JOHN FRANCIS DEEDS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Honored in 2019 as one of Washington DC’s Top CFO’s - http://dca-live.com/2019-non-profit-cfos Awarded “Non-Profit CFO Innovator of the Year” – http://nonprofitcfoaward.com/ More than 30 years of information system and financial experience. Fifteen years of leadership of treasury and finance functions. An economic thought leader in emerging business solutions builds rigorous models to support strategic/business plans, create efficiencies, collaborate, and connect stakeholders. Architect, design, and build systems to automate processes to provide budgeting, evaluation, program, and finance functions. Emphasis on timely decision support for management, boards, staff, and other constituents. SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Treasury and banking

• Investment portfolios

• Building and facilities

• Financial, Payroll, Other

• Financial reporting (cash basis and accrual)

• Budgets, forecasts with funds/cost centers

• Gifts, grants, contract, and restricted Funds

• Deltek CostPoint, Dynamics GP/SL, Other

• Cost principles CAS, NICRA

• Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200

• Complex systems / models

• Government Contract

EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

Marcum LLP / Raffa PC, Outsourced CFO and Controller ($10 to 40 million revenue) 1/2018 – present Lead the financial oversight of organizations receiving Federal funds, budgets, forecasting, and audit. Streamlining policy and procedure administration and focus on improving systems to support efficiencies while managing risks.

• Executed CFO functions, including defining overall financial strategy, performing analysis, forecasting, policy and procedure, and effective risk management. Implement economic and technological solutions.

• Reduced time to close from 90 days to 15 days, reducing payroll posting from 4 days to 1 hour.

• Restructured finance department, reduced costs by 200K per year, redesign GREAT PLAINS

• Design audit readiness slashing management letter findings with no material weakness / significant deficiencies. NCBA CLUSA International, VP Systems, and Finance ($60 million revenue) 6/2012 – 12/2017 The 100-year-old trade association for the cooperative industry and NGO with programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, subsidiaries, and a vast network of controlled international business units.

• Portfolio management – Managed 250M pool (5-year term) of Federal and other government, corporate, and individual restricted funds, multi entities with microfinance, and significant commercial business.

• Finance and Budget – Created a custom budgeting solution with multi-fund and complex modeling used for annual and project budgets. This budget tool is used for proposal, resource development, and award management, which exceeds both US and European donor requirements—creating a smart cost pool allocation, allowing the organization to take more diverse funding, enabling growth from 30 to 60 million in revenue.

• Process – Created a system of best practices across all functional areas re-writing finance manuals and eliminating internal control weaknesses. The result produced positive audit results, clearing all previous year management letter comments, completing the audit in record time, providing a standardized monthly close, and board reporting.

• Technology – Responsible for the network, office systems, websites, membership and contracts/grants management systems, CRM, ERP, M&E, application development, and integrations, including expense and payables management.

• Gift, membership, contracts and grants management – Single Audit (2 CFR 200 or A133 Audits); reporting to Federal and other governments, corporation, and significant funds; working in collaboration with cross-functional teams, created real-time access for field offices project grant reporting resulting more accurate donor reports that sped up the payment of funds, reduced aged receivables from 6 months to 60 days.

• People – Reorganized the accounting and international finance team of 25 staff at HQ and 50 field project accountants into a customer-focused squad using organizational change methodologies such as redefined job descriptions, work and performance improvement plans, RACI model, DISC, and Myers-Briggs.

• Administration and Facilities Management – Managed office manager, receptionist, vendor relationships, security, conferences, meetings, storage, maintenance, repairs, and upgrades – kept the trains running on time. JOHN FRANCIS DEEDS

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EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

State Arkansas / Ciber / Intermedia Survey, Senior Consultant ($1.8 billion revenue) 11/2010 – 5/2012 Government contractor and information system and financial restructuring services including business operations reorganization, financial modeling, database design, and systems integration

• System and internal control documentation, workflows, requirement documentation

• Redesigning DELTEK and creating a web-based financial reporting system, ensuring accurate financial information, easy access to costs, revenue recognition, burn rates, indirect, contract billings, collections, compliance, contract monitoring, pricing and budget modeling, cost proposals.

• Restructured and transition process, utilizing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling skills, workforce reduction, short-and long-term financial projections, dramatically reducing staff by 70%.

• Build cost accounting systems (CAS) and cost allocation models to maximize funding, billing, and cash flows.

• Document, review, modify Public Assistance Cost Allocation Plan (PACAP) Search for Common Ground, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer ($30 million revenue) 10/2006 – 10/2010 Re-Envisioned the financial, operations, finance, contracts and grants management of an international not for profit, linking headquarters departments and field programs into a common eco-system:

• Designed worldwide contracts and grants management system for international government funding agencies such as USAID, United Nations, European Union, individuals, foundations, corporations, partners, and stakeholders.

• Slashed annual disallowed costs and operational deficits from $700K to $50K in 2009 after dramatically reducing time to close from 120 days to 10 days by creating reporting that matched grantor and donor needs.

• Oversee international staff of 40 in 22 countries. Supervise international finance, budgeting, accounting, banking, investments, lines of credit, audits, internal controls, and OMB A133 Federal Compliance Examination. PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

United Way International VP Finance and Admin HR, Contract and Grants Good Deeds Acct Software, Inc. President / Microsoft CSM Microsoft Certified Partner Laventhol & Horwath CPA’s Banking / FSLIC / FDIC BIG 4 or National Firm Koonce Securities Controller/ SEC Reporting Broker-Dealer Securities Councilor, Buchanan &Mitchell Audit, Banking, Trusts Regional CPA Firm Cathedral Corporation Real Estate Accountant Property Management Crestwood Press Corporation Commercial Accountant Printing/Manufacturing Hillman + Glorioso – PLLC Public Accounting Regional CPA Firm COMMUNITY WORK

Vida Senior Centers, Board Treasurer

Equal Access International Board Treasurer, Audit Committee Chair FAR (Roundtable) Network Board Treasurer

University Club of Washington, DC Finance Committee SeniorNet Board Treasurer

EDUCATION

Certified Public Accountant Active Status State of Maryland 10049 Various Microsoft certifications ERP, Database, app development & integration University of Maryland, College Park BS, Major: Finance Minor Information Systems

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