Professional Objective
Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller, Financial or Treasury Executive in a small to mid-size company or division / Business unit of a large corporation. Apply entrepreneurial skills coupled with extensive experience in leveraging business and financial resources; to restructuring and improving bottomline profitability, thereby building a financial infrastructure that will efficiently absorb significant growth.
Summary of Experience
Senior Financial Executive qualified by over 17 years of extensive and diversified experience with excellent technical and analytical skills. Significant expertise in financial reporting; budgeting and forecasting; policy and procedure administration; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and accounting for public, private and not-for-profit entities. Team player with very solid verbal and written communication skills that facilitate interaction with all levels of management. Ambitious, highly motivated leader, with proven abilities to organize, implement and control.
Professional Experience
Government Acquisitions, Inc- Cincinnati, Ohio March 2005 Present
Chief Financial Officer
A Privately owned, $100 Million Technology Solutions (VAR) Company, headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio with branch offices in Washington DC and West Virginia; focused on Federal, State & Local Government Customers.
Management of the Finance, Accounting, Administration and HR comprising of four direct reports.
Restructured the Accounting department including the development, documentation and implementation of new accounting procedures to ensure the timely and accurate preparation of GAAP compliant financial statements.
Sourced and identified GAAP compliant ERP systems and developed implementation plan.
Management of all treasury functions including the development and Maintenance of long term banking relationships
Development and maintenance of high level relationships with key vendor Treasury and/or credit departments to secure adequate credit lines and favorable trade terms.
Development and maintenance of high level relationships with various government agency payment departments to ensure prompt payment of our invoices.
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Corbus, LLC, Dayton, Ohio Jan 2004 March 2005
Chief Financial Officer Global Operations
A Privately held premier IT and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Company, headquartered in Dayton Ohio with a strong presence in US, Europe and Asia Pacific markets with its Global delivery Center in India.
Global Management of the Finance, Accounting, Administrative and HR Departments comprising of four direct reports (CFOs or Directors) in UK, India and US with a total of over 35 employees. Hired with the specific responsibility to institute orderliness in the department by developing and implementing procedures and internal controls to ensure timely and accurate preparation of Financial reports. Mentored and motivated employees into a highly cohesive and productive team with the goal to reduced monthly financial Statements preparation time from 30 days to under 10days.
Global Cash management which included developing and maintaining high level banking relationship. Negotiate and managed various debt facilities including Asset based credit lines and long term loans.
Implementation of an interrelated modular Accounting system which included G/L, A/P, A/R/cash/Invoicing, Payroll, Invoicing, Purchasing, sales Analysis etc
Other duties/accomplishments included the design and implementation of computerizedBudgetary system; reduced operating cost by over $500K by streamlining processes, Risk and Benefit management, maintaining professional relationships with auditors and lawyers.
OR Group, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio 1989 2003
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller
A Privately owned holding company with diverse multi-state manufacturing and service companies with combined total revenues of $75 million and over 400 employees. The OR Group of companies include:
OR Chem, specialty chemical manufacturing company - Cincinnati, OH
OR Pack Stone, corrugated box manufacturing company - Herrin, IL
OR Flex, flexible packaging manufacturing company - Cincinnati, OH
OR Document Management Services, document management company -Marlton, NJ
Top financial executive for this privately held high-profile entrepreneurial corporation, taking company from $2 million to $75 million through internal growth and acquisitions. Officer of thecompany and member of the Board of Directors for holding company and its subsidiaries.
Managed and mentored ten direct reports (including 3 subsidiary Controllers) and an overall staff of 30 accountable for all aspects of treasury, finance, accounting and purchasing. Full responsibility for risk insurance, human resources, management information systems, and banking including providing direction for legal representation.
Prepared annual budgets, all financial statements including internal and external reporting and coordinated annual audits by CPA firm complete with all required tax filings.
Provided all cash management and treasury guidance including maintenance of all bank relationships, efficient management of $50 million required debt services.
Personal, strategic and trusted advisor to CEO and owner through periods of rapid growth and contraction. Modeled business scenarios, analyzed consequences of proposed business activities, assessed risk and benefits, analyzed industry and company trends.
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KPMG Peat Marwick, Main & Co., CPAs, Cincinnati, Ohio 1987 - 1989
Auditor
Auditor at the local office of an $11 Billion, 100,000 employee Big 5 Public Accounting firm providing auditing, tax and consulting services to businesses throughout the world.
Performed financial audits of small to major manufacturing companies including such major company names as General Electric, Baldwin Piano, Miami University, PNC Bank.
Achievements
Due diligence and negotiations on over ten diverse companies resulting in four successful financially sound acquisitions and joint ventures comprising a $75 million revenue company today including full integration into the parent company.
Designed and implemented comprehensive financial reporting and internal policies, procedures and controls for each OR Group subsidiary and for the holding company.
Developed five-year financial projection models for use by upper management for strategic planning purposes and evaluation of financial performance vs. competition.
Designed and implemented inventory management, costing and pricing systems in multiple manufacturing environments including collection of data for the computation and application of manufacturing overhead. This significantly improved managements ability to quickly and accurately
cost and price jobs competitively.
Designed and implemented cost effective personnel policies, including employee handbook, health insurance program, and 401K plans for all OR Group companies.
Researched, acquired and installed new state-of-the-art IBM AS400 computer complete with fully integrated software.
Significantly improved cash flow by reducing accounts receivable DOS by 15 days, decreasing inventory levels by 10% without adversely effecting on time delivery.
Negotiated all liability insurance contracts, which resulted in 10% reduction in premiums.
One ($1) million cost controls enacted over a two-year period in areas of improved product pricing, purchasing, shipping functions and more efficient inventory management.
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Education
MAcc Master of Accountancy
(Advanced degree specializing in Computerized and Advanced Accounting Systems)
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio - 1986
BA - Bachelor of Arts in Accounting
(Minor in Computer Science)
Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio 1985
Technology Skills
Highly Proficient in Lotus 123, Excel, Word, ACCPAC, BNA Fixed Asset, IBM AS400 , Chempax (chemical industry software), Harry Rhodes Systems (corrugated industry software)
Affiliations
Member- Association of Financial Professionals (AFP)
Minority Business Mentoring- provided counsel to entrepreneurs in Financial Management.
Tri-State Cameroonian Association -OH, IN, KY - (500 members) (President, 1995 to 2000)
South Central Ohio Minority Business Council (Previous Treasury Board Member)
Member- Financial Executive Networking Group
Personal Strengths
Strong Leadership Skills - Entrepreneurial - Visionary Exceptional Interpersonal Skills - Innovative and Dynamic Outstanding Communication and Presentation Skills Hands On approach as needed Partnership Builder with Co-workers, Vendors and Customers Mentor for Peers and Management Embraces Culture of Integrity, Excellence and Accountability |
