Deitrice McRae

Germantown, MD ***** 240-***-**** adk2xq@r.postjobfree.com

CONTRATING COST ACCOUNTING SUPPLIER DIVERSITY

Senior leader with 20+ years of senior management experience specializing in contract administration and project accounting. Direct capital expenditure programs, project administration, and organizational initiatives. Create and foster business alliances with key customers, executive management, and internal and external associates. Organize contract negotiations, involving design, construction, remodeling, and infrastructure development of airports, institutions, and public amenities. Partner with internal leaders to define corporate workflow to maximize organizational efficiencies, streamline business procedures, and introduce technology to support objectives. Strong emphasis on contract management, finance, establishing core processes, improving project performance, and team building.

Cost & Contractual Compliance

Diversity & Inclusion

Change Management

Strategic Planning

Contract Administration & Negotiations

Business Process Improvement

Core Process Development

Product Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SSP AMERICA INC. • Ashburn, VA

Senior Manager, Contract & Cost Accounting (2018 – Present) Manage new build and renovation CapEx budget of $112M for design, construction and procurement. Maintain capital expenditure accounts payable and contracting program with over 120 projects per year for new and existing airport restaurant infrastructures. Manage the process for contract administration, project coordination, purchasing, accounting and auditing.

• Conduit for North American contract negotiations with third parties, including architects, manufacturers, and contractors. Designed language to mitigate corporate risk and ensured legal compliance with state and federal regulations. Guides claim avoidance, disputes, and other complex or controversial contractual matters and related risk management/mitigation matters. Provides strategic thought leadership to develop innovative contracting solutions which will result in achieving company business objectives. Identifies current and anticipates future problems and determines appropriate solutions or preventive measures.

• Contracting and Procurement: Oversee the cradle-to-grave contract, compliance and FF&E procurement functions for a vast portfolio of airport restaurants across the United States and Canada. Serves as the focal point for all contractual and procurement activities including support for existing business and new business development activities. Acts as subject matter expert for contracts and procurement matters for design and construction initiatives and development activities.

• Certify contractual spend to Aviation Port Authorities and Municipalities. Verify and certify the audit process that provides proof of capital spend as agreed to in the concessionaire contract with the port authorities and/or municipalities for a vast portfolio of airport restaurants.

• Manage Supplier Diversity and Inclusion program focused on hiring minority owned, women owned, local, and small businesses. Ensure disadvantaged businesses contract for at least 30% of each projects budget. Provide information and details surrounding working in airports and requirements to submitting bid information and obtaining certifications to executive team. Provide leadership team with detailed analyzed data to support setting the annual diverse supplier spend goals.

• Manage the collection of business licenses, facility permits, and legally required documentation. Oversee collection and compliance with business licenses, payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates, health and facility permits. Enforce the timely and accurate collection of documents to avoid project delays and to keep with the company’s project scheduled goals.

• Developed Cost Accounting Platform. Reduced turnaround times for contract execution from 10 business days to 3 business days and streamlined contract administrative processes. Strong emphasis on the reduction of company’s financial waste and increasing profits. Allows for estimating accuracy and project forecasting. Deitrice McRae – PAGE 2

HMSHOST INC. • Bethesda, MD

Sr. Manager, Development Logistics (2011 - 2018)

Oversaw finance and contract management direct reports of 11 within design and construction department. Managed

$115M annual budget. Streamlined internal processes to generate department and corporate-wide efficiencies, resulting in cost savings and reduced headcount. Collaborated with senior executive team to generate roadmap for future organizational development.

• Restructured corporate financial policy. Participated as active member on steering-committee providing recommendations for modifications to financial approval process to create time efficiencies. Led team in recording approved budgets provided by the investors for projects within the corporate financial system. Managed budget overruns and reclassifications within projects and informed Executive Team of findings.

• Developed corporate project management system. Initiated and facilitated internal and external collaboration on projects by creating easy access to data, including contracts, project information, schedules, and financials. Created roadmap to success for the roll-out of a new project managing system for financial tracking and collaboration. Held informative and training seminars with departments to assist in the technology transition, onboarding and collaboration.

• Facilitated transition of Canadian projects financials from remote location to corporate office. Dissolved satellite office and oversaw the conversion of physical documentation to main database and monitored financial impacts of relocation. Implemented currency conversion process of Canadian to US cost to Peoplesoft Financial System. Lead tax team on conversion process and accuracy. Worked with Canadian government to verify vendors and invoices were in compliance with Canadian tax laws.

• Directed reimbursable billing for joint venture partners by coordinating the gathering of project costs, invoices, lien releases, bonds, insurance certificates. Approved and authorized the billing amounts based on certified cost of each project.

• Created business process models to define organizational procedures. Utilized flowcharts and visual aids to create operating procedures outlining processes to establish new workflow standards.

• Managed and participated in the view of RFP’s. Reviewed RFPs to ensure accuracy of information and completed documentation packages with zero administration errors.

• Manage Supplier Diversity and Inclusion program. Responsible for reviewing leasehold agreements for diversity goals for construction projects. Coordinated the collection and verification of MBE/DBE/WBE certifications and licenses. Provided monthly diversity progress reports and details to the municipalities and Port Authorities.

REDCOATS • Bethesda, MD

Sr. Accountant Representative (2007 - 2010)

Member of the Finance team that ensured accurate processing and recording of company’s payroll, provide timely and accurate financial information and participated in daily data entry Payroll processing.

• Set-up, input and verify commission entries for payroll. Entries were based on contracted hourly pay employees which included straight, holiday and overtime.

• Reviewed contracts and addendums to adjustments payroll prior to billing cycle. Based on contracted associates per project, payroll entries were made and/or modified to align with actual hours worked.

• Contract Administration. Prepared and issued security contracts to clients for execution by both parties. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, Montgomery, MD Associates Degree, General Studies CERTIFICATION-MATHIS MANAGEMENT, Athens, GA Office Management CENTRAL GEORGIA TECH, Macon, GA Medical Coding Certification SOFTWARE/SPECIALIZED SKILLS

ORACLE PEOPLESOFT

SALES FORCE

TIMBERLINE

SAP

EXPESITE

CONSTRUCTWARE

IKONICS

PAYSYS

MICROSOFT SUITE

QUIRIES

FOOTPRINTS

LEXIS NEXIS