Lisa Ferrone

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About Lisa Ferrone

Highly skilled professional with over twenty years of business experience in Human Resources, Accounting and Administration. Successfully leading all Human Resources initiatives including recruitment, payroll, benefits and employee coaching across entire portfolio of six companies. Built the financial groundwork for a start-up entity through its early growth years. ACHIEVEMENTS Manage Human Resource duties for a company from start up to high growth mode working closely with Co-CEO's to drive overall vision. Negotiated annual employee benefits costs (medical, dental etc.), often time being able to reduce initial increases by as much as 50%. Drove cost-stavings while achieving the desired coverage and policies required by management. Managed communication of all policies accross employee base including all aspects of annul open enrollment. Initiated the implementation of the employee 401k plan, advising senior management of the cash and expense impact of various match options. Coordinated with a financial planning expert to deliver a 401k presentation to a employee base, outlining the benefits of planning and saving. Initiated a formal performance improvement plan process ensuring that the plan was both sufficient from a legal perspective and aligned with company expectations. Coached managers on a policy to navigate employees through the process. This involved regular meetings a follow up thorugh the process. Intalled accounting policies and process for a start up. This included forming a chart of accounts, writing policies, developeing cash mangament and forecasting through financial reporting, Delivered monthly P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash FLows for Board of Directors.