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Dublin 2, IE

Dublin 2, IE

• US Insurance Provider – Strategic Sourcing Assessment
• Lead Finance operating model assessment to design a future state leveraging outsourcing for a client’s growth goal
• Held blueprinting workshops with functional leaders to determine sourcing opportunities based on a process’ strategic differentiation and risk tolerance
• Conducted a workforce activity analysis survey to inform a data-driven analysis of where work is currently performed
• Analyzed sourcing potential and determined prioritization and sequencing of finance process outsourcingGlobal Telecom – FP&A Operating Model Strategy
• Architected operating model combing two existing COEs to provide both financial and operations services for the business units

London, GB

• Created innovative global Financial Reporting analytics platform to mitigate risk and reduce 6,500 auditor hours annually
• Led nine-person global team in requirements development, front-end dashboard design and back-end architecture
• Engineered statistical scoring algorithm to predictively identify high risk manual accounting entries and transactions
• Integrated analyses of Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Financial Reporting and Travel & Entertainment data domains
• Directed change management strategies to assess and respond to user feedback
• Facilitated workshops to understand traditional auditor approach to testing and controls environment and data

London, GB

• Coordinated persona-based analytics team assessing supply chain analytics gaps for Plant, Quality and Planning personas
• Identified minimum viable product data management and data visualization solutions congruent with corporate strategy
• Developed proof of concepts, implementation strategy and timelines to address identified persona needs
• Eliminated 32 hours required to manually compile Plant summary dashboards resulting in 75% free time for two FTE’s
• Established cost effective, competitive North America Travel & Entertainment policy resulting in $7M in annual savings
• Assessed and benchmarked company’s data and policies with 10 industry peers

London, GB

• Architected proprietary FDA Regulatory Compliance tool to highlight irregularities and produce $2M annual cost savings
• Designed custom Spotfire dashboards, backend Oracle database architecture and Informatica Cloud ETL processes
• Interfaced daily with global management on compliance trends and symbiotic analytic and organizational impacts
• Facilitated week long in-person training sessions with local management located in 14 countries
• Guided investigation of 12 highest tier irregularities identified though country segmented data
• Integrated corporate legal-compliance training course tailored to support deployment of tool in multi-cultural environment

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

B.S., Biology

B.S., History