Office Chief
CurrentForeign Debt & Export Accounting OfficeDomestic Debt & Travel Policy OfficeOffice Chief and Assistant Treasurer of government agency managing $13.5 billion foreign debt portfolio for the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a USDA entity whose mission is to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices. Project manager on CCC Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and other Agency initiatives.Leadership & Management:-Manage and mentor staff of 20 accounting and… Show more Foreign Debt & Export Accounting OfficeDomestic Debt & Travel Policy OfficeOffice Chief and Assistant Treasurer of government agency managing $13.5 billion foreign debt portfolio for the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a USDA entity whose mission is to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices. Project manager on CCC Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and other Agency initiatives.Leadership & Management:-Manage and mentor staff of 20 accounting and finance professionals.-Ensure senior management vision is clearly conveyed to staff and articulated into tangible office goals.-Ensure that office goals are broken down and allocated to staff in the form of clearly defined tasks for which they can be held accountable.-Identify and improve upon office value-drivers. Improved reputation of offices amongst their varied stakeholders. -Reinvigorated office culture via personal interviews, alignment of expectations, and collective input to, and buy-in of, office goals. Project Management:-Served as agency point of contact with external consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).-Collaborated with PWC in application of proprietary Sarbanes-Oxley assessment and implementation templates. -Mapped relevant process cycles, identified internal control weaknesses, and drafted remediation plans.-Organize & Manage other Office project initiatives as merited.Financial Analysis & Accounting:-Negotiate restructurings for non-performing debt and perform related NPV & IRR analyses.-Represent USDA at State Department meetings of Paris Club (A global creditor's consortium).-Perform Controller function for all portfolio related accounting.Credit Analysis:-Performed financial statement analysis in the establishment of trade credit limits.-Collaborated with domestic and international banks on export of U.S agricultural commodities. -Led re-engineering of USDA internal credit analysis methodology. Show less