Beth Lanier Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn

-Responsible for leading work within and across end-to-end solution lifecycle for Finance applications.-Provide IT expertise, vision, and work direction to achieve strategic initiatives, customer and operational needs, portfolio health and business outcomes.-Provide in-depth knowledge of the business needs, processes and corresponding solutions.-Provide technical leadership and coordination cross-organizationally to ensure solutions align with architecture and IT strategy.-Key contact to business, customer and stakeholder groups for their respective domain, helping to ensure business needs and corresponding value and risk are well represented.

Minneapolis, Mn

Hopkins, Mn

Sr. IT Business (Systems) Analyst/Project ManagerApplication owner and designer of Financial Information Collection Tool housing 120+ web schedules collecting worldwide supplemental financial information for Corporate Tax, Financial Reporting, Treasury, and Insurance Depts. PM/BA on requirements, application design, modeling, and testing these schedules. Manage break/fix and enhancement requests and resourcing. Provide oversight and big picture viewpoint as the App Owner. Develop and execute project plans, screen and report requirements documents, test plans, diagrams/mockups. Interface with business partners, other IT departments, and our vendors.Implement, develop, troubleshoot, support, maintain/upgrade the corporate instance of Cartesis Finance (now a Business Objects/SAP application in the EPM suite), Extended Analytics (cube solution), and FIM/DS (replaced Datalink mapping/ETL). Create, update, maintain, and troubleshoot business rules, intercompany rules and eliminations, dimensions such as entities (orgs) and accounts, data entry packages, ledgers, file loads, and reports. Troubleshoot environment or software issues.Responsible for master data (MDM) systems to maintain entities and accounts. Working with developers to replace those systems presently.

Hopkins, Mn

• Designed web application to act as master data management tool for Cargill’s organizational hierarchies and allocation management.• Created standards documentation for developing software for our web based information collection tool – for development, requirements gathering, data management and testing.• Application owner activities including support coordination, change request, release management, maintenance, system upgrades-software and hardware, implementation of new functionality and educating users, business partner coordination, planning and budgeting, interfacing with other IT depts. and vendors

Hopkins, Mn

• Lead teams implementing 3 new packaged software products – participated in all aspects including vendor selection, POC, design, testing, documentation, training, communication, data migration/ transformation, customizations, collaborating with vendor.o Financial consolidation tool, SAS Institute’s CFO Vision. o Replaced CFO Vision with SAP’s Cartesis Finance (FC)o One Data master data management tool for chart of accounts • Designer and architect of an information collection tool – a common portal housing 50 web schedules collecting worldwide supplemental financial information for Financial Reporting• Project Manager and application architect when tool was expanded to include the wider Finance functions. Managed the web development project team which was comprised of 4 sub-teams (a PM/BA with a developer) and shared database and report developers creating 50+ new web schedules over 2 years – up to 15 team members at a time.

came in to clean up/upgrade financial systems and direct marketing tools. handled financial statements, transactional accounting, systems upgrades, equipment financing.

Laguna Beach, Ca

Worked as business manager for this multi-faceted Non-profit organization that assists Battered Women and their Families. The bredth of the business covered Emergency shelter and transitional living programs provide counseling, legal advocacy, case management and job readiness training for abused women and their children, thrift store(s), community education, public service announcements, fund raising, and more.