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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Manage the preparation of consolidated financial statements (GAAP), including eliminations, adopting standards, and disclosures during a period of dynamic growth. Manage holding company external financial audit. Oversee Purchasing and Accounts Payable Department. Assist in control, design, and implementation of policies, procedures, processes, and digital transformation. In first 6 months, managed the restructuring of the Purchasing and Accounts Payable Department enabling scaling to meet rapid growth in complexity and volume; resulting in processing 100% more invoices in 2023 than the previous year. Managed the adoption of ASC 842, Lease Accounting standard, including authoring the accounting memo and implementing FinQuery (fka LeaseQuery) software solution.

Washington, Dc

Supported Deputy CFO and CFO, in all areas of financial management, of a $130M annual revenue Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Took on leadership for the stalled implementation of a cloud-based ERP system (Blackbaud Financial Edge), resulting in successful implementation; taking treasury management and project accounting for grants and contracts processes from Excel based to system based at the transaction level. Vetted, onboarded, trained, and supervised four temporary staff positions during transition in processes and workflows. Identified, spearheaded approval, and project lead for the implementation of Workplace by Pairsoft (fka Paramount Workplace), purchase to pay (P2P) cloud-based application, integrating with Financial Edge; transitioning the procurement process from primarily an “after the fact” paper-based system to front loaded process, with electronic approval routing and audit trail. Lead for organization wide WorkPlace training. Accounts Payable management, implementing ACH vendor payments while standardizing and automating processes. Authored and implemented processes, workflows, and procedures for treasury management, grants and contracts project accounting, revenue recognition, direct cost, and indirect cost allocations. Quote from CFO; “I value your ability to see a project to the end. You are an enormous asset to this team.”

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Direct client support coordinating accounting operations, preparing financial statements, managing budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes, actual to budget analysis, implementing new processes, managing period and annual close, reporting, and audits

Woodbridge, Virginia

Responsible for the accounting (QuickBooks Enterprise), administration, human resources, facilities, and information technology operations of the organization; led and managed financial planning, financial performance reporting and budget management in accordance with GAAP; supervised administrative support staff and managed relationships with outside counsel and financial advisers. Implemented Tsheets, a cloud-based timesheet application; enabling assignment of Project Codes by employee and real-time reports, thereby, increasing accuracy and enabling managers to optimize labor utilization and direct billable hours.

Middletown, Virginia

Provided fiscal support for sponsored programs (primarily Department of Labor (DOL) federal grants) from proposal cost budgets through close of award. Managed DOL audits and monitoring resulting in no fiscal findings. Responsible for grant draws/invoicing and reporting (Peoplesoft). Analyzed actual versus budget costs and reconciled program awards in accordance with guidelines, grantor agreements, and regulations. Monitored, developed, and implemented internal control procedures. Primary team member for the renegotiation of the College’s indirect cost rate agreement (NICRA) with the federal government. Authored the College’s sponsored programs policy, mitigating compliance risk. Benchmarked and authored the Federally Funded Sponsored Programs manual in compliance with federal written documentation requirements. Created and implemented the required time and effort reporting procedures for federally funded programs. Implemented College wide billing and Accounts Receivable cloud-based application for non-tuition revenue streams. Quote from Director of Finance; “Thank you for always thinking outside the box to help us better our processes.”

Mclean, Virginia

Mclean, Virginia

Responsible for finance and accounting functions (not for profit, federal government contracting (DOD)), internal controls, policies and procedures, ERP system administration (Peachtree) (NAV), audits (annual, single audit, consistently resulting in no findings, and DCAA (Pre-award Surveys, Post-award Audits, and Contractor Business System Audits)), Form 990, internal and external reporting; financial planning and analysis, rolling forecasts, FAR/CAS compliance research and oversight, federal contracts billing and collections, period and annual closes, job cost tracking and reporting, cash flow management. Assumed project leadership for stalled implementation of Dynamics NAV. Identified resources to solve implementation issues; producing a return on the $150k implementation cost and facilitating continuing process improvement initiatives.

Manassas, Virginia

Responsible for accounting and financial reporting functions, ERP administration (Deltek Vision), supervised Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable staff, developed processes and procedures to report project work in process using estimates to complete and earned value analysis, implemented accelerated billing procedures for better cash flow.

Edinburg, Virginia

Responsible for financial accounting and analytics for three subsidiary companies; streamlined property management accounting (JD Edwards) including Leases (ASC 840) and asset retirement obligations (ASC 410) administration, reporting, methods, and procedures; supported quarterly SEC reporting and annual audit; variance analysis and monthly board reports. Project Lead for the successful ERP upgrade (JD Edwards) resulting in reporting and data entry efficiencies, enhanced staff training, and maintaining vendor support; delaying the cost and resources of implementing a new ERP system. Nominated by my peers and selected by management for the Shentel Circle of Excellence. An annual awards program to recognize employees’ accomplishments beyond normal performance expectations.

Bs, Accounting, 4.0

graduated summa cum laude

Graduate Level Finance Course, 4.0

postgraduate Finance Course