Get to Know Kenny & Murphy Technologies LLC

Alex Kenny helps growing businesses build the financial backbone that lets leadership make decisions with confidence. His work centers on a problem most companies don't realize they have until it costs them: finance functions that report on the past instead of informing the future — slow closes, forecasts no one trusts, spreadsheets held together by one person's memory, and reporting that tells executives what happened but not what to do about it.

Over a decade inside large industrial and technology operators — from automotive manufacturing to supply chain automation — Alex has owned the financial delivery of nine-figure capital projects, multi-site P&Ls, and global product-line budgets. That experience taught him where finance organizations actually break: the handoffs between operations and accounting, the forecasts built on assumptions no one revisits, the controls that exist on paper but not in practice. He has caught seven-figure balance sheet exposures before auditors did, recovered millions in unbilled revenue through process redesign, and rebuilt month-end reporting so site managers could finally own their own numbers instead of waiting on corporate. The pattern across every engagement is the same — the money was already there; the system just wasn't surfacing it.

What sets Alex apart is an AI-first mindset when evaluating any solution — he starts by asking how automation and AI can carry the manual load before defaulting to traditional approaches, and believes the next generation of finance leaders will be defined less by spreadsheet fluency than by how effectively they pair human judgment with the tools now available to scale it.

At KMT, Alex partners with leadership teams that have outgrown their current finance setup but aren't ready for a full controller hire or an enterprise ERP rollout. He installs the forecasting discipline, reporting infrastructure, and operational controls that turn finance from a monthly fire drill into a strategic asset — faster closes, sharper insights, and a finance team whose capacity grows without its headcount having to. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University with a cognate in finance and accounting, is a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor (Level 2), is pursuing the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation, and brings advanced expertise across SAP, SAP BW, Hyperion, Power BI, and Acumatica.

Max Murphy helps small and mid-sized businesses untangle the operational and systems problems that keep them from scaling. Whether the bottleneck is an aging ERP, a customer service function that can't keep up with growth, a procurement process that runs on tribal knowledge, or a finance stack that doesn't talk to operations, Max brings the rare combination of engineering depth, business acumen, and hands-on execution needed to fix it.

That combination is grounded in fifteen years of leading complex operations across manufacturing, medical equipment, and early-stage startups in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Russia. He has stood up the first dedicated procurement organization at a national equipment manufacturer, served as the Acumatica ERP subject matter expert through its rollout, restored a global manufacturer's most critical customer account, and delivered an 18-month, 13-person capital equipment installation on time and on budget. The pattern across every engagement is the same: diagnose the real problem, design a system that fits the business, and execute until it works.

Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a QuickBooks Online Certified ProAdvisor (Levels 1 and 2), and an Intuit Solutions Provider, with additional credentials in business analytics and applied AI. Clients work with Max when they need a partner who can sit with the controller in the morning, walk the production floor in the afternoon, and translate between the two — turning operational complexity into systems that scale.

Outside of work, Max is a BJCP Certified Beer Judge and holds a Level 3 certification from the National Wine School — pursuits that, like his consulting practice, reward patience, precision, and a trained eye for what separates good from excellent.