Functional Experience

  • All Finance & Accounting Functions
  • Financial Reporting
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Cash Management
  • Risk Management
  • Bank Relations
  • Inventory
  • Turnarounds
  • Due Diligence (Buy & Sell Side)
  • IT Integration & Implementation
  • (ERP/CPM)
  • Strategic Planning
  • Audit/GAAP Compliance
  • Recapitalization
  • Improving/Creating/Implementing New Controls & Procedures
  • Shared Services Negotiation
  • Restatement

Example Industries

  • Food & Beverage
  • Telecom
  • Retail
  • Consumer Goods
  • Media

Jeff Durbin

Partner

Background

Jeff started his career as Finance Manager for an Eastman Kodak company while still completing his MBA at the University of Rochester.  Desiring warmer climes, Jeff relocated to Los Angeles where he joined First Interstate Bank for three years and then spent a decade in the telecom industry with such firms as Telegroup where he traveled to Australia and other PacRim countries working on acquisitions and he led the firm’s strategic planning team.  After that, he was heavily involved with the financial modeling supporting McLeodUSA’s $580 million recapitalization.

Upon joining Resources Global Professionals, Jeff spent four years consulting with such firms as CB Richard Ellis, Good Humor Breyers, H&R Block, Shopko-Pamida and three portfolio firms owned by PE firm JH Partners.  His roles ranged from cash management to Director of Financial Reporting to VP of Finance and CFO.

Relevant Experience 

  • CFO for F. Gavina & Sons (Coffee Roasting/McDonald’s Supplier)
  • VP Finance for Health & Fitness Investment Group
  • VP Finance for Barmensen Development, a JH Partners Portfolio Firm
  • VP Finance for La Perla Lingerie, a JH Partners Portfolio Firm
  • CFO for Ouidad, a JH Partners Portfolio Firm

Resources Global Professionals

  • CFO for Ouidad (converted by client)
  • VP Finance for Polyflow
  • Cash Management for CB Richard Ellis
  • Hyperion HFM Implementation for Johnson Controls
  • Financial Reporting Director & SOX Remediation for Good Humor Breyers
  • Lease Accounting Restatement Project Management for H&R Block
  • Shared Services Negotiation & Financial Reporting for Shopko/Pamida, a Sun Capital Portfolio Firm

Education, Licenses & Certifications

  • Bachelor of Science, Finance – Creighton University
  • Master of Business Administration, Finance & Economics –
    William E. Simon Business School – University of Rochester  
  • Certified Management Accountant – Inactive