Tim Taylor Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Austin, Texas, US

As the CFO & COO at Clozure, a pre-seed startup, I am responsible for overseeing the company's financial health and operational efficiency. My role involves strategic financial planning, budgeting, fundraising, and managing day-to-day operations. I am passionate about driving growth and ensuring the company's long-term success.

San Francisco, California, US

The VOCAL Council is a peer-powered, global, automation customer think-tank with over 85 of the world’s leading brands as members.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Supported the CFO in efficient management of key strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment and accountability with their leadership team, cross-functional partners, and private equity stakeholders
• Led Corporate Shared Services (CSS) workstream for large-scale business strategy transformation program, partnering with executives to define realization plans that achieve a collective 50% reduction in OPEX and.
• Facilitated cross-functional evaluation & executive approval of ERP upgrade, including business case development, ERP platform & implementation partner selection, and execution program mobilization
• Identified 45% OPEX reduction for Controllership organization by rationalizing resource requirements, introducing offshore capabilities, and mobilizing process improvement and automation projects

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Designed, built, and led the Finance Innovation function that provides digital transformation, process improvement, and change management services to achieve leadership’s key optimization priorities
• Implemented Meta’s Intelligent Automation Center-of-Excellence, employing emerging digital technologies (e.g., RPA, OCR/NLP, AI/ML), delivering 45 automations that eliminated 140,000+ hours of manual effort
• Launched Process Mining capability and delivered 5 projects across multiple Finance functions that identified 63 opportunities in its first year with over $61M in working capital benefits and 87,000 hours of labor.
• Accelerated project execution for Finance teams by providing resources (e.g., tools & templates, advisor research) and offering training & professional certification programs (e.g., Prosci, Lean Six Sigma)

• Designed & implemented multi-year global service delivery model transformation for Finance’s BPO partners that reduced OPEX by $18M by evaluating & consolidating vendors, selecting optimal global site locations, and.
• Organized CAO’s long-range strategy & plan by conducting leadership interviews, producing & guiding leadership off-site alignment meetings, and synthesizing output & communications plan for distribution
• Facilitated CAO organization’s response to the sudden COVID-19/work-from-home requirements, including designing & facilitating a readiness assessment, managing development & deployment of remediation plans, and.
• Conducted end-to-end Source-to-Pay process evaluation and identified opportunities to accelerate throughput by 15% and enhance overall customer experience while maintaining enterprise risk posture
• Led change management & communications workstream for successful Oracle Fusion ERP upgrade, including producing & distributing regular community engagement materials and program updates and overseeing the end-user.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Served Finance Shared Services leadership by providing accountability, alignment, & oversight for high-priority strategic initiatives, as well as facilitating key rhythm-of-the-business activities (e.g., executive.
• Led Finance Shared Services integration program for the Microsoft acquisition by defining critical success factors, designing target operations & delivery models and related people/process/ technology integration.
• Executed multi-functional enterprise operations strategy that discovered opportunities to reduce operating margin $200M+ by designing assessment methodology, gathering data, evaluating service delivery requirement, and.

GB

• Developed shared services strategies for Finance and HR functions of a global Social Media company that demonstrated $15M+ reduction in OPEX by defining operations scope, designing optimal target operating & service.
• Delivered Procure-to-Pay transformation initiative at a global Social Media company, including developing and facilitating a two-day leadership workshop, identifying process & technology improvement opportunities, and.

GB

• Managed development & issuance of RFP to outsource Finance and HR functions for a global Commercial Media company, including requirements documentation, price modeling, and vendor selection
• Assessed efficacy and efficiency of offshore IT delivery center for leading Telecom company, identifying opportunities to generate significant cash inflow for strategic initiatives and streamlined IT operations
• Defined target operating model for Corporate Finance function of global Biopharmaceuticals company, aligning organizational design to corporate strategy and redefining Finance & Accounting services

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Developed IT strategy and corresponding operating & service delivery models for national Healthcare Services company, including organization design, systems consolidation, and infrastructure optimization
• Produced and negotiated third-party logistics master service agreement for the world’s largest chemical manufacturer that resulted in $3M+ annual savings

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Developed and issued an outsourcing RFP for the Middle Office, Back Office, and Accounting functions for a national mortgage financing government sponsored enterprise, reducing OPEX by $15M+
• Analyzed labor efficiency of Data Center infrastructure organization for a leading Healthcare Supplies manufacturer, resulting in the identification of $10M+ annual savings

Silver Spring, Maryland, US

• Engaged over 50 business owners of the fastest growing middle-market companies in the DC Metro region to assess their business environment and identify opportunities for stakeholder value creation
• Formulated innovative capital planning strategies to maximize long-term business value through increased business performance, optimal asset utilization, and improved measurement systems
• Led junior analyst teams through data analyses, project material development, and targeted research

Silver Spring, Maryland, US

• Built financial models to forecast and measure business performance and explore scenario planning
• Coordinated project management and communications with clients and advisor teams
• Contributed to organization's intellectual property with thought leadership and industry publications

Reston, VA, US

• Supported issuance and servicing of $1 trillion+ of primary-market, fixed income securities
• Produced comprehensive transaction analysis used to identify potential negative outliers
• Revised technical procedure manual which realigned workforce with updated protocol

Mentor, OH, US

• Managed blueprint procurement project which resulted in $500,000 corporate savings
• Facilitated global reverse auction to minimize production costs of manufacturing units
• Supervised 2 temporary employees during procurement project to expedite results

Mba, International Business Strategy

Bsba, International Business And Economics