Melissa Mitchell

About Melissa Mitchell

With more than 20 years of experience as an Executive Financial Leader, I have a proven background in planning and implementing process improvements. I have leveraged expertise in reporting, documentation, and cost control. I am highly skilled in team training, development, risk assessment, mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration. Driven by passion, I strive to focus on leading high-performing teams in financial planning and analysis while contributing to organizational growth and success. Key Achievements Include: Integral member of executive leadership team, overseeing 17 direct and 4 indirect reports while providing continuous process improvements to simplify reporting, drive operational efficiency, and deliver financial excellence for $250M organization Function as the Corporate Controller in 6 markets and oversee anything that is financially driven, including financial statements, budgets, and forecasts, reporting directly to the CFO Oversaw 4 markets and led the end-to-end financial operations for the $100M subsidiary of Fortune 200 Lincoln National Corporation, leveraging expertise to formulate and deliver critical progress and reported directly to the CFO Directly led the project relocating the office and 5 radio stations from an owned location to a 30K sq. ft. leased site, coordinating all construction and directing the highly technical transition Contact me through this profile if you wish to connect.

Experience

1. Director of Finance, Corporate Controller

   Bonneville International

   Jan 2015 — Present · Denver, CO

   Integral member of executive leadership team, overseeing 17 direct and 4 indirect reports while providing continuous process improvements to simplify reporting, drive operational efficiency, and deliver financial excellence for $250M organization • Leverage expertise to coordinate the financial functions spanning 6 locations, establishing consistency and timely financial presentation of forecasts, budgets, and monthly statements • Recognized the need to redevelop and realign the Finance team, achieving optimum service levels and a 15% cost savings • Re-established the entire corporate finance department from the ground up, establishing processes and procedures that minimized overall operational redundancy while driving top performance • Function as the Corporate Controller and oversee anything that is financially driven, including financial statements, budgets, and forecasts, reporting directly to the CFO • Provide strategic support to assist the organization through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), directing the integration of acquired properties into the existing ERP, policies, and procedures • Utilize a passion for people management to mentor, train, and develop resources, providing the needed tools to ensure individual and organizational success • Established an initiative on standardization, taking 6 markets performing autonomously and slowly standardizing staffing and reporting to achieve consistency • Identified the need to launch the use of purchase orders in the organization, coordinating with cross-functional teams concerning standardization, coding, processes, and advance approval • Responsible for centralizing OTA scheduling department, working together to obtain plan agreements from each market, hiring a leader to oversee process, reducing workforce in some areas and adding to others, delivering an efficient and cost saving department as well as providing a significantly improved work-life balance for employees with zero turnover in 3 years

Education

• Colorado State University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)