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Craig Serpa

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, NH

Executive Education - Data Driven Consulting

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Professional Studies - Business Management & Executive Leadership

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

Skills

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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

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