Hands-on leader with over two decades of achievements contributing to strong corporate financial performance and increased shareholder value through alignment of financial initiatives, process improvement, and adoption of technology. Leadership roles included "Internal/Operational CFO" of a privately funded start up that would grow to over $800M, Assistant Controller of a $16B segment of a Multi-national Fortune Top 10 Communications provider, Senior Finance Leader of a $6B security security services business, and Head of Finance Center of Excellence and Shared Services for a high-growth multi-billion dollar health care business. During that time, I have unlocked over $500M in realized gains associated with revenue recovery, cost reductions, restructuring, acquisition synergies, and process improvement.Keys to Success:*Establishing Finance as a business partner to the C-Suite and ELT ready to explore new investments and strategic endeavors, solve problems, and provide decision support above and beyond routine financial operations analysis.* Fostering high performance teams, cross functional collaboration, and implementation of technology-based solutions / digital transformation with the goal of maximizing value add and enhanced analytics.*A “Whatever It Takes” attitude and “treat the company as if it were your own” philosophy.Core Skills & Competencies:Financial Leadership • Financial Accounting • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) • Program / Change Management • ERP/EPM • ROI Analysis / Decision Support • Data Analytics • M&A • Integration • Business Transformation • Process Improvement • Staff Development • Public Company Reporting, Controls, & ComplianceSelected Accomplishments:* Championed cross-functional initiatives that reduced COGS by $15M+ due to cost reconciliation, increase revenue by $90M+ due to unbilled accounts and other leakage, and reduced G&A by over $20M due to business process re-engineering, outsourcing, and centralization/regionalizing activities.* Managed Integration Management Office (IMO) responsible for cost out activities supporting realization of $350M+ of post-acquisition savings to achieve deal model synergy assumptions and Program Management Offices (PMOs) responsible for managing $60M custom in-house developed Order to Cash solution to provide a common solution for all lines of business and $95M public company readiness program supporting spin-off from Tyco.
Listed skills include Forecasting, Business Process Improvement, Management, Analysis, and 44 others.