Vice President Of Finance Resume Samples

Description :

1. Provide strategic and financial leadership for a dynamic and innovative fast-growing company providing complete solutions for defense against explosives, narcotics and gunshot residue threats.
2. Establish and integrate key financial objectives and procedures to ensure the attainment of corporate goals and objectives.
3. Properly implement accounting and financial practices and processes with full accountability for all accounting and finance activities including capital budgeting, forecasting, strategic and financial planning, and analysis, negotiations, investment transactions, corporate unit options, human resources, and payroll.
4. Effectively manage and oversee the overall financial transactions, investments and capital structure of the corporate and its parent company.
5. Successfully consummate multi-million dollars in external fund-raising from the private investment community in a difficult and austere environment.
6. Secure $2M in external funding by utilizing an innovative 'factoring tool' strategy resulting in significant improvement in cash flow and an increase in working capital without incurring new/additional debt.
7. Develop a company plan reducing the monthly burn rate by 37% per month resulting in multi-million dollar savings per year.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Management

Education

Master Of Business Administration

Description :

1. Responsible for the administrative, financial, and risk management operations of the organization.
2. Oversee ongoing development of financial and operational strategies and implementation plans to support them.
3. Monitor internal control systems to ensure grant compliance, prepare for program reviews and annual audits and ultimately ensure the systems are strong enough to support turnover in key positions.
4. Prepare and present monthly financial reports and related information to CSC governing bodies.
5. Prepare and implement an ongoing strategic plan with supporting implementation plan and quarterly reviews to determine if the organization is on target or the plan needs to be revised.
6. Reorganized the Finance office due to turnover.
7. Reviewed all existing systems to determine where there is room for improvement.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Consultant

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Directed all financial management, reporting, and accounting operations for a $300 million residential and commercial security company with over 35 offices in the United States.
2. Supervised an Assistant Vice President of Finance, a Controller and 15 staff financial support personnel in all financial reporting, budgeting, accounting, and related financial activities.
3. Managed strategic financial management plans that supported revenue growth from $50 million to $300 million over a 17 year period.
4. Led debt refinancing negotiations activities across nine separate financial institutions and secured revolving lines of credit in excess of $250 million.
5. Conducted due diligence analysis and financial assessment for over 30 separate acquisitions and managed post acquisition analysis to determine acquisition performance against financial projections.
6. Created long-term incentive plans for executive-level personnel, maintained compliance with insurance-based regulatory requirements, negotiated and finalized lease agreements and served on the 401(k) committee.
7. Managed financial audits, tax audits, sales tax filings in 50 states and Canada and worked with external tax groups on all state and federal tax filings as well as strategic tax planning.
8. Instituted standardized monthly financial reporting systems, enhanced financial reporting processes and produced information management system recommendations to support reporting requirements.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Management

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Financial Reporting and Analysis: Report to President and Board of Directors.
   
2. Oversee compilation and production of all financial reports monthly and annually (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Program Profitability and other key indicator reports).
3. Provide summarized analysis of program profitability; overhead, fringe and G&A wrap rate monitoring against projections to ensure the company meets objectives presenting key metrics.
4. Review employee benefit/compensation change impact and perform tax planning projections for owners with CPA.
5. Ensure timely bank account reconciliation and meeting a variety of government reporting requirements.
6. Gather inputs from other department heads and program managers creating our own internal web-based requisition system to document financial risks during the year (revenue, labor allocation/changes, and corporate expense management).
7. Analyze and review every facet of the business, including revenue return, pricing, forecasting, profitability, and take appropriate actions with suggestions to the President to achieve margin improvement on every element of the business.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Senior

Education

Master Of Business Administration

Description :

1. Reported to Division President of aerial work platform manufacturer and international distributor with $150 million in sales.
2. Hands-on assignment to improve a troubled division with significant accuracy, fiscal control, staffing, and profitability issues.
3. Established a new environment of teamwork and accountability by instilling basic business disciplines, Meshberger - 2 developing policies, and improving information flow.
4. Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing all accounting and finance activities as well as establishing and maintaining procedures, processes, and controls.
5. Established department-level budgeting and expense reporting, increasing expenditure awareness while improving spending performance, increasing financial integrity and promoting fiscal leadership.
6. Eliminated 40 pre-existing internal audit points and instilled business compliance disciplines for the new integrated operating system through the implementation of business controls, procedures and policies.
7. Implemented cycle count program versus physical inventories eliminating breaks in production and non-value added costs eliminating $300 thousand of annual costs.
8. Increased business support by improving the level, timeliness, and accuracy of management reporting, including the correction of standard costs and the development of variance analysis tools.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Consultant

Education

Masters of Business Administration

Description :

