Jonathan Fehring Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Advising Procurement and Purchase-to-Pay leaders achieve World-class performance through the identification and implementation of proven best practices that result in dramatic improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. Leveraging my extensive understanding of procurement functions - including sourcing, supplier and risk management, category management, purchasing operations, accounts payable, purchasing cards and travel expense management and expertise in procurement applications - enables timely access to information, aligns the procurement function with strategic goals and ensures cost optimization.• Advisory Delivery - Delivers best practice advice and metrics to clients in person, over the phone and through email• Performance Measurement Delivery - Analyze benchmark, study and maturity model results and put together recommendations to improve client overall efficiency and effectiveness.• Research Development - Supports research through providing input to planned studies, analyzing results, drawing insights, and developing conclusions and output decks.• Webcasts and Forums – Conducts webcasts through the development and delivery of content and prepares/plans/delivers at annual Procurement Forums and Conferences.• Thought Leadership - Provides insight to new and emerging best practices and their potential business benefits which includes the creation of frameworks and Intellectual Property as well as client delivery.

United States

• Advise the world’s largest and most complex companies across North America, Europe, Canada and the Caribbean on their unique business challenges while delivering cost savings, operational efficiency and procurement/sourcing strategies that align with their current strategic/corporate initiatives.• Lead collaborative sourcing efforts in a global business environment across multiple Client and Kreller work teams/departments and the supplier community to achieve Cost Excellence while developing strategic relationships with key suppliers in order to drive collaboration and innovation among Client’s internal stakeholders.• Conduct opportunity assessments across Professional Services, Credit, Marketing, Risk, and IT spend subcategories to establish category strategies that support overall Client savings targets.• Develop and implement initiatives through a deeper understanding of the demand drivers to improve quality and time while eliminating or reducing demand, allowing for a reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO).• Drive a holistic view of Client’s spend categories to ensure Clients total volume, spend and supplier relationships are leveraged globally across multiple platforms and integrated for product and service optimization in accordance with business strategy.• Analyze Client’s organizational structure and key performance indicators (KPIs) for a gap analysis against benchmark performance levels in areas such as pricing, spend management, supplier selection and performance management, compliance, technology and category management.• Develop and lead the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, through RFI’s and RFP’s including competitive bidding process, service provider selection, negotiating price, terms/conditions, SLAs, end-user license agreements and SOW’s in partnership with internal stakeholders.

United States

• Expanded the scope of Kreller's service offerings into the Federal Government by forging a strategic partnership with a Washington DC based technology consulting firm.• Successfully developed and marketed ENCORE (Enhanced Cost Optimization and Recovery), an innovative solution for reducing costs on credit scoring and credit data services, to the Federal Government. This unique tool optimizes spend management on credit data, while streamlining business processes, delivering an average of 30 percent savings. Utilization of this tool saved the General Services Administration (GSA) and Small Business Administration (SBA) over 50% on their credit data/scoring spend.• Mentored junior members of the consulting team on client and project management, with a focus on collaboration, customer focus, delivery excellence, continuous improvement, negotiations and strategic relationship building.• Independently developed and presented formal new business proposals (SOW, Deliverables, Pricing, ROI) to strategic Global/Fortune 500 C-Level executives.• Planned and facilitated critical client meetings while acting as the primary contact for client executives in order to ensure resolution of all client problems and actively drive business development.• Built and sustained an effective, motivated team that delivered exceptional business results by providing vision and direction, building trust, selecting, coaching and developing team members, leveraging individual abilities and ensuring best practices were utilized.• Monitored individual and team performance against both quantitative (revenue, KPIs, sales achievement) and qualitative objectives (team work, core values, mentoring). • Simultaneously managed multiple teams of global Clients to create actionable insights to solve client problems by evaluating and analyzing information collected through key stakeholder interviews, surveys and detailed quantitative analysis.

