• Reports directly to the CEO and manages all finance, accounting, and reporting activities with direct reports including the Controller, Finance Manager and Payroll Manager. • Oversees all financial functions including A/R, A/P, GL, payroll, cash flow, internal controls, budgeting, forecasting and banking. Liaises with external CPA firm to complete the annual financial review & tax planning with the Controller. • Develops and maintains strategic plan with the CEO, SVP of Business Development, VP of Corporate Operations and Business Line Leaders. Refines strategy as needed in close collaboration with the CEO.• Works closely with executive team to provide recommendations by analyzing key financial statements. Identifies business efficiencies and provides guidance on best practices to meet present and future objectives.• Leads in areas involving banking relationships including LOC’s, covenants, capital planning, business loans and investments. Leverages these relationships and negotiates best terms for financial products and solutions to help minimize debt and achieve strategic goals.• Assists CEO and General Counsel with the development side of the business, including capital outlay, capital calls, cash flow, risk assessments etc.• Experienced in M&A activities including identifying acquisition prospects, LOI’s, due diligence, purchase agreements, net working capital, integration and advancement. • Responsible for maintaining all business and healthcare insurance policies for the company and works closely with the General Counsel on reviewing coverage and renewals to identify & manage business risks and exposure. • Member of the 401k committee and plays a key role in the oversight of retirement benefits with JP Morgan and outside broker including 401k audit, fund performance, expense ratios and improving future performance. • Maintains many of the duties described in the Director of Finance position, with assistance from the Finance Manager.

Promoted to this position at Gafcon* Key Responsibilities include: - Financial Analysis & Planning - Company Budgets, KPI's, Multipliers & Financial Indicators/Statistics for the CFO - Labor Resource Planning & Reports for the COO - CRM Modeling, Statistics & 3 Year Revenue and Expense Planning - Project Accounting & Controls for select projects. - Forecasting & Fee Projections for Business Development* Reviews performance of programs with COO, CFO and Division Managers. * Works with COO and CFO to implement and effectively monitor financial and operational performance metrics throughout the organization. * Resolves financial variances and key performance indicators. * Supports management with ‘what if’ type of analysis and suggests measures to help improve results. * Responsible for determining and establishing site specific accounting needs, as well as processes & documentation to maintain standardization and consistency. * Interfaces with clients, consultants, program managers, corporate accounting team and leadership regarding financial accounting requirements and processes. * Responsible for reviewing projects/contract budgets in Deltek and working with Program Managers to maintain project accounting requirements. * Provides feedback and recommendations for Project Work Breakdown Structures and Budgeting.* Assists with managing the accounting of Joint Venture and partnership projects coordinating with corporate accounting team and CFO/Assistant Controller as necessary. Assists with formation and closure of Joint Ventures. * Responsible for job cost reporting for the Madison Square Gardens, LA Forum project (costs in excess of $120 million), including CSI division analysis, budget performance, change order cost auditing, variance analysis and project job costing.

• Responsible for project controls and job cost reporting for the entire Los Angeles Forum project, managing lump sum construction costs in excess of $150 million. Responsibilities included CSI division analysis, performance to budget, change orders, RFI analysis and auditing, schedule over/underruns, payment applications etc. • Developed and maintained the monthly company financial reports and KPI’s for projects including revenue dashboards, cash flows, billable utilization, contract backlog and burn, current commitments, and other analytics.• Oversaw key accounting functions including contract verification, amendments, invoicing, payment requisitions, vendor reconciliations, releases and payment applications for billings.• Interfaces with clients, consultants, contractors and project managers to ensure accounting policies, processes & financial objectives for projects remained aligned, accurate & readily available for stakeholder review and distribution

* Updated, analyzed and tracked the quarterly reviews for all SOX controls & audits for the financial system (PeopleSoft Finance), the main operating system (Polaris) and the finance network directory drives. * Created impact analyses that compared current processes against future processes identifying all impacts, risks & recommendations for Inventory Accounting in a $31 million Oracle RMS conversion project. * Lead in the role of Project Manager for the Petco Foundation project which integrated BidPal Software into Petco Auction events for charities, producing additional revenue of $143k per event due to a highly successful integration. * Identified business improvement opportunities, developed high-level solutions, negotiated buy-in from departments and lead solution development and implementation for projects within the Accounting, Finance, Tax & Risk Group.* Performed company critical analyses and presented findings and recommendations directly to senior management. Identified stock ledger system risks for the Director of Retail Accounting & the Director of General Accounting.

