SUMMARY:

• Operational and Accounting Management professional with over 15 years of accounting operations experience with a Confidential 50 company.
• Focusing on creating efficiencies without sacrificing quality. Recognized for business management capabilities as well as operational expertise.
• Demonstrated success in identifying and selling new opportunities as well as managing and developing client relationships and business teams.
• Daily responsibilities include: Lead Accounts Payable projects and program initiatives, identify efficiency and/or effectiveness opportunities and recommend solutions to Functional leader that result in operational improvement.
• Define and drive project benefits, leveraging internal and external resources and team members as required.
• Use leadership skills to serve as operational excellence role model.
• Facilitate the implementation and acceptance of change in the workplace.
• Continually seek out process improvement opportunities including better use of systems, elimination of waste (material, process, time), enhanced use of technology, and refinement of processes for the assigned function or business unit.
• Organize, plan, review and provide status of projects managed.
• Network with upstream users to leverage best practices in tools and processes for Accounts Payable.
• Interpret customer requirements, both internal and external, to meet defined project objectives.
• Ensure all projects are managed in compliance with internal Ecolab standards and external regulations.
• Provide cost/benefit analysis, including financial analysis, for assigned projects.
• Provide monthly project spend reporting updates.
• Utilize strong financial analysis knowledge to properly assess the accounting and transactional flows on assigned projects.
• Provide significant Accounts Payable Leadership on SAP Integration team for Ecolab
• Basic Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting or a business - related field
• 3+ years of work experience in a high-volume Accounts Payable processing environment
• 3+ years of management and/or leadership experience
• Previous experience working in a large ERP system, preferably in a migration project environment
• No immigration sponsorship available for this role
• Preferred Qualifications Previous experience working in SAP, preferably in SAP migration project environment
• Previous experience in Project management
• Previous involvement with ERP system implementation
• Basic knowledge of multiple ERP systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of general accounting concepts
• Strong knowledge of project management methodology & tools

SYSTEM SKILLS:

• Oracle 11 & R12, Discoverer, SQL, and Dataloader
• OneSource & Ariba
• IBPM & Capture, Documentum and Webtop
• Service Now, Timberline, Service Channel, OMS
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Accounts Payable Project Manager

Confidential, St Paul Park, MN

Responsibilities:

• Executed an accounts payable project through use of Lean Six Sigma processes and tools
• Established spreadsheet invoicing that vendors used to submit invoices reducing processing time by 50%
• Designed BOL invoice audit process to verify legitimacy before entry into payables system
• Created multiple operational procedures and process flows in order to successfully transition all related duties to Corporate Accounts Payable resulting in a savings of 1+ FTE

Operation Specialist Manager - Accounts Payables

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Responsibilities:

• Managed Accounts Payable team of 4 to 12 (Exempt and Non Exempt) domestically and a team of 30 Internationally.
• Responsible for managing the AP relationship with the business outsource provider, assist in the enforcing compliance with policy, leading the implementation of process improvement initiatives, manage the development, implementation and/or maintenance of the Accounts Payable systems (and tools).
• Managed reconciliation's and reviewed general ledger accounts in preparation for month end, quarter end and year-end close
• Responsible for all aspects of employee change management with department restructure and reduction of workforce
• Collaborated with internal audit to coordinate the documentation and assessment of controls for the Finance business in compliance with company policy and Sarbanes Oxley legislation
• Responsible for all aspects of the on-boarding process with new vendors; provided training on operational procedures and explained performance expectations
• Managed vendors relationships, oversee reconciliation of vendor statements and settled disputes
• Reviewed established accounting practices and procedures and identified opportunities to streamline processing of accounting data: implementing changes to practices and procedures, which resulted in labor savings of 2 Confidential ’s
• Developed departments KPI’s and 3rd party vendor SLA’s; designed, implemented and conducted training programs to assist in meeting SLA requirements In first year, over 90 days aged reduced by 70%
• Managed P-Card, Corporate Card and other payment implementations such as EFT; coordinated an EFT initiative resulting in over 50% new vendor enrollments.
• Defined strategy and processes from ideation to execution to drive improvement to the bottom line. Received leadership in action award for Initiating and developing an in-house process for issuing checks to customers for tax refunds resulting in an immediate savings of more than $750,000
• Managed escheatment process of funds remitted to the individual states per requirements. Responsible to ensure ongoing compliance with Unclaimed Property Laws of states for clients.
• Designed a process to review all payments prior to release reducing debit balance totals from 40 million to 1 million within first 90 days
• Managed preparation of 1099/ 1042-S tax reporting including maintaining ongoing training in compliance. Researched, documented and implemented a new technology solution to automate existing reporting process. Achieved reporting accuracy of less than 1% in B-notice in the first year and saved over 1 million in potential penalties.

Accounts Payable Service Supervisor

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and enforced organization defined policies, procedures, and standards. Created a standard financial model that assured data integrity and accessibility, eliminated analytical and data inconsistencies, and reduced team workload.
• Worked with all levels of management on multiple projects to enable effective operations through optimizing processes. Executed business teams around best practices and enhanced capabilities.
• Responsible for all aspects of employee change management with department restructure and reduction of workforce.
• Headed up Master Vendor list clean up resulting in elimination of over 50% inactive or inaccurate vendors
• Motivated employees by conveying the importance of each individuals contribution and trusting in peer competence; modelled and encouraged excellence and enthusiasm, challenged the status quo and supported new initiatives, improving employee engagement scores by 60%
• Reviewed established accounting practices and procedures and identified opportunities to streamline processing of accounting data: implementing changes to practices and procedures, which resulted in labor savings of 2 Confidential ’s