Heather Pollard Email & Phone Number

Worldwide, Oo

A member of the Sales Excellence organization, focused specifically on pricing and commercial deal structuring. Advise the practice on differentiating commercial wrappers through the identification of unique, creative and optimized structures that enable market-competitive solutions while meeting or exceeding profitability targets. Service delivery includes the development of account and pursuit-specific deal construct tools and playbooks, delivering analytics and insights, and embedded advisory and negotiation capabilities.

Led initiatives and assisted CIBER’s Chief Financial Officer in driving significant transformation to achieve best-in-class results by applying a risk-based approach, defining process standards, driving automation and reorganizing for efficiency and effectiveness. Worked in close partnership with all of CIBER’s executive team on real-time business challenges in a fast growing industry. Assisted the executive leadership team in the development and execution of strategic, operational and financial initiatives, including: capital allocation strategy, investor relations strategy, acquisition and divestiture analysis, and human capital strategy. Provided project management expertise on global projects, including: developing detailed work plans, assessing project risk factors and suggesting alternatives to mitigate or eliminate possible risk within an assigned project; conduct project status meetings and report project status weekly. Assisted in preparing for Board of Directors meetings, and in preparing for routine meetings with key leaders including presentation preparation and other communications. Managed the global Finance budget to identify cost savings opportunities and performance deviations. Responsible for the preparation of quarterly earnings releases, stock activity and shareholder reports, competitive analysis, shareholder/analyst targeting activities and oversight of the Company's investor relations website.

Analyzed proposed business opportunities, projects and other pending decisions, both strategic and tactical to determine impact on CIBER's financial results and to identify ways to improve the economics for the company. Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, decision support analytics and other financial analysis. Partnered with the business to help drive appropriate behaviors to achieve results objectives. Directed the development and maintenance of key drivers and metrics to track and project business performance. Drove the planning and execution of the budget process annually in collaboration with company leadership. Managed and maintained rolling forecasts to identify performance deviations from budgets. Oversaw the analyses of monthly financial results to identify developing operating trends. Prepared insightful reporting of financial and operating results for senior leadership, investors, and the board on a monthly and quarterly basis. Partnered closely with C-level leadership on driving key initiatives, taking the lead on several projects, specifically as it relates to hedging programs to reduce risk of foreign exchange exposures, close optimization activities and implementing global standard reporting requirements for management reporting. Responsible for the development and implementation of an Investor Relations Strategy and preparation of quarterly earnings releases, stock activity and shareholder reports, competitive analysis and shareholder/analyst targeting activities.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Served as a subject matter expert on the Company’s material disclosure guidelines related to analyst/shareholder interactions. Managed and developed internal communications of Financial Community and Shareholder Base Insights including regular stock activity updates, shareholder base reports, variance model comparing analyst expectations to internal forecasts, and analyst earnings estimates analysis and distribution. Wrote and coordinated earnings, dividend and other releases and related Q&A briefings. Wrote and prepared presentations for the Global CEO and/or CFO and others including the Annual Investor/Analyst meeting, investor conferences and Annual Shareholder Meeting. Responded to analyst and investor inquiries using a thorough knowledge of analyst models of the business and financial statement understanding/navigation. Developed messaging and storyline for key financial audiences. Ensured accurate and useful Investor Relations content and navigation on the Company website. Managed external presentations and communications for equity and fixed income investors relating to a $3.5B international acquisition.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for managing the global close and consolidations processes and controls necessary to produce the MCBC consolidated summary of operations and balance sheet. Owed and managed comprehensive calendars and effective communication mechanisms to meet external reporting deadlines and further accelerate the close process to support efficient internal management reporting. Prepared the Supplemental Guarantor Balance Sheet and Income Statement Footnote published in quarterly 10Q reports. Reviewed and challenged core data disclosures and supplementary data collection for inclusion in quarterly reports. Monthly review of consolidation journals, review of reports for accuracy and reliability, maintain integrity of master data affecting the consolidations process, perform P&L fluctuation analysis and manage the relationship with the external auditor in support of their annual audit procedures. Led the consolidation team in continuous improvement, operational and data quality initiatives. Provided project management support to a three year initiative to improve the effectiveness of MCBC’s ethics and compliance process by reducing related compliance risks; which included a lead role in defining a global M&A due diligence program.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for compliance oversight, managing the company’s global Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program which included annual planning, scoping documentation development and review, risk assessment, control baseline validation, concluding on management’s assessment/testing, coordinating and overseeing remediation action plans with process owners, development and delivery of training on SOX methodology, concluding on management’s certifications (related to sections 302 and 404), documenting conclusions in support of executive management’s certification and delivery to senior leadership and Audit Committee. Other responsibilities included proactively advising management on potential risks/deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting and directly participating in discrete value-added initiatives to improve processes / controls, administration of global SOX compliance software tool, coordination of virtual SOX teams using collaboration tools and software, and staying current on PCAOB, SEC and other regulatory requirements. Developed, maintained, monitored compliance with and conducted training on global Finance policies and procedures. Led a successful project to standardize people, process and systems related to travel and expense, which resulted in a best in class benchmark. Duties included managing an international team to establish business requirements and organizational design for successful implementation and user acceptance of new T&E processes and systems.

Worldwide, Oo

Provided consulting services as a member of the Financial Management practice, which aids finance, accounting and operations departments in process redesign, financial reporting, vendor evaluation, receivables management, budgeting & planning and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Supported multiple SOX compliance engagements including project management oversight for a $1.5M Section 404 compliance engagement. Project management tasks for SOX engagements included: keeping management abreast of potential project risks; ensuring project was progressing according to schedule and to the satisfaction of the client; preparation and reconciliation of client billing; and development and delivery of various project deliverables to project stakeholders. Project support activities included: developing test plans and performing internal controls effectiveness testing for various business areas, as well as systems and applications controls related to SAP; and development and delivery of related training. Performed similar project management activities on a Business Performance Management project which addressed all of the critical components of financial and business intelligence including: Close, Consolidation and Reporting; Financial Planning and Analysis; and Integrated Financial and Operational Analytics.

Mba

Bs, Mathematics