Tim Taylor is Westlake’s Vice President of Accounting and
Controller with responsibility to oversee all aspects of
accounting operations: financial reporting, banking operations
(including dealer funding), banking audits, and managing
an external audit relationship with McGladrey & Pullen,
CPA’s for annual audit and financial statement reporting.
“Working for Westlake provides an exciting opportunity
and environment for personal and professional growth
due to our genuinely entrepreneurial driven culture,”
says Mr. Taylor. “Process ownership by employees is
the key to our success. We have developed our ability
to analyze and quickly modify our buy program lending
performance and associated operating performance to
enable us to react quickly to market changes to
financially fit our business model objectives…and
it’s working well! This ability will certainly drive Westlake
to continue as a premier and highly profitable lender while
striving to grow our business at 20% per year with profit
margins in excess of industry averages.”
Mr. Taylor adds, “Specifically, my objective for our accounting group is to continue to build strength and develop our staff to enable us to handle the challenges of our growth; effectively providing insight and direction on product performance and operating efficiencies, as well as provide partnership services to management, other internal departments, and our external customers and dealers.”
Prior to joining Westlake, Mr. Taylor held various corporate finance and accounting management positions with publicly traded Fortune 500 corporations working in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles, as well as international accounting, finance and business management experience in Europe. His past experience also includes direct responsibility for SEC initial public offering (IPO) registration filing, SEC quarterly and annual financial reporting along with various financial due diligence acquisitions processes. Tim graduated with a B.S.B.A. degree in Accounting from Auburn University and is also a Certified Public Accountant since 1988.