Judith Ward, Apm Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Responsible for accounting functions, payroll and month end closing. Performed all accounts payable duties September through January while recruiting for new team member.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Oversee disbursements in excess of $2B per year to vendors, employees, providers, brokers & members. Responsible for organizing and directing the activity of ten staff members to safeguard assets, validate compliance, accurate transactional recording to the ledgers and timely payment of liabilities.• Direct workflow and distribution in assigned areas through continual review, development and implementation of internal and MAR controls.• Responsible for compliance of all Departmental, Division and Enterprise policies and procedures.• Coordinate and review all audit requests by internal and external auditors.• Responsible for software utilization, maintenance, upgrades and implementations of multiple systems.• Responsible for departmental actual costs, budgets and efficient productivity as compared to benchmarks.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Provide support for Financial Transactions Department (Accounts Payable, Premium Receipts and Claim Refunds). Responsible for implementation and maintenance of transactional processing production & inventory, MS Access system, policy & procedure compliance and process improvements identification. Provide expertise for research and identification of production trend fluctuations to assist management with transactional processing productivity.

Chattanooga, Tn

Formerly Alstom Power Turbomachines.Coordinate and oversee all purchasing activities including planning of direct materials to meet production requirements and schedules. Perform purchasing reviews of production orders to identify technical requirements, maintain supplier commercial qualifications, monitor buyer activities to insure compliance with procedures, work with GE integration teams to implement GE procedures, mentor and train new buyers. Internal ISO Auditor.Achievements• Successfully progressed through the following buyer specialties: construction contracts; indirect sourcing and procurement for factory services and support products; buyer of direct materials for turbine manufacturing. Promoted to Lead Buyer assuming team lead responsibilities.• Developed planning/project status spreadsheet to track all parts purchased for each factory project. Provided a one-stop look at project needs and early identification of potential risks to production schedule.

Chattanooga Tn

GE Power Chattanooga Factory, formerly Alstom Power Turbomachines LLC. Acquired by GE November 2015. Recently received notice from GE Management that this Chattanooga factory is being permanently closed by end of 2016.I started at Alstom Power as Cost Controller for the construction and commissioning of the new factory in 2009 then to a buyer role in the procurement department followed by promotion to Lead Buyer. See detailed descriptions of duties and accomplishments below.

Chattanooga, Tn \ Now Ge Power

Responsible for issuing legally sound contracts and purchase orders for factory including extracting/understanding technical specifications, identifying and mitigating risks, negotiating terms and conditions, contract management and expediting to insure on time delivery. Key user for PowerMax (SAP) software for all procurement functions. Develop training materials, train new and existing colleagues on proper use of tools and applications. Write and implement departmental procedures/work instructions insuring compliance with corporate directives. Achievements• Established standard contract language to be used on all purchase orders issued by the procurement team. Contract language was developed from numerous sources of best practice and modified to address identified risks.• Developed or modified all departmental procedures that were in compliance with corporate directives. A few procedures were identified as “Best in Class” during ISO9001 Certification Audit.• Developed departmental performance reports to support corporate reporting requirements. Included identifying criteria; creating data extraction routines in SAP ERP system; uploading data to excel and automating report generation with the use of pivot tables and charts/graphs.

Chattanooga Tn / Now Ge Power

Contracted to: Alstom Power Turbomachines, LLC by Account Temps Div. of Robert Half InternationalResponsible for controlling the costs of a $300M project to build a world class manufacturing facility. Track budget changes, commitments and expenditures. Produce and process purchasing requisitions, change orders, AIA (American Institute of Architects) contracts, AIA change orders and AIA construction directives. Process and approve contractor pay applications, assist A/P and Receiving departments with approval and distribution of vendor invoices. Create and maintain detailed logs of change order requests for all construction contracts on the project. Worked closely with all project managers and contractors to prepare and process all required documents and budgets.Achievements• Developed and implemented system to manage changes to construction contracts which tracked the type of change, value, potential charge backs and approval status providing full visibility of all activity to project managers.• Developed procedure for the issuance of AIA contracts and documents that aligned with the company’s purchasing guidelines resulting in faster approvals of the contracts which reduced project delays.• Performed final financial reconciliation and contract compliance review on $200M contract to build Alstom’s new factory. The review identified several close out documents that had not been provided by the contractor and reconciled final payments due to contractor to insure continued warranty support.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Responsible for all financial reporting and accounting aspects of a heavy & highway construction company with sales ranging from $10 to $15 million per year as well as contract management of all subcontracted work; managing the office and accounting staff; maintaining the general ledger; producing monthly financial statements; billing and collections; overseeing and approving accounts payable; payroll and job costs. Preparation of all monthly sales tax returns and quarterly/annual payroll tax returns. Point of contact for all audit events. Work closely with local agents facilitating all employee benefit programs, 401K package and all commercial insurance policies. Maintained positive working relationships with bank and bonding companies.Achievements• Developed and implemented detailed job costing procedures which enabled the estimating department to bid more competitively. As a result of these procedures the gross profit margin increased to over 25% and stabilized.• Promoted to controller in 1999 with the company in financial distress. The line of credit was drawn to maximum and cash accounts were only enough to fund two to three weeks of operation. With careful attention to A/R collection and working with vendors and subcontractors, successfully established a positive cash flow, paid off the line of credit within 7 months and maintained a strong cash flow.• Maintained a 3A2 Dunn & Bradstreet rating with most indexes better than industry averages

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Office Manager of corporate office and six branch offices located throughout Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. Responsible for all internal operations of customer service, billing, collections, inventory and repair departments for a communications company providing paging and answering services.Achievements• Implemented new receivable and collection procedures resulting in the elimination of accounts over 120 days and significantly reducing accounts over 90 days.• Implemented new pager inventory tracking procedures reducing the number of missing units from 400 a month to less than 10.• Worked with software reps and IT department to implement new software for pager programming, billing and customer service operations. Trained employees in all 7 offices on new software and worked with programmers to write necessary management report programs.

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Education record

IOFM (Institute Of Financial Management) certification achieved May 2018. Certifies a high level of expertise and knowledge.