Melissa Macarthur Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts

• Managed the Global Procure to Pay process, purchase orders, procurement card program, invoices, leasing program, vendor requests while working closely with Information Technology• Prepared/Managed/Tracked 15M Global Infrastructure and Operations budget• Supervised interns, and managed offshore resources• Managed and tracked identified savings

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Workday implementation• Worked with US & International Information Technology Management to ensure budgets are kept on track.• Facilitated management between Information Technology and our internal Finance organization, ensuring all costs are being charged back to the correct cost centers and businesses• Facilitated monitored, tracked, reported, and reconciled the Information Technology US & International budget.• Primary point of contact for Information Technology Management and Finance regarding information technology budget inquiries• Maintained and created hardware lease contracts and payments• Responsible for oversight of our leasing agreements, ensuring management understood and tracked their operational leases• Worked with the Asset team to ensure assets were managed / returned in accordance with lease and ensured hardware & license maintenance agreements were fully managed and within planned budget• Monitored and flagged any budget discrepancies and worked with the responsible manager to remedy the issue• Organized and lead budget status meetings while working closely with the Information Technology management team to track forecast vs. budgeted spend.• Worked closely with the PMO to ensure visibility & accuracy of budgets• Ensured project managers maintained and tracked project budgets in accordance with PMO guidelines• Lead the Information Technology management team to ensure our annual reforecast was compiled, accurate, and submitted to Finance on time.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Handled purchase orders and requisitions for payment and coordinated approvals• Created projects and associated data while maintaining project expense data in the Portfolio Management System• Maintained and Created Hardware Lease contracts and payments • Facilitated monitored, tracked, reported, and reconciled the overall IT Budget and IT expenses• Provided updates of Asset inventories to Finance for business allocations• Purchased identified technology utilizing the IT AMEX purchase card and maintained and reported usage of the card• Primary point of contact for IT Management and Finance regarding IT Budget and Expense inquiries• Researched vendor inquiries regarding IT Payments• Participated in the annual planning of the IT budget process• Validated and prepared all IT invoices for payment by finance and processed all their purchase orders with vendors• Maintained, updated, and distributed IT Organizational staffing information/changes to IT Senior Management and Finance

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Contributed to the implementation of a new Portfolio Management System Daptiv• Created and implemented an internal process for the hiring and termination of consultants• Contributed to the implementation of a budget process and tracking sheets• Maintained leasing agreements, ensuring management understood and tracked their operational leases• Invoice management including coding, and obtaining approvals

I held several different roles over the years at JPMJPMorgan IMA, Boston MA – 11/06 to 05/08Role: AnalystJPMorgan Invest, Inc., Boston MA – 11/03 to 11/06Role: Executive Assistant to CEO, CIO, CFO 6/05-11/06Role: Executive Assistant to CIO, 11/03-6/05JPMorgan Investor Services, Boston MA – 8/00 to 11/03Role: Executive Assistant to CIO