Controller with a Strategic Focus

Join a leadership team where my business approach adds to the team's success. My business approach: Focus on the big picture - I’m told that I’m not a typical CPA because I am fully engaged outside of the accounting processes and functions. I want to spend my energy working with the leadership team to define the strategic plan and my time helping to execute the plan. Often I’m the one keeping track of the details including the progress, next steps and the scorecard for meeting the goals. Keep everyone out of trouble - I see the my role as keeping everyone out of trouble by making negative trends and risks known and helping to manage those trends and risks. Most accountants focus on last month, last quarter or last year but I try to focus on the future and mitigating and managing risk. Providing key metrics for the leadership team to review together daily, weekly and monthly is one way to keep from getting surprised and keep everyone out of trouble. It’s my job to make sure that everyone knows where to focus. Every day the first order of business is to manage staff – Nothing is more important than making sure that staff is working as effectively and efficiently as possible. I coach the staff to streamline their tasks, develop their skills so that they can take on more responsibility and add more value.I make sure that the staff is well-trained, the processes and procedures are documented and the responsibilities clearly defined. I am proud to say that I have developed superstars, which has been a key to my success.

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