Dave Hoffman is chief accounting officer for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. He retained the same role previously held at Cedar Fair, L.P., since 2012. In his position, Dave comes in contact with nearly every financial data point collected, measured, and reported by the company. He provides oversight for finance and accounting, corporate tax, external reporting and financial policies, procedures, and controls. Dave also serves as counselor to the CFO.
As CAO, his primary focus is to advance the company’s technical competency through a period of rapid growth and expansion, in both scope and scale. Pivotal to that goal, Dave led a Cedar Fair initiative to modernize the way in which technical information is collected, managed, and reported. The project’s objective was to streamline the flow of information from multiple data gathering and reporting systems to a centralized data repository, furnishing management with contemporaneous and essential intelligence and insight about park operations and performance.
Prior to becoming CAO, Dave was Cedar Fair’s vice president of finance and corporate tax, since 2010. He joined the company in 2006 as vice president of corporate tax. Before working for Cedar Fair, he served as a business advisor with Ernst & Young. Dave earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Toledo and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan. He is a member of AICPA and OICPA.