Chris Knapik Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Accountable for driving business simplification across OLAA (the Office of Legal and Administrative Affairs) and HPE more broadly, in line with priorities set by the HPE Chief Operating Officer. Leading a business process operations team consisting of 90+ professionals. Supporting the drive towards end-to-end fully automated processes using a combination of simplification and digitalization strategies.

Purchase, New York, Us

Within the role of Process Transformation Senior Director Chris leads a global organization of 50+ associates to improve and sustain business and IT processes powered by technology. This includes ownership of a portfolio of Process Mining (Celonis), Robotics Process Automation (UiPath, MS Power Apps, MS Power Automate, Alteryx), Analytics (SAP HANA, Tableau, PowerBI), and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects generating productivity for business and finance stakeholders.

Purchase, New York, Us

As PepsiCo's Assistant Digital Controller Chris advanced the digital control agenda across the enterprise through partnership with IT, Business and Controllership teams. This included maintaining a risk and compliance focus on PepsiCo's enterprise solutions (e.g., SAP, Salesforce, Go-to-Market technologies), building digital control capabilities throughout the organization, leading a global team of 30+ internal control/security associates and managing a $20MM+ budget with extensive vendor relationships.

Purchase, New York, Us

In the position of Enterprise Solutions Controls Governance Director within the IT Controls Organization Chris managed the global teams responsible for the SAP and Salesforce control agenda across PepsiCo's global markets. His scope included all automated control solutions, application security governance, segregation of duties (SoD), control analytics and control testing.

Purchase, New York, Us

The PepsiCo Global Access Program operates similar to traditional Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts with focus on risks emerging from enterprise security access and data classifications. As the lead of the program Chris was responsible for defining the strategy, tracking adoption across the organization and continuously adapting the approach to accommodate the changing IT environment at PepsiCo.

Purchase, New York, Us

Chris managed a global team of SAP Security specialists responsible for SAP implementation projects and baseline sustain support services.

Worldwide, Oo

Chris specialized in large scale SAP Security & Controls implementations and IT Audit primarily in the Consumer Products and Aerospace and Defense industry sectors.