Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
James F. Winschel is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at PAREXEL International Corporation. In this role, Mr. Winschel is responsible for overseeing the worldwide financial management for PAREXEL.
Mr. Winschel brings to PAREXEL over twenty-five years of experience in financial and general management. Most recently, Mr. Winschel served as President of U.B. Vehicle Leasing, Inc, a U.S.-based vehicle leasing division of BTM Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. Prior to assuming Presidency of this division, he was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BTM Capital. Earlier in his career, Mr. Winschel held leadership positions at Caremark International, Inc., Whirlpool Financial Corporation, and General Electric Company. Mr. Winschel holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Finance and Accounting, respectively, from Syracuse University.
During his time with PAREXEL, Mr. Winschel has focused his energies on a variety of initiatives. He led various profitability improvement initiatives, centralized cash management through the creation of a worldwide Treasury function, implemented extensive upgrades to the Company’s management information systems, increased the quality of financial reporting, simplified the financial infrastructure (eliminated 31 legal entities, substantially reduced the number of banks, mechanized manual processes, etc.), and ensured that the Company’s critical systems were EURO compliant.
