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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Establish finance operational strategies with a strong emphasis on raising capital, solving tight margins, minimizing cash flow issues, and seeking growth, leading to accumulating capital to fund expansion.Elevate the level of reporting for companies by processing accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll functions. Collaborate with accounting consultants to ensure compliance with local and state laws for taxation and monthly-end procedures. Oversee preparation and implementation of short and long-term financial models, including P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow to enhance standardized reporting.• Provided financial expertise to improve financial controls and internal policies for small and medium-sized enterprises in diverse industries, such as retail real estate, event marketing, digital advertising, and video production.• Spearheaded improvement, consistency, and innovation in systems / processes; acting as a strategic advisor and CFO for multiple start-ups whilst designing KPIs by defining critical success factors.• Developed and implemented effective processes and ensured consistencies focused on continuous efficiency improvement whilst driving change management as necessary.• Maximized return on investment by identifying new investment opportunities and maintaining investor dashboard.• Achieved financial objectives by planning, developing, and executing financial frameworks / policies.• Assisted clients in achieving sustainable financial growth by preparing and overseeing annual budget.

Boston, Ma, Us

Rhapsody formerly Lyniate offers industry-leading interoperability solutions that deliver simple and seamless integration of all health data. Through our two primary products, Corepoint and Rhapsody, we enable a connected healthcare ecosystem with adaptable interoperability solutions, unlocking the full potential of data. We partner with providers, payers, and health IT vendors around the world to enable rapid, reliable, and scalable interoperability, both vertically and horizontally, on-premises or in the cloud. Lyniate is a HG Capital portfolio company.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led the growth of a Digital Agency from $13M to $25M in two years by establishing financial competency through setting service pricing, enhancing reporting procedures, and accumulating resources.Monitored and improved financial performance by integrating new financial systems in accordance with parent company’s financial framework. Identified profitable customer segment by implementing client profitability reporting to enable leadership to make decisions and retain clients. Developed financial well-being of the company by conceptualizing and implementing a formal forecast process and bi-monthly sales projection report. • Reported financial status by developing two-year financial forecast and preparing budgets and bi-monthly financial estimates, including reporting results, corrective actions, and impact of variances.• Supported managerial planning and key decision-making process by implementing standard pricing model and developing project-estimate tools for account teams. • Reduced monthly close process by five days to ensure timely communication of results, forecasts, and action plans to executive management.• Initiated finance human resource strategies by hiring and managing a team of finance directors, finance managers, and associates.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Strategic business partner to Managing Directors across multiple business units, ensuring finance components enforce strategic business objectives. Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for finance and operations teams. Generated and analyzed global sales projections to assist strategic decision making by each business unit while developing client profitability reporting. • Led the forecasting and financial planning process, as well as developed meaningful insights and actionable recommendations to help drive business decision.• Developed and retained profitable client relationships by initiating contracts and negotiations whilst overseeing month-end close process. • Supported decision-making process by developing forecasts, reporting results, analyzing variances, and developing improvements.Additional experience as Finance Manager / Senior Finance Manager at Jack Morton Worldwide.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Managed the monthly close process and provide provided bi-monthly financial flashes to parent company. Recruited, trained and developed Finance Managers and Analysts as business grew. Oversaw accounts payable and accounts receivable. Completed ad-hock projects for Chief Operating Officer.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us