Michael John Renzi
CFO / Vice-President Finance & Administration
CA
Summary
Dedicated Chief Financial Officer familiar with financial decision making and company-wide policy development. Talent for overcoming operational issues and driving proactive improvements. Offering over 20 years' experience in financial leadership. Financial Executive and Business Consultant with proven experience in business development. Offering keen financial acumen to lead businesses to profitability and optimization in both lean times and periods of growth. Known for excellent recruiting, hiring and managing high-performance teams. Experienced in finance and accounting, operations, supply chain, and human resources.
Overview
12
12
years of post-secondary education
17
17
Certifications
Work History
CFO & Vice President of Finance and Administration
Notre Dame de Namur University
- Chief Financial Officer of a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education with a $21M annual operating budget
- Executive lead administrator of Human Resources & Labor Relations, Information Technology, Payroll, Business Services (Accounting, Procurement & Accounts Payable), Security Services, and Facilities
- Provide key leadership with the campus’ planning, business planning, facilities, administrative, and finance processes and Title IX coordination
- Advise the College President/Superintendent, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and various campus committees regarding long-term strategic fiscal, facilities redevelopment, and academic planning in accordance with California State law and regional accreditation standards
- Treasurer of donor relations and endowment
- Major accomplishments fully implemented a new position control, budget, modeling, and reporting database and provided strategic financial models for university transitions to new hybrid graduate modality and restoration of WSCUC accreditation (standard III)
- Led university through a bridge financing option towards a land-use sale with Stanford University.
Independent Education Management Professional (Various Engagements)
- Provide educational management consulting services in the area of higher-education fiscal operations, emergency preparedness, business contracts management, facilities management, human resource management, process improvement, activity-based costing, and modeling
- -San Jose Evergreen Community College District: Fiscal Operations Consultant Leadership, facilitation, financial modeling, analytics, and training of various fiscal operations to ensure district and state compliance
- -SVCS Huron Consulting Services LLC – Project Consultant, Research Administration Sutter Health Leadership services to medical research administration and process improvement expertise and support in coordination within the various sites within Sutter Health’s pre/post-grant award processes
- Provide complex team-based consulting engagements and support services focused on driving change for results within Pre-Award and/or Post-Award processes, medical research grants management, research administration, research strategy/transformation, research operations, and/or regulatory compliance
- Expertise in clinical research coordination, management, nursing, billing, administration, and study monitoring
- -Foothill College: COVID Protocol Consultant Provided overall leadership on college’s COVID mitigation and contact tracing protocols and facilitated implementation of SaaS systems with campus community population
- -Bay Area Medical Academy: CFO Consultant Provide temporary CFO leadership functions with organizational restructure and year-end audit preparation and formation of educational non-profit organization subsidiary.
Associate Vice President Budget Planning & Administration
San José State University
- Campus budget officer of a $750M annual operating budget
- Fully implemented an integrated position control budgeting system to manage 3,500 FTE personnel within its statewide Oracle ERP system
- Strategic leader of $160M Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
- Provided strategic financial administration for NCAA and Title IX compliance
- Major Accomplishments included obtaining Department of Education approval to restore FY21 state shortfall by using $35M backfill from federal HEERF funding.
Vice President of Administrative Services
Gavilan Joint Community College District
- Chief Business Officer (CBO/CFO) of $90M annual operating budget and $248M Prop 39 construction redevelopment bond program
- Lead administrator of Human Resources & Labor Relations, Information Technology, Payroll, Business Services (Accounting, Procurement & Accounts Payable), Security Services, and Facilities
- Provide key leadership with the campus’ planning, facilities, administrative, and finance processes and Title IX coordination
- Advise the College President/Superintendent, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, and various campus committees regarding long-term strategic fiscal, facilities redevelopment, and academic planning in accordance with California State law and regional accreditation standards
- Treasurer, Statewide Association of Community Colleges (SWACC) Joint Powers Authority (JPA)
- District’s Lead Negotiator & Grievance Officer, CSEA & Faculty Association
- Major accomplishments led district to modernize its budget, data, and ERP infrastructure systems and business continuity plan prior to and post-pandemic and successful financial audit with S&P and Moody bond rating agencies.
