Scott D. Johnson, Mba Email & Phone Number

Washington, UT, US

This group is to promote and advance the careers and professional goals of Spanish and Portuguese speaking Finance & Accounting Executives in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro area and North Texas. The vision is to have a publicly, well-recognized community so HR personnel, hiring managers, and executive recruiters know exactly where to look when our specialized.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led the financial elements of a C&W business pursuit resulting in a new third-party service contract with Kimberly Clark, one of the world's largest producers of personal and professional care products
• Directed the finance/accounting transition of the new Kimberly Clark business for twenty-six locations across North America with an annual budget of $40+ Million
• Supervised the contract governance process to ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were met, allowing the account to consistently earn more than 95% of its quarterly and annual fee at risk
• For Cushman & Wakefield’s client, Ericsson Telecommunications, drove the creation and implementation of annual operating budgets in 60+ cost centers for the first time since the inception of the Global Service.
• Negotiated an amendment to the Global Service Agreement extending Cushman & Wakefield’s relationship with Ericsson by four years and valued at approximately $200 Million in revenue
• Instituted the first formal monthly financial review process for facility managers and service-line leaders assigned to the Ericsson account throughout the Americas, emphasizing their financial accountability for their.

92866 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9, FR

• Led the Americas’ finance and accounting responsibilities of Sodexo’s facilities management contract with Nokia Devices & Services (mobile phones) during the sale and transition of NDS to Microsoft Corporation

Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

• A global provider of diesel, natural gas, heavy fuel oil (HFO), and turbine-based power station EPC (Engineering/Procurement/Construction) and O&M (Operating & Maintenance) services focused on emerging markets
• One of the four members of the company’s management team that drove its strategic planning and direction
• Portuguese skills and Latin America experience played a key role in negotiating and securing a $30 million contract with a major Brazilian conglomerate for a construction project located in Guinea, West Africa
• Sold a $55 billion Korean supplier on a payment program that allows clients to purchase and ship goods without utilizing expensive, complicated, and time-consuming bank letters of credit while still protecting the.
• Managed the company’s cash flow to pay off nearly $200,000 of state and federal tax liabilities
• Outsourced the corporate payroll functions to a national service provider so the payroll and payroll taxes are completed in an accurate, timely and cost effective manner

• A partnership holding company with I.T. businesses offering payroll processing and human resource management products and services designed specifically for the Latin America market; oil & gas pipeline monitoring.
• Supervised the finance/accounting and various operational functions of the holding company’s businesses located in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States
• Generated and maintained a two-year cash flow model to track the sources and uses of over $2.5 million of cash by country and by project and continuously informed the company’s owners of areas of sufficient and.
• Transferred nearly $100,000 to the U.S. from a Venezuelan subsidiary despite the lack of a currency market for Venezuelan Bolivars
• Improved cash liquidity and reduced accounts receivable by working with the collections staff in Mexico City to identify and resolve problem accounts
• Provided the Mexico country manager with detailed cost-structure analyses of his business that gave him the ability to identify areas of potential cost savings

Dallas, TX, US

• A Dallas, Texas based law firm founded in 1887 which by 2007 had more than 500 attorneys stationed in 10 offices among five countries and annual revenues of roughly $250 million
• The chief liaison between the firm’s U.S. based leadership and the managers and administrators of its international locations
• Directed the accounting/finance and administrative personnel and functions of the firm’s overseas offices located in Algeria, Brazil, and Mexico; the other non-U.S. location consisted of one partner in London working.
• Trained the Brazil and Mexico office staffs to utilize consistent billing and reporting formats, to follow internal procedures, and to adhere to the same accounting deadlines as had been implemented by the head office.
• Standardized the monthly financial reports produced by the Brazil and Mexico offices facilitating the consolidation of those reports into the firm’s combined financials
• Created tools and procedures to reconcile the monthly compensation of the firm’s international partners against their projected draw and to correctly calculate their year-end profit distributions

West Hartford, US

• Provider of information technology solutions and data management services to clients in 56 countries with 2004 revenue of $20.6 billion
• Supported the CEO, CFO, business unit leaders, and other senior executives with monthly financial reports, forecasts, and analyses of over 4,200 worldwide contracts totaling roughly $20 billion in annual revenue
• Supplied senior management with the revenue and contribution details they used in the quarterly board of directors presentations, corporate earnings releases, and Wall Street analyst meetings
• Created a tool for mapping select data in the corporate, financial system to an internal, customer-satisfaction database which expanded the client information visible to the relationship managers
• Served on a multi-departmental team that built a market penetration model which allowed the sales force to be more competitive during new business pursuits
• Developed an analysis to compare revenue from existing-client (organic) sales and new-client (un-organic) sales against corporate growth targets

Atlanta, GA, US

• Third-party logistics services division of United Parcel Service (UPS), offering transportation, distribution, warehousing, and inventory management services
• Recruited based on previous international experience to help drive the company’s planned expansion from being only Mexico to having a presence across all of Latin America
• Instituted financial operating procedures for the division to safeguard the proper accounting, consolidating, and reporting of results by regional business unit and in total
• Represented the Latin America division during the annual reviews by external auditors and achieved unqualified opinions of results prior to their reports being released to the foreign tax authorities
• Scrutinized project cost estimates during the negotiations of new contracts
• Monitored the inter-company balances between the corporate office and the Mexico operation and aided the process of capitalizing a substantial portion of the debt

Irving, TX, US

• A global manufacturer and marketer of maintenance, repair, and supply products including: specialty chemicals, water treatment solutions, welding supplies, fasteners, plumbing and electronic parts
• Guided the accounting and finance functions of the company’s operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and South Africa; (approximately $13 million in combined assets)
• Prepared and presented in the quarterly executive review sessions, financial statements in local currency, U.S. dollars, and GAAP (including FAS 52 where applicable) on an individual country and consolidated basis
• Instigated a more streamlined quarterly close and reporting process that produced more time for detailed analysis of the financial results prior to the senior management review meetings
• Coordinated with foreign operations managers and financial staff to maintain sufficient operating cash balances locally and to repatriate any excess funds to corporate headquarters in the U.S. via dividend and royalty.
• Ensured the foreign accounting and finance managers followed corporate policies and practices relative to accounting procedures, taxes (income and payroll), profit sharing, benefits, etc., thus eliminating issues.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Management / Finance