United States

• Collaborated with C-level executives within Sourcing/Procurement focusing on sustained cost transformation, data governance and policy, strategy and operational procurement, demand management and vendor/supplier management.• Independently developed and presented formal new business proposals (SOW, Deliverables, Pricing, ROI) to strategic Global/Fortune 500 C-Level executives.• Led and delivered large, complex client engagements by driving consensus among multiple stakeholders and departments• Simultaneously managed multiple teams of global Clients to create actionable insights to solve client problems by evaluating and analyzing information collected through key stakeholder interviews, surveys and detailed quantitative analysis.Core Competencies: Business Transformation, Procurement and Supply Chain Strategy, Contract Management, Operations Redesign, Cost Management, Technology Implementations, Sustainable Cost Transformation, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Negotiations, Organizational Transformation, IT Sourcing, Process Re-engineering, Cross Functional/Cross Cultural Leadership, Team Leader

United States

• Leveraged market research and quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide meaningful insights around client's corporate and business strategies. • Created and implemented strategies to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and deliverables.• Worked with clients to analyze, formulate, design, mobilize and drive strategic transformation initiatives within their finance, operations, credit, risk, and marketing departments.• Queried and mined large data sets to discover transaction patterns, examine financial data and filter targeted information using traditional (SQL Server, Oracle, Access) as well as advanced (Tableau) analytic methodologies.• Led team in conducting operational due diligence on key business procurement processes via stakeholder interviews and documentation analysis. Core Competencies: Relationship Development, Issue-based Problem Solving, Idea/Opportunity Generation, Financial Data Analysis, Market Research and Industry Benchmarking, Roadmap Creation, Process Improvement, Risk Management and Mitigation, Project Management, Requirement Gathering, Strategic Planning, SWOT Analysis, Global Key Performance Indicator Reporting.

Cincinnati, Oh

• Utilized knowledge and experience of data warehousing and business intelligence systems to design and develop reports, dashboards and ad hoc queries• Acted as the primary business contact with IT and Marketing to create, maintain and optimize data in the relationship management cross-sale database • Developed strategies to implement improvements in the reporting process – including field mapping, data source analysis, and coordination of delivery• Managed reports and sales effectiveness scorecards to provide critical information to Merchant Sales Management, including revenue achievement ratios, key product index (KPI) reporting, sales inactivity ratios, team performance ratios, sales force effectiveness, sale force automation (SFA/Salesforce.com), campaign analytics, exception processing reporting, lead generation usage and effectiveness, and ultimately deal lifecycle• Proactively identified enhancements to lead source data and sales database that increased efficiency and optimized results for the Merchant Sales division• Analyzed key sales, referral, lead, revenue achievement and historical trending data that improved results for a key customer segments• Created and designed new reports and presented trend, financial, and variance analysis reports • Used statistical analysis to forecast future sales and revenue while identifying where opportunities existed

Columbus, Ohio Area

Responsible for ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of hedge funds and mutual funds activities including calculation of net asset value (price), distribution factors and assisting in preparation of financial statements, year-end tax reporting, audit reports, and regulatory filings. • Served as the primary liaison between mutual funds accounting team and Citibank’s accounting team and distributed fund data to all internal and external business partners• Trained new employees for our outsourced Custody business partner and continually monitored adherence to due diligence procedures • Calculated market value, net asset value and other valuation ratios of portfolio holdings regarding funds daily/weekly/monthly performance• Process, balance and reconcile shareholder activity with the transfer agent• Performed detailed analysis on issues to identify root cause, process risk and potential process improvements• Forecasted cash settlements for current and next business day, providing updated and detailed information to client

Cincinnati Area, Ky

Responsible for the reconciliation and reporting on over 400 internal DDA and general ledger accounts supporting Fifth Third Processing Solutions (FTPS), Fifth Third Bankcard, and Electronic Payment products. Provide support for all FTPS and Bankcard Operations managers in the reporting and exception clearing of all balance sheet related accounts. Responsible for implementing process improvements and controls to streamline efficiency and reduce risk. Ensure compliance with internal/external audit and external regulatory agencies. Responsible for converting all new and manual reconciliations to an automated reconciliation system. Maintain accurate records and establishes strong working relationships with all business lines and accounting groups.• Implemented the automation of our accounts receivable reconciliations saving the company 40 hours a week in manual processing during my first 180 days .

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, General

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