Christopher Peterson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington

• Promoted to senior-level role overseeing the planning/deployment of key technology and process changes throughout the organization—including leadership of a $20M+ global ERP initiative and emerging business.
• Initiated the creation of global process teams and authored an internal whitepaper outlining the critical need for global process ownership across the following impacted domains: Customer-to-Cash, Record-to-Report.
• Directed a team of six direct reports in performing fit gap design analyses and generating data/process standards critical to solutioning endeavors for the company's operations in Panama, Canada, and Mexico
• Developed and supervised essential vendor partnerships, notably with Carrix’s primary IFS systems integrator that are key to the program's success; engaged with 30+ external consultants from the primary IFS systems.
• Steered the business aspects of a successful IFS Cloud implementation at Manzanillo International Terminal (“MIT”) in Colon, Panama, onboarding over 400 end users in 2023; employed various change management principles.
• Established a framework for post-go-live support with IT, emphasizing an Agile-influenced product management approach

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Recruited to SSA to build out and scale the company's Internal Audit department, aligning it closely with the company's specific strategic objectives and financial reporting goals
• Led coordination with regional accounting firm—which operated as a co-sourced SOX delivery partner—and supervised tasks related to internal control work product, budget management, and quality standards
• Reviewed the accuracy of risk assessment conclusions and control deficiencies identified by co-sourced partners, cross-referencing account balances (materiality), significant transaction types, relevant systems.
• Presented in-person updates to the Carrix Audit Committee at quarterly Board of Directors meetings
• Performed a significant operational audit of revenue/billing processes in 2017 and subsequently drove a critical follow-on initiative (utilizing ColumbiaSoft DocumentLocator technology) to implement state-of-the-art.

Auburn Hills, MI

• Took on role leading a SOX gap assessment for this top global logistics/operations firm serving a range of leading Automotive, Technology, Consumer Home Products, Industrial, Healthcare & MedTech clients; efforts.

Troy, MI

• Promoted to lead FP&A over unallocated corporate costs (and extended global functional costs) for this Tier 1 commercial vehicle supplier— preparing financial forecasts, actual results, and cost reduction strategies.
• Led a critical Oracle Hyperion Financial Management implementation workstream focused on global functional performance and cost management that led to successful sunset of legacy Hyperion applications
• Supervised one direct report, Senior Financial Analyst, in addition to interfacing regularly with an extensive range of additional stakeholders across the business—and utilizing strong influencing/collaboration skills

Troy, Michigan, United States

• Designed/directed internal audits for self-insured healthcare claims and the Information Systems PMO—in addition to leading key sections of more frequently performed operational/site audits
• Led a cross-functional project across the Supply Chain Management and Procurement departments that successfully identified and resolved the root cause behind a critical supplier's chronic late deliveries
• Identified a duplicate payment issue within the company's financial shared services organization and mobilized a task force to analyze, report, research, and resolve overpayments in excess of $900K

Detroit, MI / Chicago, IL

• Initially hired as intern and converted to FTE role within this "Big 4" accounting and consulting firm, gaining extensive knowledge of best practices related to finance, accounting, analytics, auditing, and compliance
• Primary areas of focus included IT auditing, SSAE 18/SOC2 compliance, audit support data analytics, application (ERP) controls advisory consulting, and internal training services
• Key contributor to a complex 9-month data analysis project at one of the nation's largest consumer finance companies, HSBC (assets exceeding $150B)—in addition to working with other top clients that included BP, DTE.
• For above HSBC project, wrote and maintained ACL/Galvanize data analysis scripts to reperform/reconcile historical loan prepayment penalties, late fees, and origination fees charged to customers

Ms, Accounting

Specialization in Accounting Information Systems

Ba [With Honors], Accounting