Director of Finance & Administration
Stanford University, School of Medicine, Department of Comparative Medicine
- Chief Administrative and Business Officer of a $23M annual operating budget responsible for the development and implementation of the university’s federal and state annual animal research cost-recovery rates in accordance with the National Institute of Health and the Office of Naval Research
- Executive lead for all the administrative, human resource, labor relations, information technology, and business analytics and activity-based-costing (ABC/M) functions of the department and the University's Veterinary Service Center, HRIS Cluster/Team, Diagnostic Lab, Histology, 3-D medical/research fabrication lab, and lead financial and administrative officer of the Masters of Lab Animal Science program
- Major accomplishments include leading university’s principle investigators and research community to restore long-standing fiscal shortfalls within its cost-recovery plan, helped implemented a new activity-based-cost modeling system, modernization of a histology lab, and launched a new Masters in Lab Animal Science program.
Vice President of Administrative Services
West Valley College—West Valley-Mission Community College District
- Campus Chief Business Officer (CBO) of a $40M annual operating budget and a $200M Prop 39 construction redevelopment bond program
- Provided campus community long term strategic fiscal, facilities redevelopment, and academic planning in accordance with California State law and regional accreditation standards
- Executive strategist on college's enrollment management plan, financial growth, and budgetary and contractual oversight in relation to personnel, purchasing, facilities development and building construction program, plant maintenance, custodial, printing, graphics, auxiliaries, bookstore, security, data processing, budget, accounting, payroll services, grants and other contracts and fiscal policy and procedures
- Major accomplishments include successful facilitation of construction bond program; implementation of a college-wide enrollment planning database; successful long-term auxiliary revenue contracts for student life services
- Successful reaffirmation of ACCJC Accreditation; facilitated accreditation visits for Chaffey College (2010) and College of the Redwoods (2011)
- Selected and served as a member of Administrative Service Council; Audit and Budget Oversight Committee Benefits Advisory Committee; Citizens Bond Oversight Committee; and the District Budget Advisory Committee.
Director, Finance and Administration
San José City College –San José/Evergreen Community College District
- Campus Chief Business Officer (CBO) of college's $27M annual budget and $190M construction bond program
- Lead advisor to College President and campus community regarding long term strategic planning and budget allocations and year-end estimated fund balances
- Oversee the college's enrollment management plan and directly oversee campus marketing and communications operations
- Responsible for all legal state reporting pertaining to staff development activities and human resources
- Oversight in functions as personnel, purchasing, facilities development and building construction program, plant maintenance, custodial, reprographics, bookstore, security, data processing, budget, accounting, payroll services, auxiliary services, grants, research, and other contracts
- Division manager of Campus Information Technology and the Campus Business Office.
Manager, Law Fiscal Operations
Santa Clara University, School of Law
- Fiscal officer to control, analyze, project, and manage law school’s $24M annual operating budget and $19M endowment
- Establish all law school policies procedures relating to fiscal operations
- Supervise monthly and annual reconciliation of all law general ledger accounting transactions
- Manage and approve all law school staff, faculty, and student asset-related procurements, vendor payments, and reimbursements in accordance with the university policy, the Uniform Commercial Code, IRS, and Franchise Tax Board
- Manage law school’s Human Resources for student employees
- Annually report financial statistics to American Bar Association for accreditation, and the US News and World Reports for rankings
- Provide monthly financial presentations to law students.
Non-Commissioned Officer
Department of Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS)
- -Supervisor, Regional Travel Office (Orlando, FL) Researched, analyzed, and wrote recommendations to Finance and Accounting Director from Congressional and Inspector General complaints filed against the DOD
- Established policies that led to over $50,000 of monthly taxpayer savings
- Developed and managed efficient debt notification database
- Supervised technicians on proper debt recovery procedures along with correct accounting processes
- -Finance Training Facilitator (Orlando, FL) Facilitated information seminars to Federal employees in accordance with US Presidential Executive Orders directed to the DOD
- -Travel Accounting Non-Commissioned Officer (Fort Rucker, AL) Supervised and performed complex reconciliation and audits of outstanding travel advances
- Verified and facilitated expense and credit transfers
- Audits consisted of sophisticated research, collections, and analysis of travel regulations in accordance with the Federal Travel Committee
- Established in-processing procedures for all incoming federal employees
- -Supervisor, Reserve & National Guard Payroll (Fort Rucker, AL) Supervised payroll operations for over 3500 Reserve and National Guard service members
- Facilitated major conversion and updates to payroll database systems
- Conducted training to various finance and accounting colleagues
- -Special Actions Supervisor, Debt Management (Fort Richardson, AK) Supervised debt management functions of creditor-debtor rights, collection and cancellation procedures in accordance with US Codes
- Facilitated quality assurance within Notice of Levy and Payroll Garnishment procedures in accordance with DOD regulations
- -Systems Administrator, Accounts Payable (Fort Richardson, AK) Administrated daily reports, backup, and recovery of all voucher processing
- Performed complex analysis of government-related contracts to vendors, budget directors, and accounting auditors.
