Q1 2026
At the heart of IGY’s finance and accounting function in the Americas, Keith Dyar helps manage a team of dedicated accountants, making sure every transaction at every marina in the region is correctly filed, from manual fuel measurements to high value transactions. Having risen from cash collection assistant to Senior Assistant Controller, Keith demonstrates how you can reach your personal career goals with support from IGY if you are willing to learn.
“I firmly believe that you can achieve anything you want with IGY.”
What does your job involve? What are your day-to-day tasks?
I help manage the finance and accounting for IGY in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. This includes bank reconciliations, producing financial statements, cash collections, expenses – everything that is put through at the point of sale, including revenues and booking other financial transactions.
We make sure all of it makes sense and provide reporting on monthly results as well as any other financial data the operations or executive team may need to run the business. As a finance team, we are also a support system. We strive to provide the operations and executive teams timely and accurate financial data that they can use to make decisions based on the company’s current performance as well as its future direction.
Where are you based?
I work remotely from Greenville in South Carolina, which I always say is an hour from the mountains and three hours from the beach!
What are your greatest challenges?
One of the challenges is getting all the information that we need from all the different areas of the business, making sure it all makes sense and turning it around in a timely manner. Most of the files are standardized across each marina, but we do have some different types of files and information which is provided manually, such as fuel measurements and utility readings. An additional challenge is understanding the nuances of the different properties. Each property has some uniqueness to it and understanding those differences can be a challenge.
What do you most enjoy?
I enjoy the challenge of taking all the different pieces of the puzzle and putting them together to make something useful.
Where did you grow up and what were your early ambitions? 
I was born and raised in Greenville. When I was in high school, I wanted to go to college, and I chose accounting because it opens up a lot of different career opportunities. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do but I knew that accounting provided many openings. Looking back, I like the decision that I made. Every business needs accounting and I have always loved the fact that it provides so much flexibility as a career.
What was your first role at IGY and how did it come about?
I was working in a tax department of a hotel company when a recruiter randomly called me saying he had an opportunity that he thought I would be a good match for. When I came into the IGY office to talk about the job, it sounded really interesting and I thought, this is something I want to do! I started in the cash department in September 2010 and then I got an opportunity to move into general ledger accounting before progressing into management.
Have you always had a love of the sea?
When I was younger, we would go to the local lake and go fishing – we had a boat – but it wasn’t until I came here that I discovered the marina sector is such an interesting line of business. I’m so glad it happened the way that it did.
What are you most proud of?
I’m proud that I was able to start in cash and progress my career with IGY and learn more and more. When you invest in a job it’s nice to see that you are able to grow. I firmly believe that you can achieve anything you want with IGY. I am thankful for the opportunity to further my career and to be trusted to do so.
How do you enjoy your downtime?
I have two kids – a son aged 15 and a daughter aged 13 – and my free time is spent doing what they want to do! I enjoy seeing them do things they love and I also like to play golf and watch sports.
If you had access to any yacht in the world for two weeks, where would you go and what would you do?
Europe. We keep saying we want to go to Europe, and I would love to just cruise around Europe from the south to the north. Last year, we went on a cruise to Alaska which was awesome.
What’s a lesser-known fact about you that would surprise your colleagues?
I was once in a TV commercial for a local pizza shop.
