• Organized up to 100 annual, on-time software renewals enterprise-wide involving multiple suppliers, varying dollar values and moderate to significant business impacts; assisted business units with self-managed software renewals.• Obtained vendor quotes, negotiated reduced renewal rates within 5% allowance to match budget requirements, entering purchase requisitions, ensuring any required software keys obtained timely to avoid work disruption and guiding business units through procure to pay process.• Interacted with various sized vendors for new software license purchases, renewal of annual licenses and reviewed quotes against business need and budget.• Reviewed licensing and maintenance / support contracts, ensuring T-Mobile renewal deadlines and other requirements achieved timely.• Updated and maintained individual renewal calendar records of software used across enterprise.• Forged partnerships with other business lanes, Accounts Payable and Supplier Enablement, to resolve vendor issues such as delinquent invoice payments and vendor set-up in Ariba.• Participated in UAT for a new software renewal calendar platform, identified and reported errors and deficiencies in testing environment.• Trained power users and other business unit users on use of new software renewal calendar platform.• Developed job aids for new renewal calendar platform, how to enter and approve a purchase requisition in Ariba and how to complete a goods receipt in Ariba.• Presented ad-hoc training to business unit partners for purchase requisition entry, ensuring accurate commodity codes, general ledger accounts and other accounting information was entered to aid Finance in budget process and spend analysis.

• Supervised the Open PO Process across entire enterprise; Open PO value totaled over $6B and averaged over 300K PO lines month to month.• Developed job aids for business units to control Open POs and provided training sessions for PO requestors to use the Open PO Manager tool in PeopleSoft.• Created job aids for procurement buyers to organize Open PO queue and process requests from business units within established SLAs.• Prepared monthly Procurement Operations reporting metrics and package and distributed to the VP of Procurement and Procurement leadership; created ad-hoc graphs and presentations of data as needed.• Spearheaded various approaches to meet an annual goal of aged Open PO dollars not to exceed percentage of total of Open PO's. Goal was met or surpassed for 7 consecutive years under personal management. For FY 2020, goal was not to exceed 4% of total Open POs and result was .6%.• Backup resource for Office Supply PO processing for entire enterprise.• Constantly increased knowledge of PeopleSoft reporting tables and table interaction to extract needed data for metrics presentations to Procurement management, business units and in support of various corporate needs such as the Boost divestiture and the T-Mobile merger.

• Responsible for end-to-end processing of employee expense reports ensuring expenses met both Medicare and corporate reporting guidelines. Provided employee feedback regarding reimbursement policy.

• Managed Accounts Payable vendor maintenance team • Supervised annual 1099 reporting and the bi-annual IRS B-Notice process• Liaison with the SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) PMO office for all AP process flows and control designs for SOX; zero deficiencies found in all AP processes during 2008 and 2009 audit• Managed the Transition Service Agreement (TSA) invoice process between Embarq and Sprint including preparing the monthly receivable journal entry and invoice for electronic processing, monitoring prompt and accurate payment, and fielding questions from internal contacts regarding the process• Maintained the internal AP website ensuring links are current and submitted changes were made timely• Analyzed data of new spin off company including daily spend, invoices with crossover coding, and invoices that were to be processed prior to spin off finalization• Created and updated documentation. Job aids, FAQ’s, training guides and intranet links for AP processes for the new company Embarq• Spearheaded and developed AP process training for internal customers of the new company, Embarq

Finance Service Analyst II• Managed the corporate travel program serving as the primary point of contact for escalations, participated in quarterly performance reviews with the corporate travel agency, content owner for the internal travel website and assisted with evaluating the hotel, airline and car rental contracts between Sprint, Nextel and the respective providers.• Participated on the RFP teams for the new combined P-Card program and travel agency.• Participated on the Accounts Payable merger team. Provided analysis of invoice volumes between the newly merged and spin off companies.Finance Analyst I• Managed the early payment discount process in Accounts Payable which resulted in total discounts. over $6M the first full year after process implementation, compared to the previous year total of $1M.• Partnered with Supply Chain to document the resolution process for match exceptions. Facilitated training sessions for Supply Chain associates to enhance their skills required for match exception resolution.• Built relationships with internal customers who were directly responsible for achieving an early payment discount. Captured their process challenges and provided additional data to improve their ability to quickly approve a discountable invoice.Finance Service Representative IV• Developed a single point of contact process for match exception voucher corrections, the SLA of 2 days was then met 100% of the time.• Established and facilitated monthly calls between key team members in Accounts Payable and Supply Chain which improved communication between the process partners and highlighted opportunities for increased customer satisfaction.• Resolved invoice exceptions as a tier 2 analyst for the AP customer service group.• Analyzed the match exception process for other Sprint divisions prior to Accounts Payable integration. Identified gaps between current and future processes, recommended solutions to address gaps and minimize impact to the business.