Education
Finance & AccountingLeadershipTravelPayrollDebt ManagementFiscal Operations
U.S. Army School of Finance & Accounting & Non-Commissioned Officer Academy
01.1989 - 05.1994
Juris Doctor - International Law, Local Govt Law, Business Law
Santa Clara University
05.2001 - 05.2005
Bachelor of Science - Political Science, Philosophy
Santa Clara University
01.1998 - 05.2000
Skills
Expert on MS Live 365, Azure DevOps, Relational Database power user, Crystal reporting, Lawson, OBI reporting, Oracle Discoverer, Jenzabar ERP, DataTel (aka Ellucian Colleague and Banner), PeopleSoft, AS-400, Lexis-Nexus, Westlaw, SaaS, Activity-Based-Costing Model Systems, Smartsheets, Google Office Suite, and Tableau
Former Board of Directors Member of the Pro Bono Project Law Center
Proficient in Brazilian Portuguese
Five-time recipient of CALI legal research and writing award
Member of the Association of Chief Business Officers (ACBO)
Member of the Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA)
Accounting, Budgeting, Management, Leadership, Finance, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, General Ledger, Auditing, Account Reconciliation, and LEAN process improvement
Strategic financial planning
Working capital management
Audit Coordination Abilities
ERP System Implementation
Financial Policy Formulation
Cash Flow Management
Websites
Certification
University of Michigan - Leading for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education, 7LNHU4KS9KAK
Leadership Highlights
- Extensive years of successful leadership, management, finance and accounting experience with government, academic, and civilian sectors (23 years in accredited academic institutions).
- Successfully established Stanford University’s annual direct & indirect research rates in accordance with Federal Uniform Guidance, Circ A-21, and the NIH Cost Analysis and Rate Setting Manual.
- Successfully led accreditation status for West Valley College, San Jose City College, and Notre Dame de Namur University.
- Led $200M+ Bond development programs West Valley-Mission, San Jose City, & Gavilan Colleges.
- Over 15 years of human resource, collective bargaining, and labor relations experience.
- Designed and facilitated financial and statistical reporting for the WSCUC/WASC/ACCJC & American Bar Association self-study and the World News Reports.
- Liaison between Finance and Accounting Director and Inspector General / Congressional Offices.
- Extensive legal research and analysis writing; Training facilitator and database administrator for government, education, and civilian sectors.
- Strong understanding of general 501(c)(3) practices within educational institutions.
- Systems, quality assurance management, and process improvement facilitator.
References
Provide upon request
Languages
English
Professional Working
Portuguese
Limited Working
Timeline
Juris Doctor - International Law, Local Govt Law, Business Law
Santa Clara University
05.2001 - 05.2005
Bachelor of Science - Political Science, Philosophy
Santa Clara University
01.1998 - 05.2000
Finance & AccountingLeadershipTravelPayrollDebt ManagementFiscal Operations
U.S. Army School of Finance & Accounting & Non-Commissioned Officer Academy
01.1989 - 05.1994
CFO & Vice President of Finance and Administration
Notre Dame de Namur University
Independent Education Management Professional (Various Engagements)
Associate Vice President Budget Planning & Administration
San José State University
Vice President of Administrative Services
Gavilan Joint Community College District
Director of Finance & Administration
Stanford University, School of Medicine, Department of Comparative Medicine
Vice President of Administrative Services
West Valley College—West Valley-Mission Community College District
Director, Finance and Administration
San José City College –San José/Evergreen Community College District
Manager, Law Fiscal Operations
Santa Clara University, School of Law
Non-Commissioned Officer
Department of Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS)
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