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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia

Greater Philadelphia

Amplified need for a more robust HCM tool and integrated HRIS platform through focused stakeholder alignment and using data driven decision making. Moved into the People Team to concentrate on the digital transformation and optimization of HR processes.Guided a global team of 50 people through a successful implementation of Workday including HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Recruiting and Advanced Compensation. Project was finished on time and under budget. Three months post go-live, the team realized process efficiencies and over 2,600 hours of time saved executing key HR processes.

Greater Philadelphia

Spearheaded the optimization of back-office business systems, cloud application and data needs for the Finance, People and Legal functions to include our own software, other SaaS solutions (NetSuite, Concur, Expensify, Workday, etc.) and emerging technologies. Managed multimillion-dollar budget for technology and resource spend. Directed vendor relations and overall vendor management along with contract negotiations. Drove collaboration with senior stakeholders on several cross-functional initiatives along the lead-to-cash process.Headed diverse, global team of employees and outside contractors in the successful implementation of Coupa. Saved approximately 4,000 hours of time for Procurement, Accounting and FP&A in the first year while increasing visibility into business spend.Architected a center of excellence delivering robotic process automation (RPA) and business process automation (BPA) with UiPath across the enterprise. Designed a comprehensive framework to assess, develop and deploy BPA initiatives. Saved the company over 5,000 hours in the first year of operation.

Greater Philadelphia

Built a strong technology team from the ground up to support the Finance function with the number one goal of saving time for our employees through automation. Helped Accounting and Revenue Ops. reduce the month close process by 50% through analysis of current processes and technology solutions and providing continuous improvement with our Finance tech stack.Led a global team through a successful initiative to automate ARR metrics and reduced time to calculate ARR by 36% over baseline.

Greater Philadelphia

Led strategic and portfolio planning for Qlik's business technology operations. Responsibilities included working with the CIO, C-suite and other senior leaders to pair their vision and business needs with IT capabilities. Managed the IT P&L for the company. Led a cross-functional group of senior stakeholders to ensure business priorities align with IT execution capacity and solutioning for current and future strategic initiatives, including the integration of two key functional areas.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Responsible for organizational change management and program management of five process and technology workstreams comprising a two-year business transformation. Phase 1 responsibilities included communications, training, and stakeholder management/engagement plans covering everyone from Sales to corporate headquarters. The result was informed stakeholders and a greater awareness and preparedness for Qlik's business transformation. Led training and five process and technology workstreams in Phase 2. Responsibilities included stakeholder management and engagement of senior executives, development of training and communications for Sales and Finance and program management, and oversight of each work stream.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Managed a team of consultants on a large-scale engagement for a nationwide health insurance client. Responsible for engagement delivery of the PwC process and policy workstreams while also managing the client’s resources. Responsibilities included tracking progress, escalating risks and dependencies, managing the program budget and ensuring timeliness of all deliverables.Led process improvement workstream for a global medical device client seeking to streamline transfer pricing processes in their tax and finance departments. Collaborated with client stakeholders in several countries and the IT department to document the current state and develop future state enhancements and efficiencies. The future state processes gave the client a better understanding of their business, identified additional areas for process improvement, and led to an extension in services.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Developed comprehensive change strategy for a global pharmaceutical company transforming their R&D department. Developed an approach for stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, and behavioral change that facilitated sustainable productivity and enhanced organizational effectiveness under a new operating model.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Developed change management strategy for a leading medical device company implementing a technology-based tax solution. Activities included organizational change readiness, stakeholder alignment, and change adaptation to help corporate tax transition responsibilities to divisions across the organization, understand the new ways of working with the technology solution, and assist divisions with stakeholder engagement.

Wilmington, Delaware

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.