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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Promoted with added responsibilities. Owner of financial applications including Total Reconciliations, Hyperion Planning, Primavera - Project Database, RSAM - SOX Attestation, and Workday Financials/Adaptive Insights. • Directs staff of 10 including hiring, on-boarding, training, and performance management. Leads employee performance reviews and recommends improvement strategies with each team member. • Accountable for annual departmental budget and oversight of $1.2M.• Steward in the budget planning process for the department, division, and company with an overall budget of 21.5M. Direct reports include 5 in India and 6 in Chicago.• Led Workday Finance Implementation Project for Account Reconciliations and IT Projects to retrofit current applications to the Workday standard. • Product Owner and Project Lead for T-Recs Cloud Implementation Project upgrading legacy on-premise solution to cloud solution. Currently building tool to move from third-party system into Power of One.• Functional Lead for Adaptive Insights platform replacing Hyperion Planning suite and promoting Power of One technology• Directed training improvements to reduce knowledge gaps and eliminate workforce performance inefficiencies.• Delegates tasks to appropriate personnel for each project overseeing quality control, resolving constant business process changes, and sharing best practices.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Owner of financial applications including PeopleSoft Accounts Payable, PeopleSoft Travel and Expense, and Ariba Spend Management. Led staff of 5 including hiring, on-boarding, training, and performance management. Supported and resolved technical and operational issues. • Supported Data and Analytics function by creating management reports to track spend, policy violations, and overall metrics reporting package. Presented to Controller and CFO. • Trained new and existing business users on corporate AP, TE, and Purchasing. Conducted policy and procedure coaching.• Advised Executive Management on the benefits of moving several key functions to 15 offshore staff reducing costs immediately.• Developed training and development processes for offshore staff.

Greater Chicago Area

Built and maintained positive employee satisfaction ensuring a positive customer experience in a $52M store. Monitored store expenses in alignment with retail field budgets. Fully responsible for daily operational processes. • Drove a culture of foundational excellence to provide profitable growth. • Analyzed data and reports to improve qualities vital to the success of the current and future state of the business. Identified customer purchasing habits in demographic area,• Fully responsible for hiring, training, mentoring, and terminating permanent and seasonal staff.• Successfully achieved metrics and scorecard ratings, revenue goals, and labor cost targets, • Selected to create and implement Corporate and Regional improvement projects including training and development of Operations Managers and General Managers.• Initiated new On-Boarding process including interviewing, hiring, orientation, training, and follow-up.

Greater Chicago Area