Senior Director/VP Finance Candidate #020325
St. Louis, MO
Accounting, Executive Search, Finance
26 years
2/3/2025
Profile
Strategic VP of Finance/CFO candidate with MA in Accounting and over 20 years of experience. Ten years recent manufacturing experience in a matrix company with responsibility of multiple sites/location and previous ten years in healthcare.
Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): Becoming a business partner and working together to drive growth and profitability. I see financials as a way to identify areas of opportunity and areas that can be improved upon. Having been in operational finance, walking the floor, and using LEAN. By standing in a circle, listening to the team, and quantify the results driving operational excellence. Ultimately, teaching, educating the team and workers the WHY.
Strengths: Understanding how each department impacts the P/L. Educating, training, and building succession planning for the future. Communicating the reason for a change, and bigger picture/vision. I am a business partner and tell the story from a financial view.
Career Highlight 1: Assisted in presenting and executing a plan to increase profitability of a location from $2M a year MOI to $10M year. This came from understanding the business and presenting a different approach from sales terms and pricing to operations.
Career Highlight 2: Lead the installation of a stalled ERP Project. This project had stalled for 5 years and incurred $2M in costs. By launching, we not only were able to capitalize the spending, but were able to have much needed support while we planned the next upgrade.
Career Highlight 3: Took customer service locations across the state and lead the 75+ team to build consistency when doing patient intakes. This was a team effort by my business leaders and yielded in better referrals and patient intakes. Recovered $1.8M in missed revenue.
Hobbies & Personal Interests: I enjoy golf, baking, and reading.
Industry Experience: Agriculture, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Media, Non-Profit, Public Accounting
Company Fit: Manufacturing – $1.2B-Assistant Group RoleManufacturing -Individual sites of $100-$580MHealthcare-50 Bed Facility-Behavioral
Management Experience: 20 Years. Currently have staff of 6. Have had 9 direct reports with over 75 indirect having over 80+ in healthcare.
Systems Experience: Microsoft AX, Infor.
Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote
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