Tom Kieran, Mba Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Costa Mesa, California, Us

La Mirada, Ca, Us

Multi-national packaging distributor, and provider of supply chain, logistics, and freight forwarding services. Facilities in the Western US and in the UK serving a diverse industrial and consumer manufacturing base in the U.S. and Europe.• Generated growth of $30m in revenue along with Executive and Strategic Teams by executing a growth plan that included new states, product lines, and M&A targets.• Led a full optimization of the Finance & Accounting functions that involved fully re-staffing the department, workflow re-design, developing a high-functioning team, and automation that resulted in a 3-day close, with presenting the Board deck on day 6.• Implemented Prophix FP&A and CPM cloud based consolidated reporting software.• Designed and implemented all ODBC enabled CPM, FP&A, and ad-hoc reporting tools using Excel, Access, and BizNet to close ERP capability gaps.• Designed a financial reporting map, adjusted workflows, and built reporting with top-level and segmented analysis tools to report on all strategic growth drivers and KPI’s.• Optimized the Sage ERP for multi-national operations and multi-currency FASB 52 reporting.• Implemented CargoWise cloud, a freight-forwarding accounting platform, with financials and job modules.• Facilities selection, purchase analysis, NNN negotiations, including related cash flow analysis.• Accountability for all financial matters, and compliance in the US, UK, and EU.• Built a strategic 5-year financial plan to help drive total revenue above $150m.• Played a leading role with the President in taking the U.K. company to 50% sales growth.• Recovered over $500k in at-risk receivables through ongoing negotiations with customers.• Developed a contingency plan to preserve profitability in the event of a 25% revenue reduction due to customer risk concentration.• Launched the company’s plan to bring outsourced I.T. functions in-house in one year to better support growth.

Long Beach, Ca, Us

$50m private equity organization that designs, imports, and distributes their robotic massage chairs and related wellness products to retailers and consumers.• Accountability for financial accounting, reporting, and compliance.• Led the finance team in a re-organization and re-design of core results oriented reporting and analysis tools.• Ensured continuity of internal and bondholder reporting during transition of senior finance team and downsizing.

Mx

A dominant $4bn enterprise in Mexico and Latin America manufacturing and distributing their branded dairy products. Lala USA is their $3bn subsidiary, created to penetrate the U.S. market through M&A and organic growth.• Led the implementation of SAP R3 FIN & BI modules, and supported cross-functionally on the wider ERP project.• Participated on the M&A team to acquire $250m of targets, manufacturing facilities, and brands.• Saved over $500k in Federal, State, and local taxes by launching a formal corporate tax unit at Lala.• Ensured the effective transfer of the financial team of 11 with all financial functions from Long Beach to Dallas.• Led the cleanup involving a financial staff of 11 to fix a broken enterprise wide financial function.• Initiated the building of a corporate policy and internal audit unit to build a SOX quality structural framework.• Created business analysis tools to provide FP&A, CPM, reporting, and control processes, later utilizing Hyperion.

Anaheim, California, Us

$55m PACA regulated company is the premier national provider of specialty produce and healthy foods to the retail and foodservice channels. Recruited to lead the 12-person finance team, and to help the company in an internal restructure and turnaround.• Increased profitability by $1.25m annually by designing and implementing a 10-point operations based plan.• Cut $650k of OPEX burden by developing and implementing a detailed departmental budgeting process.• Accountable for financial accounting, reporting, compliance, and adviser to shareholders.• Strategic and tactical planning, execution, impact assessment, sales, profitability, and results analysis.• Responsibility for banking relationships in optimizing financing, cash flow, and treasury positions.• Capital acquisitions analysis including tax / investment credit options, and internal rate of return analysis.• Managed a comprehensive insurance coverage portfolio to minimize operating risk exposures.

Cypress, California, Us

$50m group comprises S-Corp and LLC enterprises in the graphic arts and printing industry. Recruited to implement “Best Practice” financial controls and reporting systems that would successfully withstand a 100% growth in company revenues, while maintaining GAAP and GAAS standards.• Saved over $1m in total labor cost through Lawson ERP implementation at Primary Color.• Restructured the Accounting, Financial team of 10, and HR team to support a 100% strategic growth plan.• Managed Finance & Accounting functions at two locations.• Developed strong banking relationships to optimize cash flow and treasury management.• Sales & Use Tax, Business Property Tax reporting, compliance, and audit liability containment.

Irvine, California, Us

$50m NASDAQ company is a manufacturer of IT networking infrastructure, datacenter management systems, and wired/wireless technology. Recruited during the pre-IPO startup and expansion phase to define the role of Accounting and Finance within the company.• Developed cross-functional structures to implement Oracle ERP system modules.• Saved $65,000 annually by refining methods to analyze Mar-Com costs and reseller co-op advertising.• Saved $70,000 in annual worldwide freight cost by creating and optimizing an internal traffic department.• Managed Finance and Accounting functions, including managing staff of six.• Cultivated an environment based on shared-ownership of problem issues, resulting in accelerated solutions.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

$100m combined companies are multi-state construction contractors. During a difficult construction downturn, successfully designed and implemented a downsizing plan to limit working capital depletion and contain liquidity stress and external threats while maintaining GAAP / GAAS, bank, and government compliance.• Recovered over $100k in sales tax, business property tax, and excise tax in compliance audits.• Exposed embezzlement scheme resulting in full restitution of $50k of company funds.• Ensured clean independent audit opinions by maintaining GAAP / GAAS compliance during liquidity difficulties.• Maintained positive banking relationships and risk levels during a difficult period of financial stress.• Managed Finance and Accounting functions for multi-state projects and locations, including staff of six.

Mba, Business

Ba, Accounting & Finance