Finance executive with significant experience handling multi-disciplinary financial strategy and management in various industries, including Retail, Logistics, Manufacturing, Customer Service and Higher Education sectors. Creative and resourceful skills applied to opportunity analysis, budget planning, profit management, forecasting, financial modeling, cash management, fundraising and risk management. Expertise in aligning long-range business planning with short-term operational needs allowing teams to deliver on customer expectations. Proven success in team leadership, talent development, strategy creation and implementation to maximize operational efficiency and P&L impact.I believe that companies "win" with people. By focusing significant effort on developing colleagues' skills, expertise and background, organizations will be able to achieve more. Understanding what individual employees are interested in achieving, both personally and professionally allows them to be the best version of themselves. Encouraging them to grow lifts them to new heights, thus realizing optimal performance for the organization and the person. Over the course of my career experiences in many industries and across many functions, I have come to understand the importance of integrating business leadership, innovative problem solving and customer focused decision making to drive organizational results. The ability to clearly articulate the importance of these topics across all audiences is a skill that I have spent significant time developing and has proven beneficial when working with diverse internal and external customers.Characteristics that I find important to success in life and business are honesty, accountability, adaptability, humbleness, hard-work, caring and understanding.Specialties: Financial Leadership, Talent Development, Process Improvement, Information Systems Planning and Implementation, Strategic Business Planning, Resource Allocation, Business Planning
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