Kathy Wright Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Fl, Us

Melbourne, Florida

Finance Director, Enterprise Asset Management

Melbourne, Florida Area

• Develop government billing shared services strategy that will be aligned with a new ERP roll out- Transitioned government billing processes to a shared service environment in order to standardize and streamline business processes for multiple Harris business units in order to decrease CPT- Responsible for leading a group of Billing Analysts, overseeing the preparation, validation, submittal, and problem resolution of Cost Plus, Time and Material, and Fixed Price invoices to Government / Major Prime customers. • Responsible for system functionality of billing department processes to ensure invoices are submitted per the terms and conditions of the contract, FAR regulations, and internal procedures.• Key interface to Contract Compliance group, DCAA, internal / external audits regarding the Billing System and related procedural audit activities. • Key interface to Contracts, Finance, and other Business Units for the Billing Department. Foster positive working relationships with these groups providing a value based business partnership regarding issue resolution, billing metrics, cash collection, program investment, and final invoice closeouts. • Oversight to ensure complex billing analysis to identify, troubleshoot and resolve billing set-up and system issues.• process improvement initiatives to improve the efficiency of the billing department while maintaining a high level of compliance and cash flow.• Drive cash flow / Accounts Receivable initiatives enabling business units to achieve revenue targets.• Develop and implement meaningful metrics to measure success and goal attainment for the billing department.• Promote career development for billing team members through transfer sponsorship to program finance and other division operations functions.

Melbourne, Florida Area

Manage all aspects of disbursement operations team consisting of two supervisors, one subject matter expert and 15+ non exempt associates(Accounts Payable & Travel) for Global Shared Services - North America of Harris Corporation.Comprehensive job knowledge of PeopleSoft and SAP ERP systemsContinuous process improvements including: Green Belt recipient, Procure to Pay Automation (Document Management System (Image Now), E-Invoicing (Transcepta), automated Non PO within PeopleSoftCareer Growth opportunities provided to team including two individual contributors promoted into supervisory positionsParticipant in various Bench Marking surveysUtilize SAAS(Datashark) in order to detect duplicate payments prior to release of payments; determining root cause analysis for duplicate paymentApprove account reconciliations and Q26 analysis'

Accounts Payable/Disbursements, Travel and Expense Reporting, Vendor Relations,

Fixed Assets, Financial Reporting, General Ledger, Financial Liason to IT and DC Management Team, System Development for AP

Developed policies in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley; developed billing requirements for vendors; Conducted physical inventories for retail stores and warehouses;

Columbus, Ohio Area

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, 3.98 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Delta Mu Delta Summa Cum Laude

Aab, Accounting, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa