Client: Ginkgo Bioworks - Interim Head Of Financial Systems
• Built Financial Systems dept, managed budget, hired staff and managed staff of three• Managed 3rd party integrators (Sikich, Nexonia, Deloitte LeaseController)• Championed implementations and integrations with NetSuite:created implementation plan, tracked progress against plan & budget; prepared executive summaries and project updates to executive management; worked cross functionally at all levels of the organization; drove and assisted in the creation of process flows of key current processes and future needs, analyzed control gaps, highlighted manual processes and areas of inefficiencies; set-up master controls and supporting tables; set-up security; change management & approval workflows to ensure internal control requirements• Partnered with internal cross functional implementation team to design requirements and test plans; conducted testing of transactions and integrated processes for functionality, financial accuracies and internal controls; worked with vendors regarding any bugs; created Change Management process to ensure system changes were designed, tested, approved and deployed with controls• Coordinated various migration activities for 7 acquisitions • Public company readiness/implementations: NetSuite OneWorld, Program Management and Outsourced Manufacturing Modules, automate revenue recognition & inventory tracking and accounting, created separate Biosecurity Business Unit including integrations configuration updates and restated all historical data.• Assisted with implementations: Coupa, Deloitte LeaseController (ASC 842) & NetSuite Intercompany module and integrations: 3PL (VWR & Cardinal Health) EDI orders and fulfillments, Test Center & Shopify item/inventory, Avalara sales order taxes & Sales order auto approvals; Coupa, Workday, Planful, Adaptive, Change Management Jira Ticketing System (Atlassian) with NetSuite and Strongpoint, Snowflake key metrics, etc.• Security and implementation of Strongpoint (ITGC/Change Management and SoD)