Mark Norris is a CFO & COO at KF Beauty. He possess expertise in finance, managerial finance, internal controls, accounting, professional services and 39 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I had the pleasure to work with Mark during 2.5 years and found him to be excellent business partner who has a keen eye for the commercial aspects of growing a business while managing carefully advising/guiding on the operating costs. He has a excellent financial technical skills and is able to make finance "simple" and understandable to a wide business audience across many levels. With his partnership I was able to make to significant changes to the business. " and " Mark worked for me for 2 years and did an excellent job creating a responsive finance organization and effective processes in an extremely difficult situation. He moved monthly closing from 45 days when he started with Antenna to 10 days, and created a management focused reporting package, including a monthly rolling forecast. He developed a team that provided finance support and clear reporting for the 9 international operations. The company operated in over 8 currencies and Mark, working with his team, developed a 13 week cash forecast that was instrumental in creating and highlighting cash availability, and moving monies to where it was needed, tax efficiently. Critical to the effort were bringing the company under one system, the systems upgrades, and related changes that he initiated. Mark was always a clear voice providing highly valued counsel to me, and others in the Executive team, always putting the Company’s long term growth as the key focus. He helped take down the walls between finance and the other functions in the company. He built a good team, and grew his people’s competencies very well. He was instrumental in moving Antenna forward, particularly in decision making, controls and early warning and effective responses to potential problems. Mark was an ideal direct report for me, consistently identifying what needed to be done in the short and long term in finance and across the company, and getting the important things done well, quickly, and requiring little direction. He is smart, thoughtful, business savvy, has very good people skills and organizational awareness. He allowed me to focus on other critical issues that I would not have been able to, without the expansive job Mark did. I would highly recommend Mark for the most senior financial position, particularly in a company with numerous and pressing difficult problems. "