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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• Developed process optimizations (including scope of services, service strategy, and delivery) talent strategy, organization design/op model • Assessed existing technology and data frameworks for gaps and recommended improvementsGlobal High Tech – Pre-Close Divestiture Strategy• Defined updated finance processes and future organization structure for post-close finance organization • Lead bi-weekly cross-functional and cross-company finance leadership planning working sessions• Facilitated weekly finance process deep dives to align corporate finance on future operating model Global Food & Beverage Retailer – COVID Workforce Scenario Planning• Created COVID scenario responses for layoffs, furloughs, catastrophe pay for Talent & Benefits• Developed a labor model and cost estimate for required workforce at multiple store formats (Drive through, Grab & Go, Pickup etc.) with impacts to P&L for the United States• Utilized the labor model to derive insights and recommendations for Finance, HR, and OpsGlobal Pharmaceutical – Post Merger Integration: Commercial Finance 3rd Party Value Capture• Responsible for methodology & process that drove $60M in 3rd party synergies after ~6M reported in prior quarter

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• Delivered in-person compliance and analytics education sessions for more than 80 individuals• Prototyped cutting-edge transaction selection tool leveraging “robotics” to further reduce risk from manual entries

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• Identified individual behavioral responses, multiple procurement inefficiencies and >200 irregular financial transactions• Presented findings and recommended new comprehensive policy to senior management• Advised cross-functional roll-out of policy based on management input, analytics findings and industry factors

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• Created automated global compliance issue tracking utility eliminating 40 manual spreadsheets

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

B.S., Biology

B.S., History