CFO/Controller

Maryanne J. Thompson

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Hatboro, PA 19040 E-mail: *****************@*****.***

NON PROFIT EVP • CFO • COO

• Results-driven nonprofit executive with 20 years of experience leading and guiding non-profits to success. Proven ability to provide cross-functional team leadership driving performance, program improvement, and quality initiatives, while simultaneously improving financial resources and capability.

• Proactive, visionary business leader known for ability to win the confidence and support of peers and Board Members, develop key constituencies, and build crucial relationships with a shared sense of purpose.

• Consistently recognized for developing creative programs and methodologies serving multiple organizational needs. Deeply committed to improving the organizations ability to reach far and wide with limited resources.

• History of repeated success in turnaround operations – praised by executives and board members for reversing negative cash flow, rightsizing programs, elevating morale, and overcoming negative board members opinions and adversarial relations with external affiliates.

• Respected administrator with a reputation for top performance. “…displays brilliance in creativity and original thinking…inspires the respect and trust of others through openness and integrity…dedication and commitment to excellence.” – Daniel G.Cedarbaum, Esq. Director, Individual Giving.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Executive Leadership & Supervision

• Strategic Planning & Implementation

• Board Relations

• Operations Systems and Controls

• Merger & Due Diligence Compliance

• Fundraising/Capital Campaigns/Annual Fund/Development Planning • Financial Strategy and Management

• P&L Enhancement

• Staff Development & Training

• Award Winning Programming

• Multimillion-Dollar Facility/Budgetary Administration

• Turnaround Operations/Change Management

CAREER PROGRESSION

The JRF – Jenkintown, PA

Administrative arm of a religious organization based in the United States serving 111 member communities both nationally and internationally through programmatic, advocacy, and leadership development along with external strategic affiliations both interreligious and political.

Vice-President, Finance and Administration, May 2005 to Present

Recruited to formulate and execute budget and processes to turn around poor financial performance and lagging program development. Contributed to the formulation of the strategic plan. Wholly responsible for operational and fiscal oversight of $5 million organization, with 25+ full time employees and 50+ seasonal camp employees. Develop, implement, and oversee turnkey operations to support the programmatic initiatives implemented on both a regional and national level. Lead relationship-building initiatives with and among board members to align interest and capacity building with mission and purpose that resulted in a 20% increase in board giving.

Key Accomplishments:

Reversed history of negative, politicized interactions with constituents and affiliates by establishing cooperative working relationships, implementing a targeted communications schedule and increased involvement by board members. Credited with rescuing operation from threatened closure, increasing financial security of organization, and setting the stage for future growth.

Successfully accomplished the rightsizing of operation. Slashed overhead by 20% – saving $200K annually – through comprehensive, multi-tiered cost-saving initiatives incorporating staffing, leveraging purchasing power, vendor services, and printing and housing of inventory expense reductions.

Coordinated a winning capital campaign, raising over $4M to secure purchase of an 18 acre camp in the Poconos. Provided hands on leadership for the effort – from initial campaign concepts to purchasing and financing of camp.

Successfully met or exceeded four successive operating plans, reversing a negative cash flow trend, through the judicious allocation of resources and an internal campaign emphasizing cost-saving measures.

Restructured and streamlined organizational model by promoting existing staff to core DEVELOPMENT roles thereby capitalizing on knowledge and expertise that increased moral and improved functionality of organization. Implemented fiscal/capital improvements that increased revenue by 15%.

Developed transparent and seamless financial and operational systems for internal and external use, resulting in the development of a workshop for affiliate members presented at bi-ennial convention.

Identified as a key contributor on the negotiation team involved in merger talks with Movement affiliate, prompting a key employee retention offer from Board of Directors.

SAINT FRANCIS CABRINI PARISH – Fairless Hills, PA

Religious Education Director, June 2003 to May 2006

A 2,400 family Roman Catholic Church with a 280 student day school and 400 student evening school located in Bucks County in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Key Accomplishments:

Expanded the parish religious education program by implementing a one of a kind special needs evening program for the parish that expanded to include 7 parishes in both Bucks and Montgomery counties.

Conducted personal outreach to teacher community to turnaround negative opinions of Archdiocesan continuing education program that yielded a 90% participation rate among teachers completing their continuing education credits.

Wholly responsible for implementing a “Parent Sacramental Symposium” model that won parish-wide praise among leadership and participants that ultimately became a model repeated by peers throughout the Archdiocese.

SAINT JOHN BOSCO PARISH – Hatboro, PA

Parish Services Director, June 2001 to May 2003

A 2,100 family Roman Catholic Church with a 180 student day school and 300 student evening school located in Montgomery County in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Managed day-to-day operations including program development and expansion, staff & volunteer supervision, fiscal/facility management, community awareness and support campaigns, service enhancement, grant writing, and fundraising.

Key Accomplishments:

Recruited to overhaul youth and adult programming and transform the delivery model for maximum efficiencies. Spearheaded a comprehensive redesign/overhaul of programs that was formally recognized by Parish leadership for meeting all objectives: completely overturned parish history of persistent underutilization of resources, increased program attendance by 300%.

Built lasting community support by recruiting and organizing first lay lead year round Bible study program and Evangelization and Outreach program to provide ongoing formation and community building opportunities that serves as a model in the community eight years later.

Adeptly handled media relations and communications, fostering positive public relations pieces highlighting our Evangelization and Outreach program In the Catholic Standard and Times, two years in a row.

Coordinated a comprehensive parish stewardship campaign, increasing weekly collections by 10%, sustainable for two years, enabling the parish to support staggering cost associated with parish school. Conducted face to face solicitations to over 100 major parish donors.

EARLY CAREER

HENKELS & MCCOY– Blue Bell, PA 1991-2001

Initially hired in 1991 as an Instructor of accounting to provide transitional services to dislocated workers under the Job Training Partnership Act being promoted in 1994 to Mid Atlantic Regional Director responsible for securing and implementing new business through grant writing through the Department of Labor. Secured 4M in grants and was the top manager for 4 years running, leading to final promotion in 1998 to Manager of Training Services Division.

UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION

Adjunct Faculty Member, 2007 to Present

Teach theology, philosophy and religion to undergraduate students

ST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY – Wynnewood, PA

GYWNEDD MERCY COLLEGE – Gwynedd Valley, PA

Course Developer, 2008 to Present

Developed online course format for new Catechetical Institute for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

St. Charles Borromeo Alumni Speaker’s Bureau

Founder & Keynote Speaker

EDUCATION

ST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY – Wynnewood, PA

Master’s of Art, Theology Magna cum Laude

Concentration: Systematic Theology

GWYNEDD MERCY COLLEGE – Gwynedd Valley, PA

Bachelor’s in Business Administration Magna cum Laude

Major: Organizational Management

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Co-Chair, 1.4M Heritage of Faith Campaign, Nativity of Our Lord Parish, 2010

• President, St. Charles Seminary Alumni Association 2006-

• Founding Board Member, Directors of Adult Formation, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 2004-2007

• Member, Society of Human Resource Management 2000-

• Board Member, W.I.S.E Communities That Care – 2000 - Present

• Board Member, Bucks County Workforce Investment Board, 2000 - 2011

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