Chris Butera

Chris Butera, CPA has extensive work experience in various finance and accounting roles. Chris is currently the Director of FP&A at FastGrowingTrees.com, a position they started in March 2022. Prior to that, Chris worked as an FP&A Manager at Passport from January 2020 to February 2022. Chris also has experience as a Manager Consultant and Team Leader at The Siegfried Group, where they provided professional services on a wide range of companies and led a team of resources from August 2016 to December 2019. Before that, Chris worked at Abbott, first as a Finance Supervisor responsible for financial planning for their international commercial division from May 2015 to August 2016, and then as a Senior Financial Analyst for their Supply Chain division from April 2013 to April 2015. Chris began their career at KPMG as an Audit Associate in November 2009 and was later promoted to Senior Audit Associate, where they performed in-depth audit testing and demonstrated excellent leadership skills. Chris Butera, CPA's experience spans both financial planning and analysis as well as auditing, making him a well-rounded finance professional.

Chris Butera, CPA completed their Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance from La Salle University from 2005 to 2009. In 2007, they also attended Deakin University, but there is no information available regarding the degree or field of study.

In terms of additional certifications, Chris obtained the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) qualification from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in April 2012. Chris also completed various courses on Coursera, including "Python Data Structures," "Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)," "Using Python to Access Web Data," and "Using Databases with Python" in December 2016 and February 2017. Furthermore, they obtained the "Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I" certification from Coursera in March 2019.

Chris Butera also obtained the "Microsoft Office Excel Expert" certification from Certiport - A Pearson VUE Business in September 2016. Additionally, they attained an estimated elementary level of fluency in Italian through the "Duolingo Italian Fluency" course on Duolingo in October 2015.