Dominique Foster
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Potomac, MD, United States
Toptal member since November 5, 2021
As a project and finance leader, Dominique has led and executed multi-billion dollar M&A transactions and business transformations for global Fortune 500 companies in various industries while working at Deloitte & Touché, Accenture, and now as an independent financial consultant. She is a distinguished entrepreneur and freelancer that enjoys advising clients on solving complex problems. Dominique also excels at seamlessly transforming matrixed organizations through organic and inorganic growth.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Case Studies
Rapid Global Expansion for a Multibillon-dollar Life Sciences Company
Advised $8 Billion Life Sciences Company on Acquisition and Integrations
Large Academic Medical Center Carve-out Financial Statements
Expertise
- Business Transformation
- Digital Finance
- Finance Transformation
- M&A Modeling
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Post-merger Integration
- Revenue & Expense Projections
- SAP
Work Experience
Management Consulting Partner and Leader
Spryfin Consulting
- Led post-divestiture separation efforts in the life sciences sector, serving as SMO Lead for a $275 million divestiture and providing senior director and VP-level support.
- Directed the expansion of shared services to India and Poland, leading the stand-up of a new shared services center and SAP system platform.
- Served as Global PMO Lead for a $9 billion M&A divestiture, providing Senior Director and VP-level support and leading Day 1 readiness along with ERP and other application cutover alignment.
- Led an EPM Initiative to improve the quality of metrics and KPIs measured, aligning and standardizing the use of global metrics, and creating greater agility to respond to the market more effectively.
- Provided director-level support for a leading CRM and SaaS company, leading the redesign of order-to-cash and business planning processes and driving improvements in analytics.
- Led global expansion to deliver COVID-19 vaccine in new countries. Later led a stand-up of a team for a new oncology vaccine, providing senior director-level support to accelerate the development and commercialization of a groundbreaking new vaccine.
- Served as IMO Finance Lead for a $40+ billion acquisition, providing Senior Director-level support while leading synergy opportunity analysis and executive reporting.
- Served as interim CFO and finance enabler, providing C-level consulting services.
- Served as project lead for a $375 million divestiture in the consumer products sector, leading ERP stand-up and transitioning people and processes to NewCo.
- Provided senior director-level support for a media and entertainment spin-off divestiture, focusing on corporate functions.
Manager and Engagement Leader
Deloitte & Touche
- Led large-scale initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Generated and managed an annual sales revenue of $12-24 million, resulting in consistent firm practice growth.
- Managed teams for merger and acquisition initiatives supporting clients on $2-62 billion deals, covering due diligence, operational readiness, policy and procedure alignment, synergy capture, TSA plan development, and post-merger integration.
- Executed finance transformation projects of $150+ million to deliver innovative solutions that reduced enabling function costs to serve the business, automate through robotics and analytics, improve ROI, and pull levers to drive performance.
- Analyzed financial statements and developed models to prepare short- and long-term projections and forecasts with the flexibility to test scenarios and assumptions. Models were used to support decisions for investments and business model changes.
- Spearheaded eminence and leadership to deliver firm insights, including works focused on the future of finance and digital finance, and analytics.
- Led the transition labs to guide and direct CFOs, CAOs, and controllers in new roles.
- Identified opportunities to centralize finance and migrate ERPs to SAP HANA, while collaborating with cross-functional leaders to assess and align business and functional requirements.
- Led efforts to divest of a Life Sciences company's Consumer division to form a JV valued at $13B. Efforts included developing a 180-day plan of key finance milestones, developing financial guidance, aligning TSAs, and developing cutover plans.
Project Manager | Finance
Pfizer
- Worked with finance leadership to lead a team of 10-15 indirect team members to determine opportunities to optimize working capital.
- Led and managed working capital and cash initiative sponsored by the CFO.
- Built a business case for working capital improvements and identified quick-win improvements resulting in multimillion-dollar value.
- Developed financial models to forecast working capital and cash flow. Identified recommendations to maintain cash flow over a defined period based on a set of assumptions and reduced spending.
Engagement Consultant and Level C Manager
Accenture
- Led efforts to stand up a new shared services center, working with finance leadership to identify critical areas for improvement, consolidation, rationalization of processes, and development of repeatable processes to be supported in the center.
- Spearheaded process improvement initiatives to enhance clients’ finance and accounting operations and processes, including record-to-report (R2R), order-to-cash (O2C), and procure-to-pay (PTP).
- Prioritized opportunities based on value and effort and defined qualitative and quantitative criteria. Supported business case development and roadmaps to illustrate the value and the path to realize the value of the improvements.
Education
MBA in International Business
University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Georgia Southern University - Statesboro, Georgia
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Virginia Board of Accountancy
Skills
Finance
M&A Modeling, Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Modeling, Revenue & Expense Projections, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), International Finance, Pro Forma Financial Statements, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cash Flow, Controller, CFO, Three-statement Modeling, Due Diligence, Specialty Finance, Five-year Projections, Taxation
Output Software
Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet
Data & Analysis Software
Power Pivot, Hyperion, Microsoft Access, Anaplan
Other
SAP, Consulting, Finance, Financial Transformation, Project Management, Financial Statements, Shared Services, Analysis, Management, Financial Analysis, Finance Transformation, Business Strategy, Fractional CFO, Growth Strategy, Organizational Design, Think-cell, Oracle, Business Transformation, Digital Finance, Post-merger Integration, Financial Transactions, GAAP, Interim CFO, Interim Controller, Cash Flow Management, Pitch Decks, Analytics, M&A Due Diligence (Financial), Financial Ratios, Health, Safety, & Environment (HSE), Global Operations, Commercialization, Global Strategy, Acquisition Analysis, Pro Forma Analysis, Joint Ventures, IPO Readiness
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