Senior Financial Executive with expertise in corporate transactions and integrations both domestic and international. Successfully leads teams in both public and private manufacturing and service companies with oversight of up to $750M. Streamlines processes and maximizes ERP implementation to create award-winning cost, control, and compliance solutions. Well-balanced technical and interpersonal skills.

We are embarking on the Lean Journey; I have the opportunity to help lead cross functional teams through lean and continuous improvement events, conduct training, and facilitate tours, consultants, and other activities that will help shift the culture at J&B towards identifying and eliminating activities that do not provide value to our customers, i.e. waste.

Responsible for leading all accounting and finance operations. 6 direct reports and a team of nearly 20 professionals deliver efficient and effective transaction processing and reporting to our internal and external customers. Consistently work in cross functional teams to help drive the strategic plan into the organization. Provide direction on streamlining processes, reporting metrics, and delivering feedback to enable continuous improvements. • Institutionalized monthly financial reviews with business leaders; identified variances to budget and forecasts.• Key Finance Core Team member for ERP implementation; documented all accounting/finance processes and designed and configured the new system for those processes.• Developed and delivered training curriculum and materials to rollout the new ERP system; assisted project management in auditing and delivering the overall company training documentation to Sharepoint.• Provided training to all associates for paperless Financial Statements, automated Supplier Invoice routing/approval, PCard initiatives, and all A/P, A/R, Credit, Payroll, GL, and Treasury functions.

Lead operational accounting and FP&A. Provided periodic SOX reviews and audit support, monthly close activities, costing activities, variance analysis, inventory management and operational lean activities. • Led company's first automated reporting (actuals/budget/volume adjusted/flex, fixed/variable and per earned hour) within SAP providing slice/dice analysis availability and reducing manual effort 90%.• Provided financial reporting and metrics resulting in timely/transparent information and improved decisioning. • Key interface with Cost of Sales Committee reviewing and recommending cost savings initiatives.

Key finance leader directing a team of 8 responsible for general accounting, analysis, reporting and special project activities for a $300 Million division. Controller for processes impacting the general ledger for 7 manufacturing plants coast to coast and preparing management reporting and corporate consolidation.• Re-engineered processes in Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Inventory and GL cycles halving manual entries. • Standardized system entity structure to eliminate redundancies and waste throughout the department.• Led consolidation of accounting operations and reduced annual expenses by $250K in perpetuity.• Organized and administered policy development, procedures and training to control the division’s SOX efforts including ITGC, User Access, SOD and all in-scope operational and financial processes.

Notable are Lead Consultant, Parson Consulting; Implementation Lead, Sparboe; Interim CFO, MCM

Starting as Sr. Financial Analyst for a Region transacting $1 Billion in travel services to Fortune 500 clients I advanced to Director of 5 Latin America countries controlling regional policies and financial reporting.• Managed a team of 4 analysts providing award winning support to operational management. • Negotiated partnership to open new Buenos Aires, Argentina office; consolidated results into regional reporting.• Prepared and presented $6 Million NPV analysis to the Board to secure capital required; key financial liaison while expanding $500+ million in travel services with strategic global customers.