Stamford, Connecticut, United States
SENIOR FINANCE EXECUTIVE Versatile Finance Business Partner with depth of experience across all key elements of Finance, inclusive of Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Analysis, Capital Management and Controllership. Both Field and Corporate background have allowed unique perspective in driving business transformation. Business acumen and ability to influence across the organization led to selection for key senior Strategic roles in Corporate Project Management, Process Improvement and Business Partner. Strong expertise in business integration and process engineering with focus on cost reduction. AREAS OF EXPERTISE: • Operational Finance • Corporate Finance • Change Management • Strategic Planning & Execution • Strategic Business Analysis • Internal Controls • Profit & Loss Management • Performance Management • Global Process Improvement • Project Management • External Benchmarking • Crisis Management • Certified Six-Sigma Green Belt
Chief Financial Officer
Finance professional responsible for the provision of timely, accurate and reliable financial management information including: - Quarterly reviews with Board of Trustees - Development of annual budget - Development of monthly forecast - Monthly financial reviews with Campus Operating Officers - Creation of annual Tuition and Fees proposal and related Institutional Aid programs. Led cross functional team in developing decision tree for Campus Operating Officers that resulted in a $7M decrease in bad debt year over year. Developed analysis and recommended the closing of unprofitable locations resulting in improved operational profitability for the College. Led team in the creation of automated key financial metric dashboards providing key information used to make data based operational decisions. Led initiative in creating key metric dashboards using PowerBI providing key actionable data leading to data based decision making. Developed pooled organization structure to better service students while lowering the cost to the institution by $1.7M or 42%. Driving force in the creation of an Organization Risk Management process that raised awareness and is leading to mitigating risk.
Finance professional responsible for the provision of timely, accurate and reliable financial management information and the running and enhancement of reporting systems which facilitate the production of this management information. - Perform budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis along with relevant commentary on variances. - Communicate results of forecasts directly to executive management and provide insights to facilitate strategic decision making. - Lead the Leveraging Opportunities finance team responsible to support the financial reporting and analysis of Leveraging Opportunities results.
Business Partner with full P&L responsibility supporting Vice President of Vehicle Remarketing in all strategic and operational aspects of the business. - Performed complete analysis of back office operations leading to fundamental changes in operating processes allowing for a 20% increase in volume processed without an increase in manpower resources. - Created key metrics that led to the identification and subsequent corrective actions of poor performing stores. - Developed Capital Spending plan and perform regular ROI and NPV analysis for new store openings, lease renewals, and other capital spend. - Rent-A-Car Finance Lead and Change Management leader for Dollar/Thrifty Integration - Project Manager of recent acquisition responsible for financial process engineering and integration into mainstream Hertz processes.
Responsible for Project financial integrity and identification of improvement opportunities. - Drove over-achievement of the annual Revenue and Cost targets by over 38% ($207M) utilizing project management disciplines and P&L opportunity analysis - Identified and drove improvement of vehicle refueling profits leading to $2M savings. - Conducted and executed numerous Lean Six-Sigma 8D problem solving analyses. - Ownership for all budgets of Project Management Office and Organization Excellence (Blackbelts) teams leading to an improvement of $1.5M vs budget through detailed spending analysis and behavior change management. - Created process for validation of $2.9B in project benefits/savings ensuring P&L reporting accuracy. - Completed financial review/audit of the top 80% of cost savings projects and highlighted project shortfalls that led to $4M in revised forecasts and identification of opportunities for improvement. - Raised compliance of project management disciplines in 3 months leading to improved processes and results. - Created and conducted Financial training, including basic Project Management skills, for operations management.
.Owner of Process Improvement and Process Excellence initiatives for Global Finance organization with over 900 employees in 14 countries. - Finance domain leader, reporting to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and Vice President Global Project Management Office. Exceeded management target by $25M or 71% for 2012. - Implemented numerous improvements related to the recovery of vehicle damages leading to over $6M in annualized savings or a reduction of 6% in net vehicle damage costs. - Drove initiative to standardize accounting processes globally leading to $15M in P&L improvements, exceeding target by 50% for 2012. - Reduced Credit Card Transaction Fees by $5.8M annually or 5% of total cost by identifying and correcting internal processing errors. - Rationalized & Standardized Internal Reporting leading to $1.5M in annual savings. - Created comprehensive Financial Management training program for U.S. Rent-A-Car and led training initiative of operations managers. - Functioned as project leader in driving process improvements on behalf of the CFO and business unit leaders. - Finance lead for benchmarking study conducted with The Hackett Group that has led to more than $36M in annualized cost reductions for the Finance operation. - Coordinated many Kaizens / workshops ranging from Cash Management to Monthly Forecasting that have led to the elimination of non-value added work and improved the effectiveness
Responsible for all Accounting and Planning for operations related capital expenditures for E. Fishkill manufacturing plant. - Provide business case analysis - Present business cases and capital requests to plant manager and other senior management. - Accounted for and tracked capital purchases. - Monitored spend for all projects within my responsibility.
Various responsibilities from Expense Accounting to Balance Sheet Accountant.