Clara Goetsch is an experienced financial professional with a strong background in the manufacturing and professional services industries. She has served in both advisory and interim leadership roles, supporting companies through complex financial transformations and critical phases of their growth or restructuring. Clara has successfully led organizations through Chapter 11 bankruptcy emergence, implemented costs savings and performance improvement initiatives, and developed comprehensive cash flow and projection models. She has also played a key role in private equity transactions by performing detailed working capital and EBITDA adjustments to support acquisitions.
Representative Experience
- Successfully managed and aided an $8.4B oil and gas company through their Chapter 11 emergence process.
- Served on a turnaround and performance improvement team for a $850MM industrial service company.
- Financial advisor to a $550MM agriculture company. Worked closely with management to address inventory and cash flow challenges, implementing effective solutions to improve the company’s performance and aid in a refinancing.
- Modeled and managed the 5-year projection model for a multimillion-dollar insurance company, including projected STAT numbers, GAAP numbers, and risk-based capital numbers.
- Acted as an assistant Interim Controller for a $80MM public reinsurance company.