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Gainesville, GA, US

Peachtree Corners, Georgia, US

Peachtree Corners, GA, US

Gainesville, Georgia, US

• Serves as the principal organization leader driving the health and growth of the industry-leading logistics enterprise. Plans, develops, and implements policies and objectives aligned with the overall mission and.
• Driving force overseeing a pivotal transformation of an underperforming company into a thriving organization by implementing leadership, direction, and vision.
• Leverages deep knowledge and best practices to accelerate change through cost savings, efficiencies, and quality talent transitioning a losses in 2019 and 2020 into multi-million profits in 2021 and 2022.
• Oversees business development efforts of the sales team ensuring customer relations are strengthened and nurtured.
• Forges strategic relationships with key stakeholders promoting trust and communication to support organizational growth.
• Created and oversees the entire development team, modified pricing strategies, and enhanced service quality delivering a 30% boost in volume and a 50% surge in revenue.

Gainesville, Georgia, US

• Executed a full revitalization of the strategic finance, accounting, product costing and HR functions for a leading premium lifestyle brand.
• Actively manage daily/monthly/annual cash flow, financial models
• Streamlined monthly/quarterly forecasting, strategic planning
• Implemented new HR platform to integrate with payroll platform and benefits carriers
• Restructured team to accelerate performance and efficiently drive the financial initiatives in the organization
• Created and documented accounting processes, updated costing process and informed pricing strategies

• Performs as a trusted advisor and business partner providing stellar leadership and guidance to small businesses. Delivers world-class management advisory services including financial management, planning, analysis.
• Provides strategic financial, operational consulting services and coaching on various business decisions such as acquisitions, process improvements, and technology solutions.
• Identifies opportunities and risks, provides scalable solutions, and executes strategy to achieve business goals.
• Utilizes strong technology and operational experience to introduce proven SMB solutions, ERP systems, automation platforms and process improvements to increase efficiency and accelerate success.
• Financial Statement creation, modeling and analysis for financing, audit and acquisition preparedness.

• Created the strategic finance, accounting and HR functions for an international leadership training and event organization including full accounting system transition, establishment of budgets, financial reporting to.
• Defined and implemented new accounting ecosystem in Q1 2017 as brand was created via a sale from parent company including creation of Chart of Accounts, organizational budgets, conversion to new payroll system, vetting.
• Financial Reporting – Provide full financial reporting packages to management including budget variance analysis, cash flow evaluations and sales projections on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis as well as ad hoc.
• Budget & Cash Forecasting – Creation and tracking of project budgets, forecasting of project and G&A revenue and expenses, and cash funding options via advanced Excel models
• Financial Modeling – Creation and maintenance of short-term and long-term funding and revenue models
• Strategic Planning & Goals – Developed strategic goals with Leadership Team for individual projects and 1/3/5 year goals

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Manage more than $50 million annually for rebates and commissions across 100+ contracts at more than 120 locations in 3 countriesAs an improvement process, collaborated with IT in the creation of an automation tool for a more efficient process to accrue, pay, and analyze accounts for rebates and independent sales representativesCommunicate with Sales and.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Process improvement – I have created new and retooled existing processes providing substantial time savings, increasing the accuracy and timeliness of internal and external reporting, train colleagues how to effectively use new processes. The hundreds of hours saved each month have allowed our team to meet the demand of our internal and external customers.

Norcross, Georgia, US

Account reconciliations – 25 single unit, 2 large banks, Franchise invoices reconciliations and collectionMultiple closeout reconciliations and reviews: Rent and Royalty based on franchise sales, Opening offset credit review for new units, Flight cost allocation entries, Standard accrual reviews, Maintenance and Repair account review for district and.

Managed accounting department operations including oversite of two accounting clerks Responsible for cleanup and creation of accounting processes, organization of inventory items, properly utilizing software to reduce processing time, assist in work flow and refining of warehouse procedures to accommodate company growthMonitored all customer accounts.

Demorest, GA, US

Master Of Business Administration, Accounting And Financial Services

Bachelor Of Arts, Business Administration: Accounting

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