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Dillon Clark

Director, Business Process Improvement & Finance Performance Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dillon Clark is a Director in Protiviti's Business Performance Improvement (BPI) practice, focusing on Public Sector Finance Transformation, Organizational Assessment, and Internal Controls out of Protiviti's Los Angeles office. He has over 15 years of experience leading large-scale finance transformation and organizational improvement programs for some of the nation's largest and most complex public organizations, including agency-wide assessment and remediation of contract and finance operations for a large county government, organizational and process design for a state government contractor subject to DoD contract compliance, and enterprise assessment and remediation for a multi-billion dollar organization. His work spans the full engagement lifecycle, from current state analysis and future state design through gap assessment, process and control design, performance measurement, and post-implementation remediation. He has served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Grants Management and Research Administration for government contractors, state and local governments, higher education institutions, and federal agencies. Prior to Protiviti, Dillon led Finance Transformation for the California transportation team and served as firmwide leader for California Seaports at the largest professional services firm in the world. Dillon has also served as a district wide leader of a large urban school district, and the CFO and COO of multiple non-profit Public Charter School Networks with complex CIP and asset registers. 

MAJOR PROJECTS

  • Led an advisory internal audit engagement for Walton County, Florida to achieve best-in-class operations for its code compliance function: Assessed the current state of the code compliance function across people, process, technology, and internal controls, and advised on the development of operational standards, policies and procedures, performance measures, and organizational structure required to achieve national accreditation.
  • Led a grants management assessment and ERP strategy engagement for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana: Assessed the intergovernmental processes used to account for and manage grant awards, advised on policies and procedures to reduce compliance risk and improve efficiency across the award lifecycle, and advised on ERP strategy to automate portions of the process.
  • Led the audit remediation and financial business process improvement of a large county in the Pacific Northwest: Assessed agency-wide contract and finance compliance program from a people, process, technology, and internal controls perspective and advised on the development of processes, procedures, internal controls, and overall department and division structure and assisted with improving compliance function, developing internal controls, and internal audit capabilities.
  • Led the redesign of the accounting and finance function for a large Archdiocese: Led a full-scale redesign of the accounting and finance function across the Archdiocese and its subsidiary entities, including design of a shared services operating model, organizational structure, and a comprehensive policy and procedure framework to standardize practices across a decentralized environment.
  • Led a comprehensive assessment of the accounting and finance function for a federally funded research and development laboratory: evaluating accounting operations and financial reporting. Cost accounting, and research accounting in a government contractor environment, identifying gaps and improvement opportunities, and turning the findings into a series of follow-on projects to strengthen how the lab accounts for its research activity.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Finance Transformation 
  • Internal Audit
  • GASB Implementation
  • Grants Management
  • Business Process Redesign 
  • Chart of Accounts Redesign 
  • Financial Master Data and WBS Assessment and Redesign
  • ERP Readiness 
  • Business Process Maturity 
  • Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

  • State & Local Government
  • Federal Government (Non-Defense)
  • Federally Funded Research and Development Centers / University Affiliated Research Centers 
  • K-12 Education
  • Higher Education

EDUCATION

  • BA – The Catholic University of America – Politics
  • MSW – Social Enterprise Administration, Columbia University 
  • MBA – Finance, Quantic School of Business 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
  • Member Association for Certified Fraud Examiners 
  • Member IIA LA Chapter 
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