed new management reporting mechanisms to track and follow KPI’s of new and existing business models.

• YR&G was a Sustainability Consulting Firm specializing in the Architecture and Engineering industry, that has since been acquired by WSP.• Performed an operational risk assessment to cure recent embezzlement by their previous Business Manager.• Took over the Financial Controller responsibilities and implemented process improvements based on risk assessment.• Transitioned all internal operations including accounting, time tracking, and Project Management to a single cloud-based ERP, including the vetting of new software, system development, and training/implementation to staff.• Managed all aspects of accounting, HR, and Operations, overseeing a team of 4 spread over 3 offices across the country.• Developed Financial Models for business model stress testing and KPI management reporting.

Denver, Co, Us

• Oversaw management and operations of a very rapidly growing small business• Helped grow the company from inception to more than $3.7M in annual revenue, launching several newbusinesses including new facilities, non-profit organization, and a climbing holds manufacturing and salescompany.• Developed and designed all internal accounting and operations processes and systems of this new company with a focus on customer safety, operational risk management, transparency and scalability.

Utrecht, Utrecht, Nl