The Williamson County Conference and Guests Bureau, recognized publicly as Go to Franklin, has added David A. Edwards to its employees within the newly expanded function of vp of Finance and Administration.
Edwards will oversee and handle all facets of the conference and customer bureau’s accounting and file retaining, along with serving because the group’s principal monetary adviser for financial forecasting and evaluation.
“David brings a variety of expertise working in each municipal authorities with public funds and the personal sector managing complicated budgets,” stated Go to Franklin President and CEO Maureen Haley Thornton. “We’re thrilled so as to add David to the conference and customer bureau workforce.
“As we proceed to broaden the attain of the tourism trade’s constructive influence on Williamson County, David’s expertise and experience will enable us to proceed being clever stewards of the resort occupancy tax funds that make up a good portion of our working price range, in addition to discover methods to develop our earned income.”
Edwards joins Go to Franklin with practically 15 years of expertise, most just lately as a controller with Pilot.com, the San Francisco-based on-line platform that gives bookkeeping, tax and CFO companies for startups and rising companies. Previous to that, Edwards served because the director of Accounting at Franklin-based Full Focus (previously generally known as Michael Hyatt & Firm), the place he managed the every day operations of the accounting workforce and ready month-to-month monetary statements and money circulate forecasts for the corporate.
Edwards spent over a decade working in native authorities for Metro Nashville and the city of Smyrna. With Metro Nashville, he started within the Planning Division as a improvement finance officer, overseeing subdivision efficiency bonds and helping with the preparation of the working and capital enhancements budgets.
He then moved into the function of senior price range analyst (and later finance administrator) for the Metro Nashville Finance Division’s Workplace of Administration and Finances. In that capability, Edwards oversaw a portfolio of 9 departments with budgets starting from $1.5 million to $199 million. He additionally assisted departmental heads, monetary managers and elected officers with the event, understanding and implementation of their annual budgets.
The Jonesboro, Arkansas, native is a graduate of Arkansas State College, the place he earned a bachelor’s diploma in company finance and a grasp’s in Enterprise Administration.
