Thomas Crawford is a manager with CohnReznick Advisory Group who specializes in management and technology consulting. Tom helps companies protect and improve their profitability, cash flow, and enterprise value. He has spent more than 20 years gaining best practices expertise in accounting, finance, and operations across a wide variety of industries.
Tom has helped companies across a wide variety of industries transform their finance and operations processes by improving performance planning and management, accelerating the financial close process, improving the quality and timeliness of sales, operations and financial information, and reducing errors that impede effective and timely decisions.
Tom has helped numerous clients build/rebuild accounting and finance, operations, and administrative organizations and processes with a focus on improving effectiveness, efficiency, and controls. He has extensive experience in assessing and implementing budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes and systems; financial modeling; projections; cash management; and performance monitoring/reporting.
Tom also works with clients to assist them with the selection and implementation of accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Additionally, he also lends his experience with helping clients improve the financial “close to disclose” processes for companies with public reporting requirements.
Tom also has extensive experience with venture-backed and growth-oriented companies, including raising equity and debt capital, crisis management and turnarounds, market studies, ROI analysis, competitive analysis, and business plan creation. He has worked with clients in the banking, pharmaceutical, equipment rental, construction and general contracting, and retail industries.
Prior to entering the consulting arena, Tom held several executive- and C-level positions in finance and operations. His industry exposure includes consumer products; manufacturing; distribution; industrial products; technology, including telecommunications, Internet, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), software, and information technology; catalog and direct mail; outsourced services; retail; franchising; printing; office products; residential and commercial real estate development; not-for-profit; and hospitality.
Tom is a certified implementation consultant for the Adaptive Insights Corporate Performance Management solution, and is preparing for his certification as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Education
• Lehigh University: Bachelor of Science, Business and Economics