Let’s Get Started in Aligning Your Finance Teams

  • Are your finance and accounting teams delivering an impact greater than just a reporting entity?
  • When your finance teams know they are working toward the same goals, communication becomes more open and transparent, and decisions are easier to understand and support.
  • Aligning your finance teams brings better forecasting for sales and production or service delivery. Better forecasting builds confidence and trust.

Please explore the resources here, and reach out to discuss further how I can help your organization with achieving better strategic alignment.

Advisory Consulting Services available:

  1. Finance team alignment: Do your accounting and finance teams support the business plan and strategy, or are they only a reporting agency? Does your FP&A and Accounting Teams provide easily understandable key insights to strategic leaders to help them make better decisions? A successful organization is aligned with the strategy, business objectives, metrics to be analyzed, and what information is needed to help make better decisions.
  2. Process Improvement: Do your processes make sense? Are you or your team frustrated at how you conduct your daily activities?’ How is your month-end close process? We can help you evaluate your processes  and to make the adjustments to help your team become more efficient.
  3. Team Training: I can help your teams with a variety of relevant topics including leadership, developing a CFO mindset, building trust, team management tools, strategy, executive presence, prioritizing, and many more. These can be adjusted to your needs and delivered via short workshops or all-day sessions, in-person or virtual. Please contact me for more information.
  4. Start-up / Small / Micro Business Owner: Are you a professional, entrepreneur, or artist with a team who does not look forward to the administration and financial sides of your business? Let me help you to better prepare for routine update meetings. Do you know what questions to ask or even know what information you need to make better decisions and to give direction to your team? Are your accounting and finance processes correct?
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A little information about me, Stephen McLain

I am a United States Army-Retired Finance Officer who had over 21 years of active military service. I have worked as an Auditor, as a Budget Officer, in Resource Management, leading Finance Operations in Iraq and was a member of a team in the Pentagon that developed the Army’s annual budget.

In the last few years, I have worked on Corporate Accounting and Finance teams both in a permanent role and as a Business Consultant.

My greatest strength is to coach leaders and teams to find clarity with their goals, improve communication, and implement better team work and collaboration. While serving in the Army, I had a great ability to turn poor performing organizations into successful ones.

I believe that leadership is about open communication, respect, and positive influence. Leaders can get results while also developing the team with a growth mindset. My desire is to coach you, so you can become a better leader with great potential for advancement.

Personality Profile:

  • I am an ENFJ – Protaganist, who loves to inspire others to reach and exceed their potential.
  • Strengths Finder: Futuristic, Strategic, Individualization, Analytical, Focus
  • Enneagram: 1-The Reformer, Principled, Purposeful, and Self-Controlled

 

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