Laurie Folkner Email & Phone Number

Performance driven Manager of Bookkeeping Audit passionate about creating a culture of integrity and excitement in the organization while serving as a strategic, tactical leader and advisor to senior executive team. Consistently embracing a capacity to navigate ambiguity and change management initiatives with an entrepreneurial mindset while demonstrating standards of leadership that ensure organizational alignment and operational consistency across the enterprise.▶︎ Domain Expertise / SME- Auditing & Audit Oversight- Budgeting & Forecasting- Cash Management - Decision-Based Data Analytics- Financial Reporting & Analysis- Fiscal Accountability & Cost Controls- Forensic, Investigative Accounting- Market Research- Organizational Strategy - Performance Analytics- Regulatory Compliance - Risk Assessment/Mitigation ▶︎ Significant Contributions ■ Organizational Developmento Established the framing and roadmap for department strategies, goals, and objectives while driving the development and deployment of performance-based standards proving beneficial in accelerating operational productivity. o Drove the research, testing and implementation of new bookkeeping standards proving instrumental in saving more than $1.2M in annual labor costs across the company. o Engaged with Loss Prevention in coaching all staff management on ways to reduce cash shortages, which included authoring and implementing the Cash Management Guide resulting in reducing cash shortages by more than 43%.o Managed oversight of an RFP process with armored truck / cash couriers which limited the numbers of service days by location and sales volume and resulted in saving over $250K annually.■ Leadershipo Driving teams in performing at a higher level has proven beneficial in accelerating results while consistently overachieving organizational goals and objectives, never compromising in our capacity to engage with confidence, maintain transparency, and lead with passion for integrity and excellence. ■ Pandemic Sustainabilityo Instituted operational standards throughout the 2019/2020 COVID Pandemic to include reassignment of responsibilities and completely re-engineering the bookkeeping model proving instrumental in consistently overachieving operational objectives.

Listed skills include Bookkeeping, Customer Service, Real Estate, Ad Markdowns, and 19 others.