• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems; ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements.• Manage internal and external reporting and oversee general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, taxes and insurance, chart of accounts, and all reconciliations.• Develop proper GAAP-based accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls and ensure accurate and thorough documentation of each.• Set the strategic direction for the implementation, improvement and general maintenance of accounting systems and finance solutions that support a growing company and expanding product offering.

• Manage Finance team and liaison with remote employees to oversee accounting and financial reporting functions for two affiliated entities.• Work with CFO and COO on forecasting/budgeting and to ensure the accuracy of monthly/annual financials.• Primary contact and maintain working relationships with external CPAs, consultants and bankers.• Built new budgets and tracking tools to streamline monthly financial reporting and quarterly tax reporting.• Built retroactive reconciliation for 6 year, $56M government contract to ensure compliance with all aspects of billing and required annual financial submissions• Executed conversion of accounting system for both entities from Sage 100 Contractor to Viewpoint/Spectrum.

• Manage Finance team and liaison with remote teams to oversee financials for two wineries and nine affiliated entities.• Work with CFO and senior leaders from multiple entities to ensure the accuracy of monthly/annual financials.• Reviewed and built new tools to streamline A/R collections and cash application procedures, tracking outstanding checks, reconciling multiple credit card accounts, tracking and posting lease payments, and matching inter-company transactions and balances across all entities.• Partnered with Staff Accountant to review and strengthen monthly wine inventory procedures to reduce write-offs and strengthen supporting documentation for regulatory compliance.• Built 3 years of audit support for successful TTB excise tax audit for two of the winery entities.• Primary point of contact for outside CPA auditors for review and preparation of annual company financials.• Executed conversion of accounting system for one entity from Quickbooks to Microsoft Dynamics Navision.

• Partner with CEO and senior leadership team to strategize and execute financial plans.• Integrated revenue forecast tool from production schedule into new budget schedules to link seasonal financial plans with fiscal financial reporting periods.• Implemented and streamlined collections process and built relationships with clients’ payable departments to tighten cash management (600 – 800 average open invoices per month) and minimize draw on Line of Credit.• Partnered with Accounting Manager to develop matching process for COGS to more accurately report financials.• Retroactively rebuilt 3 years of sales and use tax documentation to support successful BOE Sales and Use Tax audit.• Managed selection process and conversion of accounting system from SAGE 100 to NetSuite (cloud based system).

• Work directly with CEO, President and Principals on Leadership Team to strategize and execute financial plans for the two studios (San Francisco and New York).• Rebuilt GL structure and enhanced existing budget tools to foster more disciplined annual forecasts and increased use of metrics to enhance both client and studio profitability.• Negotiate client contracts, NDAs and 3rd party vendor agreements.• Liaison with bank representatives for Line of Credit and related covenants and outside CPA’s for tax reporting and review of annual financial statements.• Oversee all day-to-day financial operations and engage with discipline leaders and Principal of HR in planning full-time headcount and use of freelance resources.• Partnered with other Principals in revising fee rate structure and long-term client revenue forecasts.

• Initial finance professional hired to develop and install many of the accounting processes to aid WCG’s growth from a $5M revenue firm to a $45M revenue international firm.• Built GL structure, converted accounting system from cash to accrual basis and owned budgeting and forecasting processes.• Negotiated and managed client contracts and NDAs, coordinated tax preparation with outside CPA’s (both US and UK) and handled financial reporting to outside entities.• Principal contact for bank relationships and managed bank line of credit.• Oversaw cash receipts collections of $5M/month with collections team to ensure inflows met cash forecasts and A/R aging remained current.• Supervised monthly cash disbursements of $4M/month and maintained relationships with key vendors.• Managed up to five separate GL’s for subsidiaries and the consolidation into a single entity during the evolution of the company’s corporate structure. • Participated in selection and implementation of new Rebus accounting system.

Led integration of four separate Advertising offices into a consolidated reporting entity for the Western Region.• Managed staff of eleven including members in three satellite offices for accounts payable, accounts receivable and month end closing procedures.• Reported financial results for Western Region to New York corporate headquarters and coordinated with outside auditors for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance testing.• Maintained company budgets and led analysis of monthly actuals to budget variances.• Reviewed and approved all vendor invoices, account reconciliations and journal entries.

• Built integrated budgeting tools and streamlined work flows that cut costs and helped the agency increase profitability three consecutive years in a down market.• Coordinated consolidation of Tonic360 with JTW/SF office while simultaneously converting accounting systems from QuickBooks to Donovan (ran dual accounting systems for most of 2002.)• Reported financial results and variance analysis vs. budget to Corporate office in New York while managing local Finance team in day-to-day accounting operations.