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