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Professional Profile

Goal oriented Finance and IT professional with more than twenty years of experience applying people, process and problem solving to cutting edge solutions in order to identify and act upon business opportunities. My diverse work experience has provided me a full understanding of the relationship between accounting finance and IT systems and applications. I have extensive experience from recent finance and IT roles to include general and cost accounting, budgeting planning, management reporting, project management, IT application management, resource management, capacity planning, troubleshooting, problem solving and negotiating. An impassioned leader who mentors with purpose and understands that strong working relationships create great teams and produce exceptional results.

Areas of Expertise

Accounting GAAP IASB - Account Management - Application Portfolio Management - Business Engagement - Budgeting Forecasting - Finance and Accounting Management Reporting - Process Improvement - Project Management - Project Portfolio Management - Software Processes - Staffing and Sourcing - Strategy Development - Team Building - Vendor Management

Technical Skills

User experience: ADP TotalSource - MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook - MS Project - MS Visio - Projector PSA - QuickBooks Plus - SAP Business Warehouse - SAP FI modules GL, AP, AR, FA - SAP CO modules PA, CCA, PCA - SharePoint

Responsible for: Integrated ERP Systems Finance, Controlling, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR, Payroll- Oracle EBS - Service Oriented Architecture SOA - Documentum Content Management - Oracle Unified Method OUM - Software Development Lifecycle SDLC - Sarbanes-Oxley SOX regulations

Work Experience

Confidential

Vice President Controller Finance

  • Dual role includes VP of Finance Controller role responsible for full financial statement preparation accrual and cash based , management reporting, budgeting forecasting and financial analysis and reporting. Functional areas covered include general ledger, human resources and payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, sales tax returns and treasury functions. Utilized and maintained QuickBooks Projector PSA for financial functions and client invoicing.
  • Led the due diligence reporting effort for the proposed sale of Mango Concept. Identified, developed, organized and presented corporate, financial results and forecasts, legal, employee and other acquisition related information as required by the acquiring company.
  • Responsible for the conversion of payroll providers from Compupay to ADP Total Source's Professional Employer Organization PEO solution. Included a payroll conversion, the research and addition of an employee benefit program and switching 401k providers to ING.

Consulting Services General Manager

  • As Consulting Services GM lead the Consulting Services Division, which includes pre-sales activities, account management, budget management, vendor management, project dashboard reporting, project oversight and participation on several concurrent client project steering committees. Also includes the management of six full time consultant employees and 25 third party consultants. Utilize and maintain Projector PSA for time management and reporting.
  • Manage the accounts of several high profile clients in diverse industries including investment banking, hedge funds, arbitration services, banking, retail and manufacturing among others. Interact with all levels of an organization to typically include the CIO, CFO and other VP, director and manager level professionals to ensure a high satisfaction of a clients' project and ongoing support needs.
  • Manage consulting teams responsible for client projects to include Oracle EBS r11 / r12 and JD Edwards ERP implementations and upgrades, database upgrades, Oracle Application Development Framework ADF projects, Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture SOA integration projects, as well as development projects in JAVA, C and other development languages. Active project and support initiatives routinely number twenty or more at any given time.
  • Led the organizational adoption of the Oracle Unified Method OUM for a consistent project management approach. Developed templates and outlined standard processes to support a common approach to both pre-sales and project management functions. Developed supporting organizational processe

Confidential

Director of Information Technology Solutions

  • As Director of IT Solutions I managed two distinct IT groups located in Teterboro, NJ St. Louis, MO 14 people 4.5mm annual budgets, with full P L responsibility.
  • Oversee the support and development of 15 critical applications including SAP ECC 6.0 ASAP II RPG based ERP systems, Documentum 6.6 content management / records management, Oracle SOA Suite 11G and Weblogic Suite Fusion Middleware, Microsoft SharePoint 2007 collaboration tools, Pivotal CRM 6.0 customer relationship management and ENOVIA SmarTeam V5 product lifecycle management PLM software solutions.
  • Responsible for an annual project portfolio of 20 developments utilizing SDLC standards and methodologies. Includes planning, oversight, sourcing, management reporting, and issue resolution. Development platforms included Microsoft .NET 3.5 and JAVA 6.
  • Developed IT controlling concept at Jet Aviation US to include an IT chart of accounts, project reporting structures, IT metrics, reporting, improved allocation methods and cost transparency.
  • Led effort to design and develop several policies, processes and procedures to accommodate Sarbanes-Oxley SOX regulations, including access control, change control, software development lifecycle SDLC , separation of duty and IT dependent controls.
  • Conceived and helped implement an IT Steering Committee for both US divisions which improved project prioritization and quicker IT issue resolution by working directly with senior management. Resulted in improved project completion rate, and savings of 250k annually on failed project avoidance.
  • Project Manager for the discovery, purchase and implementation of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and follow on data custodian development customer master data management . Project resulted in streamlined processes, improved data accuracy and security, and shared data between ERP and CRM systems.
  • Project Manager for the design and development of content management application for processing accounts payable AP invoices. 470K project improved workflow, visibility and efficiency of several AP related processes. Completed on time and under budget resulted in working capital improvements of nearly 500K, and annual savings of 200K.

Confidential

  • Responsible for developing and managing a US wide budget process in SAP. Prepared US consolidated KPI driven budgets in Excel, with upload and validation into SAP.
  • Developed and presented budget results and reporting to all levels of senior management.
  • Responsible for business unit and consolidated management reporting development and presentation utilizing SAP Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis modules.
  • Led finance portion of SAP implementation project. Worked with process owners and consultants to blue print, implement and roll out the SAP financial and controlling modules of the project. Project was successfully completed in ten months.

Confidential

Finance Manager / SAP Team Lead

  • Responsible for business unit management reporting development and analysis in SAP.
  • Led project team on the transition of Lucent budgeting and planning systems onto SAP as part of the spin-off of the Enterprise Networks business unit into a new company, Avaya.

Confidential

Senior Manager Financial Planning / Systems

  • Responsible for financial and management reporting, including profitability analysis for both manufacturing and retail operations.
  • Project manager of successful SAP profitability analysis implementation.
  • Developed and implemented product level budgeting and reporting in SAP.

Confidential

Financial Reporting Manager

  • Responsible for worldwide management reporting and the development and support of all financial reporting systems for global chemical manufacturer.
  • Project manager of successful SAP profitability analysis implementation providing the business with multi-dimensional reporting of product lines, products, sales metrics, etc.
  • Promoted to various accounting roles at PQ / Potters, including AP clerk, Cost Accountant, Senior Accountant and Accounting Manager. Performed duties in accordance with GAAP standards.

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