I am a Senior Finance professional and licensed CPA with a progressive career spanning over 20 years defining and implementing robust financial / accounting functions for companies across diverse sectors including aviation, telecoms and a Big 4 firm. Over the course of my career, I have played a key role in improving organizational and financial performance, stability and efficiency by reviewing and enhancing financial, auditing and accounting processes while also creating improved internal controls and automating processes. I offer a proven track record of transforming and developing capability across financial planning and reporting through establishing strong financial functions, driving complex change and providing key insights into compliance / regulatory issues. One of my core strengths is my ability to analyze complex financial data to provide strategic insights that support executive level decision making. In addition, I am recognized as a trusted and authentic people manager with experience in building, leading and developing high-performing, committed and collaborative teams. Notable Successes include:- Reducing time spent on reporting and improving quality of data for a telecoms client to meet audit and client requirements following poor audit outcome.- Transforming performance, reducing costs and driving profitability for a private equity held company.- Reducing audit time to 2 weeks for a private equity held company with all audits being clean with only minor suggestions for improvements which resulted in a reduction in audit fees of $190k.
Listed skills include Financial Reporting, Auditing, Accounting, Analysis, and 20 others.
