Core Expertise
Strategic Finance
Twenty years of budgeting, forecasting, cash management, pricing, and executive decision support across assignments representing $644M in aggregate scope across 21 countries.
- • $74.83M executed against a $74.96M final ceiling, with 99.8% final contract budget utilization and 100% capture of a $5.20M performance-based fee
- • Senior finance authority on a $238M multi-country account portfolio and a $219M Afghanistan program
- • Fifteen-entity financial wind-down with no known material unresolved financial liabilities
- • Fourteen years of direct people leadership, culminating in fifteen direct reports on SAEP
Grants, Contracts & Compliance
Governed $40.5M in grant and sub-award ceilings across CARCEP and SAEP. Led or supported pricing, due diligence, solicitation, negotiation, milestone verification, payment controls, and compliance across donor, federal, and partner-funded environments.
- • $28.5M in SAEP sub-award ceilings, including agreements with McKinsey and CrossBoundary
- • Results-Based Financing grants with $2.7M in verified disbursements, $4M in commercial working capital unlocked, and 108,721 verified Solar Home System sales
- • $7M CARCEP sub-award ceiling and $1.5M grants fund under FAR-aligned controls
- • Pricing leadership on $10M to $75M federal and state pursuits across CPFF, T&M, and FFP structures
Digital Transformation
Implemented Sage Intacct, FreeBalance IFMIS, and Fluxx; operated Deltek Costpoint and Coupa; and built Power BI and Excel-based reporting tools that improved payment speed, transaction accuracy, and management visibility.
- • Sage Intacct: user-acceptance-testing pilot, requirements gathering, migration, cutover, workflow design, and stabilization
- • FreeBalance IFMIS: ten-state rollout, configuration oversight, training, fiscal-year preparation, and operating-model deployment
- • Fluxx: first implementation across the IDO account, followed by Results-Based Financing grant administration on SAEP
- • Power BI: finance dashboards and activity-based budget reporting integrated with program financial and project-management systems
Private-Sector Applicability
Private-sector finance organizations face many of the same operating problems: timely close, defensible controls, cash visibility, system adoption, and management reporting leaders can trust. The context changes, but the control discipline carries over.
Multi-Entity Controllership
Directed a $75M multi-currency finance and operations function across eight regional offices, closing within 0.16% of the final contract ceiling. The same disciplines apply in multi-entity private-sector environments: timely close, ledger integrity, cash control, audit support, and reliable management reporting.
View Details ›Audit-Ready Operating Discipline
Applied FAR and AIDAR controls, operated Deltek Costpoint, used DCAA-approved provisional and forward-pricing rates, and led annual U.S. GAAP audit interfaces. The sector standards differ, but the operating discipline is familiar: defensible costs, clear approvals, complete support, and timely close.
View Details ›ERP-Led Finance Transformation
Implemented and stabilized Sage Intacct and Fluxx workflows, led a ten-state FreeBalance IFMIS rollout, operated Costpoint and Coupa, and built Power BI reporting. The work combined system change with continuity in close, cash, reporting, and user adoption.
View Details ›Flagship Case Studies
$238M IDO Account Financial Wind-Down
Standardized procurement, accounts payable, vendor controls, ledger coding, and month-end close across a $238M multi-country account. Shifted to cash prioritization, invoicing, settlements, and structured wind-down activity after federal stop-work orders affected fifteen international entities.
Executed controlled Termination for Convenience and local-law workstreams, closing accounts with no known material unresolved financial liabilities.
$75M Southern Africa Energy Program
Directed finance, operations, grants, treasury, statutory compliance, project-entity governance, and closeout for a $75M regional energy program across ten countries.
Executed $74.83M against a $74.96M final ceiling and captured 100% of the $5.20M performance-based fixed fee.
$90M South Sudan Governance-Program Environment
Led a four-person South Sudanese public-financial-management team implementing FreeBalance IFMIS across ten state governments within a $90M governance-program environment.
Maintained system continuity through conflict and achieved a reported 90% financial-reporting compliance rate, with state performance improving by up to 70% on program scorecards.
$219M Afghanistan Financial Closeout
Served as the senior-most finance authority for a $219M multi-CLIN program supporting more than 700 personnel. Led a seven-person Finance Office responsible for forecasting, funds management, payroll, treasury, controls, reporting, and closeout.
Completed vendor settlements, payroll closeout, multi-currency treasury reconciliation, and asset disposition. Provided the financial information used by Deloitte's Office of General Counsel to complete entity deregistration after expatriate departure.
Federal & Domestic Controllership Frameworks
Federal Operations and Controllership Framework
Built from twenty years of contractor finance, program operations, systems implementation, and public-sector work. The model converts FAR, AIDAR, U.S. GAAP, indirect-rate, close, and source-to-pay requirements into operating controls that protect cash, fee, reporting integrity, and delivery.
Control structures grounded in FAR and AIDAR application, Costpoint operations, DCAA-approved rate application, CAS-consistent practices, and annual U.S. GAAP audit support.
Standardized AP, accrual, ledger, and month-end close workflows across multi-entity operations.
Operating rules for procurement, sub-awards, and grants across $40.5M in grant and sub-award ceilings.
The Same Problems. A Different Arena.
Many domestic GovCon finance functions outgrow the controls that supported their earlier scale. The result is familiar: reactive audit preparation, margin leakage, slow billing, weak procurement visibility, and inconsistent close. This framework targets those failure points.
Continuous audit posture supported by cost allowability, timekeeping, indirect-rate discipline, reconciliations, and complete transaction support.
Protects fee realization, billing discipline, indirect-rate application, and working capital before delivery pressure forces corrective action.
Standardized approval thresholds, close routines, source-to-pay controls, and management reporting that can scale with the organization.
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