Experience

Finance leader with 15+ years of experience overseeing accounting, controllership, and financial operations across private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Trusted partner to leadership with a strong background in financial governance, audit oversight, and disciplined reporting in highly accountable environments.

Before joining aiLegal, Terrence has served the following positions: 

• Amazon.com - Reliability, Maintenance, & Engineering Finance Manager, where he Led annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, and 3-year outlook for a $500M budget (140+sites), managed month-end close reclasses/accruals, variance analysis, and monthly OPEX reviews to ensure accurate financial results, collaborated with site and reliability leaders to control facility costs across infrastructure, machinery, labor, and spare parts, providing controllership oversight and ensuring GAAP-aligned reporting, presented key metrics and insights in weekly/monthly reviews to help drive strategic decision-making, managed month-end close and financial reporting for a $1.1B business across 400+ sites, including Canadian sites, ensuring GAAP compliance and alignment with organizational goals, and reduced reporting time by 50% by automating weekly flash reports delivered within 5% accuracy.

• DEPT - Accounting Manager, where he Managed end-to-end accounting (A/P, A/R, GL) for U.S. and outsourced team for Belgian entity, directed NetSuite/Ramp migration for business unit, partnering with corporate stakeholders to align workflows, streamline data migration, and deliver a successful on-time launch, collaborated with Operations/Finance to apply ASC 606 to digital service contracts, transitioned revenue recognition from milestone-driven to percent-complete to align with delivery progress, and prepared weekly cash forecasts, including repayment of intercompany and corporate borrowings.

• Biolite, Inc. - Controller, where he directed 3-member managing accounting operations, FP&A, and tax compliance for U.S. and Kenya entities, reduced month-end close by 40% and improved reconciliation workflows using Floqast, developed and maintained rolling 60-day cash forecast to monitor daily liquidity, entities, and managed annual and interim audits, ensuring compliance with GAAP and IFRS.

• Georgia World Congress Center Authority - Director of Accounting and Finance, where he Led a 10-member team responsible for accounting, A/P, A/R, Payroll, annual budget, and annual audit for this large convention center operating within a public-sector governance framework, enhanced month-end close efficiency by 50% through standardized procedures and reconciliations strengthening financial transparency and audit readiness across multiple third-party operators, achieved 95% forecasting accuracy in FY20 via enhanced rolling forecasts and partnership alignment with Sales and Operations, supporting long-range planning and capital stewardship, instituted formal collections process, cutting delinquencies by 58% in the first two years, and managed annual audit collaborating with both internal stakeholders and external auditors.

• Bibliotheca, LLC - N.A. Controller, where he reduced month-end closing timeframe by 40%, cutting the timeline from 10 days to 6 days, and improved order-to-cash efficiency by delivering IFRS/GAAP reporting packages, enhancing crossfunctional processes, and reducing DSO by 33%.

• Cloud Sherpas - Accounting Manager, where he managed multi-entity accounting operations, including offshore accounting team ensuring GAAP compliance.

• Georgia Chamber of Commerce - Director of Accounting, where he directed accounting for two legal entities ensuring 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) compliance, GAAP adherence, annual audits, and fiscal stewardship of donor-funded programs and mission-restricted funds, partnering with leadership to ensure transparency and accountability.

• Precision Financial Group - Manager, Finance Administration, where he led administration for three legal entities, including full-cycle accounting, and financial reporting.

• Habitat for Humanity International - Senior Accountant, where he managed assigned balance sheet accounts for this 501(c)(3), preparing reconciliations and supporting month-end close.