Maria Pitol, VP/ Corporate Controller

Montrose Environmental, Irvine

Maria Pitol has been with Montrose Environmental for over five years and is now the vice president and controller where she has implemented proper segregation of duties, controls and metrics across the financial and accounting functions of the company. Pitol also supervised the Quality of Earnings process and financial due diligence from the finance/accounting perspective for 28 completed acquisitions (some of them all work done in house) and led the back-office integration for said acquisitions, including businesses with operations in Canada and Australia. In addition, she assumed treasury function overseeing the streamlining of the function; consolidated over 35 bank accounts into six operating accounts; developed plan for phasing out the use of legacy accounts after acquisition; and leveraged the use of software automation for cash posting resulting in additional speed in terms of visibility of payments and accuracy of posting.