Kristi Lanier, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Yarmouth, MA, US

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Toronto, Canada Area

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Originally a privately held, venture backed genomic information company. The company was purchased in January 2015 by WuXi Pharmatec, a publicly held research and development services company that subsequently went.
• Migrated finance system from QuickBooks to Intacct finance system. Multi-entity, foreign currency translation, project accounting and consolidation packages.
• Grew finance department from one employee to five employees.
• Developed month end reconciliation process and standard month end close checklist which decreased month end close timeframe to 4 days to comply with parent company closing schedule.
• Preparation of quarterly business unit reviews and board presentations.
• Implemented automated expense reporting system.

• High Street Partners, Inc. (“HSP”) is a privately held, venture backed international business software and services firm. HSP provides a range of cross-border services to companies with existing operations overseas or.
• Developed weekly cashflow forecasting procedure to leverage operating cash and reduce borrowings.
• Implemented streamlined billing processed which reduced timetable for invoicing by 5 days.
• Centralized billing organization into accounting organization and decreased billing headcount by 55%.
• Developed month end reconciliation process and standard month end close checklist which decreased month end close timeframe from 10 to 8 days.
• Implemented revenue recognition procedure for SaaS organization.

Employed as a consultant to the Liquidation Trustee for the bankruptcy estate for DGI Resolution, Inc. Key advisor to the Liquidation Trustee due to the breadth of knowledge of the Company and its overall financial operations.; Responsible for providing the documentation and history of past transactions to the Liquidation Trustee. Set up new accounting.

• Overall responsibility for multi-location finance departments both domestic and international with a total staff of 11 accounting professionals. Responsible for Corporate governance compliance and led SOX.
• Key financial advisor for new diagnostic product launch, costing and insurance reimbursement to reduce collection time by 10 days.
• Transitioned Company to new internal and external auditors and reduced fees over a three year period by 36% and 16%, respectively.
• Streamlined Iceland location closing process from three weeks to two weeks.
• Finance point person on two convertible debt transactions and one equity offering which in total raised $236 million of funds.
• Implemented monthly/quarterly standard closing checklists and developed a financial consolidation process which reduced finance headcount by 15% along with associated audit fees.

• Employed in numerous financial positions (with increasing degrees of responsibilities) within Genzyme transgenics, Inc. The most recent position entails oversight of all internal and external reporting, which includes.
• Developed weekly cashflow forecasting procedure to leverage operating cash and reduce borrowings.
• Developed quarterly Government grant reporting template and provided financial support for the preparation of Government grant applications.
• Implemented and maintained standard accounting software application and procedures (Deltek).
• Centralized accounting organization from 5 locations and decreased finance headcount by 25%.
• Developed month end reconciliation process and standard month end close checklist which decreased month end close timeframe from 10 to 7 days.