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Columbus, Ohio, United States

Special Projects role with the Finance Team at Jewish-Columbus.

Marysville, Ohio

Strategic project consulting (SOX controls for SAP project, Tax project, etc.) for Honda Trading America, contracted by the company’s Senior Leadership through the Dawson Personnel employment agency.

Marysville, Ohio

Leads, directs, and manages the accounting and finance operations and strategy of the company, including nine offices throughout North and South America.

Columbus, Ohio

This is a CFO position responsible for all of the financial affairs of the organization. Served as interim director of HR and of Facilities during recruiting efforts to fill these roles; Columbus Business First ‘2011 CFO of the Year’ finalist.

Columbus, Ohio

This senior financial position within the organization was a corporate controller role providing leadership, direction, and management for traditional accounting functions such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, cash management, financial reporting and analysis.

Columbus, Ohio

Provided financial and operating advice and analyses to the President, V.P. of Finance, and other members of the Senior Management team; assignments related to projects and issues of strategic importance for the organization’s ongoing success and direction.

United States

Contracted as an independent consultant to provide advice and develop solutions primarily for Fortune 500 Companies within Finance & Accounting in project areas such as financial operations management, business process improvements, software evaluations, shared service center implementations, and financial organization design & development.

Hired as a full-time independent contractor to provide general financial management advice and support for the client (Honda of South Carolina, Mfg. in Florence, SC); This work focused primarily on business process improvements and financial organization design & development.

Pacer Global Logistics, Dublin, Ohio

Led, directed, and managed the accounting operations group of the company. This position was responsible for a staff of 95 people. Increased company working capital by leading receivables projects resulting in an almost six day decrease to DSO and significant improvement to billing & collections procedures, all while experiencing executive management turnover.

Marysville, Ohio

Honda of America Mfg., Inc., Marysville, Ohio Senior Staff Administrator of Financial Systems Manager of General Accounting (Corp. Controller role)Honda Engineering North America, Inc., Marysville, Ohio Administrator, Accounting/Finance (CAO role) Honda of America Mfg., Inc., Marysville, Ohio Accounting Administrator (Supervisor of four functional areas within the Accounting/Finance department: Budgeting, Financial Systems, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable) Accounting Coordinator (Senior Accountant): Responsibilities included the company-wide budgeting process & related financial analysis, development of financial systems & budgeting procedures, and the supervision of G/L functions. Staff Accountant: Duties included G/L, physical inventory, supervision of A/P & A/R, and pricing.