1. Responsible for all areas of the financial processes and customer service for both corporate and client-related management of homeowner's associations.
2. Supervision of a team of 24 members with 7 direct reports consisting of Corporate Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting, Collections, Escrow, and Customer Service departments.
3. Coordinate year-end financial audits and reviewed tax returns for over 170 homeowner's associations, including the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
4. Ensure all accounting transactions are properly recorded to required procedures and regulatory compliance, accurate revenue accruals, prepaid and deferred items, and reallocations.
5. Ensure internal controls are in place and operating effectively as well as ensuring a clean and timely yearend internal audit with the corporate auditing team.
6. Handle personnel issues relating to staff conflicts, performance issues, establishing annual goals, enhancing professional development, training new employees and scheduling.
7. Establish and maintain professional relationships with CPAs, bankers and board members of the associations managed.
8. Work closely with Branch President for corporate budgeting, revenue-generating opportunities, assist with client retention and growth, and future conversion to the parent company.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. In charge of all accounting, treasury, human resource and tax functions for the multi-national parent company and its affiliated entities.
2. Liaison to external auditors, banking relationships, lawyers and creditors.
3. Manage all accounting functions and financial statement preparation of parent company and over 25 affiliate entities both domestic and foreign, ensuring timely and accurate financial information for internal and external purposes.
4. Implemented over $2mm in cost-saving measures over two year period by identifying expense reduction opportunities, debt restructuring, capital lease renegotiations, and realigning staffing and investment projects.
5. Researched and managed the installation and integration of Microsoft Dynamic accounting software for the parent corporation and five affiliate entities, including analyzing and restructuring all general ledger and project cost accounts.
6. Oversee all treasury functions including monthly and yearly budget and forecast preparation, lender covenant compliance, lease negotiations, and purchase approvals.
7. Implemented and oversaw all details of a separate 401(k) plan merger and partial plan termination with the parent corporation and affiliate entities encompassing plan balances over $4mm.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelors of Science

Description :

1. Managed Sales Operations and FP&A for four business units.
2. Provided financial leadership and partnered with GM's to drive revenues whilst achieving corporate goals.
3. Equipped Sales with tools and streamlined processes so Sales can focus on selling.
4. Included P&L management, annual budgeting and planning, forecasting, contract reviews and negotiations, sales compensation, pricing, field operations, SAP 4.6 implementation, as well as deployment of sales applications and setting policies to one worldwide standard to allow for business unit and geographical market (UK, Germany, France & APAC) driven variations.
5. A key leader in overhauling financial and sales operations infrastructure to successfully transform the Company from a functional organization to four autonomous business units.
6. Mitigated financial risks in transitioning the channel sales model from a sell-in to a sell-through model.
7. Chaired the Sales Compensation Committee and designed compensation plans to drive desired sales behavior whilst achieving corporate goals.
8. Established North America bookings policy and contract approval process to ensure that terms and conditions are in compliance with revenue recognition policy and to minimize financial exposure.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Consultant

Education

Masters of Business Administration

Description :

1. Responsible for all financial planning and budget management functions for six divisions exceeding $12 million in annual sales.
2. Accountable for all financial reporting, financial outlooks, and forecasts, in addition to monitoring budget to actual performance.
3. Analyze financial results and provide recommendations to shareholders.
4. Oversee daily functions of the finance and accounting department, as well as cash and inventory management.
5. Provide product-specific analysis to ownership regarding pricing, margins, volume-profit analysis, and cost-saving measures.
6. Reorganized accounting structure to separate the company into 6 divisions to enable more precise budgeting, analyze performance by product line, and choose where to best allocate company resources.
7. Increased gross margin by 5% from the historical average by performing bill of material cost analyses and implementing total labor and labor per unit benchmarks.
8. Instrumental role in turning around three consecutive unprofitable years into two straight profitable years, without a significant sales increase.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Senior

Education

Bachelor Of Accountancy

Description :

1. Built and led a six-person team of $500M private-equity owned radiation detection and monitoring business responsible for financial planning and analysis, treasury, investor relations, and sales forecasting and reporting.
2. Revamped company budgeting and forecasting process for 7 divisions, 17 manufacturing locations and multiple industry verticals (nuclear, military, homeland security, healthcare, industry, manufacturing, laboratories, education).
3. Designed a predictive analytical model to forecast revenue based on sales opportunities, bids, and backlog.
4. Developed process to track $30M of run-rate synergies and one-time costs as a result of $250M acquisition of Canberra Industries from Areva.
5. Constructed networking capital targets by division to capture $20M of annual cash flow savings.
6. Redesigned the company's management reporting package, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow KPIs.
7. Supervised activities (MD&A, financial reporting, long-range plan, loan covenant compliance) for investor relations, lenders, and rating agencies.
8. Helped leverage HOST financial systems to support business planning and internal and external reporting requirements.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Masters of Business Administration