David Knox Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Supporting Strategies provides outsourced accounting services. Our skilled, experienced professionals use secure, best-of-breed technology and a proven process to deliver a full suite of services, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, bookkeeping, financial reporting and payroll administration.• Lead a team of experienced accounting professionals who serve clients ranging from startups to lower-middle-market businesses across a variety of industries. • Provide our clients with outstanding bookkeeping and operational support services. This includes accounts receivable management, accounts payable management, payroll and benefits administration, month-end close, and other general accounting and operational support tasks. • Responsibilities span business management, business development, oversight of client services delivery, and employee hiring and retention. • Learn more about us at www.supportingstrategies.com.

Greater Seattle Area

Provided financial consulting services to a Fortune 500 company.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

($2 billion private equity owned manufacturer of non-woven textiles with 23 production facilities in Asia, Europe, North America and South America)Managed monthly close and global consolidation process working with corporate accounting, reporting and tax groups, and with region controllers based in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Ensured compliance with all SOX related internal controls, performed technical US GAAP accounting research and managed group audit.− Created U.S. GAAP opening balance sheet for a $60M acquisition in France and fully integrated financial reporting within the quarter.− Developed and completed on time a process improvement initiative to shorten the monthly close to report cycle from ten days to four days.− Identified and implemented several process improvements that simplified and reduced the record to close cycle time by one day.− Organized and lead first global controller conferences to communicate process improvements focused on standardization, provided training on consolidation software (HFM), and reviewed accounting policy changes.

Greensboro, North Carolina Area

Provided CFO and financial consulting services to a family owned manufacturing business.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

($1.0 billion public capacitor manufacturer with 22 production facilities located throughout Europe, North America and Asia)Managed financial operations and outlined company goals and objectives while overseeing a $4M accounting and finance budget. Oversaw the filing and coordination of quarterly and annual SEC reports and participated in public debt issuances and stock offerings. Delivered monthly consolidated financial statements and assumed responsibility over all corporate accounting functions including general accounting, SEC reporting, external audit, cost and inventory accounting, and financial planning and analysis. Managed EMEA and APAC Region Controllers which maintained books for global sales offices and managed regional AR collection departments. Managed annual group audit and presented quarterly financial results to audit committee.− Converted company financial reporting system to Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) software and implemented Oracle’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software.− Finance lead on multi-year global project to implement Oracle’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in all KEMET plants.− Managed the re-location of a Singapore based sales entity’s general accounting and accounts receivable departments to China.− Re-located U.S. accounts payable processing to Mexico and U.S. accounts receivable processing to Portugal.− Performed due diligence and responsible for business combination accounting and the integration of two domestic acquisitions.− Organized and conducted annual global controller conferences, which included U. S. GAAP accounting updates, defined benefit pension plan accounting, year-end audit planning, income tax accounting, budgeting and treasury.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area