John Collins

John Collins has over five years of experience providing accounting advisory services to both public and private clients. He has extensive expertise across a broad range of industries, including startups, manufacturing, consumer products, technology solutions, retail, financial services, and life sciences.

John has provided financial integration services and operational finance support to public, private, and private equity portfolio companies. His focus areas include offering financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accelerating the management reporting cycle, and facilitating companies’ external financial reporting. During his career, he has provided guidance on various technical accounting matters including, but not limited to, business combinations, lease accounting, and debt transactions.

John specializes in finance/accounting function assessment and has extensive experience up-scaling acquired company financial performance during the M&A and integration lifecycle.

Prior to joining Stout, John provided full-time and interim CFO/Controllership services at Sutker Moran. This included sell-side financial duties related to private equity investment, turnaround/restructuring, FP&A, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations.