In addition to CFO role, directly responsible for 8-person inside sales team, as well as remote prospecting operation. Set team revenue goals, develop and fine-tune sales approach, negotiate deal terms and contracts, establish services products and combinations, etc.

Responsible for all financial operations, processes, and decisions - including financial reporting, budgeting & planning, banking, payroll, benefits, taxes, and transactional accounting.

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Served as finance partner to Vice President of New Business Development.Responsible for leading financial analysis of various initiatives ranging from acquisitions of start-ups to development of new business units to development of next generation technologies for existing products. Helped change key NBD decision criteria to include cash flow metrics such as Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return, in addition to traditionally evaluated profitability metrics, such as Gross Margin.Also responsible for planning and maintaining financial budget for New Business Development business unit and for various NBD/NPD programs.

Provided hands-on project management, design, process re-engineering, and training on a financial systems integration project involving U.S.-based client’s subsidiaries in France, U.K., Netherlands, and Belgium.

Directed managers, programmers, and analysts during various stages of project development for a $200 million company that develops interactive entertainment software. Core leadership role focused on department and personnel management, budgeting and financial planning, project prioritization & management, business process analysis and improvement strategies, SDLC practices, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, RFP development, vendor and consultant selection and contract negotiations, internal and external stakeholder relationships, and cross-disciplined team management.

Member of the Enterprise Applications Practice, focused on complex system selection, implementation, optimization, and integration projects, primarily related to ERP applications. Span of control involved project plan and milestone development, business process redesign, ERP (Lawson) system component development, specification development for programmers, program testing and validation, training program development, and software training facilitation. Gained rich experience in pre- and post-sales activities that also included client proposal development, client presentations, cost estimations, project scope development, and client relationship management. Learned and demonstrated a high standard of professional communications and documentation, as well as a strong understanding of the importance of developing and maintaining productive internal and external stakeholder business relationships.