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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Design and Implementation of Budgeting and Forecasting Solutions:-Project Execution: Manage Workday Adaptive Planning implementations, ensuring projects meet deadlines and quality standards.-Client Liaison: Work with clients to understand their needs, design financial models, and customize solutions.-Solution Development: Create and configure financial planning models, dashboards, and reports tailored to client requirements.Project Management and Client Engagement:- Manage the entire Workday Adaptive Planning implementation project lifecycle, including kick-off meetings, integration, modeling, and reporting.- Manage Workday FINs implementation project to ensure the coordination between 17 workstreams across the Workday platform, including Workday HCM, PRISM, and Integrations- Engage with clients to understand their business requirements, provide expert advice, and ensure successful adoption of the new planning system.- Conducted training sessions and provided ongoing support to ensure clients could independently manage and optimize their planning processes post-implementation.Optimization and Continuous Improvement:-Team Collaboration: Support and guide junior consultants, providing expertise and ensuring project alignment.-Integration Oversight: Facilitate Adaptive integrations with systems such as Workday HCM, NetSuite, and Salesforce.-Process Optimization: Identify and recommend improvements to enhance financial planning and reporting efficiency.

Greater Chicago Area

• Functional Project Lead on CNA’s Adaptive Phase 1 & 2 implementation of Revenue, Expenses & Statistical Accounts• Managed a project team of 25+ IT, Business, and Workday Consultants • Strategically identified process gaps and inefficiencies before identifying Workday automated solutions. • Spearheaded the change management efforts of converting users to Workday existing and new functionalities via trainings.• Utilizing Agile Methodologies to prioritize the backlog and leverage an iterative approach to drive continuous improvement• Automated 30+ Adaptive integrations, ultimately reducing 20 manual hours a week for Financial Planners• Deployed the Adaptive Publishing Plan functionality to reduce manual hours by 60%, while pushing 900,000 lines of data • Capable of building complex Workday Reports, including Advanced, Composite, Matrix and OfficeConnect reports• Built 50+ Workday and Adaptive reports for end users and integrations • Strategically enhanced Workday Business Processes to reduce user error via step conditions, condition rules, calculated fields and validation messages• Collaborates with Workday & Adaptive Product Management to troubleshoot and to influence the production functionality

Greater Chicago Area

• Performed testing over IT SOX and SOC 1 controls• Advised the pre & post implementation of Workday HCM and Finance to ensure the establishment of security and operational controls • Reported on the performance of enterprise-wide controls in place to meet HIPAA standards• Collaborated with C-suite management to develop the Audit Committee package for two quarters. • Regularly facilitated needed communication between cross-functional teams to achieve engagement goals

Greater Atlanta Area

Project management• Managed the project plan and execution of a Fortune 500 company’s present and future state during several acquisitions.• Led a team of 3-5 audit associates and interns, reviewed work-papers, and coordinated with audit managers and partners to ensure timely execution of deliverables• Regularly facilitated needed communication between cross-functional teams to achieve engagement goalsFinancial Analysis• Presented and executed the results of a control optimization project to a client’s senior management to create efficiencies amounting to 20% of their accounting budget • Utilized the firm’s resources, including specialists and technology, to develop a detailed financial analysis of past and predictive future performance based on raw dataProcess and controls assessment• Analyzed the aggregation of deficiencies from detailed audit testing procedures to determine the material impact on shareholders and the future state of the business • Performed detail testing of IT controls testing around IT Dependencies, such as Key Reports and Automated Controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of financial statements • Performed testing around IT general controls and business processes for multiple external public audit engagements and SOC 1 engagements• Developed a knowledge base around security configurations, change management controls, key reports, and automated controls of the following three ERPs: PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAPMentoring and leadership• Mentored 3 newly hired associates and interns as a Peer Mentor, served as a resource to make connections, learn PwC’s culture, and find resources to succeed to our firm

East Lansing, Mi

• Assists Dr. Ernest Betts, Assistant Dean of Multicultural Business Programs (MBP), with everyday secretarial activities, such as managing his schedule• Developed documentation for creating an endowment fund for MBP• Creates material, such as manuals, flyers, and agendas for student events put on by MBP

Greater Atlanta Area

• Updated SSAE16 documentation• Created Evidence Gathering Activity documentation, Test of Details documentation, and Test of Effectiveness documentation for current year testing• Collected full populations and selected samples for both provisioning and deprovisioning controls • Participated in client walkthroughs

Broad Business College, Michigan State University

• Inspired students to succeed in a difficult subject with a positive attitude and a strategic mind• Created course outlines and practice problems to increase student understanding of material• Provided assistance with homework assignments and questions• Monitored the progress, attendance, and test grades of eighteen tutees each semester

Greater Detroit Area

• Updated business process narratives for the client• Created a process flow chart from updated narratives• Conducted follow-up client meetings• Tested ITGCs and other key controls for the interim period• Leveraged prior year work to create testing templates and to perform testing

Greater Detroit Area

• Provided excellent customer service, when handling a range of 300-500 customers a day • Frequently developed effective sales strategies to increase company’s sales • Developed strong time management skills, while working in a fast pace environment • Presented and created a strategic project to corporate executives of the company

Masters In Science Accountancy, Accounting - Public Corporate Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts In Accounting, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Participant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Greater Michigan Leadership Adventure, Summer 2011 Mentor, Member Mentor.