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New York, New York, Us

Robinhill is a sage team of former professional services partners and industry executives providing high ROI through a collaborative and efficient deployment model.

In this position, I provided financial, accounting, and management consulting services to clients across industries such as oilfield services, refining, healthcare, and telecommunications.Selected Highlights Include:• Interim Chief Accounting Officer for the St. Croix/Limetree project during a $3B refinery refurbishment. Managed a team of consultants that worked with local employees to implement accounting controls, complete the first audit of the financial statements, design the post-construction finance and accounting organization and identified and recovered millions of dollars in overpayments to vendors.• Interim Controller for a healthcare client. I worked with a team to implement proper accounting controls and processes to support reduction of the US accounting staff by 50% and centralize accounting in a 90-day period, improved the month-end close process reducing the time from 4 weeks to 12 days and implemented a monthly financial analysis process to provide senior management more timely and accurate financial information.

Houston, Tx, Us

Selected Highlights Include:• Led organizational restructuring with CEO and Operations teams to cut costs amid oil industry downturn.• Achieved over 50% reduction in SG&A costs, including a 50% reduction in accounting staff by leveraging SAP functionality. • Successfully refinanced asset-backed line of credit with a bank consortium led by JP Morgan.

Houston, Tx, Us

2012 to 2015: Vice President & Chief Accounting OfficerHere, I led global accounting, financial reporting, shared services, and financial system. I oversaw the implementation of SAP and a reporting tool to automate consolidated financial reporting for the first time in company history.Selected Highlights Include:• Streamlined close processes, reducing from over 20 days to just 7 days, alleviating over-time work. • Facilitated due diligence for 3 divestitures totaling approximately $2B, involving international entities in the UK and Canada. Successfully managed the transition of finance and accounting functions for these divestitures within a single year.

Houston, Texas, Us

I led a global finance and accounting organization that spanned 29 countries in four regions. I resolved two years of material weaknesses by implementing robust financial controls across the organization.Selected Highlights Include:• Successfully redesigned and deployed a fully functional Oracle and Hyperion system for global financial reporting and planning.• Cut SOX compliance costs from $3M to approximately $1.5M in 2011. • Established a Global Accounting Organization with 30 employees in Houston and over 100 worldwide, reducing month-end close time by approximately 10 days.