Open to CEO, President, CFO, and operator-CIO mandates
Andrew P. McAllister MBA
I connect the CFO floor with enterprise value creation: cash discipline, month-end rhythm, board communication, pricing, ERP, AI-enabled workflow, and field operating cadence.
For search systems and human screeners: these are the roles, sectors, and operating situations where the background is most relevant.
Especially useful when the thesis requires finance leadership that can also redesign workflows, stand up systems, renegotiate cash timing, read field operations, and translate AI into operating leverage.
Maritime, transportation, logistics, infrastructure, industrial services, field-service operations, real assets, and other asset-intensive businesses.
Platform builds, carve-outs, distressed assets, ERP modernization, cash conversion, pricing resets, acquisition integration, and sponsor-backed value-creation plans.
The page should not make a recruiter infer the mandate. It should state the role, then prove it with numbers.
Founding CFO for a Jones Act maritime platform built from bankruptcy into $420M in assets, 120+ employees, and fully digital Day 1 operations.
Built the finance, reporting, systems, HR, compliance, and operating infrastructure required to support a fast launch.
Consolidated vessel term loans into a single interest-only fleet revolver and introduced interest rate and fuel hedging programs.
Compressed billing from one week to one day while reducing billing FTE through online migration, workflow redesign, and KPI discipline.
Short, high-signal examples built for executive recruiters, sponsors, boards, and AI search summaries.
Zero to $60M+ Year One revenue / 120+ FTE
Built financial and operational infrastructure, acquired and rehabilitated distressed vessels, onboarded Fortune 100 energy customers, and passed ExxonMobil vetting in one of the most scrutinized marine oil transportation markets.
$8M+ annual cash flow improvement
Collapsed multiple vessel term loans into one interest-only revolving facility, preserving strategic flexibility and improving operating cash.
3 to 10 margin points by location
Rebuilt pricing against actual assets, customer behavior, location economics, and timing instead of legacy terms written for a different operating reality.
Sponsor-ready reporting from inception
Led G/L migration, covenant tracking, 13-week cash forecasting, close discipline, and board reporting for a new platform.
15 U.S. locations / PCI / ISO 9001
Brought McAllister Towing through a 16-year finance and technology transformation across enterprise systems, reporting, compliance, and operations.
450,000+ cars/year / +8% profitability
Architected online ticketing, new ticket classes, and the Barnum Bucks loyalty program, creating immediate cash-flow and margin improvement.
AI will not make the executive suite less responsible. It will make hidden workflows, stale reports, and once-a-year data conversations much harder to defend.
Finance teams spend too much time gathering data, cleaning spreadsheets, explaining variance after the fact, and surfacing workflow problems only when the annual review or board meeting forces the conversation.
Dashboards update continuously, workflows expose bottlenecks as they happen, agents pull exceptions forward, and leaders discuss current operating reality instead of waiting for a static report package.
A modern CFO has to know where AI creates payback: building capability, removing back-office work, expanding margin, and changing what the company can sell.
Clean closes, auditors, covenant compliance, owner reporting, cash forecasting, and controls are not the whole job. They are the foundation that lets the AI and value-creation work hold weight.
Keywords are not decoration here. They are the vocabulary of the mandates Andrew should be found for.
Rose Cay Capital / Rose Cay Maritime - New York, NY
Built Rose Cay Maritime from zero to $420M in assets; now supports origination, diligence, and underwriting across maritime, aviation, infrastructure, and real asset strategies.
McAllister Towing and Transportation - New York, NY
Led digital and financial transformation of a 160-year-old maritime enterprise with 750+ employees, $300M+ in assets, and 15 U.S. port locations.
Prudential Securities / Morgan Stanley / Merrill Lynch
Bulge-bracket operations leadership, technology transformation, and risk management, including Prudential's first broker-dealer website and a $50M NASD regulatory remediation program.
Executive MBA sponsored by Prudential Securities. Additional study through the London School of Economics Hansard Scholar program and American University's Washington Semester Program.
Open to the right mandate
Best fit: private equity sponsors, boards, and executive recruiters looking for a finance leader who can also run modernization, field operating cadence, AI workflow adoption, pricing, cash, and systems.
