Available Candidates (as of 5/23/25)

Total Experience: 11y (Total) / 11y (Commercial Finance) / 9y (Operational Finance)

Industry Experience:  6y (End Consumer Packaging) / 3y (Automation Systems) / 3y (Branding/Marketing) / 2y (Medical Manufacturing)

Production Process Experience: 8y (Mass Production) / 3y (Job Production [Projects]) 3y (Batch Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Senior Manager, FP&A
2. Prior: Head of Commercial Finance / Supply Chain & Operations Manager / Commercial Finance Systems Manager / Senior Financial Analyst / Plant Controller
3. Future: Director of Finance / FP&A Director

Management Experience: 6y

Top 3 Competencies: Financial Planning & Analysis / Strategic Financial Leadership / Operational Efficiency Improvement

Top 3 Skills: Business Process Automation / Pricing & Contract Negotiation / Advanced IT Integration

Key Systems: SAP / RFID Systems / OneStream / VBA / Python

Education: MBA (Finance & Strategic Mgt.), Kelley School of Business, Indiana University / BBA (Finance)

Certifications: Leadership Enrichment Curriculum, Dale Carnegie Corporate Leadership Training; Accelerated Transformational Leadership – Supply Chain Focus, Michigan State University; Executive Development – Data & Statistical Analytics, University of Michigan

MDG Write Up:  Candidate provides notable value in their ability to identify and capitalize on process improvements that not only lead to cost reductions, but in certain cases leads to additional revenue.  Their process improvements have also been used to improve their company’s financial reporting.  They also provide value in their ability to work with the sales department and assist them in identifying opportunities with the customer not seen by others.  Couple these unique skills with their ability to understand business overall, finance, and lead a team and they’re a can’t miss candidate for many.  Their background sets them up to take on many different positions, but they’re currently targeting a Director of Finance / FP&A Director role.  They will also entertain part-time consulting work, up to 20 hours per week.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. Looking for a role with high growth potential.
2. Open to full-time roles and consulting opportunities.
3. Prefer positions that allow for strategic decision-making and leadership.

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Remote

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Contract or Direct Hire

Total Experience: 17y (Total) / 9y (Commercial Finance) / 3y (Operational Finance)

Industry Experience:  11y (Automotive Manufacturing) / 5y (Service)

Production Process Experience: 9y (Mass Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Senior Finance Manager
2. Prior: Senior Finance Manager / Portfolio Manager / Plant Controller / Program Controller / Senior Financial Analyst / Sales Planning Analyst / Automotive Business Consultant
3. Future: FP&A Director / Senior FP&A Manager

Management Experience: 13y

Top 3 Competencies: Commercial Finance / Forecast & Budgeting / Cross-Functional Collaboration

Top 3 Skills: Financial Reporting & Presentations / Data Utilization / Data & Financial Analysis

Key Systems: SAP / Oracle & Hyperion / Power BI / Microsoft Office (with advanced excel skills)

Education: BS (Criminal Justice), Michigan State University / MBA (Finance), Louisiana State University Shreveport

Certifications: N/A

MDG Write Up:

This dynamic, competitive and data driven leader provides notable value in their ability to work collaboratively with business units and other functions to identify and capitalize on commercial opportunities.  Further, their in-depth knowledge of the forecasting and budgeting process allows them to oversee the establishment of achievable targets, refine them as necessary, and understand variance drivers and work with the necessary functions to manage them accordingly.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to analyze data to see key variance and understand what’s driving them, leverage this data analysis to improve operational performance, and present it accordingly to management, and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting Senior FP&A roles at mid-sized to large enterprises.  They would also like to obtain M&A experience.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. M&A Experience

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Hybrid – Southeast Michigan

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Total Experience: 12y (Total) / 12y (Operational Finance) / 7y (Commercial Finance)

Industry Experience:  4y (Freight Industry) / 4y (Public Accounting) / 3y (Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing) / 1y (Oil & Gas)

Production Process Experience: 3y (Job Batch)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Chief Financial Officer
2. Prior: Director of Finance / Senior Audit Associate / Financial Analyst / Cost Accountant
3. Future: Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance

Management Experience: 7y

Top 3 Competencies: Business Strategy / Corporate Finance / Public Accounting

Top 3 Skills: Cross Functional Strategy Development & Execution / Data Development, Analysis, & Utilization / Process Optimization

Key Systems: Oracle / IBM Cognos

Education: BBA, MS, and an MBA (Top 40 MBA Program)

Certifications: CPA

MDG Write Up:

This accomplished finance executive, with their strong leadership, provides notable value in their ability to leverage their strong public accounting background with their knowledge of corporate finance.  They leverage each not only to improve their finance department, they couple it with their business strategy knowledge to impact not only the different departments around them, but the organization as a whole.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to develop, analyze, and utilize data, identify and improve processes, and develop and execute cross functional strategies and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance roles at mid-sized to large enterprises where they’re able to make a material impact.  They would also like to push their experience in areas of M&A, IPO, Private Equity, etc.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. Looking to leverage current experience, while pushing their experience at same time.

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Southeast Michigan

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Total Experience: 24y (Total) / 20y (Commercial Finance) / 16y (Operational Finance)

Industry Experience:  17y (Chemical Manufacturing) / 7y (Automotive Manufacturing)

Production Process Experience: 24y (Mass Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Senior Finance Director – Corporate Strategy
2. Prior: Director of FP&A / Senior Finance Manager / Treasury Manager
3. Future: Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance

Management Experience: 16y

Top 3 Competencies: Corporate Finance / Strategic Finance / Business Acumen

Top 3 Skills: Margin Accretion / Managing Complex Projects / Process Improvements

Key Systems: N/A

Education: BE (Mechanical Engineering) / MS (Mechanical Engineering) / and MBA (Finance), University of Michigan

Certifications: N/A

MDG Write Up:

This versatile senior leader brings notable value in their understanding of corporate finance overall.  Not only do they know how to manage a finance department, but they also know how to build one for internal efficiency, compliance, and risk mitigation, and align it with other functions to be a true partner to those functions and the plant.  Further, they thoroughly understand how to establish and execute strategic initiatives within the finance department, and outside the finance group, as necessary to achieve organizational goals.  They’re able to fully leverage their corporate and strategic finance knowledge by leaning on their significant business acumen.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to manage margin accretion, manage complex projects, and successfully find and implement process improvements and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance roles at mid-sized to large enterprises.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. N/A

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Onsite in Metro Detroit or Relocation Possible

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Total Experience: 12y (Total) / 12y (Commercial Finance)

Industry Experience:  9y (Automotive Manufacturing) / 3y (Business Consulting)

Production Process Experience: 9y (Mass Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Senior Regional Finance Manager
2. Prior: Regional Finance Manager / Business Finance Manager / Sr. Financial Analyst
3. Future: Vice President of Commercial Finance / Director of Commercial Finance / Senior Strategy Manager

Management Experience: 10y

Top 3 Competencies: Commercial Management / P&L Management / Valuation

Top 3 Skills: Business Valuation / Margin Accretion / Forecasting & Financial Modeling

Key Systems: N/A

Education: BBA (Finance), Michigan State University

Certifications: N/A

MDG Write Up:

This strategic finance manager provides notable value in their knowledge of overall P&L leadership and commercial management, which they further bolster with their extensive valuation and M&A experience.  They add to this knowledge, with their ability to not only develop a strategic long-term plan with their business partners, but then knowing how to drive and manage the forecast of the plan moving forward, adjusting the plan as necessary to account for changes in market conditions and operations.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to do business valuation, drive margin accretion efforts, and forecast and model as necessary and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting senior positions, such as: Vice President, Director of Finance, or other Senior roles on the commercial side at mid-sized to large enterprises.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. N/A

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Southeast Michigan

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Total Experience: 30y (Total) / 30y (Operational Finance) / 27y (Commercial Finance)

Industry Experience:  12y (Misc. Manufacturing) / 11y (Healthcare Consulting) / 4y (Misc. Service) / 3y (Public Accounting)

Production Process Experience: 8y (Job Production [Projects]) / 4y (Mass Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Chief Financial Officer
2. Prior: Director of Financial Reporting / Senior Finance Manager / Controller
3. Future: Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance

Management Experience: 16y

Top 3 Competencies: Corporate Finance / Strategic Finance / Department Management

Top 3 Skills: Managing Complex Projects / Cashflow Management / Reporting & Consolidations

Key Systems: N/A

Education: BBA (Accounting) and MBA (Finance), Michigan State University

Certifications: CPA – State of Illinois

MDG Write Up:

This energetic and innovative finance professional brings notable value in their understanding of corporate finance overall.  Not only do they know how to manage a finance department, but they also know how to build one for internal efficiency, compliance, and risk mitigation, and align it with other functions to be a true partner to those functions and the plant.  Further, they thoroughly understand how to establish and execute strategic initiatives within the finance department, and outside the finance group, as necessary to achieve goals.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to manage complex projects (i.e. Transfer Pricing Establishment, Debt Reduction Initiatives, M&A work, etc.), successfully manage difficult cashflow challenges, and manage extremely difficult reporting and consolidation challenges and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance roles at mid-sized to large enterprises.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. N/A

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Hybrid / Remote – Southeast Michigan

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Total Experience: 18y (Total) / 18y (Commercial Finance) / 4y (Operational Finance)

Industry Experience: 10y (Automotive Manufacturing) / 4y (Technology/Transportation) / 3y (Retail)

Production Process Experience: 10y (Mass Production / 4y (Batch Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Head of Finance
2. Prior: Chief Financial Officer / Vice President, Strategic Finance / Finance Business Partner / Senior Associate
3. Future: Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance

Management Experience: 14y

Top 3 Competencies: Corporate Finance / Strategic Finance / Business Acumen

Top 3 Skills: Strategy Execution / Financial Modeling / Process Improvement

Education: BBA (IT/Accounting) and MBA (Finance)

MDG Write Up:

This senior finance leader brings notable value in not only their understanding of corporate finance, but also their understanding of business operations overall.  Further, they possess the unique understanding to be able to bridge the gap between the two, having not only a significant impact on how the finance department operates, but the business overall.  They demonstrate this competency across both small and large entities, and private and public entities as well.  This candidate combines these competencies with their unique ability to execute on their strategy, model these strategy initiatives as necessary, and find numerous other opportunities for process improvements along the way.  Couple all this with their experience with shareholder engagement at the corporate level and ability to optimize value for entities with financial sponsors, and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting Chief Financial Officer / Vice President of Finance / Director of Finance roles at mid-sized to large enterprises.  Though they’re not tied to one specific industry, their expertise is in Technology.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. To get PE experience and/or engage with PE-backed entities.
2. To lead transformation and/or turnaround programs.
3. To lead growth / new market penetration / scale up programs.
4. Open for short term (1-3 years) corporate restructuring / strategic carve out implementations.

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Onsite / Hybrid – Southeast, MI or Relocation Possible (Eastern, Central Time Zones)

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire or Contract-To-Hire

Total Experience: 19y (Total) / 19y (Operational Finance) / 14y (Commercial Finance)

Industry Experience: 6y (Consumer Goods Manufacturing) / 5y (Professional Services) / 3y (SaaS) / 3y (End Consumer Packaging) / 1y (Automotive Manufacturing)

Production Process Experience: 10y (Mass Production)

Roles:

1. Current/Most Recent: Senior FP&A Analyst
2. Prior: Lead Financial Reporting Analyst / Lead Senior Financial Analyst / Senior Accountant
3. Future: FP&A Manager / Budget Manager / Financial Reporting Manager

Management Experience: 7y

Top 3 Competencies: Corporate Finance / Business Acumen / Data Analysis

Top 3 Skills: FP&A Development / Data Utilization / Margin Accretion

Key Systems: Oracle NetSuite / SAP / QuickBooks

Education: MBA (Finance) / BBA (Accounting), Wayne State University

Certifications: CPA – Michigan

MDG Write Up:

This senior finance leader brings notable value in not only their understanding of corporate finance, but also their understanding of business operations overall.  Further, they possess the unique understanding to be able to bridge the gap between the two, having not only a significant impact on how the finance department operates, but the business overall.  In addition, they understand Data Analysis and how to effectively leverage it, putting them in a great position to positively impact the business.  Finally, they also have notable experience in SEC reporting.  Combine these competencies with their unique ability to build out an FP&A department from ground up, bring tremendous transparency to business operations with their use of data, and find effective ways to improve margin from both top line improvements and cost improvements, and this is a very strong candidate.  They’re currently targeting roles where they can leverage these competencies and skills, such as: FP&A Manager, Budget Manager, and Financial Reporting Manager.

Candidate Misc. Key Preferences:

1. N/A

Candidate Job Location Preferences: Onsite / Hybrid / Remote – Southeast, MI

Candidate Placement Type Preferences: Traditional Direct Hire

Please contact MDG if YOU would like to be added to our candidate list.

• Operational Finance Includes: Posting Journal Entries, Account Recs, Cost Acct. Mgt, Month-End Close Activities, AP/AR Mgt., Internal Controls, Cash Mgt. etc.
• Commercial Finance Includes: LTP Development & Mgt., Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Asset Mgt., Working Capital Mgt., etc.
• Production Process Experience indicates the type of accounting candidate has had experience with and types of cross-functional teams they’ve had experience with.
• Placement Types Include: Contract / Contract-to-Hire / Direct Hire (Under MDG or Traditional Model)
• Availability & General Candidate Info Note: We work with our candidates regularly in an attempt to keep this list as current as possible at all times.  We will update it as soon as we get new information but push for an update at least weekly.  However, all information will need to be confirmed following client contact with MDG.