Steve Morris Email & Phone Number

Integrity-driven finance executive offering a career recognized by series of well-earned promotions and a history of achievements reflecting aggressive turnaround experience and demonstrated talent in driving positive change, maximizing operations, and attaining balanced and profitable fiscal performance. Leads finance departments and high performance teams to achieve effective fiscal management, improve margins and control costs. Attains results through continual analyses of the business, industry, and competitors while easily gaining rapport, trust, confidence, and respect from the senior executive team, finance and external stakeholders. ➠ Turned around national franchise on verge of bankruptcy by recreating historical data, analyzing operations, developing models, and renegotiating contracts, enabling business to be sold at a profit.➠ Documented external financing options and instituted partnership arrangement with local bank, establishing a comfort level within bank that resulted in a 100% approval rate on all future loan requests.➠ Restructured compensation to combine sister company salaries into one while maintaining deductions for both firms, reducing labor hours, increasing take home pay for owners, and realizing $20,000 in savings.➠ Set-up limited partnership to purchase local restaurant that had recently filed for bankruptcy. Negotiated a highly favorable buy-out of the existing lease after 18 months that returned a 110% profit to each investor.➠ Implemented backup procedures, allowing for 100% restoration of records within 24 hours of company fire with no lapse in service to clients. Recouped 100% insurance payout due to claim accuracy. Identical results obtained for Combat Medical as a result of NC tornadoes in April 2011.➠ Drafted model for struggling sales force isolating lines producing 80% of sales. Created commission program tying associates’ compensation resulting in 50% increase in lines’ sales and a 30% increase in total sales.

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Start Ups, Budgets, Due Diligence, and 30 others.

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  University Of Virginia

  Economics