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Dallas, Texas, US

• Responsible for all aspects of Accounts Payable across multiple business units on varying systems.
• Accountable for leading a team of approximately 25 associates in all facets of Accounts Payable for a large Plumbing & HVAC distributor.
• Integrated five regional business units into a one centralized Accounts Payable organization.
• Transitioned Accounts Payable in multiple locations from home growth WDS ERP system to Workday for Indirect Spent and Solar Eclipse for Direct spend
• Maintained adherence to corporate, accounting and GAAP standards, addressed escalated issues from employees and vendors regarding A/P, and ensured accurate and compliant A/P files in accordance with company policies.
• Reduced staff turnover from forty plus percent annually to less than ten percent.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Responsible for managing a team of approximately seventy direct associates responsible for end to end processing of greater than 1.8M Accounts Payable invoices annually.
• Ensuring we are meeting our customer service level agreements in a timely and quality fashion. Since assuming the position we have improved performance by 50%.
• Transitioning and standardizing 39 branch functions around AP into a shared service center environment.
• Establishing AP performance/quality metrics and leveraging to ensure a high quality product is delivered to our clients
• Developing and implementing processes to streamline and simplify the AP process (i.e. Simple Invoice, Unknown invoices, internal ACH payments, Open Credits)
• Restructured AP team to maximize efficiencies and reduce cost

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Managed all aspects of Transactional A/P and Disbursements for seven divisions within the US and Canada. Encompassed supervising seven managers and sixty offshore resources in all aspects of A/P Transactional processing.
• Supervised timely and accurate processing of invoices, purchase orders, credit memos, and payment disbursements.
• Maintained adherence to corporate, accounting and GAAP standards, addressed escalated issues from employees and vendors regarding A/P, and ensured accurate and compliant A/P files in accordance with company policies.
• Transitioned seven divisions to the newly created Shared Service Center model.
• Offshored A/P transactional processing to third party provider in India (Genpact).
• Moved invoice scanning from in-house to third party vendor (Novitex & ScanOne).

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Promoted to supervise A/P and A/R operations for Novartis Consumer Health division including payment of invoices, verification of payments and communications with external vendors, cash collections and application.
• Participated in planning/implementing business policies and procedures to ensure proper controls, including transitioning work to a third party offshore provider. Managed a team of three direct reports and fifteen.
• Transitioned from Concur Travel Expense to SAP eTravel.
• Converted from Wachovia Bank to Deutsche Bank.
• Moved over 1,000 employees from American Express corporate cards to J.P. Morgan.
• Reduced outstanding aged GRIR from $30M to $15M.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Assumed responsibility for full cycle A/P process including invoice processing, GRIR, 1099’s, Procurement cards (Individual & Ghosted), month end reconciliations & reporting, executive briefings, and A/P accruals.
• Successfully transitioned A/P operations to an offshore model.
• As part of offshore transition, documented process, developed training materials, trained staff, implemented SOX controls, change management, ongoing process enhancements.
• Detected T&E fraud and resolved including implementing additional policies and controls.
• Implemented additional duplicate payment process prior to checks being issued.
• Improved management of parked and blocked resulting in a 50% reduction in aging items.

Morristown, New Jersey, US

• Global Manager - managed A/P and Employee Expenses, all areas of A/P including leading team of six domestic associates, six outsourced remote associates and five in Pune, India.
• Rolled out new global T&E policy to 22 countries including headquarters location in the US.
• Set up SOX controls and documented processes for both A/P and T&E.
• Worked with global sourcing to improve cash flow.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Personnel Adminstration

Ba, Business Administration, Management And Operations