David Herndon Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Dublin 2, Ie

Miami, Florida, Us

London, Gb

David serves three primary roles:• Client Service Leader / Business Development & Sales• Service / Solution Offering Development and Go-to-Market Strategy• Process Improvement / Transformation Service DeliverySpecific Business Process / Industry Expertise:• Financial Transformation lead across multiple global programs as a result of client’s acquisition or divestiture. Includes standardization of financial processes including key SOX programs.• Enterprise Performance Management including long-term strategic planning, annual planning, operational planning, management reporting and analysis, legal entity consolidation, and rolling forecast leading practices.• Driver-based forecasting, zero-based budgeting, and integration of manufacturing demand signal (S&OP) into financial forecast.• Design and delivery of dash-boarding of key financial and operational metrics. • Product-level profitability analysis of project portfolio for quality of earnings.• Financial processes including Quote/Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Close / Consolidation, financial reporting, MD&A, footnotes.• P&L / Balance Sheet / Cash Flow reporting methods, processes and internal controls.• CapEx process governance and management, financial analysis ROI and business case development.• Manufacturing operations including demand planning and production scheduling, NPI, direct and indirect inventory, WIP, finished goods and logistics.• Identification of gaps to leading practices with roadmap development of future state design.Specific IT Expertise:• IT Transformation - service costing method development• IT Project / Portfolio management• Agile / Waterfall development methods• Large ERP / MRP transformation evaluation and assessment for effectiveness• SOX IT General Controls assessment and implementation• Master Data Management• Chart of Account / GL data management• Data Analytics R open-source and Tableau• SAP BPC / Cognos / Hyperion / Khalix (lead projects)

London, Gb

Lead IT auditor for St. Louis based clients in the retail, mining , telecommunications and agricultural sectors. Supported clients with assessments of IT General Controls, SOX specific controls and application-level security. Further delivered numerous third-party service reports (SAS70s) for a telecommunications billing company. Lead projects to support our clients with the design of key controls surrounding their respective implementation of SAP.

London, Gb

Served as lead compliance auditor for several telecommunication companies related to regulatory matters with oversight provided by both state Public Utility Commissions (PUCs) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Over a six year period, directed and managed merger condition audits creating two of the largest telecommunication companies across the industry. Developed deep understanding of telecommunications (wireline segment) industry and the competitive landscape throughout consolidation period creating Verizon and AT&T.Sold and led revenue assurance project with a team of approximately six, reviewed switch data and traced through to billing records as well as reviewed call center logs to evaluate billing accuracy. Work included significant data mining skills and analytics to help identify opportunities to improve processes and collect revenue.

London, Gb

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting And Management Information Systems