Senior Business Finance Advisor / Senior Tax and Treasury Advisor (January 2017 – Present)• Manage control and compliance over $140 million in state and local government incentives grants• Lead the Ethanol tax formula approvals and reimbursement claims for the Manufacture of a Non-Beverage Product with an estimated tax savings in excess of $50 million annually• Financial Business Partner in preparation of annual budgets, financial management and control• Optimized Sales and Use tax application process for direct reduction in expansion cost while securing compliance directly with General Contractor that resulted in over $1 million savings to contract price• Secured property tax exemption for qualify manufacturing assets that resulted in a direct bottom line savings in excess of $200 thousand annually• Secured long term funding package for $2 billion expansion• Supported the implementation of $2 billion investment tax projects (ie: Cost Segregation, Self-Constructed Assets, etc.) with tax savings over $100 million

Accounting Manager/ControllerOversee all financial and accounting aspects of the company: prepare annual budget and quarterly financial statements, responsible for all company insurances, human resource representative, manage accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll processes. Reduced the company’s financial reporting time from six weeks to four weeks. Established company electronic accounting processes.

Assistant Controller (April 2001 – October 2002) Supervise two staff accountants, two accounts payable specialist, one payroll processor and one receptionist. Prepare monthly financial reports for management review. Project Manager for accounting/administrative policy and procedure implementation. Developed and established accounting/administrative policy and procedures, working closely with independent auditors. Responsible for reducing the company audit and annual tax return fees by 20%. Project Manager for outsourcing payroll processing to ADP with implementing an automatic time and attendance system in two states at over 20 company locations. Accounting Manager (May 2000 – March 2001)Supervise three staff accountants, three accounts payable specialist, two payroll processors, one administrative assistant and one receptionist. Oversee the preparation and analyzing of the monthly P&L statements. Responsible for accounting staff function in eight areas in two states. Reduced the month-end close process from twelve business days to seven business days. Responsible for the yearly audit conducted by independent auditors.Corporate Accountant (July 1997 – April 2000)Prepared the monthly P&L statements. Reconciled cash in multiple bank accounts, balance sheet accounts and helped to analyze the monthly P&L statements. Oversee the company’s fixed asset accounting system (acquiring, disposing, depreciating assets – tax and book and prepared the annual property tax listings). Accounts Payable Specialist (October 1994 – June 1997)Responsible for the coding, keying and processing of vendor invoices for approximately 2,500 vendors. Processed weekly payment of these vendor invoices. Responsible for reconciling vendor statements. Served as the corporate support for the South Carolina locations, which included three divisions with ten manufacturing plants.