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Donna Hayden Hampton

Humble,Texas

Summary

Finance Vice President with 20+ combined years of Shared Services, Enterprise Finance and SaaS experience managing Operational Accounting, Financial Reporting and Financial Planning and Analysis. Strategic partner in driving financial and operational process improvements and team collaboration, with a focus on delivering financial transparency and strategic growth.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President, Finance

Management Controls, Inc.
12.2021 - Current

Company Overview: Contractor Management Software as a Service

  • Promoted to Vice President, with expanded responsibility for audit coordination, business insurance renewals, pricing analysis and external financing due diligence assessments
  • Additionally, leading the preparation and delivery of critical insights to the Board, ensuring timely review and approval of the annual budget
  • Streamlined financial processes to reduce the time to close books to 8 days
  • Successfully decreased aged receivables by $2M within the first year
  • Created a centralized scorecard to provide visibility into key performance indicators across all departments
  • Addressed and resolved performance challenges by identifying 2 underperforming team members, implementing PIP strategies, and making termination decisions when necessary
  • Recruited and mentored 3 high performing managers to drive planning and reporting best practices
  • Established a structured FP&A framework to reduce planning and reporting time and deliver timely performance transparency to department owners
  • Collaborated with senior business leaders and functional teams to pinpoint utilization and pricing inefficiencies, driving a 30% improvement in consulting margins
  • Enhanced operational finance reporting by championing more efficient billing and collections functionality in NetSuite, daily cash and revenue visibility in Power BI, and CRM in Salesforce with expanded self-service capabilities alongside system administrators
  • Partnered with HR to adapt resource allocation strategies to million dollar revenue shifts, maintaining targeted EBITDA

Finance Director

EDF Trading NA
02.2018 - 02.2020

Company Overview: Asset Backed Global Energy Market specialist

  • Established a planning and forecasting process for Trading and Services businesses achieving 95% success in meeting OKR targets
  • Prepared and coordinated impactful monthly business reviews of financial results with Leadership driving actionable discussions for $1M in capital deployment
  • Collaborated closely with Commercial Team VPs and functional team leads to drive transparency in overhead, realizing 20% in cost savings by identifying efficiency opportunities and recruiting a dedicated finance liaison
  • Performed and documented comprehensive purchase accounting treatment of acquired customer portfolio, ensuring accurate valuation and goodwill assessment

Sr. Finance Business Manager

Direct Energy
08.2014 - 02.2018

Company Overview: Retail Energy Services

  • Trusted and relied on by Finance Leadership team to support investor relations communications and ad-hoc analysis/presentations to Parent Co and Business Partners by Year 3
  • Revamped monthly business review presentations by designing a more succinct and engaging package, effectively reducing monthly decks from 120 pages to 25 pages
  • Established a planning process for the home services business using Microsoft dynamics, reducing planning time by 1 month
  • Evaluated 5 potential business acquisitions for integration into the service portfolio and provided decisive recommendations on pursuing or declining opportunities

Shared Services and Enterprise Planning & Reporting

Baker Hughes Inc.
09.2007 - 08.2014

Company Overview: Oil & Gas Services

  • Implemented Hyperion Planning for Oil Tools Division in Year 1
  • Established SAP and HFM master data policies for all product lines in Year.2
  • Conducted comprehensive training sessions on Hyperion Financial Planning for finance teams across four product lines, ensuring effective adoption and utilization in Year.3
  • Introduced and implemented a structured monthly FP&A calendar, ensuring deadline adherence across teams
  • Established robust governance processes across 5 regional and 4 product line SG&A reviews
  • Recruited 2 high performing team members to manage 7 analysts and reduced delivery time of monthly accounting packages to Corporate from 20 to 7 Workdays
  • Designed transparent IT cost allocation framework reducing number of iterations for $400 million in spend
  • Developed a robust process for allocating enterprise finance expense recharges as part of finance reorganization

Commercial Loan Business Manager

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
08.2005 - 09.2007

Company Overview: Banking Investments and Mortgage Warehousing

  • Effectively managed syndicated loan relationships, strategically refusing funding as necessary and avoiding losses at the onset of the subprime crisis, achieving zero losses
  • 100% success rate managing capital contributions to ensure compliance with EDGE Regulation K

Accounting Manager

Timber Hill LLC
10.2001 - 08.2005

Company Overview: Brokerage Services

  • Oversaw daily reporting of trading profit and loss with a team of 5, for activity in 11 foreign countries
  • Drove automation of stock settlement, mark to market and option expiration journal posting in Oracle reducing daily performance reporting from T+10 to T+2 for trading activity in 11 foreign countries
  • Developed and implemented the company's process to account for the monthly valuation of spot and forward currency swap transactions, upon entering into hedging activities

Assistant Controller/AVP

National Discount Brokers Group
08.2000 - 10.2001

Company Overview: Brokerage Services

  • Created a monthly reporting package for the Controller and CFO
  • Acted as liaison between brokerage group and Deutsche Bank Controlling to facilitate to integrate ERP ledgers post-acquisition

Senior Accountant

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
08.1996 - 08.2000

Company Overview: Law Firm Services

  • Led Annual budgeting in conjunction with foreign offices, monthly compilation and analysis of Financial Statements, billable hour and headcount analysis, fixed assets and depreciation reporting for US tax purposes

Auditor

PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
08.1993 - 08.1996

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Manhattan College
Riverdale, New York
05.1993

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Relationship building
  • Critical thinking
  • Strategic planning
  • Complex Problem-solving
  • Process improvement
  • Recruiting and hiring
  • Verbal and written communication

Board Membership - Organization

IDEA Public Schools Greater Houston Advisory Board

Certification

Certified Public Accountant - Texas

Timeline

Vice President, Finance

Management Controls, Inc.
12.2021 - Current

Finance Director

EDF Trading NA
02.2018 - 02.2020

Sr. Finance Business Manager

Direct Energy
08.2014 - 02.2018

Shared Services and Enterprise Planning & Reporting

Baker Hughes Inc.
09.2007 - 08.2014

Commercial Loan Business Manager

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
08.2005 - 09.2007

Accounting Manager

Timber Hill LLC
10.2001 - 08.2005

Assistant Controller/AVP

National Discount Brokers Group
08.2000 - 10.2001

Senior Accountant

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
08.1996 - 08.2000

Auditor

PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
08.1993 - 08.1996

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Manhattan College
Donna Hayden Hampton