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Harvest focuses on creating and implementing opportunities to add value to your organization. We provide leadership as an interim or part-time CFO or controller in projects that range from ongoing assistance with your internal and external financial and operational reporting and measurements to more complex and strategic matters. Examples of recent projects include:

  • Created and led implementation of company-wide financial and operating goals for benchmarking success leading to profitable growth, increased cash flow and increased returns on assets.

  • Created and implemented cost restructuring programs for a diversified company that resulted in 25% operating cost reductions.

  • Negotiated significant vendor contracts, long-term real estate leases and financing arrangements to ensure the organization achieved its targeted profit margins, cash flows, payback periods and return on capital investments.

  • Created sophisticated decision analysis models used by management to select among different strategic investments opportunities to achieve targeted internal rate of return (IRR).

  • Leader in structuring foreign operation for a diversified U.S. company—including creation of operating model, compensation and pricing structures, and financial and operating reporting processes to achieve strategic and financial goals in light of foreign legal, tax and currency issues.

  • Successfully structured merger and acquisition transactions including valuation of companies as going concerns and led due diligence activities for companies in various industries.

  • Preparation of complex financial reports in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and sophisticated financial presentations for third party lenders, investors and shareholders.

  • Created dynamic manufacturing job-cost and proposal tools to significantly increase ability to realize targeted gross margins, and also gain substantial efficiencies in project quoting processes to quickly and confidently respond to an RFP.

  • Created business plans for significant business expansions including multi-year prospective financial forecasts used to successfully negotiate capital structures with financing sources.

  • Provided leadership to lessen the financial reporting impact to organizations implementing SEC reporting requirements required by new accounting pronouncements.