Hands-On Financial leader, overseeing General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, banking and treasury activities, cash flow coordination, regulatory compliance, and financial reporting for four subsidiaries, all while handling a wide variety of special projects.• Prepared financial statements in accordance with GAAP and prepared executive summaries with financial analysis with assistance from Operations, Marketing & Sales leadership.• Reduced financial close from 40 to 10 days and implemented new Board reporting package.• Responsible for managing all International and local financial audits, sales tax compliance and responsible for insurance compliance.

• Serve as Interim Director of Cost Accounting, documenting and streamlining the role, and training the new Director.

• Led the FY20 Budget reforecast process and recommended cost savings initiatives during Covid eliminating the need for staff reduction.• Accurately submitted applications and forgiveness for two PPP loans during Covid, generating $1.2M in cash.• Led process to clean up five years of reporting errors in the Australia division.• Developed a 6 month rolling cash forecast and worked with China vendors to continue production during cash flow challenges allowing the company to meet its sales projections for FY21.

• Served as Project Leader for 3PL transition and manufacturing footprint optimization.• Member of the Executive Team and makes financial presentations to the Board of Directors.• Used technical and forensic accounting skills to clean up the books which had not been closed in 6 months and transitioned to a 15 day close from a 60 day close.• Served as Project leader for 3PL transition and Manufacturing Footprint optimization to New Jersey which saved the company 35% in freight costs and 25% in labor.• Led the team to implement Microsoft Dynamics Solomon and Blue Cherry ERP systems amidst the 3PL transition. resulting in faster order processing and increased inventory accuracy by fifty percent.• Served as hands-on CFO, overseeing human resources, IT, and operations, and as key advisor to the CEO.• Developed daily 9 month rolling cash forecast and worked with suppliers and vendors to mitigate cash flow challenges.• Identified several instances of the company being overcharged by our 3PL. Traveled to NJ to work with their Accounting team and was able to get over $100K back from the 3PL.• Started at Little Giraffe as a consultant tasked with cleaning up the financials, stabilizing the company’s financial situation and establishing key internal controls and was named CFO 10 months later.

• Worked with operations finance leads across all divisions to drive efficiencies and streamline reporting and processes across all manufacturing plants.• Developed and implemented division-wide Cost of Poor Quality Metric and partnered with Quality and Operations to develop strategies and processes to reduce costs, resulting in a 30% YOY reduction in costs.• Implemented, tracked, and forecasted all division restructuring and non-recurring expenses.• Led a Division-wide restructuring effort to move North America Operations to Better Cost Countries resulting in overall savings of $60M annually.

•Supported the Operations team with financial modeling and forecasting while overseeing and providing analytical support for business optimization initiatives.•Developed and published weekly operational KPI’s to measure cost efficiency and profitability.•Partnered with marketing to develop incentive programs to maximize revenue and minimize freight costs.•Formalized E&O policy and lead multi-functional team to create strategies to reduce obsolete inventory.•Recommended and implemented policies and programs to guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and the profitability of the operation.

• Recommended and implemented many cost cutting initiatives, resulting in 30% monthly expense reduction.• Partnered with Supply Chain and Operations to reduce inventory 25% via using lean initiatives.• Developed and implemented division-wide Cost of Poor Quality Metric, and partnered with Quality and Operations to develop strategies and processes to reduce costs, resulting in a 30% YOY reduction in costs.• Partnered with the Logistics team to create a Freight forecasting tool resulting in a 97% forecast accuracy.• Developed a forecasting tool for the North America division to accurately forecast sales and operations costs for the Lifestyle Division streamlining the close process by two days.• Managed division-wide project to validate all cost standards reducing process order variances by $3M, and shared variance mitigation strategies with North America Controlling group.

*Serve as key business partner to Sales, Program Management and Production to establish controls over inventory movements, valuation and tracking.*Develop cost structure for new products and developed model to assist program managers in pricing products.*Performed an inventory and cost audit and recommended process changes and controls to maintain the consistency and accuracy of inventory.*Prepare annual work center rates, standard labor hours and variance analysis on jobs.*Develop and prepare regular reporting of key performance metrics (inventory levels, inventory turns, margin analysis by product, etc.)*Developed departmental budgets and rolling forecasts to assist management in managing business objectives.*Assist in the monthly close and complete ad hoc projects as needed.

*Supervisory and hands on experience in accounting including period end closing and quarterly and annual financial statement preparation. *Experience in preparing annual operating plans, budgets and forecasts for multiple companies and industries, utilizing top-down, bottom-up budgeting methods.*Developed models and analytics to evaluate the resource requirements and financial implications of business planning options in support of fact-based decision making. *Prepared financial planning and budget reports. Analyzed data of past and current operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred. *Managed the preparation of the annual budget and re-forecasting of financial statements to the previous year end.*Developed 5 year strategic plan and created corresponding financial model to perform what-if analysis that acted as a base for the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast

*Managed the preparation of the annual budget and re-forecasting of financial statements to the previous year end.*Performed an inventory rollback to the previous year end, and assisted in the process to re-cost all inventory. *Directed the re-location of the warehouse move, and created internal control procedures to ensure the accuracy of inventory levels.*Developed models and analytics to evaluate the resource requirements and financial implications of business planning options in support of decision-making. *Responsible for preparing the MD&A, and the weekly and monthly financial reporting package to parent company.

*Performed daily sales ROI and margin analyses for marketing department for all customers.*Generated inventory, labor costs, and shipment reports for analysis. *Responsible for creating quarterly and annual financial statements.*Prepared financial documents for annual budget process.*Streamlined close procedures resulting in a 20% decrease in time required to close.*Established and maintained standards for 12 production lines at two facilities and over 20 products*Developed cost structure for over 20 new products.*Documented functional requirements for bug fixes and enhancements, application configuration, reports, interfaces, conversions, and application extensions.*Coordinated and manage user acceptance testing.*Assisted with end-user training. *Helped develop enterprise standards, processes and controls.

*Identified complex financial problems and issues related to workflow processes, research solutions, and implemented corrective steps to achieve higher level of operational efficiency. *Prepared financial planning and budget reports. Analyzed data of past and current operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred. *Performed monthly accounts receivable audits to assess collateral positions.*Analyzed financials to determine credit worthiness of clients on the verge of exceeding credit limits.*Audited client inventory positions to minimize portfolio risk.*Managed Field Service Representatives in various cities to effectively perform client repossessions.*Performed inventory and accounts receivable audits throughout assigned Midwest region.