Ed Duda Email & Phone Number

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.

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 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.
• 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.

Greater Chicago Area