Keith Townsend Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Leading the Inventory Valuation & Gross Margin Product Team. Team is responsible for the support and enhancements of financial systems that are used to valuation Target's inventory. Delivers solutions for valuing inventory under the Retail Accounting Method and producing cost of sales/gross margin results. • Responsible for the technical decisions, business plans, & managing a global engineering team that supports over twenty applications that are part of the Sales to Cash Product. The Sales to Cash Product supports the financial integrity of Sales, Tenders, Receivables, & Tax for Target & Target.com. • Completed the implementation of SAP CAR (Customer Activity Repository), finance changes necessary to support sale of pharmacy to CVS & upstream business driven demand, Vertex tax software upgrade, & designing an application integration tier leveraging open source technologies such as Storm, Camel, Spark, etc.. • Modernized the current application portfolio by identifying opportunities to reduce application portfolio & perform ongoing support.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Agile Marketing• Implemented SAP CRM with Open Text integration to manage Marketing projects and Digital AssetsSegregation of Duties• Managed the identification and remediation of key SAP and legacy system segregation of duties deficiencies.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Future State Merchandising Initiative•Provide SAP knowledge, experience, and leadership to the team planning future state SAP Merchandising programAccounts Payable Match•Partnered with SAP Custom Development Team through Project Prep and Blueprinting to gather requirements for a custom 3-way invoice match application•Led a scoping effort to evaluate potential options to replace a business critical unsupported legacy applicationSAP Domestic Quarterly Releasse•Release owner for the SAP 12.3 Quarterly Release that enhanced Treasury Payment Processes, SAP BW Netweaver Upgrade, SAP BWA Expansion, SAP GUI, and SAP Small Business Enhancements for financial planning and forecasting business users•Responsible for all Project Management disciplines. Delivered successfully on budget and on time,SAP Finance ERP Release #2•Manage the overall Release Level Program Plan by incorporating functional and delivery milestones and dependencies with key program support services.•Responsible for Resource Manager of all resources by aligning resources to appropriate tasks and engage contractor resources as needed.•Complete and own the responsibilities for budget management by managing scope, schedule, and all financial impacts.•Documenting and communicating the status via the Program Weekly Status Report.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

SAP Finance ERP Release #1•Lead of SAP Financial - General Ledger for Target Corporation's first implementation of SAP. Responsible for Blueprinting, Realization, Testing, and Implementation. •Became a leader on a cross functional team that included business, technology, and consultants.SAP Finance ERP Release #2•Leader of SAP Finance and Controlling modules through local Blueprinting for the second implementation of SAP.•Led a team to complete all Finance and Controlling configuration and Unit Testing of development objects.•Provide guidance and leadership of overall defect management during Testing phase.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

SAP Finance ERP Project Initiation•Assisted through the analysis and eventual selection of SAP Financial software •Led cross functional team on analysis of current financial applications and business processes

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

KPM - Finance Essbase Services•Developed processes and documentation to complete site enhancements•Recruited, trained, and supervised a team of 7 Target India team membersTarget Financial Services (TFS) Lawson Upgrade•Led upgrade of TFS Lawson to a vendor supported version•Managed team of Target technical & business resources and contractors•Completed under budget & ahead of schedule with only one minor defect

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Key Performance Metrics (KPM)•Gathered financial requirements from every Target Corporation business area•Assisted in designing the future solution for business intelligence softwareLeader PDA Handheld Scanner•Technical lead for a multi-million dollar store handheld device project•Developed documentation to update stores regarding device information•Collaborated with third party vendors to resolve device issuesRadio Frequency (RF) Device Testing Standardization•Implemented standardized testing procedure for RF devices•Streamlined the time needed to effectively test RF devices

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Platform Reporting Templates•Developed templates used for Tier II Support quarterly platform reporting•Templates resulted in a 75% time reduction in ticket analysisSystem Recovery Change Spreadsheet•Generated reusable report showing only changes affecting System Recovery•Strengthened communication amongst management teams

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Microsoft Patch Management•Reconfigured Microsoft security patches for company wide deployment•Created reusable Project Plan for deploying monthly security patchesAnti-virus Software Selection•Created and maintained Project Plan for reviewing anti-virus software•Performed technical analysis on anti-virus software and documented resultsPDT Replacement•Contributed to a twenty-five million dollar store handheld scanner project•Diagnosed and solved technical issues encountered by stores •Developed documentation and updated stores about new device informationSSL Aventail – star.target.com•Managed project that gives team members secure remote access to email•Implemented and delegated tasks according to the project plan•Scheduled and led team meetings with five technical architects

Sacramento, Ca, Us

•Investigated customers’ payment applications and information•Assisted upper management in diagnosing future credit risk problems

Certificate, Project Management

Mba, Finance And Management

Masters Certificate, Business Analysis

Ba, Economics & Finance