054 Le Marie Tree, Oui! (feat. Marie Greene, CPA)

Episode 54 | Recorded February 7, 2022

Marie Phillips was named the Top 50 Women in Accounting by Ignition and is a cloud accounting industry leader. With over a decade of experience in accounting services, she provides process efficiency consultation for her clients to automate their businesses and personal lives better.

She started Connected Accounting to be able to help more entrepreneurs, business owners, and individuals. Currently, her practice services:

• Professional service firms (legal, wealth management, marketing, etc.)
• Consumer product brands (manufacturing, e-Commerce)
• Real estate management companies (commercial, multi-family units)
• Franchises (hospitality, fitness)

Additionally, she supports early-stage entrepreneurs in building the foundation of their businesses while offering an accountability partner throughout their growth. Through this work, she helped multiple clients transform their businesses from zero income to profitability.

Marie’s entrepreneurship mindset came from launching Gursey Schneider LLP’s client accounting services’ (CAS) practice where she helped increase CAS revenue by minimum 40% each year and develop a team of 5. With her team, she serviced professional service firms, real estate, film production, family offices and high-net worth clients.

Before her accounting consultant work, Marie was a financial analyst managing the profit and loss statements for two global brands: Forever 21, Inc. and PepsiCo. At Forever 21, she managed the consolidation of profit and loss statements of 550 stores worldwide. At PepsiCo, she led the national consolidation of the profit and loss statement and analysis of product lines.

Marie's passion is rooted in her commitment to helping people reach their personal and professional goals — particularly within financial and accounting empowerment. Through this passion, she coaches people using accountability and strategic, organizational routines to help them visualize and plan their path to consistent success. She leverages technology and her organizational methods to help others save time by streamlining accounting processes and other time-consuming tasks.

An avid learner and self-development enthusiast, Marie attends several conferences annually: Unleash the Power Within by Tony Robbins, DFK International Conferences on how to be a better leader (based on Patrick Lencioni’s books), meditation retreats, and of course accounting conferences — including her favorite, Xerocon.