Lead Merger and Acquisition efforts for a BrookBeam Dental, a Dental Service Organization. Create reporting packages and provide financial guidance as requested.

Managed large scale Finance projects for Fortune 500 companies in several industries including consumer goods, telecommunications, media and technology. Projects include large scale divestitures, ERP selection and implementation, and finance assessments resulting in cost reduction, increased efficiency and improved controls.

• Rebuild past years financials from the bottom up using a new chart of accounts, in accordance with GAAP, leading to improved understanding of past spending and trends, opportunities and risks. • Construct dashboards of key performance indicators which provide basis for operational decisions including inventory orders, sales goals, key-hire timing and offers, pricing decisions, product launches. • Create new pricing strategy and partnered with retailers to increase sell-through and reduce inventory levels leading to improved cash flow.• Generate operating strategy for launch into new channel based on detailed three year modeling of cash flow, income statement and balance sheet. Capitalized on efficiencies between retail and professional channels by combining marketing and sales efforts; revising product offering, reducing spending and inventory levels.• Implemented new benefits plan including health, dental/vision insurance decreasing the organizational and employee expenses by thirty percent and updated employee handbook; diminishing employer practice liability risk.• Develop new procedures which curtailed the company’s cash burn and exposure including: human resource policies, gratis thresholds, order requirements, estimate requirements and sign off and internal communication.

Lead a team of 40+ including accounting, accounts payable, financial systems, payroll and treasury. Manage daily activities, departmental and business improvements and special projects.• Build partnerships with operational groups and third parties to analyze operational results and improve performance• Meet regularly with major stakeholders to create and update processes and procedures for finance and operational groups to share information which provides transactional visibility, better internal controls and GAAP compliance• Lead budget and forecasting processes and continuously improve the procedures• Restructure finance team transferring knowledge and creating an atmosphere of information sharing and teamwork with operational counterparts • Project manage the implementation of Oracle financial system and ADP Workforce Now • Implement new reporting requirements which meet the needs of parent company and senior management.• Create new procedures which provide transactional visibility and improve communications to eliminate redundancies.• Direct company audit by distributing and consolidating information between accounting staff, acting as a liaison between company and audit firm.

• Partnered with executive management in creation of organizational business plans• Collaborated with members of senior management to cull product portfolio• Transition new executive team • Direct organizational initiatives to standardize internal financial metrics and bring internal metrics in line with industry standards• Converted organization to international accounting standards (from GAAP)• Developed and analyzed product P&L statements• Built strategic partnerships with operational areas

• Collaborated closely with marketing teams to develop spending strategies • Created product category P&L reporting• Implemented an internal control system to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

• Reviewed and revised plant procedures to ensure all inconsistent procedures were eliminated • Created a new and more flexible Affiliate Price Change costing system• Created, analyzed and tracked European plant budgets and estimates

Coordinated the month-end close of the Swiss plant including closing the production books, preparing closing entries, translating intercompany foreign currency bank balances, creating cash forecasts and reviewing detailed P&Ls.