Barbara A. McKinzie

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Certified Government Finance Manager(CGFM)

adzt5b@r.postjobfree.com • 773-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/barbaramckinzie • Olympia Fields, IL

Accomplished General Management and Financial Executive with a proven ability to grow revenue, improve operating performance, and reduce costs at nonprofit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations.

Recognized as a driven and inspirational leader with expertise in profit and loss and balance sheet management, strategic planning and execution, turn-around management, financial management, organizational restructuring, and team building. “Big 4” Public accounting progressive experience through Senior Manager/Director level. Record of strategic and tactical initiatives that significantly increased competitive performance. Has received multiple distinctions and awards throughout career, including proclamations from or keys to 20 cities and a listing in the Guinness Book of Records.

Areas of Expertise

Revenue Growth

Business Planning

Operations

Internal Control Design

Analysis

Profit Generation

Public Speaking

Information Technology Security

Consultancy

Community Relations

Staff Training

Active Listening

Accomplishments

Grew global organization’s cash and investment assets 40% while increasing number of people reached and served from under 2 million to more than 17 million – both within three years. Concurrently, grew membership 15% to 250,000, delivering record level of active members.

Implemented sweeping financial and operating changes at governmental organization, turning a 14-year deficit with $30M in final year into $65M profit within two years.

Increased annual cash flow over $6M through pioneering a new cash management process and restructuring financial reporting from quarterly to monthly, while streamlining chart of accounts 50%, resulting in improved transparency and accountability for executive management decisions.

Career Experience

Department of Homeland Security – FEMA, Chicago, IL November 2016 – Present

Finance Admin Section Chief

Successful completion of Agency’s qualification process of emergency management achieving designation of finance admin section chief. Process requires deployments at Type I, II, and III level disasters.

Plan and participate diligently in over 150 available training programs of appropriation laws, regulations, agency practices, internal controls, and policies of emergency management.

Lead 14 disasters as Finance Admin Section Chief (FASC) without a deputy FASC or deployed Spend Plan Administrator and returned 4 disasters to Regional Office; leadership involved training several FASC trainees while deputy FASC at Type I disaster in San Juan, PR.

Deployed to 26 disasters and 1 NRCC mission in 4 years as Comptroller, Deputy Comptroller and Finance Admin Section Chief monitoring operations, processing allocations, obligations, de allocations, and de obligations ensuring reasonableness of spend plan projections. For example, de obligated over $800M in mission assignments in one month.

Participate in Federal Coordinating officer (FCO) command and general staff meetings in support of mission and management team. Managing the preparation and timely submission of required and requested financial reports and information.

Manage internal controls compliance with appropriation law concepts of time, purpose and amount at each deployment for supervised areas of funding, acquisitions, training, travel, and human resources.

McKinzie, Sauer & Linbar (MSL), LLC, Chicago, IL January 2010 – Present

Managing Director and Consultant

Services provided include staff development and training, outsourced CFO, tax advisory, accounting management and process reengineering and improvement and marketing.

Manage on time delivery of professional tax, advisory, and management consultancy services to manufacturing, real estate, technology, and financial services entities with annual revenues of $10 to over $700 million.

Develop, design, and execute planning solutions for information technology security, infrastructure and operations for clients.

Supervise and train staff on professional delivery of annual tax returns for high-net-worth individuals and businesses.

Manage international staff in marketing and process reengineering of an alliance of CPA firms.

Alpha Kappa Alpha, (AKA) Inc., Chicago, IL July 2006 – July 2010

President and Board Member

Elected to lead with primary focus on growing membership in communities and on university and college campuses, improving operations and mission delivery, and establishing a substantial endowment.

Rigorously analyzed operations, then created new vision, and developed and implemented strategic plan to improve organization’s performance in multiple areas such as membership and asset growth.

Built endowment from zero base to $14M, reduced annual expenses $1M, restructured headquarters organization and decreased staff 12% through improved enterprise resource management technology while maintaining productivity level in a period of 2 years

Increased cash and investment assets 40%, and through global economic program network expanded number of people reached and served from less than two million to over 17 million over the course of 3 years

Generated over $23M in contributions and support to serve communities working through collaborations and partnerships.

Increased active global membership 15% to record level of 250,000 members.

Increased organization’s visibility and recognition globally through speaking at events in 17 countries, including multiple presentations, as well as invited visits to the White House.

Additional Experience

Director of Internal Audit, Whitman Corporation, Rolling Meadows, IL

Chief of Internal Audit, Illinois State Toll Highway, Downers Grove, IL

Chief Financial Officer, Hollywood Casino, Shreveport, LA

Chief Financial Officer, Cook County Forest Preserve District, Chicago, IL

Comptroller and Member of the Strategy Committee, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago, IL

Business Assurance Manager, PriceWaterhauseCoopers, Chicago, IL

Education

Master’s in Business Administration

Kellogg Graduate School, Northwestern University, 1997

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

East Central Oklahoma University, 1976

Certifications

Certified Government Finance Manager, American Government Association, 2018

Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1983

Affiliations

AKA, Member on the Board of Directors and First Vice President, 2002 – 2010

Strategic Planning and Nominating Committee, United Negro College Fund, Member on the Board of Directors, 2005 –2010

Africare, Member on the Board of Directors and Treasurer, 1998 – 2010

JP Morgan, Member on the Real Estate Advisory Board, 2006 – 2010

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