In my current role, Lead for AFS Onboarding & Integration, my primary responsibility is to ensure new joiners have an engaging, as well as relevant and informative, orientation session and that when the session is complete they recognize that AFS “walks the talk”. My work requires me to interface with employees of all levels as well as across many different functional platforms. My team and I prepare content, facilitate sessions, organize speakers and strive for constant improvement.

In this role, I am the POC for all Accenture Special Programs Onboarding. I support the V&A Deal Teams as they navigate our HR systems for new joiners and I work with V&A and other special program teams to ensure engaging and content relevant orientations to their new joiners.

Provide HR support to the Local Metro DC office for the entire lifecycle of employees from onboarding to exiting, including overall office engagement.• New Joiner Orientation: Enthusiastically welcome new joiners to Accenture by scheduling engaging, interesting and excited speakers to present an orientation agenda full of icebreakers, training modules and hands on activities.• Employee Engagement: Work closely with DC Office Leadership with the goal of creating a sense of community, engagement and connection between all employees, from analysts to managing directors.• Exiting from Accenture: Ensuring all employees who exit, whether voluntarily or managed, are treated with respect and feel valued, and have the tools they need after their separation to move forward into their next career or retirement.

Develop and maintain relationships with leadership and consultants to leverage skills to best serve the client, the employee and Accenture.• Resources: Responsible for ensuring talent is staffed and chargeable, and in roles which help promote their career goals Assist them in understanding the tools and systems available to them, and the need to keep them up to date. Discuss strategies to get in front of the hiring manager. • Demand: Ensure assigned roles are filled appropriately to fill needs of project and client. Meet difficult deadlines. Work with team executives to assure correct resources are identified and roles staffed in a timely manner.• Reporting: Provide business analysis of supply and demand. Forecast chargeability for upcoming periods and explain why any resources had low chargeability.• New Hires: Help new joiners adjust to the nuances of staffing and training them in the systems. Liaison and support for non-staffing systems.• Escalations: Work with employee relations on HR issues as well as managing terminations. Work with career counselors on coaching employees.• Leadership meetings: Run weekly calls to discuss staffing and potential projects.

Leading the effort to close out and integrate financial and operations processes associated with Accenture’s acquisition of Davies Consulting (Legacy), March 1, 2017.• Cultural Integration: Serving as the conduit to transition Legacy staff to Accenture processes and integrate them into the overall culture. • Terminations, Transitions and Closings: Managing smooth transition of subcontractors and vendors, and the process for closing out Legacy processes and accounts. • HR: Facilitated the transition of the Legacy staff to Accenture HR system.• Talent Fulfillment Specialist: Assisting the TFS assigned to the Legacy team as the two companies merge resources, demand needs and skill sets.• Office Close: Ensuring efficient and complete shutdown of Legacy office space including IT and vendor leases, file management, furniture removal, and mail redirection.• Invoicing Process Transition: Transitioning the invoicing process, and training Legacy staff, into Accenture system while ensuring that existing client needs are fully met.• Accounting and Tax: Leading the effort to close the accounting books for the Legacy company, and transfer key accounts (e.g., AR, banking), documents and contracts to Accenture.

As a Dear World Storyteller I help New Joiners at Accenture build a culture of authenticity, inclusivity, and purpose through the interactive Brain Tattoo™ storytelling method.

Responsible for full oversight of operations and accounting functions of the management consulting firm.• Process Improvement: Redesigned and streamlined processes for invoicing and AR procedures, resource projections and project management. • Personnel Management: Provided guidance, mentoring and supervision to staff, while creating atmosphere of trust and inclusion. • Due Diligence: Worked with partners and potential buyers to execute confidential due diligence. • Benefits: Managed administrative portion of HR functions, including health insurance, 401K plan management, and taxes/payroll. • Insurance Management: Conducted cost-benefit analysis of different insurance policies and managed annual business and health insurance policies and compliance. • Business Accounting: Managed all aspects of the firm accounting process, from invoicing to ledger entry and annual closing of the books. • Reporting: Designed and managed financial reports, including consultant contributions, breakeven analysis, budgets, line of business profitability, pipeline and resource projections. • Budgeting: Developed and Managed monthly and yearly firm operations budgets. • Taxes: Oversaw the firm’s tax management process, including tax estimates, allocations, withholdings and distributions.

MMG provides payroll and staffing solutions for corporate, media and government clients, both nationally and internationally. • Operations Management: Worked with COO to deliver payroll system by determining probable disruptions points and initiating damage control.• Process Improvement: Created and applied system to confirm clients’ staff payment; led process as requirements and scope grew; enhanced efficiency of work order process. • Accounts Receivable: Maintained AR at 90% current, while being responsible for full cycle of client billings, from invoicing to collection of payment. • Personnel Management: Managed the hiring, on-boarding and training process, while mentoring a team of four staff. • Client Management: Managed all accounting aspects of client communications.• Financial Reporting/Cash Management: Monitored and managed daily cash operations, and ensured compliance with quarterly GSA filing requirements.

With owner, grew company from startup, backup child care center to take over target. Promoted from Child care provider to Operations Manager.Bookkeeping: Responsible for accounts payable and receivable, invoicing and payroll. Created client invoices and ensured client invoices were paid and deposits made. Calculated and reported bi-weekly payroll information. Assisted in budget building and maintenance.Client Management: Monitored and maintained client satisfaction. Created individualized tools to track client usage patterns. Promoted services and conducted orientations to client's employees to increase number of users and introduce them to offered services.Office Management: Ensured office and center procedures and policies were properly understood and satisfied.Personnel Management: Daily supervision and mentoring of center staff. Increased staff from 4 to 10 full time and multiple part time employees throughout tenure. Recruiting, retention, training, development, and licensing.