Financial Metrics for HR Professionals

Haley Lyons, CPA

This is a hybrid event! You may attend this event in-person or via Zoom.

The on-site location is:

Eugene Mission

1470 W. 1st Avenue

Eugene, OR 97402

Breakfast will be provided; seating is limited. Free parking in the lot or on the street.

Directions:

From the corner of 6th and Blair Blvd, head north on Blair Blvd.

Turn left onto W 1st Ave.

Turn left into the Eugene Mission parking lot toward the end of W 1st Ave.

The meeting will be in the building on the right as you turn in.

This presentation delves into the critical role of HR professionals in utilizing financial metrics to influence and improve organizational financial health and decision-making. We will examine how HR's expertise in these metrics can substantially enhance the annual budgeting process, reinforcing HR's position as a strategic financial partner. Additionally, we will provide an overview for how to calculate and effectively employ these metrics for strategic planning and future forecasting.

Our Speaker:

Haley Lyons is a native Oregonian, having grown up in Corvallis. After she graduated from Oregon State University, she began in the private industry, working for an international engineering and construction firm where she worked in project accounting and got to dive into the financial analytics of large construction projects. Haley joined Kernutt Stokes in 2007 with a plan of getting her CPA license and then returning to private industry. She soon found that Kernutt Stokes and the team provided everything she was looking for in a career and has stayed with public accounting and the firm ever since.

Haley is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Virtual Accounting practice area. Under her leadership, the firm’s virtual accounting practice has expanded exponentially by providing businesses and organizations with quality bookkeeping, controllership and CFO advisory services. Haley enjoys the people and the dynamic businesses she works with on a daily basis. Virtual accounting gives Haley and her team a front row seat to all of the day-to-day decisions being made by leaders of different businesses.

Haley and her husband Greg live in Eugene with their two young daughters. They enjoy rooting on the Beavs, camping, and spending time together. Her husband is a CFO for a local company, and if there is ever a lull in their conversation, she says they can talk Excel functions or financial ratios.

This program has been submitted to the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) for review.