Marja Slaughter
VP of Operations
Marja has more than 30 years in accounting and has led SPRCHRGR's outsourced accounting team for over 12 of them. As VP of Operations, she learns how each new client's business and systems work, then sets up and directs the team that will deliver for them from the first month-end close onward.
Los Angeles, CA
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About Marja
Marja Slaughter has more than 30 years in accounting, from financial analysis and accounting management in the entertainment industry to more than 11 years leading the team that keeps our clients' books at SPRCHRGR. As VP of Operations, she directs SPRCHRGR's service delivery team, and she is usually the first person a new client works with once they decide to partner with us. She learns how the business makes money and how its systems connect, writes the scope of work around what she finds, gets our accountants the access they need, and stays close to the engagement through the first month-end close so nothing gets lost between the kickoff and the day-to-day work.
She gets up to speed fast on businesses that look nothing alike. For a consumer brand selling through its own online store, Amazon and wholesale accounts, she worked out how each sales channel and marketplace payout reaches the books, then sequenced the company's system integration projects so the balance sheet was cleaned up first and the new ERP system started from numbers the owners could rely on. For a consumer products company running NetSuite and selling to big-box retailers, she showed the team how to clear short-paid retailer invoices so receivables reflect what the company will collect, and researched NetSuite's new AI connector for the account. For a venture-backed fintech serving the crypto market, she is working alongside the delivery team through onboarding and the early cleanup so the company can settle into predictable steady-state operations with accelerated monthly close and reporting cycles. In each case our team walks in already knowing how the client's business runs and what success looks like for all stakeholders. That's the foundation of the kind of win-win partnerships we love to foster with our clients.
Background
Marja started her career in financial analysis at a major entertainment company, preparing financial statements, supervising financial analysts and helping upgrade the company's financial reporting system. She went on to serve as accounting manager at another entertainment company and as director of finance at an entertainment marketing firm, then worked as an independent accounting consultant for small businesses and high-net-worth clients. By 2015 she was managing a team of accountants and dozens of client relationships at SPRCHRGR. That mix is what gives her the perspective to know what good looks like: she has done the books herself, managed the people who do them, and keenly understands what’s necessary to modernize a business’ back-office function while surfacing key financial insights in the process.
Most recently, Marja has been leading business process transformations across the firm through a balanced approach of technology adoption and intentional process designs.
Marja started her career in financial analysis at a major entertainment company, preparing financial statements, supervising financial analysts and helping upgrade the company's financial reporting system. She went on to serve as accounting manager at another entertainment company and as director of finance at an entertainment marketing firm, then worked as an independent accounting consultant for small businesses and high-net-worth clients. By 2015 she was managing a team of accountants and dozens of client relationships at SPRCHRGR. Having done the books herself and managed the people who do them, she can walk into an unfamiliar business and tell within a few conversations what its back office needs and who on our team should handle it.
At SPRCHRGR, Marja runs service delivery day to day. She directs the accountants on each engagement, gets them into each client's accounting, bill pay and banking systems, and steps in when a client needs a senior voice or to cover for another manager who's OOO. She also built the onboarding program every new client goes through: a welcome page that introduces the client's SPRCHRGR team and shows progress, a resource center that explains what our accountants are doing between meetings, from getting system access to closing the month, and a client hub where clients can see every open request. She listens and learns from each client interaction and leads our continuous improvement initiatives across training, service delivery, and best practice processes. She often writes thought leadership pieces for our Insights library as well.
Education + certifications
- Bachelor of Science in Accounting, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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