Services 

Consulting

Areas of expertise

TURNAROUND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Project management to address the entire range of organizational operations, with an expertise in financial, customer service and IT operations; deliver ‘best in class’ performance levels
  • Management support to quickly improve organizational performance
  • Coordination of consulting and internal employee resources to execute priority work plans and quickly achieve organizational objectives for improved performance
  • Organizational reviews and development of appropriate organization structures, management roles, accountability, staffing levels, and training requirements

Strategic Financial and Tariff/rates Plans

  • Develop and assist with implementation of short and long-term financial and tariff/rates plans that are realistic, achievable and affordable
  • Ensure inclusion of all material financial and operational requirements for achieving the
    organization’s objectives (i.e., operating expenditures; comprehensive, realistic capital
    program; critical organizational KPIs, etc.)
  • Emphasis is on adoption of a tariff/rates plan with consistent and smooth annual
    changes, understood and adopted by the organization’s key decision makers

MUNICIPAL AND UTILITY FINANCE

  • Assist management with developing appropriate and strong financial policies to achieve bond rating objectives.
  • Negotiate with investment banks, rating agencies and financial advisers to ensure proper understanding of the organization’s financial and management strengths, performance, and reliability of long-term projections
  • Assist with timing and sizing of bond issues

STRATEGIC PLANNING

  • Work with executive management and internal leaders to develop key organizational objectives, and annual work plans to achieve the objectives

ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

  • Review organization-wide strategic planning, budgeting, finance, accounting, payroll, accounts payable, treasury, customer service, IT and other functions, and develop appropriate changes to address organizational objectives.
  • Assist management with implementation of new organization structure

Paul Bender, CPA, MBA

Paul L. Bender

2600 16th St South, #712
Arlington, VA USA
paul@paulbenderconsulting.com
571-225-7932