Paul Becker Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Southern California

The Gold’s Gym SoCal Group boasts twelve locations owned and operated by the Banos brothers, who opened their first gym in North Hollywood in 1988 and celebrated 25 years in business in 2013. The Southern California area locations include North Hollywood, Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Culver City, Fullerton, West Covina.

Greater Seattle Area

Providing financial services and insight to entrepreneurial businesses. Contract-based company for specific scopes of work setting up accounting, reporting, regulatory, point-of-sale and training systems. Particular emphasis placed on financial statement review, Maximizing use of technology, and opportunities for operational efficiency gains.

• Premier health-and-fitness enterprise operating three facilities representing 350K square feet of property and 45K+ members and patrons. Engaged in multiple roles of increasing scope and responsibility throughout.
• Reduced comprehensive legal and financial risk for all corporate operations by designing and implementing key systems and controls that achieved full compliance with GAAP, PCI, and HIPAA.
• Pioneered evolution from labor-intensive, paper-based accounting system to network of business platforms integrated with single ERP, expanding Accounting and IT head count 400% despite nearly 800%+ growth in.
• Instituted robust Electronic Health Records [EHR] and Practice Management [PM]system governing all medical transactions, successfully reducing rejected insurance claims by 30%, expediting payments by two weeks and.
• Championed implementation of online account-payment and scheduling system that eliminated need for manual check-payment processing and 25% reduction in phone-in appointments.
• Managed all budgeting, project costing, financing relationships and covenant reporting associated with $52M construction project.

Role comprised of 80% of the scope as outlined in the position of Chief Financial Officer (2006-2013). During this earlier period, company size was approximately 60-70%. Also during this period divisional oversight did not include retail, web commerce and central distributions as these departments did not evolve until later. However, supervisory.

Bellevue, WA

Duties included full responsibility for all company financial activities as well as direct oversight and management of all finance staff and daily operations. General ledger oversight, auditing, and occasional reconciling. Responsible for organization-wide technology systems.

Bellevue, WA

Scope comprised of oversight and daily operational management of Membership Accounts as well as Accounts Payable staff and functions. Developed new systems supporting member services engagement and communications.

Bellevue, WA

Assisted in the opening, staffing and subsequent management of the company's first onsite restaurant. Scope included direct oversight of production and cash handling staff as well as shift responsibility for entire restaurant. Set up initial point of sale system, kitchen operations manual and inventory system.

Greater Seattle Area

Positions spanned from Assistant Manager of full-service steak and seafood concept restaurant, to management of corporate dining operations, multi-unit regional supervision and corporate client liaison. Recognized as youngest Sr. Food Service Director for Saga Corporation in mid 1980s. Saga was a national contract food service company and owner of Stuart.