Craig Serpa
Management Consultant - Chief Financial Officer & Enterprise Value Strategy
Oklahoma City,OK
Summary
Accomplished Management Consultant & Financial Operations Executive with 17 years experience leading large cross-functional teams in high stress environments. Provided leadership to all aspects of financial stewardship, budgeting, financial analysis, resource procurement, operational analysis, and project management for global production firms with $500M in annual revenue. Led efforts to augment the reporting processes and general ledger integration for new systems and quality control audits, while playing a key role in evaluating and strengthening internal controls in order to mitigate risk exposure. Drives organizational improvements through leveraging expertise in research and system enhancement. Well-versed in collaborating with employees and leaders to resolve control and procedural problems negatively affecting business operations. Dedicated to cost, process and resource optimization.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Federal Clearance
Work History
Management Consultant
Accenture
Oklahoma City, OK
09.2018 - Current
- Helped develop proactive and successful business policies to meet changing demands.
- Improved communication at all levels and transformed company culture into more productive atmosphere.
- Conducted thorough reviews of financial operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies, facilitating consistent year-to-year growth.
- Created and optimized records management strategies to coordinate and protect information.
- Gathered, documented and modeled data to assess business trends.
- Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions.
- Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
- Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
Marine Corps Officer
United States Marine Corps
United States
08.2003 - Current
- Control budget and financial allocations for
missions essential capital purchasing. - Develop plans and combat readiness programs to
manage efficiency within a deployable supply
chain. - Directly responsible for the mentoring,
development, safety and training of approx. 4800
Marines. - Areas of expertise: Battalion level financial
management, personal finance, budget constraint
monitoring, subordinate mentorship, and human
resources, with an emphasis on managing risks and
costs associated with government contracts.
Chief Financial Officer (Interim. Contract)
CNIFence, Inc.
West Chicago, IL
03.2018 - 08.2018
- Financially engineered the acquisition and
buyout of a 4th construction firm, across state
lines. - Facilitated the structuring of a borrowing base
for capital purchasing, and material
procurement operations. - Guided turnover of new ownership, and
development of corporate structure for
transition from S-Corp to Partnership.
Director of Operations
Lion Raisins & Star Logistics
Selma, CA
05.2012 - 12.2015
- Modernized and improved operational procedures to increase efficiency and profitability while tightly controlling costs such as labor and preventing waste.
- Collaborated with management, technical crew members and fellow supervisors to organize efficient operations and achieve demanding schedule targets.
- Created and implemented two manufacturing
streamline projects within the plant dehydration
sector that reduced cost, and increased efficiency,
which resulted in a 4.10% increase in output, and
$2.85 million of immediate, liquid revenue
within its first quarter on inception. - Provide strategic input regarding business
practices with the intent on capturing tonnage
contracts for the California agricultural sector.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Financial & Developmental Economics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NHExecutive Education - Data Driven Consulting
Northwestern University
Evanston, ILProfessional Studies - Business Management & Executive Leadership
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NHSkills
Resource utilization
Employee engagement
Project Management
Budgeting
Strategic Planning
Business planning
Consulting
Data Analysis
Contract Management
Operations management
Financial Management
Work Availability
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Accomplishments
- Dartmouth College: Exemplary Honors, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy
- USMC OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL, QUANTICO VA
Nations Premier Leadership Academy
• Top 10% Honors Recipient - THE DRILL INSTRUCTOR ACADEMY
Organizational Leadership
• Class Commander, Honor Graduate
Quote
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson