John F. Deeds, CPA
Chief Financial Officer at Niyam IT- Claim this Profile
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Shailja Batra, CPA, CMA, MS
I have worked with Jack for 26 years, and most recently, at a government contractor. What stands out for me about Jack is his tireless dedication to the mission of the organization he serves, his sense of fair play, his technical excellence, and easy-going nature that brings a sense of comfort and joy to the entire team. For me, as a woman, wife, mother, and immigrant to the states, I am very proud to have served with him. Jack lifts and promotes others and does all he can do to help others achieve their dreams. I would work with Jack anywhere anytime.
Robyn Courtney
Shailja Batra, CPA, CMA, MS
I have worked with Jack for 26 years, and most recently, at a government contractor. What stands out for me about Jack is his tireless dedication to the mission of the organization he serves, his sense of fair play, his technical excellence, and easy-going nature that brings a sense of comfort and joy to the entire team. For me, as a woman, wife, mother, and immigrant to the states, I am very proud to have served with him. Jack lifts and promotes others and does all he can do to help others achieve their dreams. I would work with Jack anywhere anytime.
Robyn Courtney
Shailja Batra, CPA, CMA, MS
I have worked with Jack for 26 years, and most recently, at a government contractor. What stands out for me about Jack is his tireless dedication to the mission of the organization he serves, his sense of fair play, his technical excellence, and easy-going nature that brings a sense of comfort and joy to the entire team. For me, as a woman, wife, mother, and immigrant to the states, I am very proud to have served with him. Jack lifts and promotes others and does all he can do to help others achieve their dreams. I would work with Jack anywhere anytime.
Robyn Courtney
Shailja Batra, CPA, CMA, MS
I have worked with Jack for 26 years, and most recently, at a government contractor. What stands out for me about Jack is his tireless dedication to the mission of the organization he serves, his sense of fair play, his technical excellence, and easy-going nature that brings a sense of comfort and joy to the entire team. For me, as a woman, wife, mother, and immigrant to the states, I am very proud to have served with him. Jack lifts and promotes others and does all he can do to help others achieve their dreams. I would work with Jack anywhere anytime.
Robyn Courtney
Credentials
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Certified Public Accountant
State of MarylandJan, 1984- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Niyam IT
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Financial Officer
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Aug 2020 - Present
▪ Supports the achievement of corporate mission, strategic goals, and objectives by ensuring that the company's financial operations are implemented efficiently and in alignment with corporate goals. ▪ Directs the preparation of all financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, contracts, and governmental agency reports. ▪ Prepares and presents monthly financial budgeting reports, including profit and loss, forecast vs. budget, cash flow, and profit and loss by contract. ▪ Responsible for corporate finance and accounting controls and design and implementation of processes to provide reasonable assurance that the company is retaining the required level of financial records for all contracts. ▪ U.S. tax and other statutory and regulatory reporting to secure timely and accurate submissions. ▪ Defines accounting policies and ensures staff clearly understands what they mean. ▪ Serves as Authorized Negotiator for Company; negotiates and approves leases, contracts, subcontracts, and other types of agreements to achieve the best outcome. ▪ Manages investment of funds; maintains strong banking relationships and strategic alliances. ▪ Works with the Contracts department, managing and advising Joint Ventures, acquisitions, subcontracts, pricing, and other business ventures related to finance and accounting, contract negotiation, administration, compliance, and review. ▪ Protecting the company by ensuring compliance with financial and tax regulations and strengthening, monitoring, and enforcing a solid internal controls environment and appropriate financial reporting processes. Proactively anticipate risks in business and organizational dimensions through strong collaboration with other functions and drive capability improvement accordingly. ▪ Oversees program and division performance, including revenue, profit margin, utilization/realization, and other organization metrics to maximize financial performance. Show less
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Higher Achievement
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Financial Officer and Controller
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Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Lead the financial oversight of an organization receiving Federal funds to support education in inner cities. Streamlining policy and procedure administration and focus on improving systems to support efficiencies while managing risks. Key Accomplishments: • Executed CFO functions, including defining overall financial strategy, performing analysis, forecasting, policy and procedure, and effective risk management. Implement best practice financial and technological solutions. • Reduced time to close from 90 days to 15 days, drove process improvement reducing payroll posting from 4 days to 1 hour. • Restructured finance department, reduced staff, reduced costs by 200K per year, improving financial information. • Design of audit readiness program slashing management letter findings to no material weakness or significant deficiencies. Show less
