My Background

• Strong financial leadership background with experience managing in high growth environments that include multiple stakeholders.

  • 27+ years in the accounting and finance profession

    • 9 years in financial reporting and internal audit functions of two Fortune 500 companies

    • 18 years in Financial Planning and Analysis and Financial Operations for a Fortune 500 company

    • 20 years in leadership positions with the past 12 years in a senior role

• Manage Profit and Loss (P&L), Balance Sheet and Cash Flow activities for the Americas

• Lead the Latin America Planning function for the Systems and Software business 

• Strategic business partner and finance representative on the North and Latin America Leadership Teams

• Experience leading cross functional teams (operations, sales, and finance) tasked with developing and implementing strategic initiatives.

• Community experience as a Director on two non-profit boards serving as the treasurer

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Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Collaborative leader that partners cross-functionally to drive value through aligning financial and operational objectives

• Ability to interpret and explain complex financial/accounting concepts to quantify financial impacts and optimize business decisions

• Ability to identify performance trends and develop actionable financial plans to mitigate risk

• Board of Director and Stakeholder Reporting

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Key Highlights:

• Partnered with regional operations and sales directors to drive improvements in accounts receivable collections and reducing past due balances

• Partnered with sales and operations to facilitate product sales mix and operational/cost plans that led to an Operating Profit improvement of 7.6 percentage points on lower volume

• Effectively developed/managed annual budgets. Met sales/profit targets each of the last seven years during varying business conditions

• Developed monthly and quarterly business review process with the Business Unit and World Area senior leadership teams which established greater performance accountability and transparency

• Led development of a long-term strategic plan (5-year plan)

• Developed and led Business Intelligence initiative to streamline the reporting process by automating data collection. The outcome has been the ability to drive more informed business decisions by providing increased/improved data while saving time

• Identified/drove cost efficiencies without sacrificing quality