Patrick Flynn
Design spending controls that do not slow down operational teams.
finance / Any industry
BoomBand Dossier9 of 9 scenario-specific dimensions have supporting evidence. The strongest match is demonstrated results. Related experience contributes 15% of this Battle Score, with 12.917 years counted.
Signals
- Demonstrated results: 2 grounded examples: Produced measurable revenue growth in a business that required coordinated operational and financial management. Delivered sustained business growth while operating a hospitality company with finance and vendor-management responsibilities.
- Evidence strength: 3 grounded examples: A specific, attributable and externally recognized business result tied to operating-company leadership. Clearly identifies the stakeholder groups involved in the work, supporting evidence of practical cross-functional engagement. Concrete description of monitoring and intervention practices, though the outcome is not quantified.
- Scenario-specific capabilities: 3 grounded examples: Owned a business function spanning finance, operations, and vendor management, which is relevant to designing practical spending controls. Demonstrated ability to work across finance and operational stakeholders when implementing or evaluating business systems. Lists budget and P&L capability, but the profile does not provide a specific spending-control example.
- Related role experience: 155 months (12.917 years) of related experience. Overlapping dated roles count once. Year-only dates are estimates.
Open questions
- Learning & adaptability: more directly relevant, concrete examples would strengthen this match.
- Domain & tools: more directly relevant, concrete examples would strengthen this match.
- Execution & judgment: more directly relevant, concrete examples would strengthen this match.
Scenario-specific capabilities
60.066/10019% weight
3 grounded examples: Owned a business function spanning finance, operations, and vendor management, which is relevant to designing practical spending controls. Demonstrated ability to work across finance and operational stakeholders when implementing or evaluating business systems. Lists budget and P&L capability, but the profile does not provide a specific spending-control example.
Demonstrated results
62.396/10015% weight
2 grounded examples: Produced measurable revenue growth in a business that required coordinated operational and financial management. Delivered sustained business growth while operating a hospitality company with finance and vendor-management responsibilities.
Execution & judgment
46.107/10012% weight
2 grounded examples: Shows structured forecasting, milestone monitoring, and issue resolution that could support controls designed around operational workflows. Demonstrated process design and repeatability, although the example concerns sales rather than spending controls.
Scope & ownership
57.588/10010% weight
2 grounded examples: Held cross-functional ownership across the functions most affected by purchasing and spending processes. Owned an operating business end to end, providing context for balancing financial discipline with operational execution.
Domain & tools
38.204/1008% weight
3 grounded examples: Relevant exposure to enterprise resource planning and operational stakeholders, though selling an ERP is not the same as administering controls. Shows proficiency with a business system used for forecasting and milestone tracking, but not a finance-control platform. Provides a direct but unsupported indication of budgeting and P&L familiarity.
Leadership & collaboration
58.421/1008% weight
3 grounded examples: Direct evidence of cross-functional collaboration, including finance and implementation stakeholders. Shows a regular coordination mechanism across multiple functions to manage execution and alignment. Self-reported coaching and discovery capability that may help gather operational input before introducing controls.
Learning & adaptability
23.317/1007% weight
2 grounded examples: Shows ability to create an end-to-end process in a changing business context, though not specifically for finance controls. Demonstrates active experimentation with unfamiliar tools and product-building approaches.
Evidence strength
62.351/1006% weight
3 grounded examples: A specific, attributable and externally recognized business result tied to operating-company leadership. Clearly identifies the stakeholder groups involved in the work, supporting evidence of practical cross-functional engagement. Concrete description of monitoring and intervention practices, though the outcome is not quantified.
Related role experience
56.364/10015% weight
155 months (12.917 years) of related experience. Overlapping dated roles count once. Year-only dates are estimates.
View experience calculation
Scored as of Oct 2026. Current or future end dates count only time through the last completed month.
Date ranges use calendar-month resolution. Full ISO dates are normalized to their month; month-labelled end dates are inclusive.
- Founder and CEOMarch 2012 – January 2020 · 95 months
- Leadership, Sales, Ops Management Roles2002 – 2007 · 60 months · Year-only estimate
Dated timeline: 155 months after merging overlaps. Largest undated statement: 0 months. The larger total is used: 155 months (12.917 years). Undated statements are not added to each other or to the dated timeline.
Year-only dates use January year boundaries as an estimate. Month/year dates give a more specific calculation.
1 supplied role entries could not contribute related time because they were unrelated, unsupported, future-only or missing usable dates/durations.
Experience rating = 100 × months ÷ (months + 120).
Battle Score contribution = experience rating × 15%.