Jennifer Biron Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Nh, Us

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Us

• Drive the development of the Commercial Operations Sales Analysis team, collaborate with Commercial teams to evaluate and maximize the profitability of deals, ensure compliance with contracts, discount guidelines, and volume commitments, provide end to end support of commercial earned purchase capital programs, develop and track profitability KPIs and provide support for revenue recognition, while collaborating across sales, marketing, and finance to drive business results and inform decision making​• Directly support the CFO to support the business regarding internal control policies and procedures and maintain a strong internal control environment for Laborie• Collaborate with management to proactively assess business risks and develop risk and mitigation/remediation plans• Interface with process and control owners within the business to ensure adequate internal control documentation exists and is maintained, and work alongside management to implement any necessary improvements • Work with VP Finance to provide expertise on significance of audit findings, draw conclusions from audit data, provide recommendations and work alongside management to implement required changes• Support segregation of duties oversight and remediation activities • Establish and maintain a continuous improvement culture including establishing methodologies, prioritization, influencing and sponsoring initiatives supportive of the leadership team, including leading and driving participation on broader corporate/global business unit initiatives • Play a critical role in increasing our operational efficiency; act as a change agent for Laborie • Build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional business leaders, external auditors, and outsourced service providers

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

Served as a strategic partner and trusted advisor through increasing levels of leadership, engaged with stakeholders to address audit needs of the business, planned ad-hoc advisory projects that delivered insight to business partners.• Oversaw the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Programs (US and UK) to support compliance with SOX 404• Established and led the Internal Controls Steering Committee (ICSC) to ensure smooth year one transition of ICFR program to the business; engaging business owners to ensure success• Participated as Scrum Master for IA team as part of company-wide Agile transformation and led Agile concepts and practices• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, reviews, and retrospectives• Championed Scrum practices and ceremonies; coached team and stakeholders on methodology• Interfaced with process and control owners within the Business Units to ensure adequate SOX documentation is maintained, advised on the remediation of deficiencies in ICFR, and trained the business on the ICFR Program• Evaluated IA staff performance and mentored and developed up to 4 staff within the IA function• Improved audit methodology, tools, and processes with IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework• Reduced external audit fees related to internal controls year over year due to planning and coordination of ICFR-related activities and other IA assurance/advisory activities to optimize external auditor's reliance on the work of IA• Collaborated with management to proactively assess business risks and develop risk and mitigation/remediation plans• Fostered relationships with external auditors, business partners, and outsourced service providers• Onboarded new associates, interns and graduates on behalf of Internal Audit team• Selected as Acquisitions Manager to lead the build out of the newly formed Acquisition Team, coordinating, publishing, and presenting the Framework to the Company and stakeholders

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

Richardson, Texas, Us

Led efforts to achieve SOX compliance, including on-going control design and documentation, review of testing results and material weakness remediation plan in the areas of revenue recognition and share-based compensation.• Managed and executed internal audits with focus on Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and anti-fraud/anti-corruption (FCPA) at remote site Comverse locations (Hong Kong, Mexico, & Brazil).• Assisted, planned, and executed global business process assessments in Procurement, Human Resources, and overall interaction with management and process owners for Center of Excellence (COE) initiative.• Developed and maintained effective interpersonal relationships with staff, onsite consultants, and management in order to build partnerships within audited areas while in a restatement period.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Performed SOX compliance testing and remediated deficiencies with follow through to resolution at Presstek in Hudson, NH. Collaborated with Corporate to plan, budget, and scope full year project, and executed control rationalization exercise which significantly reduced controls requiring testing from prior year.

I was hired on a project basis with one of my prior clients, Phase Forward Inc. (acq by Oracle 2010), for SOX Project Management and testing support.

Woburn, Ma 01801-6500, Ma, Us

Performed internal audit and SOX compliance consulting and advisory services for mid-to large size clients in Boston and southern NH with increasing responsibility and scope. Executed process walkthroughs on behalf of external auditors per AS5 guidelines and detailed risk assessment utilizing a top-down, risk-based approach.

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Boston, Us

Boston, Us