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Indianapolis, In, Us

Fishers, Indiana, United States

Overseeing the integration of enterprise systems, including Salesforce, Certinia, Datarails, Sharepoint, Paylocity, and Power BI with financial operations. Leading initiatives to modernize financial reporting, leveraging automation and data analytics to streamline processes. Responsible for aligning financial systems with business needs to support strategic growth, including the expansion of forecasting and budgeting capabilities. Driving operational improvements by introducing systems that optimize resource utilization, improve cash flow forecasting, and enable more dynamic scenario planning. Collaborating closely with IT, finance, and operations teams to ensure integration and maximization of enterprise solutions across the organization.

Fishers, Indiana, United States

Expanded my role to lead the financial planning and analysis team for a $100M private equity-backed professional services firm. Expert in board-level communication, distilling complex financial and strategic issues into actionable insights for executives and board members. Developed and published monthly financial forecasts with a 5% accuracy target, ensuring timely delivery of critical insights for decision-making. Led the design of quarterly board presentations, focusing on financial performance, growth drivers, and long-term strategy. Played a key role in refining the company’s operational and financial models, enabling improved accuracy in predicting revenue and expenses while optimizing cash flow and debt management. Supported the CFO in refining revenue recognition processes, accounts receivable management, and audit preparation.

Fishers, In

Led financial strategy and operational planning for a rapidly growing professional services firm. Developed comprehensive financial models to forecast revenue, expenses, balance sheet projections, and cash flow. Partnered with senior executives to support high-level financial decision-making, including capital allocation and debt covenant management. Spearheaded the company’s annual budgeting process, aligning strategic objectives with financial goals and achieving consistent double-digit growth. Focused on optimizing the utilization of billable staff through resource modeling to drive operational efficiency. Worked closely with the CFO and Controller on critical finance functions, including audits, cash flow management, revenue recognition, and days sales outstanding.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

I help CFOs, analysts, and small business owners quickly learn Power BI to transform and understand data.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Founded a pioneering consumer food company in the meal kit space. Raised and deployed $300k+ of Angel investments to build a regional customer base. Constructed an end-to-end technology solution for order capture and enterprise resource planning. Partnered with a well-known grocery chain to deploy a retail meal kit product line 2 years before competitors by building a sophisticated manufacturing process and cold supply chain with serialization and track/trace. Exited in 2017 before competition soared and pricing pressure drove near-commoditization of the industry.

Greater New York City Area

Modeled and analyzed over $5 billion of executed community bank and thrift mergers and over $20 billion of executed bank and thrift capital raises across the entire spectrum of complex capital structures. Advised and presented to executive management of banks, thrifts, asset managers, broker/dealers, and financial technology companies on an array of strategic decisions. Conducted financial due diligence and supported senior bankers in client relations.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) In Finance, Minor In Music

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Technology Management