Responsible for managing, gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and technical needs for Finance. Manage IT and business cross-functional project teams and take ownership of understanding in-depth current processes and create approach for high visible and time-sensitive initiatives. Close collaboration with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, functional leaders and other technical teams to provide the best technical and functional result. Responsible for managing and tracking business and technical needs throughout the project’s lifecycle.Communicate issues and risks related to business processes to project leaders, technical teams and business partners. Assist business and project team members in developing and mitigating solutions to issues. Responsible for team building and self-driven skill development through active participation in training and mentoring.Identify process improvement opportunities and implement those and propagate to the team.

Manage Supply Chain Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization (DFIO) application to provide the business the technology and tools to increase supply chain efficiencies. Manage staff of 3 with overall Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization application support responsibilities.Serve as liaison between technical team and business owners, outside vendors or service providers to assist in communicating production issues.Participate with the Quality Assurance, Technical Services, Operations and Application Development staff to create work plans to support strategic initiatives, business plans and emerging business needs.Close cooperation with peers within IT to ensure fully integrated and non-duplicative information processing and delivery. Led the discovery, requirements gathering, design, testing and deployment of the Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization upgrade from version 15 to version 19.Led the discovery, requirements gathering, design, and testing of integrating SuperValu’s, acquired company, buying system into the DFIO application. Implemented the Demand Forecasting module to optimize forecasting efficiencies and promote growth to the bottom line.Integration of new customers into the Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization application.Utilize ad-hoc reporting through SQL queries to support and troubleshoot the business.Provide On-Call support to the nightly batch cycle of the Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization application.

• Provide production support for the Demand Forecasting Inventory Optimization (DFIO) application.Provide systems analysis, design, specifications and development for the IO application.Communication with the Business, IT Department, and sub-departments by participating in project team meetings. Participate in training for future development and expertise. Training support for Quality Assurance, User Acceptance and Help Desk as needed.Participate in the On-Call rotation for the nightly batch cycle of the application.

Responsible for training Tier 1 participants on new functionalityResponsible for creating Tier 1 knowledge scriptsSupport the data transmission of files from and to PeopleSoftLead Tier II consultant for HRMS and Self-ServicePerform day to day operational items in support of PeopleSoft 9.1 systemManage staff of 5 with overall PeopleSoft application support responsibilities.Responsible for response to business area specific help desk calls for application specific questions or production issues and developing casual analysis to support a proactive resolution process. Manage the relationships between technical team and business owners, outside vendors or service providers to assist in communicating production issues. Coordinate troubleshooting identified production problems, taking corrective action, testing of corrective action and implementation of corrective action following user signoff. Coordinate the development of system or manual workarounds in the various business areas. Present solutions to management and document issue resolution.

Assisted in the overall implementation of the Oracle e-Business suite, r11.5.10 applications. Modules implemented included: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, iProcurement, Purchasing, Projects, and Fixed Assets.Assisted in the implementation of Oracle’s (Hyperion) Data Relationship Management (DRM) application to centralize hierarchy management providing a single source of hierarchical data into Oracle’s general ledger and Oracle’s (Hyperion) Essbase for management reporting, thus eliminating duplicate data entry and errors. Assisted in the decommission of legacy applications.Provide application support to all financial application users. Applications include: general ledger, accounts payable, fixed assets, CMOD Optical Reporting application.Manage all phases of delivering business solutions to customers including: working with customers to determine requirements, writing functional design specs, reviewing technical design documents, and conducting integration testing.Promote change management requirements into the Oracle 11i production instanceManage staff of 4 with overall financial application support responsibility for the Corporate Accounting group.Manage the creation of financial reports using Oracle Discoverer Version 10.1.2.55.26.Actively participate in the design, development and implementation of various user interfaces, support solutions and software packages across the department and company. Responsibilities include identifying requirements and resources to assist in project initiatives. Evaluating solutions for business unit applications which adhere to corporate structure, including risk and audit mandates.Systems liaison between the business units and technical support for all financial applications.Support various special projects, acquisitions, conversions and new product development.Head of the OnCall team, which supports the nightly batch cycle for all financial applications.

Responsible for Record Keeping, Financial Statements, Payroll, and Hiring of personnel.Managed staff of 20 employees.

Responsible for maintaining the mainframe general ledger system, which included a multi-tiered consolidating organizational structure.Supported all business units with their accounting and reporting needs.Monitored all ancillary interfaces into the general ledger.Maintained and developed management information financial reports utilizing Information Builders FOCUS report writer tool. Supervised a group of employees in maintaining the integrity of the Fidelity Information System General Ledger database.Performed Y2K testing for FOCUS, General Ledger and Accounts Payable.Responsible for the creation and maintenance of conversion weekend project plans both for mock conversions and live conversions. This entails coordinating detailed task and estimated durations in order to facilitate the interrelation of the financial conversion with the entire bank conversion.

Assisted customers with their banking transactions.