Chris Mcdevitt Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Leads MG+M’s operational, financial, and administrative support functions. Integrates the goals and strategies of the firm and Executive Committee while overseeing planning and operations in finance, information technology, talent management, marketing, and administration. As an effective member of the senior leadership team, helps shape MG+M’s strategic vision, lead and manage its growth, and guide its continued success. Promotes a strong and healthy environment with a focus on the well-being, emotional intelligence, and professional development of our people through collaboration, culture, and camaraderie.• Oversees and streamlines MG+M’s operations, administration, and finances across all departments.• Improves profitability of MG+M through top-line growth and cost control. Manages MG+M’s growth through mergers and acquisitions.• Ensures that technology supports client service and operational and financial management securely alongside the Information Technology team and our external partners.• Cultivates firm culture and talent management by working with the Human Relations team, directors and regional office managers to effectively hire, train, develop, retain and support diverse staff with an emphasis on emotional intelligence.• Manages offices, real estate, and vendor contracts and relationships while overseeing governance and compliance.• Supports the growth trajectory of the firm’s revenue by working with the Marketing and Business Development team.• Serving also as Chief Financial Officer, manages all aspects of the firm’s finances, and helps maintain firm profitability, productivity, and growth via lateral hires, mergers and acquisitions.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Directs and coordinates the firm’s accounting and financial management functions including financial reporting, treasury, billing and collections, payroll and payables, financial systems, financial planning and analysis, general accounting and taxes. Additionally, he serves as an effective member of the senior leadership team, adding value to the firm by helping to shape its strategic vision and to ensure continued financial success for the firm. • Successfully transitioned all aspects of finance function through the firm split.• Successfully led the Aderant Expert system implementation, a fully integrated software solution.• Responsible for firm’s banking relationship and decisions. Secured additional lines of credit with bank. Manages cash flow of the firm.• Implemented new banking services and technology to improve efficiency and internal controls. • Responsible for implementing and maintaining internal controls. • Oversees the firm’s annual financial review, partnership tax returns, and partner K-1’s. Works closely with external auditors to ensure timely and accurate results and compliance.• Manages all partner tax deferrals, quarterly tax filings and payments.• Responsible for Partner distributions and capital contributions.• Provides Executive Committee and Managing Partner weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting and analysis. • Created Dashboard reporting for Executive Committee to highlight key performance indicators. • Trained legal and operations staff to effectively improve the billing and collections processes, resulting in an increase in profits.• Created budgets for Executive Committee based on past, present and expected operations. Tracks performance against budgets on a monthly basis. • Constantly evaluating staff, processes and all aspects of the business operations searching to add value and improve efficiency.• Fiduciary member of the Investment Committee responsible for the firm's retirement plan.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Provides core accounting and financial analysis support to Firm management. Leads a team of financial professionals in the areas of financial analysis; financial statements and related reporting; treasury; fixed asset reporting; partner distributions and capital accounts; audit and income tax; government filings; financial systems support, including systems implementations and integrations; insurance; partner retirement administration; client funds accounting; general ledger and internal controls.• Responsible for full cycle financial statement reporting, including monthly and year-end closes, as well as final partner distributions.• Team leadership responsible for overseeing all functions of the firm’s billing, collections, payables and payroll, and accounting activities. Plans, allocates and monitors work and makes decisions regarding employment, performance appraisals, training and development.• Responsible for the firm’s expense budget. Works closely with firm’s Directors analyzing actuals to budget on a quarterly basis. Reports to Managing Partners and COO on a quarterly basis.• Oversees the firm’s annual audit and tax returns. Works closely with external auditor to ensure timely and accurate results and compliance.• Responsible for Treasury; banking and insurance decisions and relationships. • Develops and monitors firm’s financial procedures and internal controls.• Managed all Accounting systems, procedures and controls for Paris, France office opening.• Successfully managed the transition of banking relationships, implementing all products and services in a timely fashion.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for General Accounting, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls/Sarbanes-Oxley, Cash Management, Budgeting & Forecasting, Billing, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Credit Analysis. Work with managers to develop and grow available resources in other areas of the team to expedite all processes. Member of the strategic senior leadership team.• Responsible for full cycle general ledger from trial balance through financial statement preparation, including all month-end, quarter-end and year-end closings.• Responsible for full P&L and cash budgeting and forecasting; includes financial model, trend and variance analysis• Responsible for financial reporting and consolidation of Brodeur Hong Kong operations.• Formulate and administer general accounting practices throughout the company to assure that accounting and other financial reports accurately reflect compliance with GAAP and the results of operations and financial condition of the business.• Responsible for implementing and maintaining internal controls, quarterly testing, review, auditing, reporting, and documentation of Sarbanes-Oxley.• Evaluate credit risk for clients and vendors.• Assist in compilation and review of financial information for potential acquisitions.• Supervise and train staff to assure effective operation of all general accounting operations.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for managing the general ledger, financial reporting, consolidation, and account analysis. Manage the close process that allows time for an auditing review of the monthly financial statements. Maintain and update internal reports from our Finance Systems.

Boston, Ma, Us

Reported to VP of Finance with dotted line reporting to EVP Sector Leader. Help Sector Leader manage their sector like a successful business. Provided financial analysis support, advice, and counsel to Sector Leader, relationship VPs, and geography head.

Boston, Ma, Us

Full-time member of the Lawson Software Acounting System Implementation Team.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for providing support for the preparation and submission of the monthly financial statements in an accurate and timely manner, including international Singapore operations.

Hercules, Ca, Us

Performed tasks associated with maintaining the accounting records, completing and reviewing transactions to ensure the accuracy of the financial statements.

Bs, Accounting

Mba, Specialization In Accounting

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