Implemented validations in Clarity for the financial transactions to SAP to reduce the number of transaction errors.• Gathered requirements and tested time tracking validations to reduce transaction errors to SAP by ninety percent.• Answered questions regarding project financials and any discrepancies between SAP and Clarity PPM tool.• Resolved reconciliation discrepancies in a timely manner.• Extensive knowledge of the financial processes and the integration with the Clarity PPM tool.• Decreased the time it takes to complete the request for capital expenditure process by ten percent.

Contractor for AbbVieIntegrated financial applications, SAP and RAPID, with Clarity PPM, to minimize data entry errors and increase visibility and accuracy of financials.• Facilitate backlog meetings, gather requirements, and complete testing for monthly Clarity PPM releases. • Completed requirements and testing of financial interfaces with SAP, RAPID and Clarity PPM.• Documented the invoice management process, worked with the team to complete invoice management in Clarity PPM.

Contractor for SC JohnsonContributed to the successful development and implementation of a new and improved Brand Operating System (BOS).• Using an Agile Methodology, created issues and tracked progress in Jira. • Reviewed existing processes; simplified to one common workflow developed in Bizagi.• Documented field definitions for the current process, which was used in the requirements for BOS.• Created a matrix for the metadata to view the requirements for the documents at each state (Draft, Final, Approved).• Consolidated and defined security roles for BOS, reduced security roles by more than fifty percent. • Designed and obtained approval of BOS screens using Pencil.• Completed extensive quality and user acceptance testing to prepare for the implementation.

Contributed to the successful migration of Hospira to Pfizer and ICU meeting all project deliverable dates.• Authored project communications utilizing the Pfizer approval process to ensure users were informed on key dates and activities.• Composed Business Technology site communications notifying users of outages.• Organized IT moves and space assignments out of a building into temporary and then permanent space with minimal disruptions and minimal loss of productivity. • Facilitated reviews of Finance SharePoint sites for disposition status and tested migrated sites.• Consolidated a list of Hospira applications to be decommissioned and led status meetings until a plan was in place for the decommissioning of all applications.

Integrated the business process framework into the ARIS Business Process Modeling tool creating a central location for business processes. • Created standards, procedures and best practices for modeling using the ARIS Business Process Modeling tool ensuring consistency and the ability to report on the data.• Facilitated workshops to document current and future state processes across multiple functions to highlight team responsibilities, process risks and potential improvements. Examples of processes include: HR Onboarding, Procure to Pay and Product Enablement• Utilized current and future state processes to generate business requirements.

Developed a standard process efficiency toolkit, using Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen concepts, containing 40 tools, templates and instructions for the IT organization to facilitate workshops streamlining processes.• Coached facilitators and leads to conduct process improvement workshops.• Directed Kaizen workshops to improve and streamline processes.• Managed a team of facilitators to lead workshops to improve the IT project value stream of Define to Implement generating over 200 potential improvements to the process.

Led the IT resource center staff of up to 7 with a department budget. • Generated, compiled and analyzed metrics reports delivered to management who made decisions on project funding, project status and project resources.• Simplified the tracking and reporting of projects with Finance reducing the time project managers spent on reporting.• Trained the project staff on a standard set of procedures and templates providing consistency across the project management teams.

Supervised a team of 3 contractors to support the migration of Finance, Procurement and Human Resource applications from Abbott Laboratories to a new company, Hospira.• Documented all Finance, Procurement and Human Resource interfaces and conversions from non-SAP applications to SAP.• Implemented interfaces on time according to the SAP roll-out schedule.• Analyzed open purchase orders and cleaned up over 30,000 open orders to decrease the number of orders to be migrated.