Blake Hacker

Blake Hacker is a member of FTI Consulting’s Office of the CFO Solutions practice. He leverages his accounting background and finance systems experience to provide thought leadership around finance transformation and process optimization. He has worked with clients in industries ranging from manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, telecommunications and gaming.

Mr. Hacker has held numerous leadership and interim management positions and supported complex private equity-backed transactions. He is adept at de-coupling challenging cross-functional business scenarios and quickly identifying root causes, enabling him to provide holistic and thoughtful recommendations for both immediate remediation, as well as lasting change.

Mr. Hacker has partnered with executives on numerous successful transformation initiatives which have resulted in improved efficiencies, such as accelerating month-end close timelines by more than 50 percent, automating billing and ASC 606 compliance, as well as introducing accounts payable (“AP”), accounts receivable (“AR”) and payroll automation technologies.

Mr. Hacker places particular emphasis on reducing manual data entry, increasing accuracy while improving processing times and concurrently reducing headcount and overhead expenditures.

Mr. Hacker has a Big Four accounting background and also served honorably as a U.S. Navy SEAL. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from American University’s Kogod School of Business and obtained his Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”) licensure in both Virginia and California.

Relevant Experience:

• Served as interim global corporate controller of a $300 million private equity-backed global media distribution organization
• Supported a $1 billion global telecom company in remediating material weaknesses around ASC 606 and resolving complex data issues
• Provided audit readiness, global consolidation process, chart of accounts (“CoA”) mappings and financial statement disclosure support
• Automated monthly financial reporting though implementation of financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) software
• Implemented autonomous rolling budgets and forecasting solution within corporate performance management (“CPM”) and enterprise performance management (“EPM”) software
• Developed automated AR dunning, cash application and credit card reconciliations
• Directly integrated marketing e-commerce campaign data into enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) with real-time ROI
• Enabled third-party logistics (“3PL”) warehousing and shipping operations using electronic data interchange (“EDI”) solutions within ERP