Roddy Premsukh
I am an operational executive with an impressive track record of building efficient financial operations across domestic and international locations while seamlessly directing all accounting functions.
My Primary Focuses:
- Strategy planning
- Cashflow forecasting and management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Post mergers and acquisitions
- Business model transformation
- International operations
- ERP implementation
- Cost and manufacturing accounting
- Financial reporting
My ability to help my clients is driven by the fact that I am an expert in bringing together diverse stakeholders, building strong relationships, and cultivating cooperation to find common ground and achieve extraordinary, challenging goals. I am also a relentless bottom-line driver with a history of exceeding corporate goals by identifying untapped opportunities that drive aggressive growth and managing KPIs.
I have a solutions-focused, results-driven, proactive “out of the box” approach to problem solving with superior leadership skills that I employ to motivate and direct cross-functional teams to produce desired results.
Noteworthy accomplishments in my career include:
- Growing revenue by 150% over two years with a corresponding 33% EBITDA increase resulting in significant improvement in cashflow and liquidity for a company focused on donor engagement systems while ensuring activity base drivers in the sales pipeline were trending positively to enable planned growth strategies
- Rebuilding the finance function of a global consulting organization and implementing formal budgeting, forecasting, and reporting systems to measure and communicate performance results
- Providing leadership to direct financial statement corrections and reconciliations for an international education fund
- Collaborating with both U.S. and Canada tax professionals to ensure tax compliance for a Canadian-based company for which I later led a transitional team to relocate the head office from Canada to the U.S.
- Realizing a reduction of $2M working capital over a 2-year period due to inventory planning and controls for a garment manufacturing company
- Increasing EBITDA from $4M to $6.5M over a 5-year period for a garment manufacturing company
- Implementing transfer pricing policies and consulting with various international tax professionals to mitigate tax liabilities (U.S., Puerto Rico)
- Successfully leading the transition team of a cabinetry manufacturer towards a major corporate takeover while assuming all financial and managerial accounting functions
I have 25 years of international experience working in a variety of roles including CFO, VP Finance, and Corporate Controller. I am a certified CPA, CGA with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from Laurentian University.
In my professional career, I have served as:
- CFO at BrookGlobal
- CFO at Universal Business Team
- VP Finance at Gaspard LP
- Corporate Controller at KitchenCraft Cabinetry