Adam Herrera Email & Phone Number

San Marino, California, United States

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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Effectively Implemented ERP/PSA Appl. into Workday with minimum disruption to the business by migrating legacy Project/Financial Mgmt. Appl., help build and execute (design & discovery, configuration, integrations, documentation (business processes/workflows), data conversion, Adaptive, testing (Unit/UAT), deployment and Hypercare support.• Championed user adoption in Workday by providing the necessary support, optimizations and QRGs for the critical business processes and established a BAU support model for post go-live that adopts Agile fundamentals to support prioritization and execution of enhancements and break fixes in the Finance/PSA portfolio.• Improved user experience in understanding business needs/pain points and leveraged existing Financial/PSA platforms by delivering and using OOB functionality, reduced customizations, documentation (QRG/How-To), re-education, SSO Integrations, developed release schedule, promoted best practices (MVP enhancements and Change Mgmt. etc.).• Successfully decommissioned Financial Force (FF) HCM ensuring essential needs were met with minimal impact to the business operations by eliminating double entry into ADP/FF (Employee Records, Payroll & Absence Mgmt.) while building integrations from ADP to FF and updating custom Time Punch routine to send to ADP (Time & Labor).

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• As a member of the Business Applications team, IT generalist, tasked with guiding & facilitating meaningful conversations about IT with Finance across the business. • Readily partners with any team or individual to understand the Finance departments’ demands & requirements, identify appropriate experts & partners, then bring these resources together to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions, helping to fulfil Material IT's mission of People First. • Motivated by the satisfaction of faster, more reliable outcomes for the Finance department, and are energized by exposure to the full gamut of relationship management topics, from solution requirements gathering & business process mapping, to solution architecture & design, to project & operational management of delivered solutions.

Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Manage all aspects of assigned client implementations including project scoping, planning, financial reporting to the client, monitoring objectives, milestones, timelines, and measures of success resulting in successful on-time and on-budget implementations.• Project Manager for small, medium, and large-scale projects for private law firms as well as corporate clients of all types including ProLaw upgrades, and full front and back-office implementations.• Analyze, prepare monthly project management reports, which allows senior team to make effective resource forecast budgeting decisions, track milestone achievements, billings, and overall progress against budgets.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed Business Intelligence team to upgrade company 3rd-party software: 3E, Softrax and Business Objects, by playing critical role in planning, estimating, resourcing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training, deployment, execution and coordinating with multiple teams, ensuring essential needs were met and addressed with minimal impact to business operations and winning Legal Enterprise Solution Above and Beyond.• Streamlined systems, data integrations, configurations, and financial reporting, reducing Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) failures 95% and developing 3E Services Manager dashboards and metrics to increase revenue.• Executed technology improvements and automation for accounting and services, including manual journal entries (JE) by 85%, timecard workflow and partner load activities, minimizing errors and raising time entry 20%.• Oversaw financial systems and integrations (3E Platform, Softrax, GetPaid, SAP) with staff of 5, including offshore resources, optimize and supporting applications, processes and maximizing financial reporting.• Championed multiple key enhancement objectives for 2 separate financial software applications, coordinating with stakeholders and technical and non-technical cross-functional business partners, scoping, planning, evaluating and augmenting procedures, design, and implement applications to evaluate and monitor implementations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Delivered material advances for positive impact and nominated for Influencing Across the Matrix program, improving and expanding success, saving costs in FP&A, Accounting and business segments.• Initiated and executed “SKU Product Cleanup Initiative” with cross-functional departments, deactivating 52% and improving sales order and invoicing for Billing and Accounting, winning Partnership award.• Partnered with multiple areas as Softrax Implementation Upgrade Team consultant, facilitating vision, strategy, scheduling, conversion and Go-Live, yielding upgrade.• Directed accounting simplification initiative, improving accuracy and reducing specific month end tasks 80%,• Reduced invoice errors from 4.1% to 1.1%, supporting Billing Invoice Error Free Initiative.• Facilitated meetings on sales support and opportunities, consolidating 5 Excel workbooks with 750+ tabs into one workbook with one tab.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Won Innovation award for improving methods, saving 4k+ hours by creating and implementing 16+ time and cost objectives for various business segments.• Re-engineered Statement of Work (SOW) / Change Order (CO) boilerplate templates and standardized contractor invoice review, increasing performance time 70% and accelerating validation of payments and contractor budget.• Guided organization opportunities, including Executive Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Dashboards, management reports and metrics, Enterprise to 3E system migration, Business Process Review of Accounting to define methodology, roles and responsibilities delivering 23 low-cost high-value areas of advancements.• Provided viable solutions to operational challenges by gathering requirements, conducting root-cause analysis, integrating improvements throughout necessary system components, training and mentoring staff outside department, building talent and teams, resulting in cross-department growth in people, processes, and profits.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Raised productivity by 90% with electronic invoicing / statements procedures for 2 financial software platforms, receiving recognition with Financial Excellence Award.• Headed business objectives and boosted performance and functions, implemented technology enhancements and re-education initiative, streamlining billing activities for 50%-time savings for services international teams.• Led as administrator and support for 5 systems, including interfaces, enhancements, upgrades, training sessions and documentation for 300+ users (Global), overseeing multiple departments and month-end close involving system updates and superior reporting to organization and corporate finance teams.• Overhauled account set-ups to improve sales orders, invoicing and month-end close, stabilizing internal technology interfaces and refining SAP integration.• Assessed and analyzed opportunities for improvement and facilitated staff education, achieving predicted outcomes in conjunction with Staff Development Managers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Gained tax reporting processing time 75% by spearheading and revising system tax tables for 2 software applications, improving invoicing, credit, and rebill activities for multiple teams and strengthening client satisfaction.• Accelerated milestones invoicing by 20%, Proformas 30% and redesigned Credit Workflow, expediting management of credits by leading and facilitating financial operations training sessions to identify gaps and efficiencies.• Increased efficiencies and quality of work for Accounting / Billing, increased by standardization documentation and smarter design, as Process Improvement Taskforce representative.• Accelerated and increased utilization by establishing on-boarding process for new-hires, receiving Financial Excellence Award, ultimately adopted organization-wide.

Burbank, Ca

• Utilized technical and business unit expertise to develop and enhance reporting by partnering with Studio Controllership Finance teams, Studio Business Process Solutions and designing, testing, executing and distributing modernized reporting tools.• Efficiencies gained by 90% from automation and optimization of critical close reports, templates and queries.

Burbank, Ca

• Supervised a staff of 6 employees accountable for Home Video billing ($3.5 billion annually).• Raised productivity by 98% by engineering and launching an innovative technology and procedure to provide information in a more timely and accurate manner - Electronic uploads, image lockbox.• Increased tasks by 60% by designing and implementing a more efficient workflow utilizing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) templates and identifying potential clients based on volume and specifications.• Lectured and demonstrated innovative AR methods to Sony, Warner Brothers, BVHE International and other Walt Disney companies. Served as liaison between IT, Accounting, Corporate Credit in implementation of EDI (Electronic Data Information) overseeing all major client accounts.• Point person for training 8 resources on JD Edwards and Global Accounting Systems. • Consulted with Walt Disney’s Shared Services Innovation Task Force to standardize and increase efficiencies.

Burbank, Ca

• Responsible for Home Video manual billings, when necessary, as well as bad debt analysis. • Designed and maintained macro-supported worksheets, detailed analysis reports for senior management.• Managed a team completing reconciliation’s and analysis of high-volume accounts. • Assisted manager in the tracking of multi-million-dollar accounts pertaining to revenue sharing and upfront fees and buybacks.

Mini Master Of Business Administration (Mini Mba), Executive Training

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Business Administration, Management And Operations