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Set up an advisory business focused on improving businesses' function, profitability and processes, advising on capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions in all of Europe, North and Latin America. Very suited to assignments as Fractional CFO ensuring timely, completeness and accuracy of reporting combined with advice on how to improve processes. Special investigatory projects, reconciling and confirming results and balance sheet. My team are also experienced in Commercial Finance, providing advice on client contract, negotiations and client profitability. Assisting residents of Westchester with grieving of Property Taxes. Can fulfill Board Appointments in advisory capacity.

Greater New York City Area

Concurrent with my role as J Walter Thompson CFO, North America, I was also working as the Global CFO for Mirum until the Wunderman Worldwide takeover - now focusing on the digital role with Mirum.Working with the management team my role is to ensure the financial management of the business is strong and dependable, relying on good quality people around the world. For a growing business such as Mirum it is key to ensure the forecasting is credible and that the costs are matching the revenue expectations of the management for the longer term. Setting the longer term strategy of the network of businesses is not an easy task given the entrepreneurial leaders garnered from acquisitions over the past five years. - strong on building trust - helped transform the acquisitions into a network - key to develop consistent systems and policies - counsel to the CEO and management team on business initiatives and strategy setting

Greater New York City Area

Regional CFO for J. Walter Thompson North America until the Wunderman Worldwide takeover at the end of 2018.For a period of 10 years or so, was the key person for the CEOs in the region as no regional presidents lasted more than a year.Key contributions to the role: - establishing the financial stability upon which key business decisions could be made - financial guide to the CEOs for all of the 20 businesses that make up the region - leading the transformation of the region on at least there occasions as market shifted away from our core skills - creating a cost control approach that recognized the pragmatic need to oversee spend while maintaining an approach that was fair to the need to invest in the future - creatively finding ways to build incentive pools for performance goals

New York, New York

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Originally based in New York (3 months), then Mexico City (15 months), finally located in this role in Sao Paulo, from January 2001 to June 2006.Coming out of dictator-led countries over the past decade, the businesses in Latin America went through tremendous change during the period of my tenure. Managing in that environment taught me a huge amount about how to install processes and policies when freedom to develop new ways of working in new economies was abundant. Appreciating different cultures and regulations, seeing new ways of working and approaches to problems has been key to developing my approach to problems and how to find solutions.

As head of the Internal Audit department of a LSE quoted company, reporting to the Audit Committee it was important to: - be dependable and trustworthy - someone to turn to in a crisis - improved the control environment of WPP across the world by managing a small team focused on setting precedents in the larger businesses

Fca

Financial Managment, Finance And Accounting

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