People news: McFarland Johnson names Saito controller

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — McFarland Johnson, Inc. announced it has promoted Emi Saito to controller of the 100-percent employee-owned planning, engineering, and construction-services firm.

Saito has more than 20 years of corporate accounting experience including financial analysis, strategic planning and reporting, profitability and cost analysis, budgeting and cost management, resource management, and financial-reporting optimization.

As controller, Saito will continue to enhance the company’s financial strategic initiatives and provide the firm’s management team with information to help guide and grow the business.

She began her career at McFarland Johnson in August 2000 as an accountant before becoming a senior accountant and most recently accounting manager, where she was responsible for the management of the business office.

Saito holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from SUNY Brockport. She is a longstanding contributor to McFarland Johnson’s business-enterprise services team and has distinguished herself as a business leader, the company contended in a news release.

Headquartered in Binghamton, McFarland Johnson (www.mjinc.com) provides planning, engineering, environmental, and construction services for aviation, transportation, civic/facilities, and environmental projects. The company also has offices in Pittsford and Saratoga Springs, New York; Hollywood, Key West, Jacksonville, and Melbourne, Florida; Westford, Massachusetts; Freeport, Maine; Concord and Portsmouth New Hampshire Cincinnati, Ohio; Pittsburgh and DuBois, Pennsylvania; and Greenville, South Carolina.