Dawn Powell Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Product owner for a top-rated Accounts Payable SaaS solution used for audits, detection of fraudulent vendors, and identifying duplicate invoices prior to payment.Analyze, manage and oversee the product backlog and sprint development cycles; create and maintain the long-term product strategy to ensure best solutions on highly confidential and impactful projects. Lead, refine, analyze and supervise testing/QA processes for development and user testing and work directly with clients to identify and design product enhancements and appropriate test cases, propose short-term and/or alternate solutions to ensure client satisfaction and always a high level of compliance throughout. Develop and maintain business cases for all new initiatives; gather suggestions and feedback from a team of 100+ auditors and ensure specs are created accurately and prioritized according to the business needs.Manage the benchmarking-survey including designing the questions, time-frames, and result-delivery. Provide new-hire orientation on the software as well as the Recovery and Delivery (R&D) process.

Knoxville

Reported directly to the Global A/P Process Owner and provided all data analytics and subject matter expertise as Kimberly-Clark began the transition to a Global Business Services model for all financial activities. Monitored metrics and KPIs, and developed business cases for all new global-scale P2P projects.Drove the initiative to allocate working capital to early payments in North America and Europe, including complex data modeling and data visualization. Responsible for analyzing and gathering requirements to implement Taulia®, a SaaS solution that allows e-invoicing, document exchange, vendor master updates and early payments. Managed Hackett Benchmarking Study efforts, including data gathering, data analysis, presentation of results, and designing the projects to address the issues raised.

Knoxville, Tn

Developed and maintained metrics and dashboards for Accounts Payable processes. Led several large projects including:Process improvement audits which recovered over $3 million in two years. Implemented FirstStrike®, a SaaS solution to identify potential duplicate payments, in all four of Kimberly-Clark’s SAP systems. This project was one of four finalists for the Kimberly-Clark CFO Award in 2012. Assisted with the implementation of Concur, which won the Kimberly-Clark CFO Award for 2012.Consolidated over 500 regional payment terms to 25 global payment terms and tracked the project success to 100% adherence to standards. This project won the Kimberly-Clark CFO Award in 2013. Spoke at four Shared Services conferences on behalf of Kimberly-Clark A/P for audiences of 100+. Sponsored to speak on behalf of FirstStrike® at the International Shared Services Exposition in Orlando.Exceeded expectations on every performance review.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Created and maintained detailed reports using AS400 query language, and provided comprehensive analysis to determine profitability levels of over 3,000 magazine titles for distribution nation-wide. Determined buy quantities based on sell-through, discount rates, retail placement guides and corporate goals.Collected, analyzed, and distributed data on needs for over 200 magazine promotions per month for retail stores and airports. Assisted marketing personnel in determining which magazines would be eligible for distribution by our company using thorough analysis of existing titles and forecasting future sales and losses.Created training programs for suppliers on utilizing our research to meet their sales goals.Exceeded all expectations on job reviews in 2005 - 2007.

Fredericksburg, Va

Handled operations for Quickbooks Financial Supplies Group. Created process flow documentation and spearheaded process improvements in day to day operations of the department.Developed and maintained a research and help desk via desktop instant message services to enable employees to get needed information to customers quicker and with greater accuracy. Assisted in development and maintenance of a flagging system to decrease the number of fraudulent orders. Developed and maintained policies, procedures, process and job definitions manual.Developed detailed Excel spreadsheets to analyze large quantities of sales information to determine bonus structures, cost/benefit discussion, and support documentation for legal reports.