Vice President - Finance Shared Services & Purchasing
Boston, Ma, Us
Finance Shared Services CenterCreating the Finance Shared Services Center for the NA zone, generating $15M savings, 25% FTE reduction, simplifying and aligning the organization, leveraging support functions and activities across the business lines, reducing overhead costs through pooling of activities, identifying and broadly sharing best practicesManaging the Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Master Data functions (Team = 100 staff)AP – improved on-time payment, and increased productivityGL – implemented business controls, unified accounting governance, and increased productivityIC – consolidated SOX procedure across business linesTransition of support functions from the business units (HR, Payroll , Procurement and legal)Special ProjectsBusiness Process Owner - General Ledger to harmonize payroll process and accounting (ADP Vantage)Business Process Owner - Finance to harmonize business processes for GL and P2P, to improve financial control and risk management, to converge 3 legacy systems into 1 standardized platform (SAP + Coupa + Blackline)Purchasing PlatformImplement Purchase-To-Pay best practices including rolling out policies and procedures, payment term harmonization, transitioning to electronic payment methods, vendor management rationalization, compliance monitoring, and financial measurement of key supplier agreementsRecurring annual savings achieved: $6m EBITDA / $5m Cost Avoidance.18-month improvement road map to roll out key functionalities of the P2P platformVendor reduction project to decrease master database from 38,000 to 12,000 recordsDepartment Standard Operating ProcedureSourcing initiatives with cross-function teams to improve the total cost and value creation of supply base through effective supplier selection, negotiation, and post implementation supportReview spend at large operational facilities, identifying significant spend not captured within Strategic Sourcing categories to identify savings opportunities