Financially Executive

DAWN A. WILSON, MBA

Council Bluffs, IA ***** • 712-***-****

Dedicated Senior Finance and Accounting Professional

Vice President of Finance, VP Finance and Administration, VP Financial Planning and Analysis Financial Consultant • Implementation Consultant • Director of Finance • Director of FP & A

ERP Software • Financial & Data Analysis • Project Management • Budgets & Financial Forecasts

Business Process Transformation • GAAP Research • Risk Mitigation • Financial Consulting

Reduced Expenses • Improved Processes • Led ERP • Increased Process Flow

WORK EXPERIENCE

Robert Half, Omaha, NE September, 2024 - Present

Accounting Consultant

●Review and optimize processes for Oracle Fusion and ARCS

●Train and collaborate with core accounting staff

Fontenelle Forest, Bellevue, NE May, 2024 - September 2024

Director of Finance and Administration

●Manage and oversee financial operations, including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and investment management.

●Lead HR functions, including benefits administration and compliance with organizational policies.

●Serve as a key member of the senior leadership team, providing strategic financial insights to the Finance Committee and Board of Directors.

Anthology, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (Remote) Oct 2022 – July 2023

Financial Implementation Consultant

●Focused on training and managing the financial aspect of the Anthology Finance (D365) implementations. Higher Education.

●Accounting and Finance mapping and set up, training and customer interface.

abas USA, Sterling, VA (Remote) Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Senior Financial Consultant

●Focused on training and managing the financial aspect of the abas ERP implementations. Manufacturing.

●Accounting and Finance mapping and set up, training and customer interface.

Independent Consultant (Remote) Dec 2017 – May, 2024

Senior Financial Consultant

●ERP implementations (Axiom, Oracle Cloud) – Finance and Operations

●Financial management, accounting and business process improvement reviews

●Accounting and Finance mapping and set up, training and customer interface.

●Performed daily Accounting and Finance functions such as journal entries, account reconciliations, report creation, dual system diagnostics during implementations.

Standard Nutrition, Omaha, NE. 2020

Project specialist

●Focused on training and managing the financial aspect of the Great Plains to Deacom implementations. Agricultural

●Accounting and Finance mapping and set up, training and customer interface.

Guess & Co. Corporation, Miami, FL (Remote) 2019

Executive Vice President & Controller

●Led the new business in establishing the framework for the new accounting/finance department.

●Created the organizational chart to determine staffing needs and maximize productivity.

●Designed the business process and implemented NetSuite to increase efficiency.

CampusWorks, Bradenton, FL (Remote) 2017 - 2019

Senior Optimization Executive, Higher Education

●Reimagined business process and redesign projects and analyzed all back-end processes.

●Established pivotal client relationships while providing project management and coordination.

●Performed current and future state analysis and process flow diagramming.

●Accounting and Finance reviews and systems upgrades, mapping and training.

Kaufman Hall, Portland, OR (Remote) 2017

Implementation Consultant, Higher Education

●Implemented Axiom budgeting and planning projects and analyzed all back-end processes.

●Accounting and Finance best practices, reviews and systems upgrades, mapping and training.

Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2011 - 2017

Director of Finance & Senior Financial Analyst

●Oversaw multiple financial divisions, including ad hoc projects, budget creation and financial modeling, risk assessments, and forecast creation with monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

●High concept variance analysis.

●Banking process improvement and relationship management for daily cash accounts.

●Created a culture of cross-operational communication through communication with multiple divisions.

●Accounting and finance, including GAAP research and journal entries.

Oriental Trading Company, Omaha, NE 2006 - 2011

Financial Reporting Manager

●Promoted from financial analyst to senior financial analyst and to financial reporting manager.

●Accounting and finance, including GAAP research and journal entries.

●Forecasting, budgeting, planning modeling, capital projects, IRR.

●Accounting and finance, including GAAP research and journal entries.

●M&A team for due diligence.

EDUCATION

Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Master of Business Administration, Accounting and Finance

TECHNOLOGIES

Oracle NetSuite, ARCS, Deacom, JD Edwards, SAGE, Banner, Colleague, SAP, QuickBooks, MS Office, D365, Anthology Finance, Oracle Fusion (Cloud), Tableau, Power BI, Celonis

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