Melissa Hays serves as Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer. Mrs. Hays is responsible for the integrity and accuracy of all data that is distributed to both internal and external customers. She focuses on the accounting, budgeting, forecasting, cashflow management, and financial performance of the company. As well, Mrs. Hays oversees the contracts process to include contract negotiation and execution. She is experienced with the rigorous FAR, DFAR and DCAA regulations required to have a successfully compliant organization.
Mrs. Hays joined INTUITIVE in 2009 as the Director of Finance and Accounting. In this role she grew her department by threefold before officially naming a Contracts Director and Finance and Accounting Director to aide overseeing the day to day functions. Mrs. Hays career is composed of over thirty years of diversified experience in public and private accounting positions. She started her career at Ernst & Young, LLP, an international Certified Public Accounting firm focusing on audits of public companies. She is a Huntsville native and, in that regard, had a desire to move back to Huntsville and did so as the firm’s Huntsville presence focusing on Huntsville clients, including government contractors. Mrs. Hays then worked for Intergraph Corporation in the Corporate Financial Reporting group where she was responsible for SEC compliance and preparing the corporate financial statements and being the interface with external auditors. She also served as the Revenue Assurance Manager at ITC DeltaCom, Inc., a publicly held telecommunications company where she focused on internal controls and workflows to ensure all revenue was being captured and accounted for accurately. Prior to joining the INTUITIVE team, Mrs. Hays worked as a Manager at Beason & Nalley, Inc., a Certified Public Accounting firm specializing in government contractor audits. Her experience in government contracting and accounting has helped develop accounting processes and procedures that have resulted in INTUITIVE maintaining their approved accounting system, purchasing system, and DCAA audited and approved indirect rate structure.
Mrs. Hays received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and her Masters of Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting from Troy University. She is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and a Certified Professional Contracts Manager.
