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Fort Smith, AR, US

Fort Smith, Arkansas, US

• Direct and oversee the finance, accounting, information technology, human resources and risk management functions for a privately held corporation with annual revenue over $200 million and 1,500 employees.
• Provides guidance and advice to the owner and other members of senior management on financial, administrative and business issues.
• Provides leadership in setting the Company’s annual goals and is a key participant in determining the Company’s overall strategic direction.
• Develops and implements financial strategies, objectives and business plans, including performance targets, policies and key metrics to achieve the Company’s overall business objectives.
• Manages the Company’s capital structure and provides leadership for obtaining and managing all financing and investments.
• Proven success in capturing, analyzing, interpreting and effectively communicating the results and implications of financial and operational data.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Responsible for financial due diligence on all acquisitions and related earnouts. The company completed forty acquisitions from January 1997 to April 1999.
• Responsible for all public documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This included Form 10-Ks, Proxy Statements, Annual Reports, Form 10-Qs, Form 8-Ks and Form S-1 filings.
• Responsible for preparing the proxy statement for a $130 million tender offer to repurchase 16.25 million shares of common stock.
• Overall responsibility for preparing monthly consolidating financial statements.
• Maintained and reported stock option information for all divisions. Over 1,200 participants.
• Development and maintenance of a financial model to forecast results of operations for each division, accounting for: (i) cash flow impacts; (ii) balance sheet results; (iii) compliance with covenants; (iv) effect of.

• Responsible for planning, supervising, training and review of audits performed on a wide variety of industries, including temporary staffing, telecommunications, cellular communications, manufacturing, not-for-profit.
• Experience included the audit, financial consolidation, reporting and filing of an initial public offering for a newly created temporary staffing company.