Dawna Harding

Current Project: Livtech is a company growing a portfolio of Healthcare industry SaaS software companies that focus on the needs of home health agencies, hospice and senior living communities

• Specialized in acquisition integrations focusing on acquired finance operations and integrating into new corporate systems
• Completed 9 acquisition integrations in 18 months
• Designed each acquisition schedule based on ease of change management, integrations were a hybrid approach easing the work onto the corporate team
• Fractional CFO for larger acquisitions – managed and streamlined monthly finance operations for the corporate accountants to own and reduced month end close by a minimum of 5 business days
• Provides creative solutions to evolving businesses, pivoting when the workload and resources changed
• Streamlined Order to Cash process by automating the billing and recurring invoices, integrating cash applications with various third-party API's, hiring collections team, and streamlined vendor payments for each company while preserving working capital
• Workflow automations reduced manual input errors increasing Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by >$200k
• Cost reductions averaged ~ $300k per integration
• Reduced >90-day collections by 42% and developed an aggressive goal for each company to keep >90-day aging below 10%
• Building relationships with local recruiting firms to engage resources in this variable business model
• Managed and coached integration teams to handle the increase/decrease in volume with acquisitions
• Integrated Avalara from QBs to Intacct as well as onboarding new companies onto Avalara

USCS is a Worldwide Leader in the design and production of Military and Commercial Cargo Handling Systems

• Responsible for strategic and day to day operations with Finance and IT Team focusing on financial budgeting and forecasting, managing and forecasting working capital, capital expenditures, strategic pricing and contract reviews along with other management activities supporting the President and Senior Leadership
• Automated Financial Statements and Department Spend reports through Splash BI reducing overtime hours during month-end close
• Improved Year over Year working capital by 7% with collaboration efforts between Finance, Sales and Customer decreasing DSO's by 3 days, and by increasing DPO's by 7 days
• Reduced Accounts Receivable >60 days from $1.2M in FY19 to less than $20K in FY20
• Created Gross Margin reporting and monthly analysis allowing senior leadership to have visibility on performance by Customer, by Sales Order and by Purchase Orders
• Designed forecasting model using Oracle and Splash BI to build monthly, quarterly, and annual variance reports reducing the report distribution time to senior leadership by 3 days
• Implemented and managed overhead rate structure and capitalized variances
• Coached Sr Accountant for promotion to Accounting manager to VP of Finance in 3 years
• Reorganized and established new team increasing the talent and improving culture while reducing headcount by 2.

JAGGAER (formerly SciQuest) is a provider of cloud-based business automation technology for spend management

• Responsible for financial and metrics reporting, budgeting cycle, and forecasting with Executive Management focusing on headcount turnover and spending trends using Adaptive Planning
• Managed day to day finance operations including month-end expense analysis, payroll, and disbursements
• Monthly metrics reporting to Executives included Monthly Recurring Revenue, Customer Retention Rates and Churn Rates
• Assisted team in decreasing month end close from 10 to 5 business days, with reduced headcount by shifting responsibilities and eliminated manual efforts through automated integrations with SaaS systems: Salesforce to NetSuite; Connections with Ultipro, Concur, Clarizen and NetSuite Project Module; SciQuest eProcurement

Siemens Industry is a global company that provides engineering and technological solutions

• Responsible for leading Project Controllers, Financial Analysts, Contract Administrators and Billing Specialists
• Managed annual budget cycle, monthly results, and forecasts for Regional and Global Executive Management
• Reviewed contracts for strategic pricing and alignment with business strategy
• Developed forecast model to improve forecasting accuracy for Bookings, Sales and Gross Margin. Analyzed book and ship trends to better predict monthly results, improving forecasting accuracy rate over 15%
• Improved team morale and productivity by participating in upward feedback pilot workshop, DISC surveys, and team building events.

RTI is an independent, nonprofit institute that provides research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide

• Responsible for supporting division management in preparing annual budgets, monthly forecasts, project forecasts and report monthly results
• Led Project Analyst team that managed over 450 projects
• Chosen to participate in executive leadership coaching sessions designed to improve business partnering skills, handing difficult conversations, and developing employee's professional growth.

• Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution - Acquisition Integration Team Lead
• Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (Revenues $100 Million) – Developed Monthly Reporting and Inventory Metrics
• Remote Site Training (Revenues $1.5 Million) – Managed Cash Flow and Monthly Financial Statements

BMC is a building materials and services company for professional homebuilders and contractors in the United States

• Responsible for preparing monthly detailed Managements' Discussion and Analysis for executive team and monthly and annual reporting for US and global management group
• Implemented Hyperion Planning and Forecasting consolidated tool to be used at +200 locations. Evaluated business requirements, designed, implemented, tested, trained and deployed to management team nationwide. This reduced budget cycle time by months, systemized budget calculations and reduced budgeting/forecasting errors.