Ralph S Barbieri

Background

About Ralph S Barbieri

Ralph skillfully bridges cultural gaps across six continents and 25 countries, creating the common thread necessary to prepare and analyze financial statements and achieve compliance. Throughout his distinguished career, Ralph has designed and implemented numerous process improvements for consolidation, cash management and budgeting groups. He relentlessly pursues global best practices to optimize efficiency, contain costs and deliver relevant data to drive corporate decision-making. Ralph’s expertise spans the full range of the senior finance executive role—from asset management and U.S. GAAP reporting/consolidation to Sarb/Ox, internal controls, auditor relations, global budgeting/forecasting and team building. He began his career at GenRe as a staff accountant, but received rapid, continuous promotion. Today, Ralph is recognized as a subject-matter expert in the application and interpretation of complex accounting and financial reporting standards, in accordance with the FASB and the SEC. His top contributions include transitioning the global budgeting process and systems into an SAP cost-controlled module; directing three system migrations for U.S. GAAP and business reporting for domestic and international subsidiaries; and designing process improvements in areas of financial reporting and cash management that have collectively delivered over $4M in expense reductions.