Wes Rickels

Vice President
Wes Rickels
HOME BASE
Chicago
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Kellenberger 

  • Deloitte & Touche

  • United States Air Force

ALMA MATER
  • Drexel University, MS Accounting

  • Drexel University, BS Business Administration

HOME BASE
Chicago
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Kellenberger 

  • Deloitte & Touche

  • United States Air Force

ALMA MATER
  • Drexel University, MS Accounting

  • Drexel University, BS Business Administration

Wes is a Vice President with nearly a decade of advisory, accounting, and treasury experience as both a consultant and within privately owned companies. He specializes in the enhancement of finance organizations to streamline financial reporting, align with business strategy, and meet company objectives.   

Prior to joining Accordion, Wes spent over four years in various accounting and finance roles within the machine tool manufacturing industry, where he led consolidated group audits, monthly close and reporting processes, USGAAP conversion of non-US subsidiaries, global and local liquidity management, cash flow projections, and process improvement initiatives.  

Wes began his finance career within Deloitte & Touche’s Forensic Advisory practice where he spent over three years performing forensic investigations and litigation and dispute consulting services to clients across a range of industries.  

Wes is also an Air Force veteran, having honorably served five years as an air traffic controller at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.  

Wes graduated summa cum laude from Drexel University with an M.S. in Accounting and a B.S. in Business Administration.  

Something you should know
  • Spent a year in southern Germany on secondment transforming a subsidiary company’s liquidity management and USGAAP reporting function
  • Avid traveler; spent six weeks backpacking through Europe after finishing his master’s degree
  • High school baseball, track, and cross-country athlete
    Noteworthy
    • Certified Public Accountant
    • Graduated summa cum laude from Drexel University
    • Recipient of Air Force Airman Leadership School’s Academic Achievement Award