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Accounting Transformations is a strategic partner to Founders, CEOs, CFOs, and Private Equity and Venture Groups. We assist in reorganizing or building accounting departments, and the organizational transformation required to create value and drive proper-sized infrastructure for scaling. We assist with building the people, processes, and systems to take owners and partners investments to the next level. We work as an extension to your internal teams, allowing partners to scale and expand when business demands. Accounting Transformations will assist with new acquisitions, underperforming portfolio companies, or high-growth scaling and restructuring needs. https://myaccountingtransformation.com/

• Accounting transformations background, which includes process improvement and design, team identification and development, corporate scaling initiatives, reporting, and KPI management,. Ability to work in an unstructured growth environment to organize and set up for scaling, a company builder.• Accounting transactional and strategic processes to run day-to-day business and projects and develop the teams to make an accounting department work efficiently. • Unique experience in a variety of company sizes and industries, including high-growth SaaS companies with international footprints. Providing a unique problem-solving capability resulting from the variety of experience and agility in situational problem-solving. Prior experience working with distressed companies. • Team development fortitude, promoting a teaching and learning environment with every action as an opportunity to learn and expand the team’s knowledge base, thus expanding capabilities. Experienced in identifying and retaining talent through development and training for high-performance teams. • Experience in communicating with all levels of an organization and across functions, including equity/investment groups and board interactions. Prior Private Equity and Venture Capital experience, including funding events support.• Heavy ERP systems implementation and administration experience.• Prior FP&A experience building models and budgets including monthly variance analysis to actuals and model maintenance and updates during funding events.• Prior experience with CAS and FAR, emphasizing managing DCMA/DCAA relationships and audits. • Cost accounting experience in government contracting, construction, and restaurant industries.• Preparation and participation in Quality of Earnings and diligence support activities.

Fresno, California, Us

Led all strategic and day-to-day accounting and FP&A functions for a growing renewable construction entity during a turnaround.  Led accounting transformation and reorganization of personnel, policies, and systems in an adverse industry while working on cross-functional strategic projects for organizational realignments. Rebuilding the accounting and FP&A functions to meet the needs of the growing enterprise for scale. Controlled accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, labor, and cost accounting for commercial solar contracts, and monthly financial analysis and reporting while assisting in building and scaling an emerging new services organization. Special emphasis was on cash management and strategic steps to limit risk in a highly volatile construction industry. Led monthly metrics tracking, analysis, and reporting of financial status, and operating information to the executive team, Board, and operational managers. Cultivated relationships with banking, financing, vendors, and customers for strategic growth, cost and cash control opportunities, and operational transformation efficiencies. Mitigated company risk through contract negotiations and review, insurance, and employee culture impacts. Developed and implemented several strategic improvements to drive company performance and profitability: Cash management imperatives and tracking for visibility and additional controls, vendor diversification and new contract negotiations, customer contract restructuring to maximize cash flow and revenue recognition, new asset acquisition strategies and funding for growth, equipment and credit enhancements to expand company cash opportunities and strategic decision making, and enhanced system reports for construction profitability analysis. Managed vendor, bank, and lending relationships to extend cash flows and runway in an extremely volatile industry to provide for company growth and stability options.

Campbell, Ca, Us

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Irvine, Ca, Us

Blythe Global Advisors is a financial services consulting firm. For over ten years, our clients have benefited from working with experienced people who meet their complex accounting advisory needs. We help our clients improve revenue, reduce costs and improve profitability, filling the gap that often exists between accounting and financial services.

Reston, Va, Us

Directed all strategic and day-to-day accounting and FP&A functions for a growing SaaS entity.  Led accounting transformation and reorganization of personnel, policies, and systems in a high-growth environment while working on cross-functional strategic projects for organizational realignments. Rebuilt the accounting and FP&A functions to meet the needs of the growing international enterprise for scale. Cleaned accounts receivable aging to reduce delinquency for international and domestic customers by 75% while designing standard customer contract templates and enforcing usage. Renegotiated vendor contracts and outstanding debt, reducing the aging by 80%. Instituted KPIs, reporting, and financial integrity during the transformation process to establish refined operational decision-making while working with the product, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.  Created a holistic approach to systems administration and integrations amongst the teams while cleaning the various systems to streamline operations. Increased efficiencies to shorten the close cycle by 15 days.  Provided leadership during a turnaround including searching for and closing venture capital funding as interim CFO.

Plano, Tx, Us

Directed all accounting functions for a $75M growing SaaS entity. Recorded, analyzed, and reported with emphasis on day-to-day accounting, controls, policies, and systems.  Led accounting transformation and reorganization of personnel, policies, and systems in a high-growth environment while working on cross-functional strategic projects for organizational realignments. Rebuilt the accounting and FP&A functions to meet the needs of the growing enterprise for scale. Instituted and enforced policies to streamline KPIs and reporting. Decreasing the close cycle by 10 days. NetSuite and Concur implementation project manager and system administrator.  Instrumental in private equity transaction, preparation, and due diligence thru transaction recording to the financials.

Directed a 30-member accounting department for three accounting business units with a revenue responsibility of $500M. Acting Division controller for an internal customer base of 3,600 people Designed and delivered labor charging training to all employees to improve business integrity and quality. Through awareness and training, was able to decrease failure rates of internal labor audits from 15% to >1% year over year. Controlled accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, labor and cost accounting for government contracts, and monthly financial analysis and reporting. Led monthly metrics tracking, analysis, and reporting of financial status, risk issues, and operating information to the executive team and operational managers. Actively managed government auditors as well as internal/external audit groups in the preparation and execution of multiple simultaneous incurred cost audits.

Directed all accounting functions for construction and restaurant entities with a revenue responsibility of $40M, recorded, analyzed, and reported with emphasis on day-to-day accounting, controls, policies, and systems. Provided internal financial reports, operating information, and analysis to executives and management. Increased accounting flexibility to track financial reporting. Instituted visibility for cost analysis, more robust reporting capabilities, and greater control of costs and profits allowing a small company to gain agility in accounting and reporting daily for the high volume of restaurant receipts. Managed the budgets and daily reporting for the construction and restaurant entities. Managed accounts receivable, accounts payable, and fixed assets. Ran vendor relationships and negotiated contracts. Instituted inventory control and costing procedures and led control system implementation and reconciliation. As the system administrator for the ACCPAC accounting system, led system maintenance, conversion, and upgrades, created system process documentation, and managed initial system implementation.

Ca, Us

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Coordinated the effort of an accounting staff of 18 tasked with AP, AR, collection, fixed assets and payroll functions; reconciled bank accounts, general ledger accounts and intercompany accounts. Developed and managed semi-annual financial budgets.  Established inventory control and costing procedures; conducted monthly/quarterly cycle counts. Generated daily, weekly and monthly internal financial reports designed to support strategic planning.

Directed accounting processing, analysis and reporting functions for $150M retail division. As a strategic business partner provided financial leadership and advisory services designed to enable the division to achieve its business goals. Improved control environment by creating and implementing policies and procedures. Ensured timely and accurate reporting of financials; provided critical business intelligence to executive management and contributed to long term strategic planning.