About Me
About Me
I’m Casey Fennell, a finance and operations professional focused on building efficient, scalable systems that support business growth. With experience in billing, financial reporting, and process optimization, I help organizations improve accuracy, streamline workflows, and strengthen collaboration across teams. I’m passionate about turning complex financial data into clear, actionable insights and creating systems that enhance both internal operations and client experiences. My approach is detail-oriented, analytical, and always centered on continuous improvement.
Shaping Accounting & Auditing Experiences with Strategy
My Background
Kraton Corporation
February 2026 – Present
Assistant Controller
- Drive standardization, optimization, and simplification initiative across general ledger, accounts payable, and statutory reporting.
- Develop training programs to improve day to day general ledger activities.
- Oversee P2P transformation, legal entity accounting, and close optimization Business Process Owner for Record to Report
November 2024 – February 2026
Director of Accounting Center of Excellence
- Lead initiative to establish an accounting center of excellence to elevate general ledger and accounts payable operations globally
- Oversight of project which reduced accounts payable past dues from $44M at its peak to $4.8M through process and team transformation.
- Led full legal entity accounting enablement across US, Mexico, India, and EU
April 2022 – November 2024
Director of Accounting and Control
- Led IFRS conversion from US GAAP with PWC and Protiviti
- Updated all accounting policies
- Managed post merger integration reporting for DL parent, including SEC to IFRS restatement
- Oversaw global accounting; US, EU, Brazil, Japan, APAC
- Oversight of financial reporting
- Present financial information to Audit committee
July 2021 – April 2022
Sr. Manager Corporate Accounting
- Oversight of accounting in Brazil, Japan, China, Taiwan and Europe.
- Aligned monthly reporting packages from Brazil, Japan, China and Taiwan with US and EU reporting.
- Conducted control and accounting training for all foreign regions
- Key contributor for M&A project for sale of Kraton
- Developed reports to aid in fixed cost analysis
January 2019 – July 2021
Corporate Accounting Manager
- Liaise with SSC teams to ensure non-standard transactions are recorded appropriately
- Work with Corporate FP&A to review fixed costs monthly
- Update and maintain accounting policies and procedures
- Manage lease accounting process and reporting
- Prepare files to support the quarterly and annual financial filings
- Lease accounting
- Pension accounting
- Provide support for audits
- Perform monthly and quarterly analytics for internal and external review
- Build reports to aide in financial analysis and reporting
- Special project work with other finance teams
- P&L redesign
- Revenue recognition
- Lease accounting implementation
- Sale of Cariflex Business
- Prepare carve out financials and support for auditors during the audit of the carve out
- Prepare entries to consolidate all Cariflex balances to the two entities sold in the transaction
- Prepare plan for closing the books for clean cut off on day of transaction
- Participate in meetings to review and finalize the working capital calculation
Arizona Chemical, a Kraton Company
February 2013 – December 2018
Manager Financial Accounting – North America
- Manager of 6 accounting staff over 2 business segments
- Manage the close and automated tasks to gain efficiency in the close process which resulted in a reduction of 12 hours
- Communicate with Plant Finance personnel to align the timing of the close process and gain their support on the changes
- Manage the Mexico accounting team and the statutory audit
- Developed a new global position within the North America GL team – report building role Lead a team of five in standardizing our processes between the European SSC and the North America SSC
- Primary contact for internal and external auditors
- Lead staff in developing the process for Commissions, Rebates and Royalties
- Sale of Arizona to Kraton
- Audited and reviewed all financial information provided in the Confidential Information Memorandum related to the sale of Arizona Chemical
- Participated in the financial expert calls for the sale of Arizona Chemical Integration of the two companies
- Prepare and present balance sheet information to CAO, Controller and CFO after the sale
- Built the GL teams for both Chemical and Polymer Segments
- Developed onboarding documents and training materials for new staff coming into the Shared Service GL team
- Developed transition documentation to aid in the transition of services from other departments
- Managed the transition Sales and Use tax, travel & entertainment and cash applications to the GL team from various departments
- Business Process Lead for Revenue Recognition
July 2012 – February 2013
Senior Financial Accountant
- Review and post staff journal entries
- Prepare draft entries to record unusual financial transactions, i.e. Debt Refinancing, Natural Gas Caps, interest rate swaps, etc.
- Review staff account reconciliations
- Prepare account reconciliation which were reviewed by accounting manager
- Responsible for set up and maintenance of Rebates and Royalties
- Review and approve monthly and quarterly commission payments
- Trained on BPC and was identified as the US SSC BPC super-user
- Perform month end close activities
Deloitte & Touche LLP
September 2008 – July 2012
Audit in Charge
- Supervise staff and review staff work
- Conduct financial audits, compliance audits, and agreed-upon procedures
- Perform analytical procedures/analyses to detect unusual financial statement relationships
- Perform internal control and substantive testing
- Document audit procedures and cross reference work papers
- Propose adjusting journal entries and discuss audit findings with clients
Are you ready to improve your accounting strategy?
If the answer is yes, then we should talk.