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Recruited to undertake due diligence and restore company profitability, involving considerable improvements to finance, HR, payroll, and legal operations. Managed product initiatives including sourcing, contracting and designing business models and break-even analyses.

• Directed final infomercial campaign and closer of U.S. business, and retrained staff to provide industry analysis and U.S. best practice research and analysis of U.S. retail best practices.
• Reviewed contracts for international product distribution and OLM.
• Completed and managed annual budgeting and monthly financial reporting.
• Achieved recovery by liquidating inventory, producing a 38% recovery rate, and eliminating unprofitable campaigns.
• Utilized forensic accounting expertise to identify $300,000+ of missing accounts receivables previously missed by auditors from third-party distributors and negotiated settlement.
• Minimized losses by identifying and creating database queries to track unshipped products.
• Reduced call center costs by identifying and resolving customer service issues.
• Increased order conversion by launching a live representative call center.
• Established new accounting closing procedures and policies, reducing monthly close from 25 to 10 days.
• Collaborated with auditors to complete an annual audit that was four months behind schedule from previous management.

Directed general accounting, finance, and budgetary control, maintenance of fiscal records, and preparation of financial, sales, and operational reports. Presented accounting and financial statement and analysis data to the executive team and recommended improvements.

• Collaborated with senior sales leadership, human resources, accounting, and finance departments to define optimal performance measurements and management programs – partner in the development of annual rebate, incentive, and general compensation programs.
• Developed and executed analysis of business initiatives, product launches, new service offerings including discounts; work closely with sales and marketing to establish pricing strategies.
• Implemented key processes and strategies to achieve the company’s financial goals and objectives.