Matthew Edwards
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES
- 15 Years & Over 30,000 Hours of Client Service
in acquisitions, organization transitions, finance & accounting processes.
- Concise Communication & Project Direction
to ensure our teams meet our sponsor’s goals.
- $76M Cash Recovered for Clients
in working capital settlements, tax recoveries & other settlements.
- Executed 30 Acquisitions Integrations
for private equity owned clients.
ROLES
- Operations Finance forecasting and planning for $125M of spend
- Operations Controller responsible for cost accounting functions
- Served as finance representative on 4 divestiture diligences, and 4 acquisitions
- Managed SEC reporting and audit for 1 annual report and 2 quarterly reports
- Managed business combination of 10 properties with 50 producing wells
- Implemented 13 week cash flow forecasting
- Implemented receivables collection council to improve DSOs.
- Developed bottoms up plan and forecasting process
PROJECTS
- Acquisition Consulting – Working Capital Settlement Dispute resulting in recovery of $43.2M
- Risk Consulting – Quote to Cash Process Improvement identifying cash conversion cycle deficiencies for three separate business pillars collecting $5M of unbilled receivables.
- Finance Consulting – Leader of Logistics Freight Lane and Import Tax Optimization projects identifying $4M (cash) of recoverable taxes ($2.4M EBITBA)
- Acquisition Consulting – Working Capital Settlement Dispute resulting in recovery of $2.5M
- Acquisition Consulting – Working Capital Dispute defense of $19.2M claim
- Accounting Consulting – Close process optimization 60 day close to 5 day
- Accounting Consulting – Controlled mid month, stub period close for $2B acquisition
- Accounting Consulting – Directed accounting team of 10 FTEs and 3 consultants
- Implemented new ERP system and policies and procedures
- Finance Consulting – Managed annual plan & forecast during growth ($80M to $250M) of annual revenues
