April McCandless

Background

About April McCandless

Focused professional with experience managing people and functions within Finance and Accounting. Expert end-to-end understanding of requirements and how those requirements are being met. Strong steward of components, tools, and systems. Seeks out improvement opportunities for systems and processes to help with team efficiency. Highly productive across multiple projects with a track record of successfully completing large scope projects. Engaged in building relationships across teams, focuses on listening with empathy and understanding. Ability to lead people towards common goals by effectively facilitating and participating in discussions and a clear communicator of requirements and outcomes. Influencer and collaborator with peers and cross functional departments. Proactively finds problems, suggests solutions, and can drive resolutions without guidance. Expert knowledge in reviewing invoices and employee expenses for policy compliance, accurate general ledger coding, FAR government compliance allowable / unallowable expenses, potential fraud. Driven by a sense of urgency, ownership, and personal accountability to do the right thing.