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Marcum LLP
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United States
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Accounting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Consultant
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Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
Lead the financial oversight of organizations receiving Federal funds, budgets, forecasting, and audit. Streamlining policy and procedure administration and improving efficiencies while managing risks. • A servant leader who builds organizational excellence through improved relationships. • I have executed CFO and Controller functions, including defining overall financial strategy, performing analysis, forecasting, policy and procedure, and effective risk management. Implement economic and technological solutions. • Financial audits; pension plan audits; banking, debt, and covenants; funder audits, reports, and inquiries. • Management of restricted and unrestricted funds, contributions, gifts, contracts, and grants. • Staff support for board meetings, working with finance and audit committees, approvals, planning, presentations. • Timely and accurate financial and budget reporting, reducing time to close and improved transparency. • A proven ability to develop reports and presentations that are clear, understandable, and provide the right level of detail for the intended audience. • A problem solver. Skills include: • Treasury and banking • Investment portfolios • Building and facilities • Boards & Committees • MS SQL, Technology • Financial reporting (cash basis and accrual) • Budgets, forecasts, models, and analytics • Gifts, grants, contract, and restricted Funds • Pension Plans, Payroll & Benefits Admin • Deltek Cost Point, Dynamics Great Plains, Dynamics Solomon, SunSystems - many others • Cost principles CAS, NICRA • Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200 • Audit, tax, compliance • Insurance, vendor & admin • Risk mgmt, policy & procedure Show less
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National Cooperative Business Association
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United States
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International Trade and Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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VP Systems and Finance
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May 2012 - Dec 2017
In this position, I specialized in the delivery of financial and tax systems, and administrative services, to domestic and international communities. I strategically implemented effective business plans, financial planning, and projections, leading and mentoring multi-functional groups to ensure a high performing organization. Key Accomplishments: ● Implemented advanced improvement processes to increase efficiencies and cost-saving, lean environment. ● Created custom budgeting solution for proposal and resource development and award management, established annual budget, meeting and exceeding the US and European donor requirements; enabled the organization to diversify funding, increasing revenue from $30M to $60M. ● Restructured accounting and international finance team of 25 at company headquarters, and 50 field project accountants utilizing organizational change methodologies redefined job descriptions, and performance improvement plans, transforming into a customer-focused culture. ● Drove technology improvements for networks, office systems, websites, contract and grants management systems, CRM, ERP, M&E, application development, and integrations; created real-time field office access for grant reporting, increasing donor report accuracy, reducing aged receivables from six months to 60 days. ● Supported retail businesses that started as programs, such as Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT), one of the largest employers in Timor Leste. CCT's agricultural products are sold on the international farm exchange and bought by companies like Starbucks and Royal Coffee. I helped develop the COOP brand and a separate web registry business called DOT COOP, establishing a new independent UK based not for profit. Show less
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Consultant
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Jan 1990 - May 2012
Execute professional services for small and large organizations (commercial, not for profit, corporate, partnership, LLC and S corps) with revenues ranging from $1M to $2B, directing the development of systems and strategies to promote corporate growth and financial development. Drive restructuring services including business operations reorganization, financial modeling, database design, and systems integration. Helped start or restart business enterprises included non-traditional access to funding through commercial markets and rethinking cost allocations and billing to be able to take more business and build reserves. Show less
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Education
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1978 - 1982
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
BS, Finance, Law + Information Systems
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