* Created the system & user documents for FileMaker developers by meeting with department managers and analyzing the business, functional and technical requirements for system enhancements. This included among other things the project vision, scope, corporate risk, constraints and IT development flow. * Enhanced the company’s sales forecasting process by developing a new tool which easily converted $57 million in revenue & margin pipeline data into an easy to use tool for executive management (with pivot table functionality). * Designed and implemented a projection model to accurately predict future rebates for 7 different HP product lines, resulting in the accurate accrual and receipt of $467k in additional partner benefits. * Improved operational processes by reviewing, analyzing and documenting SOP’s (standard operating procedures) which improved company workflows, streamlined existing partner processes and increased operational productivity. * Maintained & distributed the weekly revenue & bookings report to management containing the revenue and bookings analysis, current pipeline and a 5 year historical trend data analysis with recommendations. * Overhauled the agent fee commission process, resulting in the reduction of third party agent fees from 120 days to 45 days and an increase of 21% in agent fee revenue for the company. * Responsible for providing intuitive, unplanned analyses quickly and efficiently to the executive team whenever requested (and often providing a more useful, all round analysis to the one initially sought). * Maintained all partner registration & benefit programs for the company by ensuring Nth Generation received adequate deal protection from competitors, along with the appropriate partner benefit for sales to clients.

* Identified functional, non-functional and technical business requirements which assisted in the successful completion of key business projects & contributed to company savings in excess of $1.4 million for 2009.* Designed business process modeling for the Client Rewards Program by completing workflows, program assumptions & dependencies and system constraints which increased client retention from 91% to 96%. * Provided senior management with retention reports for 4 products with a combined total portfolio value of $17 million. This reporting included contract analysis for maintenance, licensing & support components.* Developed user requirements documentation by interfacing with work groups, in order to create detailed dashboards & KPI reporting tools for the Billing, Collection and Contract Administration departments* Created more than 50 queries, lists & reports in Oracle CRM and SalesLogix to assist marketing & IT with uploading new renewal opportunities and the finance department with budgets & forecasts.* Distributed the weekly “Sales Pipeline Analysis’ by exporting query data to Excel & creating a pivot report with drill down capabilities, which allowed management to gauge renewal rates and quarterly forecasts. * Responsible for overseeing change management for the Oracle CRM tool by updating work flows and developing project enhancements where needed.

* Developed and maintained operational projects to link new products and services between different company departments, by completing equity analyses that outlined key project areas including scope, market requirement documents, assumptions & dependencies, product features, conventions, tracking and priorities.* Analyzed fundamental trends within the utility billing industry and associated property sectors for key real estate clients, in order to provide constructive reports on portfolio demographics and economic forecasts.* Outlined system specifications for IT developers by completing user interfaces and system features documents, which allowed the automation of almost twenty manual processes and the testing of new systems and portals.* Created and updated key performance indicators by compiling monthly statistics and recommending strategic business approaches, which assisted upper management with operational decision-making.* Analyzed revenue figures and developed corporate reports for client portfolios by designing reporting tools to provide accurate expenditure control, budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking, portfolio control and trend analysis, thus increasing the potential for additional business opportunities and contributing to revenue gains of $8 million.* Monitored all new and lost business yields by researching and compiling reports, which reflected revenue gains/losses, market share, geographic positioning, capacity ratios, pricing models and operational scorecards.

* Developed and maintained financial forecasting models, which provided reports for twenty six branches in nine different regions, and which assisted regional managers in understanding branch performances within their districts.* Evaluated business plans for project managers, to determine the accuracy of income forecasts and to validate the projected success of new project plans.* Created system specifications by analyzing the needs and requirements of users in relation to IT development, to ensure system requirements were successfully implemented.* Assessed data integrity from feasibility studies, by calculating probability outcomes, in order to project the success of new markets, in relation to existing business activities.* Reviewed client surveys and provided solutions for increasing client satisfaction and improving market share percentages..

* Reported on conversion rates for business closed by the sales team (using statistical analyses), by measuring the success of different marketing campaigns specifically television commercials, radio commercials, newspaper advertising, magazine publications, flyers and word of mouth.* Monitored competitors in the industry by completing SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analyses on different competitors, and presented executive summaries to management.* Compiled monthly operational statistics for the management team by calculating and reporting on conversion rates, retention rates, churn rates, claim ratios, market share, market penetration and saturation levels .* Analyzed new business by creating reports outlining administration costs, break-even points, client demographics, sales costs to close and market research on increasing penetration.