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Louisville, Ky, Us

Leading a team of two reports, selected to drive post-merger rationalization of $MMM in IT spend, including budget consolidation, synergy tracking, and cost allocationDelivery and ownership of the Cost Transparency system to align ~ $1B of central administrative and IT expense to the divisionsPartnering with the functional leaders to define and drive change through their organizations’ service offering roadmaps and managing a four- person contracted team to implement data-driven, digitized reporting solutionsDirectorDeveloped a global team of five analysts with responsibility for financial annual planning and variance analysis of $300M in annual budget spend.Forecasting and account variance analysis of $50M+ across multiple cloud platforms and pricing modelsBuilt modelling capability of $100M+ of on-prem cost offsets, providing the CIO scenario planning guidance for go-no go decision making in complex, multi-year migration of data centers to the cloudPartnered with the VP of FP&A and business leadership to build IT cost profiles for transitional service agreements in multiple M&A effortsAssoc DirectorManaged a team of two reports focused on building financial and vendor management reporting processes for strategic insightDirected $50M annual capital investment management in partnership with CIO direct staffLed IT Finance merger integration workstream including financial restatement, synergy planning, and headcount analysisDeveloped digitized IT costing process to deliver granular Bill of IT reporting to the business divisions, including driving adoption of Technology Business Management (TBM) framework through rollout of technology aligned cost center structureSr AssociatePartnered across Finance to drive organization-wide change in accounting practices from an entity-based IFRS model to a standardized center of excellence adhering to GAAP principles, dramatically increasing accuracy in monthly close and forecasting cycles

• Restructured $18M Corp IT budget for savings and cost avoidance in 2017 to create better alignment with Cognizant strategic initiatives, ultimately streamlining to a $12M 2018 operating plan• Simplified processes across teams and systems, leading to on-time invoice processing, payment, and renewal

Greater Denver Area

Led project intake, requirements gathering and stakeholder management for internal and client projects

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Collaborated with Product Owners, Architects, and Developers across 9 functional teams to define Business Intelligence reporting requirements on a 5 year, $50M FDA-mandated program• Drove requirements gathering and design on projects such as development of an online reporting interface to 6 enterprise systems, providing availability of supply chain data from orders to manufacturing and shipment

Greater Milwaukee Area

Graduated from a rigorous, 2-year technology and management development program divided into four, 6-month rotations across IT teams, developing skills in validated systems testing, M&A, project management, and audit • Completed the Foundations of Leadership course at the GE Crotonville campus