
Veronique Serritella
Director of Finance & Controls
Summary
High-Performance Team Integrator and Finance Partner, Strategic Forward-Looking Thinker.
- Collaborator managing all financial aspects of the Bottom Line, Financial Strategy, Planning, Performance Results, Risks and Sustainable Solutions, Strategic Modeling, Program Control.
- Operations Partner with Lean Six Sigma (LSS) experience, focussing on metrics to find adoptable solutions that maximize performance, reduce waste and improve quality to meet strategic business goals.
- Government Contracting subject matter expert, ensuring compliance with DCAA & DCMA, FAR, Cost Accounting, rates structure and submissions, direct vs indirect cost compliance, funding and color of money, SOW, CDRLs and reporting requirements.
US Citizen.
FP&A, Financial Planning & Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, Strategic Financial Analysis, Decision Support, KPI's & Metrics, Strategic Pricing, Finance Controls, Contract Compliance, Operations & Program Finance, Program Management, Performance Management, P&L Reviews, Business Area Financials, Financial Modeling, Risk Management & Mitigation, Capture Management, Earned Value Management, Quality, Continuous Improvement, Business Process Re-engineering, Waste Reduction, Labor Optimization, Small Business Management, Contract Mobilization, Excel Models, Modeling, Operational Efficiency
Experience
Independent Consultant
VHSolutions, LLC
- Monitor projects conformance to established policies and procedures, methods and standard operating procedures, research for continuous improvements.
- Establish Delegation of Authority threshold procedures, provide Business Development reporting support and updates to call plan and executive briefings.
- Participate in strategic Price-To-Win discussions and position to win strategy, create business case. Establish Basis for Estimating, Level of Efforts, Earned Value Management.
Director Finance & Contract Management
Sodexo
- Developed and lead a team of high-performing senior finance managers with monthly and quarterly financial reporting responsibilities: month-end close, consolidations, financial P&L reviews, annual budgets and operating plans, forecasts, variance analyses, briefs to executive management, G&A trends, key performance indicators (KPI) trend analyses (financial and performance-based), capital expenditures.
- Devised advanced financial models for budgeting, performance analyses, strategic planning, decision support and strategic pricing. Instituted various client dashboards and flux reporting.
- Created monthly executive reporting packages for leadership business decisions, provided financial insights for improved operational efficiency, consistency and key management decisions to help achieve excellence in business performance.
- Assured soundness of analysis, compliance with regulations (FAR, DFAR, CAS, billing, government property) and Small Business performance requirements.
- Developed Government Segment Project Management Office (PMO) Center of Excellence (COE) standards, document repository, policies & procedures, training, mentoring, cross-functional applications.
- Participated in Must-Win re-compete color team reviews, proposal content.
- Enhanced Client relationships, managing concerns and expectations, translating them into actionable solutions; mitigated risk and resolved challenges, prioritizing concerns as they arose.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensured contract compliance, timeliness and accuracy of deliverables, adherence to budgets / schedules; provided leadership and vision, tools, techniques, coordination and integration of work streams
Head Finance & Controls
UltraElectronics
- Developed a program finance team to monitor all client contracts cradle-to-grave, including: monthly close activities, budgets, forecasts, variance analyses and trends/KPIs, internal and external reporting, burn rates, utilization and billability, realization, funding logs, accuracy of expenses, Estimates To Complete (ETC) & Estimates At Completion (EAC), cash flow, Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), scheduling forecasts, contract & modification reviews and compliance (Terms & Conditions).
- Ensured compliance with (D)FAR, CAS, and GAAP.
- Revamped Business Enterprise Review packages to include meaningful insight for decision support.
- Responsible for Capture Management and competitive RFP cost volumes and narratives, strategic pricing; maintained labor rates compliance management matrices, labor category mappings, advised in contract negotiations with customers and DCAA.
- Pursued completion of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) requirement in collaboration with DCMA.