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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Core team member hired to partner with Finance and third-party vendor to design, test, and deliver an enterprise financial footprint that will improve the acquisition process, provide overall efficiencies for core processes, and improve financial analytics / reporting across all companies. Project responsibilities include creating security roles, data cleansing, master data setup, data migration, selected data movements to support business intelligence, and customizations that include integration and customized reports and dashboards. Project accomplishments include the following:- Collaborated in joint process design sessions to ensure end-to-end standardized processes are efficient and scalable to support increased transactional volume expected from acquisitions and result in improved data quality and accuracy through system integration and automation of routine tasks and calculations.- Defined data migration requirements for travelers, customers, suppliers, fixed assets, contracts, projects, general ledger balances, open accounts receivable and open accounts payable in support of “to be” design- Worked with developer to extract, translate, and load data from legacy systems ensuring that the data adheres to requirements outlined and supports designed functionality- Planned cutover strategy and executed several mock cutover exercises in preparation for go-live- Performed data reconciliations and trained Finance on data validation processes and procedures

Omaha, Ne

Core member of Vision Project Team and liaison to Finance responsible to design, configure, and deploy new ERP system (IFS) on behalf of ES&S ensuring the application design meets business requirements and effectively processes end-to-end business and financial transactions according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Project responsibilities and accomplishments include the following:- Partner with Accounting & Finance to gather business requirements and document “as-is” processes- Liaison between project team, ERP vendor and Accounting/Finance to interpret technical information, demo “to-be” design, review financial results and ensure solution meets business requirements- Design, document, configure, and unit test “to-be” solution- Create ClickLearn training documentation and train business users- Support user acceptance testing (UAT)- Define cutover plan for areas of responsibility- Partner with technical team to design conversion (extract/translate/load) logic

Greater Omaha Area

Lead Organizational Change Management (OCM) activities and process improvement initiatives associated with business processes and technologies utilizing various methodologies and techniques to improve quality, efficiency and the effectiveness of products and services that are designed to create value for our organization on behalf of our Customers.

Omaha, Ne

Served as manager and functional business expert, in Finance, in the deployment of business process and application solutions influencing overall system design, deployment, training, and change management. Position objectives: 30% - drive process improvements; 35% succeed through people and leadership; 35% grow the top line and expand the bottom line. Hired, trained, and managed two Senior Business Analysts. Managed relationships with site leaders, executive sponsors, and other stakeholders.

Omaha, Ne

Headed initiatives designed to optimize SAP technology and common business processes deployed to Consumer Supply Chain Finance organization; helping organization transform and mature using new technology. Managed the Annual Operating Plan to create standards. Hired, trained, and conducted performance evaluations and other talent management responsibilities for two direct reports.

Omaha, Ne

Executed SAP Project by engaging project sub-teams to design, test, and communicate new functionality for future waves while supporting past releases and conducting costing activities for current release. Worked with plants and Supply Chain Finance to support the change management and training related to new functionality and processes. Established and met Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) for major production systems.

Omaha, Ne

Headed projects associated with the design, testing, and implementation of new accounting services systems and process re-engineering initiatives. Liaised with SAP project team on supply chain related processes and system design while ensuring that new processes adhered to GAAP principles through proper review and research.

Omaha, Ne

Acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and advisor to project management, cross-functional and cross-cultural (global) teams, and other stakeholders in all aspects relating to the migration of data (extract, translate, cleanse, load) from multiple legacy systems to SAP. Developed global conversion solution, scope, and strategy for data acquisition and cleansing.

Omaha, Ne

Assisted with conversions of financial data from legacy systems to shared services platform. Responsibilities included system design, development, testing and implementation, conversion management, project management, training and change management, report writing, and system documentation. Analyzed business and user requirements against application capabilities and design. Performed testing of system configuration and assisted with timely defect resolution. Provided go-live, production, and on-going support to finance users.