Cassandra Moore
Location: Clifton Park, NY
Email: cjc.moore@outlook.com
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Summary
Strategic finance and business leader with 20+ years of progressive experience across corporate finance, operations, and executive leadership. Proven track record of partnering with executive leadership to align financial operations with growth objectives, drive operational discipline, and build high-performing teams. Expertise in cash flow forecasting, financial reporting, lender relations, and scaling finance organizations for complex, multi-entity businesses. Known for fostering a culture of accountability, clarity, and data-driven decision-making that enables profitability, sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Education
Sage Graduate School, Albany, NY; Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Russell Sage College, Troy, NY; BS-Accounting, Minor-Economics
Experience
Centrica Business Solutions – North America (owned by Centrica PLC – United Kingdom)
Head of Centrica Business Solutions NA (CEO) – January 2025 – August 2025 Head of Finance (CFO) (July 2022 – January 2025) + Interim CEO September 2024-December 2024 Corporate Controller (July 2019 – July 2022) (Acquisition of Smartwatt – role advanced)
Executive Leadership:
• Re-organized and managed a strong leadership team (including Sales, Engineering/Development, Operations/Delivery, Legal, Marketing, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Finance) that promoted collaboration and accountability across the organization
• Align organizational expertise, organizational structure and key teams, to drive customer excellence and deliver results
• Provide insightful leadership, through hands-on involvement in all functions of the business, that promoted innovation, employee empowerment, and cultivated collaboration, as we drove toward growth
• Drove consistent and effective communication, to support and guide the organization at all levels
• Implemented strategic focus and alignment across all functional areas to maximize Gross Profit through Revenue volume and increased gross margins based on solution
• Implemented changes within Sales/Development processes to drive positive cash flow at project level for CBS, including requirement of Cash Flow Forecast prior to contract negotiations
• Established process to identify and drive key lender relationships
Financial Leadership:
• Established and led a high performing finance team that consisted of Accounting, FP&A, Risk & Compliance, Insurance, Tax and Treasury responsibilities
• Built trust and collaborative partnerships across all functional areas of the organization
• Developed and maintained efficient, timely and accurate accounting processes that meet International Financial Reporting Standards (converted from GAAP)
• Ensured procurement vendor onboarding and sourcing efforts align to business needs and contract requirements; and focus on favorable terms to support positive cash flow
• Successfully led integration of multiple entities financial data, systems, and standardization of processes across all entities • Completion of System/Software updates and implementations to ensure efficient and cost-effective back-office support
• Lead external and internal audits • Oversaw compliance with multi-jurisdictional Payroll, Corporate and Sales/Use Tax
• Develop and maintain Key Controls for accounting and treasury functions
• Continuous process review to identify inefficiencies to drive Gross and Net Profit by increasing productivity, reducing costs and aligning people’s skills with organizational goals and customer needs
• Drove continuous review of actuals/forecast against budget to allow for accurate and timely focus and action to meet financial goals
• Played pivotal role in M&A Activities – Financial health preparation, valuation, Teaser/CIM preparation, Due Diligence management, management presentation participation, post-transaction activities
• Aided in parent organization entry to new markets/new organization set up, in USA
Smartwatt Energy Inc (acquired by Centrica – July 2019)
Controller (04/2019 – 11/2020)
• Developed and implemented financial controls for all accounting and payroll activities
• Key contributor during post-acquisition of Smartwatt, to familiarize Parent entity with current systems/processes and lead finance team on required conversion to IFRS from GAAP.
• Provide strong leadership to build and drive high performing, collaborative accounting team, responsible for all accounting tasks including Job Costing, Customer Invoicing, Accounts Payables, Cash application, Collections, Month End Close processing and reporting, Balance sheet reconciliations, Bank reconciliation
• Quickly assumed additional controller responsibility for other Centrica US entities; improved accuracy of additional entity financials, developed controls, amended processes for accurate accounting moving forward
The Precision Group (Precision Industrial Maintenance Inc, Precision Trenchless LLC, Martin Environmental Services Inc
Chief Financial Officer (04/2017 – 04/2019)
• Prepared and presented financial results and analysis with actionable guidance and strategies, to achieve financial goals – recommendations have resulted in sales growth as well as improved gross and net margins across the businesses – process was previously non-existent
• Provided strategic financial leadership across multiple subsidiaries, improved margins and revenue growth through actionable analysis and controls.
• Developed and implemented budgeting process and reporting
• Directed budgeting, payroll, AR/AP, tax, and accounting close processes; established formal financial reporting cadence.
• Drove new market expansion initiatives
• Led payroll and finance system implementations.
• Built sales commission plans and job costing systems to strengthen accountability and profitability.
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc., Albany, NY
Finance Leader (05/2015 – 04/2017)
• Financial leadership for multiple business Sectors totaling $157m in annual revenue
• Partner with operation leadership to provide strategic input, beneficial analysis, and execution of strategies to aid them in achieving financial goals
• Develop annual budget based on corporate goals, while reviewing overall budget process for efficiencies and accuracy • Complete detailed monthly re-forecasting that aligns with updated financial strategies
• Provide guidance to drive faster revenue recognition and higher margins on existing and new projects
• Manage month-end close process, results reporting, and budget/forecast variance analysis reporting
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Financial Analysts
• Work with project teams to meet cash flow goals
• Review contracts to ensure revenue recognition meets accounting standards and contract terms meet financial goals
• Provide pricing support for business development leadership
• Prepare, consolidate, and analyze monthly revenue and cost projections for corporate and project leadership
• Ensure monitoring of AR/WIP balances to maximize timely revenue recognition and to reduce DSO
• Review, adapt, and document existing processes to create consistency and efficiency within the finance team
• Ensure team is accurately applying GAAP and IFRS
• Coordinate internal and external audit requests with the team. Work with team to resolve any deficiencies and review/improve process to ensure issues do not persist
Casella Waste Management, Fort Edward, NY
Controller (11/2013 – 12/2014)
• Full financial responsibility for two businesses, with varying revenue sources
• Prepare annual budget and forecasting based on business goals, then review intermittently with department leads to address any issues
• Continually evaluate business financials to provide revenue growth and cost maintenance/reduction guidance to management
• Month-end close process and reporting responsibilities 3
• Financial statement creation, review, and analysis
• Develop and analyze various cost, productivity, and statistical reports on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Not only review data but review for accuracy and consistency in system reports.
• Calculate sales commissions; calculate driver and management bonus’
• Maintain fixed assets – ensure accurate inventory, justify new purchases, ensure accurate depreciation.
• Hands on responsibility for AR, AP, billing and collections
• Review customer contracts for price increase opportunities • Review and document processes and procedures to distribute among all divisions
• Review and maintain SOX Controls
• Work with internal external auditors
• Initiate employee morale events – positive outcome from all employees
• Serve as Payroll/HR contact for divisional employees
• Train and develop finance team
LexisNexis (formerly Matthew Bender & Co). Albany, NY
Finance Director (04/2010 – 04/2013)
Finance Operations Manager (05/2008 – 04/2010)
Finance Manager (08/2002 – 05/2008)
Senior Financial Analyst (10/1999 – 08/2002)
Sr. Payroll Administrator/Financial Analyst (08/1997 – 10/1999)
Associate Financial Analyst – Payroll (04/1996 – 08/1997)
Intern – General Accounting and Payroll (11/1994 – 04/1996)
• Experience in all areas of accounting
• Payroll and employee benefit leadership
• Sales Compensation plan development and implementation
• Payroll and finance integrations due to acquisition activities
• Multiple system integrations and conversions
• Datamart implementation to manage data needs from 20+ ERPs across the organization